The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs
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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

從歷史與國際法看釣魚台主權歸屬

鄭海麟 著
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目前雖然釣魚台列嶼已隨琉球經由美國交給日本管轄，但美國所交還者，僅為琉球之行政權，而非其地之主權；關於此點，美國政府已曾一再聲明。至於釣魚台主權問題，美國則無權置啄，而由中日外交談判或經由聯合國及國際法庭加以解決。而鄭海麟博士的此一皇皇巨著《從歷史與國際法看釣魚台主權歸屬》，正可提供我國外交當局未來對日交涉時一個堅強有力的法理依據……

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From Galileo to Gell-Mann: The Wonder that Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time in Their Own Words

Marco Bersanelli & Mario Gargantini; translated by John Bowden
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From time to time, the diligent science student huddled over dense volumes of research findings and highly technical data will stumble upon a truly rare treasure: the author’s answer to the question of, “Why?” Why did the authors of these volumes commit themselves so ardently to life in the laboratory? What was it that motivated them to keep their eye to microscope for years on end? Why did the world’s greatest scientists devote their lives to research—an endeavor where failure is the exponentially more likely outcome than success?

In their new anthology, From Galileo to Gell-Mann, Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini have gathered the answers to these fascinating questions from over one hundred of the brightest scientific minds from our past and our present. It is a goldmine of insight that previously could only to be found hidden deep within thousands of scattershot pages of footnotes from out-of-print journals, rare books, and unpublished papers. Throughout the work, Bersanelli and Gargantini also offer insightful commentary and discussion on the readings.

Among the most remarkable similarities that emerge when one considers together these writings from the likes of Albert Einstein, Gregor Mendel, Marie Curie, and others, is the sense of wonder and outright awe at what the study of the natural world can reveal. From Galileo to Gell-Mann makes it clear that science and all parallel attempts to understand our human existence—including fields like philosophy to theology—are viewed as nothing less than grand adventures to those that are probing the limits of what we know.

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兩種文化 (The Two Cultures)

C.P.斯諾 (Charles Percy Snow) 原著
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我們的社會，包括其教育系統和知識生活，的一個特徵就是兩種文化的分裂——一邊是藝術或人文學，另一方面是科學。這一現象有很長的歷史，但直到斯諾在1959年在里德演講時才把它鮮明地提了出來，並由此開始了現今在媒體上仍熱烈進行的公眾討論。

《兩種文化》及其續篇《再看兩種文化》（斯諾四年後對一些爭論的反應）在重新出版之際，由斯蒂芬•科裡尼為此寫了導言，為我們勾畫了這場爭論的歷史和來龍去脈，以及其意義與後續影響。

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On Creativity

By David Bohm; edited by Lee Nichol
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Creativity is fundamental to human experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery. This is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern times.

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敎育七章

潘雲鶴 著
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《教育七章》是潘雲鶴院士教育理念的集中體現，記錄了他多年來對學校改革發展的深刻思考，也凝聚著他對浙大的拳拳之心。他在書中以科學發展觀為指導，從國際視野和我國高等教育創新發展的角度出發，以浙江大學為案例，對大學人才培養、科技創新、社會服務等進行了深入的研究和闡述。他分析了國家發展與世界一流大學建設的關系，強調了抓機遇、重創新對學校發展的作用，提出了“明目擴胸”，積極參與國家和地方創新體系建設的主張。他在以人為本的教育理念、教學與科研的關係、多維學習模式、知識能力素質俱佳的拔尖創新人才培養等方面有一系列影響廣泛的觀點。在建立新型學術組織、優化學科生態圈；擴大學術輻射力、拓展大學社會職能；強化競爭激勵機制、探索新的管理結構；樹立全球視野、參與國際競爭；引入園林理念、建設一流校園；繼承求是傳統、弘揚大學精神等等方面，著力在實踐中探索和思考，並提出了獨到的見解，值得我們這些繼任者認真學習和借鑒。

(摘錄自dangdang.com)