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An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life. At once meditative and scientific, The Sounds of Life shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?

本書是探討法律、人性及社會的重量級著作 　　有關性與色情的法律，是否應該基於「何謂令人噁心」的社會風俗習慣？是否重罪犯應該被要求在汽車保險桿上貼上標籤或穿著Ｔ恤來昭示他們的罪行？美國最具影響力的哲學家瑪莎．克雷文．納思邦，在這本震撼人心又精闢的書中，以批判的角度去探討在個人與社會生活中，以及特別是在法律中，羞恥與噁心所扮演的角色。 　　納思邦教授主張，我們必須提防這些情感，因為它們以麻煩的方式與我們想逃離自身人性的欲望交雜著；它們體現了一種使自己不受傷害的渴求，而這種渴求是不切實際，有時甚至是病態的。納思邦教授主張，噁心本身的思維內涵體現了巫術裡關於不淨的觀念，以及對純潔、不朽、擺脫動物性的無謂渴望，而與我們所知的人類生活不一致。」她主張噁心絕不能成為一個行為入罪化的判斷基礎，也不應該如目前這樣在法律中扮演加重或減輕刑罰的角色。她還主張，我們對她所稱的「原始羞恥」，亦即一種「針對人類不完美之事實」的羞恥，也應該同樣存疑；而她對某些懲罰活動中這種羞恥所扮演的角色，也持嚴厲批判的立場。

2019年古典研究協會古德溫功績獎（Goodwin Award of Merit）得獎作品 牛津大學古代史教授開腦之作，打破你我對歷史的既定觀念 古史中聲名遠播的冒險家、前羅馬時代的地中海霸主

我們有權反抗、使用暴力、顛覆法律。 這，是在法律之外的另一種「法」。 《反民主》作者又一震驚世人的煽動之作！最狂的哲學書！

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過去，此地是所羅門王的名城，是眾軍集結、預言世界即將大戰的場所； 現在，考古長才將匯集此地，展開一場地上地下都精彩無比的挖掘大戰！ 最會說故事的考古專家　艾瑞克．克萊恩全新磅礡力作

挖掘人性本質，提升決策品質！ 善用行為倫理學，洞察不由自主的心理反應，

From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warming Syukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global Warming is his compelling firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change, and how numerical models using the world’s most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries. Joined by atmospheric scientist Anthony Broccoli, Manabe shows how climate models have been used as virtual laboratories for examining the complex planetary interactions of atmosphere, ocean, and land. Manabe and Broccoli use these studies as the basis for a broader discussion of human-induced global warming―and what the future may hold for a warming planet. They tell the stories of early trailblazers such as Svante Arrhenius, the legendary Swedish scientist who created the first climate model of Earth more than a century ago, and they provide rare insights into Manabe’s own groundbreaking work over the past five decades. Expertly walking readers through key breakthroughs, they explain why increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has caused temperatures to rise in the troposphere yet fall in the stratosphere, why the warming of the planet’s surface differs by hemisphere, why drought is becoming more frequent in arid regions despite the global increase in precipitation, and much more.

人類的心智真的是非常深奧，我們總是因為生活中遇到一些難題想破了頭想找出解決的方案。David的爸爸是一個很好的例子，他雖然只有小學畢業，但他有一個創客(maker)的靈魂。David的爸爸是個農夫，住在很少下雨的中部，他一直很想設計運用太陽能的熱水裝置，這樣就不需要使用電熱水器耗電。結果他找來了很粗很黑的水管擺放在他親手蓋起來的山中小屋屋頂，透過一些設計讓水管能在白天吸收太陽的熱能儲水，晚上的時候就可以有免錢的熱水可以使用，雖然David很驚訝爸爸的聰明才智，唯一的小缺點就是熱水總是有一股橡皮塑膠水管的味道。 今天想要介紹給大家的書是Princeton University Press預定擺在倫敦書展目錄的重點科普書，作者斯凱勒·提比茲 (Skylar Tibbits)是自組裝科學的先驅，他曾在TED TALK發表目前科學已經能把3D列印的技術再更往上一層推進，除了列印立體的物件，透過瞭解物質的特性(比方對於溫度或光線產生的膨漲、收縮現象)，我們可以列印出隨著時間改變形體的物體。比方在影片中斯凱勒·提比茲展示了特殊聚合物浸入水中時會自動形成MIT字形的蛇形物件。