Humankind

限量加贈主題透卡全球熱銷巨著《人類大歷史》精彩改編、精美插圖，隆重推出第1冊〈人類誕生〉全彩mook大開本絕佳質感印刷，全球同步出版當代思想指標，《人類大歷史》、《人類大命運》、《21世紀的21堂課》作者：哈拉瑞 挑戰電影視覺風格 全新力作人類這種弱小動物，究竟如何能統治地球？本書不是配了插圖的更新版《人類大歷史》，而是創作出全新的內容希望能觸及那些平時不經常接觸科學，或認為歷史枯燥無味的人你會發

「我從哪裡來？」，這個問題絕對是中低年齡層孩子QA的前三名，相信爸媽們一定回答得不厭其煩了。但除了讓孩子知道自己是從媽媽肚子裡誕生的，我們是否曾經想過更久遠的歷史：媽媽的媽媽的媽媽，甚至更早的祖先是什麼模樣？祖先們歷經了哪些過程，才造就現在的世界和今天的我們？ 人類的演化史和地球的年紀比起來實在太年輕了，但在這說短也不算短的幾百萬年時光中，發生了許多改變世界的大事件，只要當初的祖先做出不同決定，

Legend has it that Copernicus found twelve powerful relics that could harness the cosmos and transport people through time when assembled in the shape of an astrolabe. Recognising the astrolabe's terrible power, Copernicus hid the relics in far-flung corners of the globe and assigned loyal Guardians to pass down the duty of protecting the relics across the ages. In the wrong hands, the astrolabe could control the world. That's exactly what Galina Krauss and her powerful Teutonic Order plan to do once she collects all the pieces and reassembles them. She's already infiltrated the Guardians and broken down their defences. Humankind won't know what's happened until it's too late. What Galina doesn't know is that a letter, the Guardians' last cry for help, has fallen into the hands of four young friends - Wade, Lily, Darrel and Becca. Four young friends who are about to find themselves caught up in a centuries-old battle to save fate itself...

One of Isaac Asimov’s SF masterpieces, this stand-alone novel is a monument of the flowering of SF in the 20th century. It is widely regarded as Asimov’s single best SF novel and one every SF fan should read.Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a member of the elite of the future. One of the few who live in Eternity, a location outside of place and time, Harlan’s job is to create carefully controlled and enacted Reality Changes. These Changes are small, exactingly calculated shifts in the course of history made for the benefit of humankind. Though each Change has been made for the greater good, there are always costs.During one of his assignments, Harlan meets and falls in love with Noÿs Lambent, a woman who lives in real time and space. Then Harlan learns that Noÿs will cease to exist after the next change, and risks everything to sneak her into Eternity.Unfortunately, they are caught. Harlan’s punishment? His next assignment: kill the woman he loves before the paradox they have created resul

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.Music is the language of emotion, common wisdom tells us. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen introduces us to the science that might support such popular notions. With equal parts scientific rigor and charm, he marshals current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and sca