THE COURSE OF NATURE: A BOOK OF DRAWINGS ON NATURAL SELECTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Book ID/图书代码: 06840014B73574
English Summary/英文概要: Humanity is a part of nature, yet every thinking person at one time or another has asked, "How did we get here? What makes me different from the rest of nature?” In The Course of Nature an artist and scientist analyze these questions from the humanistic and scientific perspectives. Amy Pollack’s illustrations elegantly summarize laws of nature and reveal our place in nature. Paired with each illustration, Robert Pollack’s one-page essays explain the science behind those laws and their overarching moral contexts. Together the authors have created a door into nature for the non-scientist and a door into the separate question of how we got here for all of us.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 人性是自然的一部分,可能每个人都会想或者问“我们是怎么变成人类的呢?是什么使我们和地球上的其他生物不一样的?”在《自然课程》中,一位艺术家和科学家分别以人文和科学的角度向读者解说了人类的进程。艾米•波拉克的插图优雅地总结了自然法则和人类在自然界中的地位。每副插图后,罗伯特•波拉克都配了一页的文字说明解释了这些法则背后蕴藏的科学原理和道德规律。两位作者为普通读者构造了一扇通往自然界的大门,探索人类的进程。(XAT)
Awards/获奖情况:“《自然课程》以插图和文字相结合的方式向我们解释了人类进化的过程,非常有趣,也很意想不到。”——理查德•J•罗伯特,诺贝尔获奖生物化学家和分子生物学家
“艾米有趣的插图和鲍比清晰的评论相结合使这部《自然课程》非常创新有趣,他们不仅解释了人类进化的过程,还有人类在宇宙间起到的作用以及为何我们能领先于其他物种的原因。”——赫尔曼•沃克,普利策奖得主,《凯恩战乱》以及《战争和回忆》作者
“作为一个教育者,我发现现在很多解释人类进程基础规律的书籍并不能使当代读者满意。但是这本《自然课程》却很好将本质,见解,优雅相结合,并使读者从视觉和科学角度都得到了满足。”——皮拉尔•珍妮丝博士,哥伦比亚大学科学和宗教研究中心研究员
“这本书是你一生必须拥有的一本书之一。你可以将它作为你的睡前读物,反复读其中一些章节却总能发现一些新的乐趣,为艾米精湛的画技折服,并将鲍比所说的用我们希望被对待的方式去对待他人铭记于心。”——安娜•G•帕特维克博士,纽约理工学院精神病学临床副教授
“艾米的图画在儿童插画集中能安抚心灵,也能将复杂的进化过程简化,更利于理解。”——黛博拉•哈姆,硕士,哥伦比亚大学精神病学临床副教授
“这本小巧精致的书结合了波拉克夫妇的艺术和科学想象还有对人类这一种族在宇宙间地位和影响的思考,包括人类在地球的生物圈以及进化过程中扮演的角色。《自然课程》很便于理解,在科学角度又非常专业。”——大卫•H•克兰茨,博士,哥伦比亚大学心理学教授
“《自然课程》很温暖,智慧,配图也非常有趣,是教授生物学课程的理想教科书。”——约翰•霍根,史蒂文科技研究中心科学记者和科学写作中心主任
“读《自然课程》的过程就像是参加了科学和艺术之间创新独特的婚礼,智慧和道德在这本小册子中碰撞出了火花。它唤起了我们对自然美好与巧妙地理解和敬畏。”——辛西娅•莫•拉比德,博士,西雅图大学神学和宗教学副教授
About the Author/作者介绍: 艾米•波拉克获得了库伯联盟学院美术学士学位和布兰德斯大学艺术史学士学位,并在地理上很有建树。她最近为史蒂文斯理工学院创作了些作品。艾米对科学的理解植根于在马塞诸塞州马林生物实验室度过的暑假和在布兰迪斯大学技术员的工作经历。较早版本的《自然课程》被用于哥伦比亚大学核心课程“科学前沿”和史蒂文斯科技学院中。
ROBERT POLLACK graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in physics, and received a Ph.D. in biology from Brandeis University. He has been a professor of biological sciences at Columbia since 1978. He received the Alexander Hamilton Medal from Columbia University, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of Signs of Life: The Languages and Meanings of DNA (Houghton Mifflin/Viking Penguin, 1994), The Missing Moment: How the Unconscious Shapes Modern Science (Houghton Mifflin, 1999); and The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Meaning, Order and Free Will in Modern Medical Science (Columbia University Press, 2000). Signs of Life received the Lionel Trilling Award and has been translated into six languages.
AMY POLLACK earned a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union and a B.A. from Brandeis University with a major in Art History and with honors in Graphics. Her recent works include illustrations for the Stevens Institute of Technology’s College of Arts and Letters, Sanctum, Crosscurrents. Her facility with scientific matters stems from summers spent at the Marine Biology Lab at Woods Hole Massachusetts, and on her work as a technician at Brandeis University. An earlier version of The Course of Nature has been used as a reading in the Columbia College core course “Frontiers of Science,” and in the Stevens Institute of Technology program in Arts and Letters.
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