Naval's Recommended Reading

Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

编辑推荐
★“科学怪咖”兰道尔•门罗的畅销科普书《万物解释者》全新修订升级！用小学生都能懂的极简语言，图解45种复杂事物，从你家里的挂锁、微波炉、卫生间，到好奇号火星车、核电站、太阳系，内容包罗万象，满足你所有的好奇心和求知欲。
★阅读体验升级！开本放大50%，字号更大，再也不用担心累眼睛。
★知识量升级！修复老版bug，新增事物通用名词表，包含全书800多个名词，均由来自各领域的19名专家严格审定，知识点清晰明了、便于速查，解开你的所有疑惑。
★what if作者兰道尔•门罗的每本书都会被比尔•盖茨推荐，他是在全球拥有超高人气的科普畅销书作家，他曾在NASA制造机器人，后来创立了美国最热门科普漫画网站xkcd。国际天文学联合会还将小行星4942命名为“门罗”。
内容简介
“科学怪咖”、美国“国宝级”作家兰道尔•门罗的畅销科普书《万物解释者》全新修订升级，用小学生都能懂的极简语言图解45种复杂事物，小到家里的笔、微波炉，大到火星探测器、太阳系，满足你对大千世界的好奇心和窥探欲。畅销修订版的开本放大50%，字号变大，给你带来更好的阅读体验。
书中新增事物通用名词表，800多个专业名词均由来自各领域的19位专家严格审定，知识点更清晰明了，便于速查。

Lewis Carroll Epstein explains deep ideas in physics in an easy-to-understand way. Thinking Physics is a perfect beginner’s guide to an amazingly wide range of physics-related questions. The book targets topics that science teachers and students spend time wondering about, like wing lift. Epstein elucidates the familiar but misunderstood — such as how tides work — along with more obscure but fascinating phenomena like the “Bernoulli sub” and the “artificial aurora” created by hydrogen bombs. Broken into many short sections and peppered with Epstein’s own playful hand-drawn illustrations, the book does not simply give the right answer: It also goes into the answers that seem right but are wrong and shows why they are wrong — a rarity in science books. Thinking Physics is a rigorously correct, lighthearted, and cleverly designed Q and A book for physicists of all ages.

A concise survey of the culture and civilization of mankind, The Lessons of History is the result of a lifetime of research from Pulitzer Prize–winning historians Will and Ariel Durant. With their accessible compendium of philosophy and social progress, the Durants take us on a journey through history, exploring the possibilities and limitations of humanity over time. Juxtaposing the great lives, ideas, and accomplishments with cycles of war and conquest, the Durants reveal the towering themes of history and give meaning to our own.

★“普利策奖”和“总统自由勋章”获得者的收官之作
★绝版多年之后，畅销百万的史学经典重版出来
★浓缩《文明的故事》精华，总结历史教训的独特见解
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【编辑推荐】
1.“普利策奖”和“总统自由勋章”获得者的收官之作
本书是美国著名学者威尔•杜兰特及其夫人阿里尔•杜兰特的收官之作。 一生能够同时获得被誉为“新闻界的诺贝尔奖”的“普利策奖”以及被誉为“美国最高荣誉的文职勋章”的“总统自由勋章”这两项殊荣，足见杜兰特夫妇的地位和影响力。
2. 浓缩《文明的故事》精华，总结历史教训的独特见解
11卷本的《文明的故事》（《世界文明史》）字数高达千万字，篇幅巨大，历史叙述巨细靡遗，不是一般人有耐心读完的。而本书仅近十万字，却可以清晰明了地总结出在《文明的故事》中历史事实背后隐藏的“历史的教训”，三四个小时即可读完，轻松获得史学大师一生学养浇灌出的历史智慧之花。
3. 绝版多年之后，畅销百万的史学经典重版出来
《历史的教训》2015年在国内甫一上市，即刻获得读者的热烈探讨和诸多推荐，成为当年的“新年第一书”。但时至今日，老版的正版图书早就难以购买到。
4.译文精心修订，增添44幅高清图片提升阅读流畅性
译者对译文进行全面、精心的修订，以更精准的文字呈现给读者。同时选配了44幅高清图片，这些历史图片赋予历史清晰的视觉效果，让历史徐徐展开它迷人的画卷。
5.恰当、合宜的装帧设计
护封简约的设计，红色的裱封，隐隐寓意着“历史的教训”之韵味，以及吸取“历史的教训”之不易。一幅变化难测的线条图片借助印银的工艺手法，让人在这一小小天地间读出了历史的恍惚迷离、变化无端。
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【内容简介】
本书可以称得上一部人人读得懂、人人又必读的历史哲学著作。
1968年，杜兰特夫妇为了便于一般读者阅读11卷本《文明的故事》（或译为《世界文明史》），他们在此基础上撰写了这部《历史的教训》。
《历史的教训》浓缩了11卷本的精华，通过提纲挈领的线条，详细阐明了地理条件、经济状况、种族优劣、人类本性、宗教活动、社会主义、政府、战争、道德、盛衰定律、生物进化等在历史中所扮演的角色，勾勒了历史与人类生活各方面的关系，并总结出历史留给人类的巨大精神遗产，体现了他们对人类历史的“完整史观”。

Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries -- the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.

EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman. Brand New.

《穷查理宝典》完整收录了查理·芒格的个人传记与投资哲学，以及过去20年来芒格主要的公开演讲和媒体访谈。他拥有百科全书式的知识，从古代的雄辩家，到18、19世纪的欧洲文豪，再到当代的流行文化偶像，这些人的名言他都能信手拈来，并用这些来强调终身学习和保持求知欲望的好处。全书贯穿了芒格的聪慧机智，令人敬服的价值观和深不可测的修辞天赋。

What are time and space made of?
Where does matter come from?
And what exactly is reality?
Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed over the last few dozen centuries.
In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers readers a deeper understanding of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. His evocative explanations invite us to imagine, beyond our ever-changing idea of reality, a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

世界的基本组成部分是什么？时间和空间真的存在吗？现实（Reality）的本质是什么？现象级科普畅销书《七堂极简物理课》作者、意大利理论物理学家卡洛·罗韦利以优雅易懂的方式带我们踏上这场探索现实之旅：从德谟克利特到爱因斯坦，从法拉第到引力波，从经典物理到量子引力……通过介绍现实的概念是如何随时间变迁的，今天的物理学家又是如何理解宇宙的结构的，他为我们提供了比《七堂极简物理课》更深入的理论解释。

在本书中，意大利物理学家卡洛•罗韦利，用诗一般简洁优美的语言，向读者讲述了20世纪以来现代物理学的伟大理论发现。相对论、量子力学、宇宙的结构、空间的颗粒、时间的本质……在这七堂简单明了的物理课里，作者为我们打开了一个奇妙的物理学世界，也带我们轻盈地飞过重重障碍，窥见科学 的深刻与美丽。没有繁琐的方程，只有诗意的讲述，即使没有科学背景的人也能轻松读懂。
《时间简史》后再度引发科普阅读热潮，意大利一年热销30万册，销量超越《五十度灰》，被译为34种语言，以无法抗拒的优美，引领你了解我们所栖居世界的真相。
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《纽约时报》畅销类排行榜第二名。
《卫报》《经济学人》《独立报》《新科学家》《每日电讯报》2015年度好书，《自然》《华尔街日报》《金融时报》《出版人周刊》一致好评。
3. 语言优美如诗，内容简洁易懂，短短100页让你掌握20世纪物理学的重要理论
4. 特邀“意大利骑士之星”勋章获得者，卡尔维诺、艾柯等意大利国宝级作家作品的译者文铮直接从意大利语译为中文，最大程度保留原文之美
5. 英国顶级封面设计师创作封面星空图，英国获奖插画作者创作内文插画，精美装帧，工艺考究，充分呈现设计原貌
6. 中国著名理论物理学家李淼推荐的现象级畅销书。

Updated for the first time, the classic book on why cooperation is not only natural but also the best survival strategy The Evolution of Cooperation addresses a simple yet age-old question: If living things evolve through competition, how can cooperation ever emerge? Despite the abundant evidence of cooperation all around us, there existed no purely naturalistic answer to this question until 1979, when Robert Axelrod famously ran a computer tournament featuring a standard game-theory exercise called The Prisoner's Dilemma. To everyone's surprise, the program that won the tournament, named Tit for Tat, was not only the simplest but the most "cooperative" entrant. This unexpected victory proved that cooperation--one might even say altruism--is mathematically possible and therefore needs no hidden hand or divine agent to create and sustain it. A great roadblock to the understanding of all sorts of behavior was at last removed. The updated edition includes an extensive new chapter on cooperation in cancer cells and among terrorist organizations. "This book, if read, grasped and applied, could have a profound effect." ( Wall Street Journal ) "A fascinating, provocative, and important book." (Douglas R. Hofstadter, author of Godel, Escher, Bach )

本书的重点是研究追求各自利益的个体的行为，并分析在社会系统中有哪些因素影响个体的行为，即本书将提出一些关于个体动机的假设，并在此基础上推断整个系统的行为结果。本书提出的合作理论是基于对追求自身利益的个体的研究，而且这些个体中并没有什么中心权威强迫他们相互合作。个体追求自身利益，彼此之间的合作便不是完全基于对他人的关心或对群体利益的考虑。
本书是行为领域的经典之作，主题是合作的产生和进化。作者以组织的两轮“重复囚徒困境”竞赛为研究对象，结果发现在两轮竞赛中胜出的都是最简单的策略“一报还一报”。这一策略简洁明晰，具有善良性、宽容性、可激怒性和策略性，其出色的竞赛表现为我们了解个人、组织和国家间合作产生和进化提供了积极的前景，其结论在社会科学的诸领域产生了广泛深刻的影响，被广泛征引。

When "The Complete Strategyst" was originally published in 1954, game theory was an esoteric and mysterious subject, familiar only to specialized researchers, particularly in the military. Its popularity today can be traced at least in part to this book, which popularized the subject for amateurs, professionals, and students throughout the world. It has been reprinted numerous times and has been translated into at least five languages, including Russian and Japanese. Now, more than fifty years after its first publication as a RAND research study, and to celebrate RAND's 60th Anniversary, RAND brings this classic work back into print in paperback and digital formats.

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The first book in the Jed Talks series by Jed McKenna, author of the Enlightenment Trilogy and the Dreamstate Trilogy. 2nd Edition contains Starship Gita: The Song of the Borg, a play in six acts. Jed McKenna is the author of The Enlightenment Trilogy (Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, and Spiritual Warfare) and The Dreamstate Trilogy (Jed McKenna's Theory of Everything: The Enlightened Perspective, Play: A Play by Jed McKenna, and Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory). The Jed Talks series continues to provide the same combination of humor, charm, and unparalleled mastery that has made Jed McKenna the clearest and most unique voice in modern spirituality. Visit Wisefool Press to learn more.