基本信息
書名:人類文明與文化
ISBN:756005268
作者:陳乃芳//藍純
出版社:外語教學與研究出版社
定價:29.9
頁數:341
出版日期:2006-10-1
開本:16開
內容簡介
一個成熟的英語學習者能夠用英語進行廣泛的閱讀並從中收穫知識和快樂。讓我們為知識和快樂而閱讀，而不僅僅是為學好英語而閱讀。“人類文明與文化讀本”(READ INTO HUMAN CIVILIZATION AND CULTURE)是針對高校英語專業學生和同等程度的英語學習者開發的一套閱讀文庫，可以用作泛讀課教材，也可以用作課外閱讀材料。與一般泛讀教材不同的是，本套讀本著眼於讓讀者通過英語的視角來了解上下數千年人類所創造的文明、文化以及所遭遇的挑戰和危機。
作品目錄
Part 1 Human Evolution
Introduction
Unit 1 From Handy Human to Modern Human
Text A
From Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens
Text B
Dawkins'''' River of DNA
Unit 2 The Body and the Mind
Text A
The Interdependence of Body and Mind
Text B
Towards the Millennium of the Mind
Unit 3 The Babel and Languages
Text A
From Adam to the Confusion of Tongues: The Biblical Stories Abo
Beginnings of Languages
Text B
The World''''s Endangered Languages
Text C
Language and the Evolution of the Modern Mind
Part 2 World Civilizations
Introduction
Unit 4 Egypt and Greece
Text A
Egypt: How a Great Civilization Was Lost and Found
Text B
Greece: Its Geographical Features, Economy and Recent History
Text C
The Pyramids of Egypt
Unit 5 India and China
Text A
India: Its People and Its Past
Text B
Tang Civilization and the Chinese Centuries
Unit 6 Africa and America
Text A
Africa: Present and Past
Text B
Native Americans
Part 3 Knowledge as Power
Introduction
Unit 7 Printing-Accumulation of Knowledge
Text A
A Short History of Printing in Europe
Text B
The First Printer in England
Text C
A Sketch of Printing
Unit 8 The Emancipation of Human from Physical Labour
Text A
The Industrial Revolution 1780-1840 (1)
Text B
The Industrial Revolution 1780-1840 (2)
Text C
Industrial Revolution
Unit 9 The Emancipation of Human from Mental Labour
Text A
A New Philosophy of Work for the Information Age
Text B
The World Wide Web, Society and the Individual
Text C
How Can America Spark Private Innovation
Part 4 Scientists in Profile
Introduction
Unit 10 Different Childhoods, Similar Achievements
Text A
Charles Darwin and the Evolution Theory
Text B
Richard Feynman''''s Fascination with Physics
Unit 11 Groping for an Understanding of the Universe
Text A
The Life and Work of Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Text B
My Position: How One Can Understand the Universe
Unit 12 Women in a Man''''s World
Text A
Episodes from the Early Life of Marie Curie
Text B
The Dark Lady of DNA
Text C
The Dorothy Hodgkin I Got to Know
Part 5 Human''''s Insatiable Desire
Introduction
Unit 13 Exploration of Outer Space
Text A The Possibility of Life on Europa
Text B
What Would Life on the Moon Be Like?
Unit 14 Space Mission
Text A
Six Months on Mir
Text B
Transport and Travel in Space in the 21st Century
Unit 15 Seeking the Impossible
Text A1 A Home That Does Everything
Text A2 Looking at the Big Picture
Text B
Computer Fiction: Byte Couture
Part 6 Issues and Challenges
Introduction
Unit 16 Crises of Human''''s Own Making
Text A The Doomsday Reckoning
Text B
The West''''s Poisonous Legacy
Unit 17 Urban or Rural?
Text A Where Is the Good Life?
Text B
Notes from a Big Country
Unit 18 AIDS and Other Social Issues
Text A Learning to Let Mother Go
Text B
The Surprising Successes of Multicultural Britain
Key to Questions
Glossary
