"[An] important, brain-tickling new book.... Laughlin's thesis is intriguing." ( New York Times Book Review ) In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe , Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin argues that the scientific frontier is right under our finger...(展开全部)

Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end? Why is there something rather than nothing?" is asked of anyone who says there is no God. Yet this is not...(展开全部)

李 • 斯莫林（Lee Smolin）  1955年出生于美国，拥有罕布什尔学院学士学位和哈佛大学博士学位，在普林斯顿高等研究院、圣巴巴拉理论物理研究所以及芝加哥大学做博士后；曾任教于耶鲁大学、雪城大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。现任加拿大圆周理论物理研究所研究员、滑铁卢大学物理系客座教授、多伦多大学哲学系研究生导师。  美国知名理论物理学家，圈量子引力论创始人之一， 被誉为“现今最具原创力的理论学家之一”。  畅销书作家，著有多本科普图书，因其对“前沿物理大众科普的卓越贡献”，荣获由美国物理教师联合会颁发的克洛普•斯特格纪念奖（Klopp Steg Memorial Award）。

李 • 斯莫林（Lee Smolin）  1955年出生于美国，拥有罕布什尔学院学士学位和哈佛大学博士学位，在普林斯顿高等研究院、圣巴巴拉理论物理研究所以及芝加哥大学做博士后；曾任教于耶鲁大学、雪城大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。现任加拿大圆周理论物理研究所研究员、滑铁卢大学物理系客座教授、多伦多大学哲学系研究生导师。  美国知名理论物理学家，圈量子引力论创始人之一， 被誉为“现今最具原创力的理论学家之一”。  畅销书作家，著有多本科普图书，因其对“前沿物理大众科普的卓越贡献”，荣获由美国物理教师联合会颁发的克洛普•斯特格纪念奖（Klopp Steg Memorial Award）。

From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe,...(展开全部)

Embark on the most astounding of odysseys, a voyage into realms not only stranger than we can imagine but also far, far more beautiful. "Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos" leads us into a celestial panorama that extends for 130 billion trillion kilometres (80 billion trillion miles) in every direction, and allows us to explore nearly 200 of the most extra...(展开全部)

A 2018 Caldecott Honor Book that Kirkus Reviews calls "a must-read for our times," A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event - a long-ago fishing trip. Graphic novelist Thi Bui and acclaimed poet Bao Phi deliver a powerful, honest glimpse into a relationship between father and son - and between cultures, old and new. As a young boy, Bao and his father awok...(展开全部)

An existential odyssey weaving together lived experience and theoretical insight, this startling autobiographical hyperfiction surveys and dissects a world where everything connects and global technological delirium is the norm. The mediascapes of late capitalism reconfigure erotic responses and trigger primal aggression; under constant surveillance, we occupy simulations of ou...(展开全部)