Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its discoverers mistook the readings for the disruption caused by the droppings of pigeons that had nested in their t...(展开全部)

This is the story of the cosmic background radiation - the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born - and how it was discovered. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe, beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and its crucial discovery.

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women ...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

英文版譯註者／梅拉．埃普斯坦Meira B. Epstein NCGR-PAA認證占星師 NCGR紐約分會導師 原籍以色列的紐約占星名家，為古典占星文獻復興計劃——「後見之明」（Project Hindsight）、ARHAT的希伯來文重要譯者。專業認證占星師，為NCGR線上四級認證課程的創始者與指導教師，課程內容包括星盤繪製與天文學。專攻希臘/古典占星以及現代漢堡占星學派。出版品Excellence in Astrology為中世紀猶太占星名家亞伯拉罕・伊本･伊茲拉文獻的翻譯合集，亦為認證課程的參考書籍。 她亦為獨立的執業占星師，在美國及歐洲的專業占星雜誌發表過許多文章，在聯合占星大會（UAC）等活動經常受邀演講之導師。除了投入占星學研究，她也曾為ESL英文教師，現為電腦程式分析師。

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.

About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had obtained their mass, and particles constituting the nuclei of atoms were created. The nuclei of light elements, hydrogen and helium...(展开全部)

About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had obtained their mass, and particles constituting the nuclei of atoms were created. The nuclei of light elements, hydrogen and helium...(展开全部)