Today we are on the verge of discoveries that should soon reveal the deepest secrets of the universe. In Alpha & Omega, Charles Seife takes us to the front lines of the cosmological revolution to synthesize the discoveries of scientists at observatories and laboratories around the world who are actually peering into both the cradle of the universe and its grave. The cast of cha...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

保罗·帕森斯（Paul Parsons） 理论宇宙学家、英国皇家学会科学图书奖提名作家。20多年来至今一直是科学记者和科普作家，他曾担任《BBC聚焦》《BBC仰望夜空》杂志的主编，并经常为《国家地理》《新科学家》等杂志撰写科普文章。 他所著的作品有《神秘博士里的科学》《3分钟斯蒂芬·霍金》《3分钟爱因斯坦》《如何有趣地使用物理》等。

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary...(展开全部)

Dr John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. He has worked for the science journal Nature, and the magazine New Scientist and has contributed articles on science topics to The Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and has made several acclaimed science series for BBC Radio 4. John Gribbin has received...(展开全部)

It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – and occasional skullduggery. In the definitive account of this landmark event, Caltech physicist and acclaimed science writer Sean Carroll reve...(展开全部)

Despite the efforts of regulators around the world who strive to improve accounting and corporate transparency, the financial information they require to be disclosed no longer truly reflects the performance and value of business enterprises. The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers empirically proves this statement and offers a new way of reporting...(展开全部)

Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books “A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being The Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding why mass exists. The most recent book on the subject, The God Particle, was a bestseller. Now, Caltech p...(展开全部)