登月是一场骗局？南北半球浴室里水流的漩涡真的不同吗？只有在春分那一天才能竖起鸡蛋？真的有人看到过UFO或外星人吗？陨星会落在自家后院？…… 菲利普·普莱所著的《春分时节才能竖起鸡蛋吗(日常生活中de蹩脚天文学)》所介绍的24个与我们的日常生活或谈资相关的个案都是人们对天文学的误解和滥用。《春分时节才能竖起鸡蛋吗(日常生活中de蹩脚天文学)》中作者以风趣的方式、引人入胜的文笔，揭、穿了各种蹩脚的天文神话、传说和阴谋，还我们一个真实、科学、有趣的天文学。 Advance praise for Philip Plait s Bad Astronomy "Bad Astronomy is just plain good Philip Plait clears up every misconception on astronomy and spac...(展开全部)

"Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunking the outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in the name of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains." -Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist,Scientific American; author of Why People Believe Weird ...(展开全部)

"Christopher Wanjek uses a take-no-prisoners approach in debunking the outrageous nonsense being heaped on a gullible public in the name of science and medicine. Wanjek writes with clarity, humor, and humanity, and simultaneously informs and entertains." -Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist,Scientific American; author of Why People Believe Weird ...(展开全部)

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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

How fast does gravity travel? When will the sun go nova? Who invented the light year? Will we ever travel to the stars? These are just some of the unusual and popular questions NASA astronomer Sten Odenwald answers in Back to the Astronomy Caf, based on his award-winning website "for the astronomically disadvantaged. " Since his acclaimed earlier book The Astronomy Caf publis...(展开全部)

How fast does gravity travel? When will the sun go nova? Who invented the light year? Will we ever travel to the stars? These are just some of the unusual and popular questions NASA astronomer Sten Odenwald answers in Back to the Astronomy Caf, based on his award-winning website "for the astronomically disadvantaged. " Since his acclaimed earlier book The Astronomy Caf publis...(展开全部)

In "The Visible and the Revealed", Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly useful for understanding the progression of Marion's thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon...(展开全部)

约翰·H.麦克沃特，美国哥伦比亚大学语言学教授、语言学家，著有《巴别塔的力量：语言的自然史》《我们伟大的私生语言：英语不为人知的故事》等。他的著作经常出现在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》和《纽约客》等媒体上，他曾在TED发表题为《短信是语言杀手吗?开玩笑吧！》的经典演讲，引发了广泛讨论。