Baghdad, 2003. The War on Terror has been raging for two years. Iraq's capital city has been devastated, and without a police force to keep its citizens safe. In an effort to establish some semblance of order in the war-torn city, Florida cop-turned-military consultant Chris Henry has been assigned to train a new group of cadets who will take up the cause of law enforcement. Bu...(展开全部)

A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one ...(展开全部)

Who knows what Brian May was thinking when he wrote "We Will Rock You" for Queen? As a lifelong astrophysics aficionado, he may have been thinking about the origins of the universe. He's certainly been thinking about it lately. May, a freshly minted astrophysics Ph.D., joins forces with legendary astronomer Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Chris Lintott in Bang to consider the...(展开全部)

李元，1925年生于太原。资深科普工作者，已从事科普事业60多年，中国科普研究所研究员。主持并参与了本书的翻译工作。他曾在中国科学院紫金山天文台、北京天文馆、中国科协工作。是北京天文馆和《天文爱好者》期刊的创始人之一，获得多种奖项。1998年国际天文学联合会将国际编号6741的小行星命名为“李元星”。以表彰他对天文科普事业所做出的杰出贡献。 参加本书翻译的译者还有曹军、李鉴、张子平、陈冬妮。他们大多拥有高学历和高级职称。有丰富的学识和多年天文科普工作的经验，均在北京天文馆工作。 帕特里克·摩尔(Patrick Moore)，英帝国司令勋章获得者、英国皇家学会会员、英国皇家天文学会会员。终生研究月球。是许多月面特征的发现者。特别是在难于观测的边缘区域。他也是现代天文学的一位著名的诠释者。他主持的每月一次的BBC电视节目《夜空》。对宇宙...(展开全部)

◎MC Hotdog 熱狗，五月天阿信，全民大悶鍋阿KEN 狂笑推薦 爆笑的校園流氓老大故事，九把刀kuso的經典之作！ 讓你在不該笑的時候，也忍不住笑出聲來！ 我國小一年級就認識哈棒了，起因是我們同班。 七龍珠裡的外星人都要戴上「戰鬥力分析器」才知道對手有多厲害，但我們這群四年級的小朋友就已經經歷種種社會事件，個個都知道哈棒這輩子就應該踩在我們的頭上……哈棒沒有朋友，只有僕人。 現在，哈棒老大來了。 十二篇爆笑的校園流氓老大故事，九把刀kuso的經典之作——不可思議的吳老師數學課、寫不好會死人的作文課、整天盜墳幫兒子搞冥婚的老媽、交大男八社恐怖的酸內褲傳說、到陰風怒吼的海上釣水鬼、獵殺聖誕老人……無與倫比的噁心與惡搞，讓你像白痴般拼命狂笑不止！我們的老大，一個叫做哈棒的男人。 他偉大的骯髒傳奇，就此揭開序幕！ 《哈棒傳奇...(展开全部)

According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In "Before the Big Bang", Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of "Upgrade Me" and "The God Effect") e...(展开全部)

拉里·唐斯 l 美国西北大学文学学士，芝加哥大学法学博士。曾在西北大学法学院、芝加哥大学布斯商学院和加州大学伯克利分校哈斯商学院任教，还曾担任斯坦福大学法学院互联网与社会研究中心的非常驻研究员。 l 曾在安达信、麦肯锡以及CSCIndex等知名咨询公司任职，目前是乔治敦大学商业和公共政策中心的项目主管，埃森哲卓越绩效研究院研究员。 保罗·纽恩斯 l 埃森哲卓越绩效研究院全球研究总监，埃森哲《展望》杂志（Outlook）的特约编辑。 l 其研究曾被《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《今日美国》和《福布斯》等媒体重点报道。

About Big History Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events that have changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. This first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers places ...(展开全部)

丁•科瓦斯基（Dean A. Kowalski）,美国威斯康星州沃喀莎大学（University of Wisconsin-Waukesha）的哲学教授，作为本册书的主编，他同时参与了《‹X档案›粉丝升级手册》和《史蒂夫•斯皮尔伯格粉丝升级手册》的编写。坊间传说，他每年都要给默多克快递银器。 唐娜•史密斯（Donna Smith），正在佛罗里达的棕榈滩县图书馆系统（Palm Beach County Library System）与“全宇宙”最好的极客们一同工作。与谢尔顿不同，她是威尔•惠顿的超级粉丝，绝不会把他作为“永久的敌人”。

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)