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。

[美] 艾克纳恩·戈德堡（Elkhonon Goldberg） 享誉国际的认知神经科学家，师从20世纪俄裔神经心理学家大师卢里亚。现为卢里亚神经科学研究所（Luria Neuroscience Institute）负责人和纽约大学医学院临床神经学教授。 戈德堡著有多部广受赞誉的作品，已被翻译成多种语言。代表作《创新大脑》（Creativity:The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation）、《智慧大脑》（The Wisdom Paradox：How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older）《决策大脑》（The New Executive Brain：Frontal Lobes in a Complex World）。

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)

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(展开全部)

Half a century ago Horkheimer and Adorno argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized and Westernized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was that, with the digital revolution and the pervasive automation associated with it, the develo...(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)

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)

From Publishers Weekly Oxford University zoologist Parker tackles one of biology's biggest mysteries in this nontechnical account. He provides a relatively simple explanation for the sudden explosion of life forms that defines the boundary between the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian eras approximately 543 million years ago: "The Cambrian explosion was triggered by the sudden evolutio...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 安德鲁• 帕克，1967 年出生于英国，曾于澳大利亚博物馆从事海洋生物研究，同时取得悉尼麦克里大学博士学位。之后转往英国牛津大学动物学系开展研究工作，并于 1999 年成为英国皇家学会研究员。此外，他也是牛津大学萨默维尔学院的研究员。 ………………………… ◎译者简介 于翀涵，中国地质大学（北京）海洋学院博士研究生在读。曾实地考察寒武纪澄江动物群，且有幸随中国大洋49航次前往西南印度洋开展科考。学习之余从事科普工作近7年，在中国地质博物馆及中国地质大学（北京）博物馆任志愿讲解员。本书为她的首本科普译作。 李晨昊，本硕就读于中国地质大学（北京），地球物理学理学硕士。现就职于中国航天科技某研究所，自然科学爱好者。

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answ...(展开全部)