Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters ...(展开全部)

From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The p...(展开全部)

"The Water Hole" is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, with three toucans waiting in the wings, the tale unfolds on many lev...(展开全部)

This 2004 textbook fills a gap in the literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black holes, one of the most elegant, successful, and relevant applications of general relativity. Among the topics discussed are congrue...(展开全部)

In this book, Robert Wald provides a pedagogical introduction to the formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime. He begins with a treatment of the ordinary one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator, progresses through the construction of quantum field theory in flat spacetime to possible constructions of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, and, ultimately, ...(展开全部)

This textbook fills a gap in the existing literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black holes, one of the most successful and relevant applications of general relativity. Topics covered include congruences of timeli...(展开全部)

葛瑞米·贝斯（Graeme Base），世界上最棒的儿童图画书作家之一。他早年创作的字母书《动物王国》（Animalia）于1986年一问世，就立刻受到了国际性的赞誉。此书300万册的全球销量，奠定了其经典名作的地位。 贝斯的作品广受欢迎，获奖连连，包括：《第十一个小时》（The Eleventh Hour）、《来喝水吧》（The Waterhole）、《阿吉的许愿鼓》（Jungle Drums）、《阿诺的花园》（Uno's Garden）、《魔法失窃之谜》（Enigma, a Magical Mystery）、《卡纳克神庙的宝石鱼》（The Jewel Fish of Kamak）、《小不点大象》（Little Elephants）、《吴哥窟的最后一个国王》（The Last King of Angkor Wat）等等。 贝斯现在和他的艺术家妻子萝...(展开全部)

In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator Graeme Base takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery with an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book. From the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia, the an...(展开全部)

讲述励志故事的短篇故事，取自生活，映射生活。

讲述励志故事的短篇故事，取自生活，映射生活。