All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture. In a book that wil...(展开全部)

All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture. In a book that wil...(展开全部)

All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed ...(展开全部)

All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanographer Helen Czerski illustrates the mechanisms behind this defining feature of our planet, voyaging from the depths of the ocean floor to tropical coral reefs, estuaries that feed ...(展开全部)

海伦·切尔斯基 Helen Czerski 剑桥大学物理学博士，伦敦大学学院物理学家，研究海洋泡沫和气候变化。 切尔斯基2012年开始参与英国广播公司（BBC）的科普节目制作，至今已主持过十多部科学纪录片，包括《色彩的奥秘》《寰宇轨迹》《超感：动物的秘密能力》等。在为《聚焦》杂志和《华尔街》杂志撰写科普专栏的同时，她也参与BBC科普节目制作，并出版了畅销科普书《茶杯里的风暴》《蓝色机器》。 2014年，她被英国期刊出版人联合会（PPA）选为年度专栏作家。2018年，英国皇家物理学会授予她威廉·汤姆森·开尔文勋爵奖章，以表彰她在物理学科普方面的杰出成就。2020年，她被选为剑桥大学丘吉尔学院荣誉院士；2023年成为英国国家海洋学中心形象大使。

賽門‧古希爾 劍橋大學的希臘學教授，著有《解讀希臘悲劇》等書。他經常在《泰晤士報文學增刊》和《倫敦書評》發表文章，也常受邀至世界各地演講古典學相關題目。

There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But...(展开全部)

There's a hidden science that affects every part of your life. You are fluent in its terminology of email, WiFi, social networking, and encryption. You use its results when you make a telephone call, access the Internet, use any factory-produced product, or travel in any modern car. The discipline is so new that some prefer to call it a branch of engineering or mathematics. But...(展开全部)

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to the human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams...(展开全部)

In "Love, Sex & Tragedy" Simon Goldhill lifts the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions and offers a witty, engrossing survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from our overwhelming mania for "hard bodies" to our political systems. Encompassing Karl Marx, Clark Gable, George W. Bush, Oscar Wilde, and Sigmund Freud, Goldhill takes great delight in tracing both...(展开全部)