爱德华•哈里森（Elward Harrison），是马塞诸塞大学荣誉物理学和天文学教授，第一次世界大战末生在伦敦。他在伦敦大学学习，第二次世界大战时曾在英国军队服役。他曾是院子研究所和卢瑟福高能物理实验室的科学家。哈里森教授写过《宇宙的面纱》、《黑夜：宇宙的一个谜》和大量促进现代宇宙学进步的科学论文。他还写过早期宇宙学历史和哲学的文章。

Cosmology: The Science of the Universe is an introduction to past and present cosmological theory. For much of the world's history, cosmological thought was formulated in religious or philosophical language and was thus theological or metaphysical in nature. However, cosmological speculation and theory has now become a science in which the empirical discoveries of the astronome...(展开全部)

作者 葛瑞·雷纳 生于美国马萨诸塞州，原是职业吉他手。1987年受到启发，开始心灵的追寻。1990年迁至缅因州，经历了一连串不可思议的觉醒过程。 如今从事投资顾问工作，并继续写作、旅行、演讲，传播“宽恕”的信息，受到东西方读者的爱戴。 ===================== 译者若水

This is the first comprehensive overview of the exciting field of the 'science of science'. Those concerned with maximizing their career impact and productivity, with their scientific creativity, with effective collaboration and with the metrics of assessment will better understand the fundamental workings of science. Big data analysis and quantitative tools help identify succe...(展开全部)

The Little Book of Cosmology provides a breathtaking look at our universe on the grandest scales imaginable. Written by one of the world’s leading experimental cosmologists, this short but deeply insightful book describes what scientists are revealing through precise measurements of the faint thermal afterglow of the Big Bang—known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB—and...(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)

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and living organisms, human beings and human consciousness came to be. And yet we thirst for answers to questions that h...(展开全部)

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination ...(展开全部)

Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space. This time he shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light years wide. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination ...(展开全部)

William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come: the methodical and rational Galileo, the skeptical Montaigne, and—as Falk convincingly argues—Sha...(展开全部)