斯坦利·莱恩-普尔（Stanley Lane-Poole，1854—1931） 著名东方学家、考古学家，都柏林大学教授，阿拉伯史权威学者。主要著作有《摩尔人统治下的西班牙》《土耳其人的故事》《中世纪的埃及》《萨拉丁和耶路撒冷王国的陷落》等。被誉为是一位“没有偏见的欧洲历史学家”，其作品对人们客观认识欧洲以外的历史有重要影响。

The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the...(展开全部)

The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which ph...(展开全部)

[英] 吉姆·巴戈特（Jim Baggott） 生于1957年，英国科学史作家。牛津大学化学物理学博士，牛津大学和斯坦福大学博士后，英国雷丁大学化学讲师。葛兰素史克科学作家奖和英国皇家化学学会授予的马洛奖章得主。 巴戈特从事过多年的学术研究工作，二十多年来一直专注于科学、哲学和历史类主题写作。著有《量子空间：通往万物理论的新途径》《希格斯：上帝粒子的提出与发现》《完美的对称：富勒烯的意外发现》《原子：物理学界的第一次大战和原子弹秘史，1939―1949》等书籍，并在《新科学人》《自然》等顶尖科学刊物上发表文章。 2013年，巴戈特在摩根·弗里曼主持的“穿越虫洞”科学系列节目中首次亮相，之后多次参与英国和美国科学广播节目的录制，致力于科学普及。

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

The thrilling cold war masterwork by the nobel prize winner, published in full for the first time Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is locked away inside a Moscow prison t...(展开全部)

"Warriors of the Cloisters" tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This highly distinctive and unusual method of...(展开全部)

Forget everything you think you know about Blackwater. And get ready for a thrilling, true story that will make you rethink who the good guys and bad guys have been since 9/11. http://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/1591847214