Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday world go round. This book tells the story of gauge fields, from Maxwell's 1860 ...(展开全部)

黄克孙(Kerson Huang)，美国麻省理工学院物理系荣誉教授，1928年出生于中国广西南宁，1953年获麻省理工学院哲学博士学位。他在理论物理方面的研究领域是玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚和量子场论。1999年从教学岗位退休后，他致力于生物物理学研究。他是美国物理学会会员，美国艺术和科学院院士，用英文著有多部高水平物理学教科书，包括《统计力学》，《夸克、轻子和规范场》，《量子场论：从算子到路径积分》和《统计物理学导论》。另有中译《鲁拜集》及英译《易经》等译著出版。

Toyo Ito: Generative order is based on the Kenneth Kassler endowed lecture delivered by Ito at Princeton University School of Architecture in the spring of 2009. The book is delivered primarily in Ito's voice, through the lecture transcript, which is the focus of the book, and through extended interviews, and a previously untranslated essay from 1980, all of which tie together ...(展开全部)

You've got a great story idea. So now what? How do you take that idea and turn it into a novel? Building upon his Six Core Competencies approach to story creation presented in his book Story Engineering, bestselling author Larry Brooks helps writers do just that. Many writers lack an understanding of the most fundamental essences involved with telling stories. Story Physics hel...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

This is an introduction to the basic tools of mathematics needed to understand the relation between knot theory and quantum gravity. The book begins with a rapid course on manifolds and differential forms, emphasizing how these provide a proper language for formulating Maxwell's equations on arbitrary spacetimes. The authors then introduce vector bundles, connections and curvat...(展开全部)

This is an introduction to the basic tools of mathematics needed to understand the relation between knot theory and quantum gravity. The book begins with a rapid course on manifolds and differential forms, emphasizing how these provide a proper language for formulating Maxwell's equations on arbitrary spacetimes. The authors then introduce vector bundles, connections and curvat...(展开全部)