Built from the debris of exploding stars that floated through space for billions of years, home to a zoo of tiny aliens, and controlled by a brain with more possible connections than there are atoms in the universe, the human body is the most incredible thing in existence. In the sequel to his bestselling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses ...(展开全部)

We are constantly surrounded by design—in advertisements, in books and magazines, on the Internet, on television—and each graphic element we see was carefully constructed through a designer’s very personal process. Yet only the finished article is presented. Rarely do we gain insight into how visual solutions have been reached or the exploration, experimentation, and ideas behi...(展开全部)

Joel Meadows is a journalist and writer with over three decades of experience in newspapers, magazines, and books. His CV includes some of the most renowned publications in the world, including Time magazine, the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, and the Observer. He has also written extensively about comics, film, TV, and culture for publications such as Variety, Empire, Big...(展开全部)

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh.s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. In addition to ...(展开全部)

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh.s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. In addition to ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·皮伯斯（P. J. E. Peebles） 美国天体物理学家、理论宇宙学家、普林斯顿大学阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦科学教授、美国科学院院士、英国皇家学会会士。皮伯斯被学界普遍认为是现代理论宇宙学的奠基人和领军人物之一，他的研究“为几乎所有现代宇宙学研究奠定了基础”（邵逸夫奖授奖词），他也是最早预测存在宇宙微波背景辐射的研究者之一。在大爆炸模型、核合成、暗物质、暗能量、宇宙微波背景辐射、宇宙结构形成等有关宇宙起源的诸多领域，皮伯斯都做出了极为重大的理论贡献。 2019年，皮伯斯因为他“在物理宇宙学领域的诸多理论发现”获诺贝尔物理学奖。除诺贝尔奖外，他获得的学界高级别重大奖项还包括：邵逸夫奖、格鲁伯宇宙学奖、克拉福德奖、英国皇家天文学会爱丁顿奖章、国际理论物理学中心狄拉克奖章等。 张同杰（译者） 北京师范大学物理与天文学院教授、博士生导师，国际天文联合会...(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)

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)