马修·科布 Matthew Cobb 英国曼彻斯特大学动物学教授、神经科学家、科学作家，出版过多部科学史题材的作品，其中面向大众读者的神经科学全史《大脑传》获中国国家图书馆第十八届文津图书奖，入选《泰晤士报》《泰晤士报文学副刊》《大众科学》等多家英美著名媒体的年度书单，并获得美国五院院士（会士）、美国科学促进会前主席、美国国家科学基金会前主席理查德·C. 阿特金森等多位英美科学院院士以及鲁白、仇子龙等中国神经科学家的高度赞誉。他讲述17世纪的科学家探索性别和生命体生长与发育的作品《卵子与精子的竞赛》获伦敦动物学会2007年度科学传播奖。 2021年，英国最具影响力的遗传学学术组织英国遗传学会将该年度的霍尔丹奖（JBS Haldane Lecture Award）授予科布，表彰他在向公众普及遗传学方面的杰出贡献。

Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms are related, holds tremendous promise for improving human well-being, and h...(展开全部)

马修·科布 Matthew Cobb 英国曼彻斯特大学动物学教授、神经科学家、科学作家，出版过多部科学史题材的作品，其中面向大众读者的神经科学全史《大脑传》获中国国家图书馆第十八届文津图书奖，入选《泰晤士报》《泰晤士报文学副刊》《大众科学》等多家英美著名媒体的年度书单，并获得美国五院院士（会士）、美国科学促进会前主席、美国国家科学基金会前主席理查德·C. 阿特金森等多位英美科学院院士以及鲁白、仇子龙等中国神经科学家的高度赞誉。他讲述17世纪的科学家探索性别和生命体生长与发育的作品《卵子与精子的竞赛》获伦敦动物学会2007年度科学传播奖。 2021年，英国最具影响力的遗传学学术组织英国遗传学会将该年度的霍尔丹奖（JBS Haldane Lecture Award）授予科布，表彰他在向公众普及遗传学方面的杰出贡献。

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of writings that chronicle the author's state of mind and personal perspective on events, fellow writers and public figures of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to articles and essays such as the celebrated title piece, this volume includes a...(展开全部)

" Stewart writes with such compelling clarity that general readers can share in the intellectual daring of his perspective." — Booklist An invitation to a hidden world In Life’ s Other Secret, mathematician and award-winning science writer Ian Stewart reveals the way mathematics describes the origin, structure, and evolution of life. Featuring a sumptuous gallery of color illus...(展开全部)

Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eye...(展开全部)

Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises th...(展开全部)

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their ...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's audacious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. One minute, silly Heather Badcock had been gabbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure. But for whom was the deadly poison really intended? Marina's froze...(展开全部)

《秘密》这本集成功学、财富学、心理学等的著作中，作者揭露了运行在宇宙间主宰人生的强有力的黄金法则，清晰明了地解析了如何运用这个法则，创造美满幸福的生活。这是有关一切的秘密，这个秘密将给你想要的幸福、快乐、健康和爱情。《秘密》的构成来自当今成功者的智慧，他们都是各个领域世界级的领袖，他们都因运用这个秘密而获得健康、快乐、成功和声誉。 《秘密》是一本注定属于伟大的心灵励志书。《秘密》作者朗达?拜恩是澳大利亚电视工作者，有一年，父亲突然去世、工作遭遇瓶颈、家庭关系也陷入僵局，就在人生跌至谷底、生活即将崩溃时，意外发现了隐藏在百年古书中的秘密。几个世纪以来,这个秘密零星地存在于各种口述的历史、文学、宗教与哲学之中，更藏在人与世界的各个互动层面，每个人自身都存在着自己所不知道的能量。作者还发现，许多当今的佼佼者早已了解并运用此秘密。因此，作者不禁疑问：“为什么...(展开全部)