雷托·U·施奈德（Reto U Schneider），1963年出生，获电气工程硕士学位后入灵吉尔新闻学校学习，以科学方向通讯员身份供职于瑞士及德国媒体。现为《新苏黎世报》的期刊编辑，同时在该报开辟专栏“实验”，其文章屡获殊荣。著书《行星猎人》（比尔克怀泽出版社，1997年），讲述太阳系外首颖行星的发现。

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American 'boom' and 'postboom' novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one career and subsequent crime to another, Silvio's main difficulty is his own intellig...(展开全部)

In the style of popular TV science programmes, "Popular Science" magazine's columnist Theodore Gray demonstrates the wonders of science through 52 visually thrilling, often highly explosive, daredevil experiments. Watch subatomic radioactive particles dance in a cloud chamber! Save a perfect snowflake in Superglue, forever! Make your own table salt! Make your own light bulbs! L...(展开全部)

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)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

朱迪亚·珀尓（Judea Pearl） 现加州大学洛杉矶分校计算机科学教授，“贝叶斯网络”之父，2011年因创立因果推理演算法获得图灵奖，同时也是美国国家科学院院士，IEEE 智能系统名人堂第一批10位入选者之一。目前已出版3本关于因果关系科学的经典著作，分别为《启发法》(1984)、《智能系统中的概率推理》(1988) 和《因果论：模型、论证、推理》(2009)。他还获得过多项顶级科学荣誉，包括认知科学领域的鲁梅哈特奖、物理学及技术领域的富兰克林奖章以及科学哲学领域的拉卡托斯奖。 达纳·麦肯齐（Dana Mackenzie） 普林斯顿大学数学博士，自由科学记者，知名科普作家，著有《无言的宇宙》等作品，其学术论文多次收录于《科学》《新科学家》《科学美国》《探索》等重量级期刊。

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. The grandmother is unsentimental ...(展开全部)