In this elegant, erudite but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.Framing this history is the life-story of the nineteenth-century Russian Scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the Periodic Table in ...(展开全部)

In 1869 Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev was puzzling over a way to bring order to the fledgling science of chemistry. Wearied by the effort, he fell asleep at his desk. What he dreamt would fundamentally change the way we see the world.Framing this history is the life story of the nineteenth-century Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke ...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

艾伦·贾德（Alan Judd），著名小说家、传记作家，英国皇家文学学会会员。原名艾伦·埃德文·佩蒂（Alan Edwin Petty），1946年出生于英国，毕业于牛津大学。曾在英国陆军、外交部任职。著有“查尔斯·索罗古德（Charles Thoroughgood）”系列间谍小说［《英雄传奇》（A Breed of Heroes, 1981）、《遗产》（Legacy, 2001）、《罕见对手》（Uncommon Enemy, 2012）、《潜入敌营》（Inside Enemy, 2014）、《深蓝计划》（Deep Blue, 2016）、《临时特工》（The Accidental Agent, 2019）］，人物传记《英国情报之父卡明爵士》（The Quest for C, 1999），长篇小说《德皇的最后一吻》（The Kaiser’s Last...(展开全部)

A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder, Mansfield Cumming. / Sir Mansfield Cumming, the founder of the British Secret Service and the original 'C', has until now been a shadowy figure. For this authorised biography, the Secret Intelligence Service has released to Alan Judd, Cumming's volum...(展开全部)

绘者简介： I.N.J.卡尔巴德，英国著名漫画家、作家、动画导演。起初卡尔巴德是以动画设计师的身份开始的职业生涯，2006年，他在成千上万名漫画家中脱颖而出，将作品发表在黑马漫画的新成员选集上。他创作与改编的图像小说以科幻、奇幻题材为主，尤其是对H.P.洛夫克拉夫特、罗伯特·W.钱伯斯和亚瑟·柯南·道尔等经典作家作品的改编为他带来了巨大的声誉。卡尔巴德的代表作包括：原创科幻图像小说《塞莱斯特》，与作家伊恩·艾金顿合作的蒸汽朋克图像小说《黄铜太阳》，与作家丹•阿布尼特合作创作的科幻图像小说《新特警判官》《黑暗时代》《荒野的终结》《边缘》，改编作品《疯狂山脉》《查尔斯·迪克斯特·瓦德事件》《超越时间之影》《梦寻秘境卡达斯》《黄衣之王》等等。2011年，卡尔巴德凭借对洛夫克拉夫特的名篇《疯狂山脉》的出色改编，获得了英国奇幻大奖（British Fantas...(展开全部)

绘者简介： I.N.J.卡尔巴德，英国著名漫画家、作家、动画导演。起初卡尔巴德是以动画设计师的身份开始的职业生涯，2006年，他在成千上万名漫画家中脱颖而出，将作品发表在黑马漫画的新成员选集上。他创作与改编的图像小说以科幻、奇幻题材为主，尤其是对H.P.洛夫克拉夫特、罗伯特·W.钱伯斯和亚瑟·柯南·道尔等经典作家作品的改编为他带来了巨大的声誉。卡尔巴德的代表作包括：原创科幻图像小说《塞莱斯特》，与作家伊恩·艾金顿合作的蒸汽朋克图像小说《黄铜太阳》，与作家丹•阿布尼特合作创作的科幻图像小说《新特警判官》《黑暗时代》《荒野的终结》《边缘》，改编作品《疯狂山脉》《查尔斯·迪克斯特·瓦德事件》《超越时间之影》《梦寻秘境卡达斯》《黄衣之王》等等。2011年，卡尔巴德凭借对洛夫克拉夫特的名篇《疯狂山脉》的出色改编，获得了英国奇幻大奖（British Fantas...(展开全部)