About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had obtained their mass, and particles constituting the nuclei of atoms were created. The nuclei of light elements, hydrogen and helium...(展开全部)

About 13.8 billion years ago the universe was born, with space and time coming into being in the same instant. By the time the universe was 1 second old, the four forces in nature had acquired their present characteristics, elementary particles had obtained their mass, and particles constituting the nuclei of atoms were created. The nuclei of light elements, hydrogen and helium...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

英文版譯註者／梅拉．埃普斯坦Meira B. Epstein NCGR-PAA認證占星師 NCGR紐約分會導師 原籍以色列的紐約占星名家，為古典占星文獻復興計劃——「後見之明」（Project Hindsight）、ARHAT的希伯來文重要譯者。專業認證占星師，為NCGR線上四級認證課程的創始者與指導教師，課程內容包括星盤繪製與天文學。專攻希臘/古典占星以及現代漢堡占星學派。出版品Excellence in Astrology為中世紀猶太占星名家亞伯拉罕・伊本･伊茲拉文獻的翻譯合集，亦為認證課程的參考書籍。 她亦為獨立的執業占星師，在美國及歐洲的專業占星雜誌發表過許多文章，在聯合占星大會（UAC）等活動經常受邀演講之導師。除了投入占星學研究，她也曾為ESL英文教師，現為電腦程式分析師。

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)

保罗·帕森斯（Paul Parsons） 理论宇宙学家、英国皇家学会科学图书奖提名作家。20多年来至今一直是科学记者和科普作家，他曾担任《BBC聚焦》《BBC仰望夜空》杂志的主编，并经常为《国家地理》《新科学家》等杂志撰写科普文章。 他所著的作品有《神秘博士里的科学》《3分钟斯蒂芬·霍金》《3分钟爱因斯坦》《如何有趣地使用物理》等。

Duration: 06:21:17 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * "[A] pleasure...I found it helpful—not reassuring, certainly, but mind-expanding—to be reminded of our place in a vast cosmos." —James Gleick, The New York Times Book Review "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Beyond her deep exper...(展开全部)