In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy o...(展开全部)

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 ...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)

"Wonderful stories and in-depth information you will normally never find in books about trees." — Piet Oudolf, Landscape Designer and creator of the planting design for New York's High Line "Entwining fascinating facts about 100 trees with inspiring stories of their importance to ancient civilizations, trade, religious and pagan beliefs, wellbeing and medicinal uses over the ag...(展开全部)

Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer seized the world's imagination when he and his worldwide network of beachcomber volunteers traced ocean currents using thousands of sneakers and plastic bath toys spilled from storm-tossed freighters. Now, for the first time, Ebbesmeyer tells the story of his lifelong quest to solve the sea's mysteries. He recounts how flotsam has chan...(展开全部)

Pioneering oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer unravels the mystery of marine currents, uncovers the astonishing story of flotsam, and changes the world's view of trash, the ocean, and our global environment. Curtis Ebbesmeyer is no ordinary scientist. He's been a consulting oceanographer for multinational firms and a lead scientist on international research expeditions, but he...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they changed the world. The Fear and the Freedom is Keith Lowe's follow-up to Savage Continent. While that book painted a picture of Europe in all its horror as WWII was ending, The Fear and the Freedom looks at all that has happened since, focusing on ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 基思·罗威（Keith Lowe），全职作家和历史学家，被公认为二战史权威。其作品《火焰地狱：1943年汉堡灭顶之灾》《野蛮大陆》被翻译成20种语言，后者曾荣获赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖（Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History，2013）和意大利凯拉斯科历史奖（Cherasco History Prize，2015）。他是全世界许多杂志和报纸的撰稿人，经常在英国和美国的电视广播上发表意见。他与家人目前生活在北伦敦。 【译者简介】 朱邦芊，毕业于中国农业大学和多伦多大学，曾主持国家级翻译数据库建设与数据管理。已出版多部中英文译著，中文译著有《性、谋杀及生命的意义》《移动风暴》《最后的十字军东征》等，英文译著《宋辽西夏金社会生活史》（A Social History of Medieval China）已由英国剑桥大...(展开全部)

This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical an...(展开全部)