An earnestly honest guy who doesn’t even grant pipe dreams to himself, physiologically incapable of letting a single contradiction go, in other words me, got dragged this June to a renowned academy for rich girls, no questions allowed, by the world’s strongest contractor. No matter how you put it, no matter how you spin it, there was probably no point to it. Because the case th...(展开全部)

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

Paul G. Hewitt， 美国概念物理教学的先驱，是美国多所大学、中学的客座教师。其编写的教材深受广大读者欢迎。

A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist spends a year immersed in the high-pressure world of a competitive public high school—where teens chase 4.0 grades point averages, survive on as little as four hours of sleep, and chug lattes like water—and discovers the human story of what it takes to be a top student in America. Humes introduces a cast of passionate students, and touches on...(展开全部)

The pressure to succeed in our nation's most competitive public high schools is often crushing. Striving to understand this insular world, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edward Humes spent a year at California's Whitney High, a school so renowned that parents move across town-and across the world-hoping to enroll their children. That's because schools like Whitney deliver ev...(展开全部)

Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical—how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of p...(展开全部)

Description You're being asked to quantify usability improvements with statistics. But even with a background in statistics, you are hesitant to statistically analyze the data, as you may be unsure about which statistical tests to use and have trouble defending the use of the small test sample sizes associated with usability studies.

【作者简介】 菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball），科学作家，英国皇家化学会会员、欧盟委员会合成生物学专家团成员、BBC“科学的故事”栏目出品人，曾任《自然》期刊编辑20余年，著有《化学元素发现史》《明亮的泥土：颜料发明史》《如何制造一个人》等20多部科普作品，还为“牛津通识读本”系列撰写了《分子》和《元素》。作品曾获2003年英国技术史学会年度图书奖和2007年英国科学史学会年度科普图书奖。 【译者简介】 王乔琦，南京大学天文学学士，编辑，从事科普工作。译著有《发现天王星》《万物发明指南》《量子力学的真相》等。

科学图书奖得主菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball）对生物学提出了前沿的新观点，建议修正我们对生命的概念。生物学正在经历一场平静而深刻的变革。关于生命如何运作的标准图景有几个方面已被揭露为不完整、误导或错误的。 在《生命如何运作》一书中，菲利普·鲍尔探索了新的生物学，揭示了生命远比我们想象的要丰富、巧妙得多。这些知识带来了新的可能性。如今，我们可以重新设计和重组生命系统、组织和生物体。 例如，我们可以对细胞进行重新编程，使其执行新的任务，并生长成自然界中从未见过的结构。一些研究人员认为，我们后将能够再生肢体和器官，甚至可能创造出进化论从未想象过的新生命形式。《生命如何运作》融合了新的研究成果和见解，是对生命本质这一新领域的一次多方面探索，这一领域将重塑我们对生命的认识。 A cutting-edge new vision of biology tha...(展开全部)

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Lif...(展开全部)