Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as bac...(展开全部)

比尔·奈尔（Bill Nye） 科学家、工程师、喜剧演员兼发明家。曾在康奈尔大学师从卡尔·萨根教授，并获得机械工程专业学士学位；还曾在波音公司工作，作为工程师参与研发波音747客机；随后制作并主持了广受欢迎的电视节目《科学人比尔·奈尔》（Bill Nye the Science Guy），该节目曾获得艾美奖。他拥有理海大学、威拉姆特大学、昆尼皮亚克大学、伦斯勒理工学院、戈切尔学院和约翰－霍普金斯大学6个荣誉博士学位，并定期访问康奈尔大学。 科瑞·S. 鲍威尔（Corey S.Powell） 《美国科学家》和《探索》杂志前任主编，目前是《探索》杂志特约编辑，继续为其撰写专栏文章和博客。他还是纽约大学SHERP科学新闻计划的访问学者，以及《大众科学》《史密森尼》《鹦鹉螺》《万古》等杂志的自由撰稿人，其作品《行星的疯狂》入选《2014年美国科学和自然最佳写...(展开全部)

The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is...(展开全部)

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."--Bill Nye Sparked by a controversial debate in Februa...(展开全部)

As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing.

Do all questions have answers? How much can we know about the world? Is there such a thing as an ultimate truth? To be human is to want to know, but what we are able to observe is only a tiny portion of what’s “out there.” In The Island of Knowledge, physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence. In so doing, he reaches a...(展开全部)

In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of 'how certainty is constructed or deconstructed', leading us through the views of medical researc...(展开全部)

Product Description In Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science, Jan Golinski reviews recent writing on the history of science and shows how it has been dramatically reshaped by a new understanding of science itself. In the last few years, scientific knowledge has come to be seen as a product of human culture, an approach that has challenged the tradi...(展开全部)