Michael Beard is in his late fifties; bald, overweight, unprepossessing – a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. An inveterate philanderer, Beard fin...(展开全部)

The literary event of the season: a new novel from Ian McEwan, as surprising as it is masterful. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global w...(展开全部)

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is diffe...(展开全部)

Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now. A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day...(展开全部)

Solar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now. A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland’s most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day...(展开全部)

The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Third Edition—winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in Cosmology & Astronomy from the Association of American Publishers—provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies and how they interact—with an astounding breadth of content and breathtaking visual ...(展开全部)

In this indispensable astrology book, Noel Tyl presents the definitive study of astrology's most accurate prediction system. The first major presentation of Solar Arc theory and practice in the English language, this book offers the entire application spectrum of Solar Arcs, dramatized in numerous case studies. Tyl explains the theory behind Solar Arcs from their inception in a...(展开全部)

Long before Galileo published his discoveries about Jupiter, lunar craters, and the Milky Way in the Starry Messenger in 1610, people were fascinated with the planets and stars around them. That interest continues today, and scientists are making new discoveries at an astounding rate. Ancient lake beds on Mars, robotic spacecraft missions, and new definitions of planets now d...(展开全部)

埃里克·蔡森拥有哈佛大学的天体物理学博士学位，在哈佛大学艺术与科学系工作了10年。在其后二十多年的时间里，他在空间望远镜科学研究所担任高级科学工作人员，并且拥有约翰霍普金斯大学和塔夫茨大学的多种教职。现在他又回到哈佛，在哈佛-史密松天体物理中心任教并进行研究。埃里克撰写 了12本有关天文学的书，在专业期刊上发表了近200篇科学论文。 史蒂夫·麦克米伦拥有剑桥大学的数学学士和硕士学位，以及哈佛大学的天文学博士学位。他在伊利诺伊大学和西北大学从事博士后科研工作，在那里继续有关理论天体物理、星团和高性能计算的研究。史蒂夫现在是德雷塞尔大学的杰出教授，并且是普林斯顿高级研究所和莱顿大学的长期访问学者。他在专业期刊上发表了超过100篇文章和科学论文。 译者简介 高健，理学博士，毕业于北京师范大学天文系，现为北京师范大学副教授，北京天文学会会员、中国天文学会会员...(展开全部)