A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five cataclysmic minutes rather than having existed for all time; a skeptical scientist dubbed the maverick theory the Big Bang. In this amazingly comprehensible history of the universe, Simon Singh decodes the mystery behind the Big Bang theory, lading us through the development of one ...(展开全部)

丁•科瓦斯基（Dean A. Kowalski）,美国威斯康星州沃喀莎大学（University of Wisconsin-Waukesha）的哲学教授，作为本册书的主编，他同时参与了《‹X档案›粉丝升级手册》和《史蒂夫•斯皮尔伯格粉丝升级手册》的编写。坊间传说，他每年都要给默多克快递银器。 唐娜•史密斯（Donna Smith），正在佛罗里达的棕榈滩县图书馆系统（Palm Beach County Library System）与“全宇宙”最好的极客们一同工作。与谢尔顿不同，她是威尔•惠顿的超级粉丝，绝不会把他作为“永久的敌人”。

戴夫·佐贝尔（Dave Zobel）毕业于加利福尼亚理工学院，曾在公共电台的一档科学栏目担任撰稿人，并为多档电台节目撰写过于科学有关的内容。此外，他还是洛杉矶一家非营利组织的董事会成员，主要从制造商那里回收废弃材料，将它们制造成科学和艺术工具箱，赠送给各大学校。目前他居住在康涅狄格州的纽敦

According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In "Before the Big Bang", Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of "Upgrade Me" and "The God Effect") e...(展开全部)

拉里·唐斯 l 美国西北大学文学学士，芝加哥大学法学博士。曾在西北大学法学院、芝加哥大学布斯商学院和加州大学伯克利分校哈斯商学院任教，还曾担任斯坦福大学法学院互联网与社会研究中心的非常驻研究员。 l 曾在安达信、麦肯锡以及CSCIndex等知名咨询公司任职，目前是乔治敦大学商业和公共政策中心的项目主管，埃森哲卓越绩效研究院研究员。 保罗·纽恩斯 l 埃森哲卓越绩效研究院全球研究总监，埃森哲《展望》杂志（Outlook）的特约编辑。 l 其研究曾被《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《今日美国》和《福布斯》等媒体重点报道。

About Big History Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events that have changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. This first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers places ...(展开全部)

Dr John Gribbin trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge before becoming a full-time science writer. He has worked for the science journal Nature, and the magazine New Scientist and has contributed articles on science topics to The Times, the Guardian and the Independent, and has made several acclaimed science series for BBC Radio 4. John Gribbin has received...(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。

From Publishers Weekly Oxford University zoologist Parker tackles one of biology's biggest mysteries in this nontechnical account. He provides a relatively simple explanation for the sudden explosion of life forms that defines the boundary between the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian eras approximately 543 million years ago: "The Cambrian explosion was triggered by the sudden evolutio...(展开全部)

The woodland animals were all getting ready for the winter. Geese flew south, rabbits and deer grew thick warm coats, and the raccoons and chipmunks lay down for a long winter nap. Come Christmastime, the wise owls were the first to see the rainbow around the moon. It was a sure sign that the big snow was on its way.