Codes have decided the fates of empires, countries, and monarchies throughout recorded history. Mary, Queen of Scots was put to death by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, for the high crime of treason after spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham cracked the secret code she used to communicate with her conspirators. And thus the course of British history was altered by a few sheets of cryp...(展开全部)

In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma , Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incred...(展开全部)

An expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communica...(展开全部)

作者簡介 約翰‧歐康奈（John O’Connell） 自幼靠著番茄肉醬義大利麵和冷凍電視餐維生，直到1990年代搬到倫敦，才真正在美食天堂開了眼界，發現形形色色的食物，並且鼓勇嚐試，此後一發不可收拾，展開對香料和美食的終生追尋。他在文化娛樂活動預告雜誌《出遊時光》（Time Out）工作多年，並說服主編讓他買了一頭牛來，在每週專欄撰寫循序烹飪整頭牛的記錄。他著有I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria和小說The Baskerville Legacy，並定期為《泰晤士報》和《衛報》撰稿。現居倫敦南區，最愛的香料是孜然。 譯者簡介 莊安祺 台大外文系畢業，印地安那大學英美文學碩士，譯有《西藏的故事》、《托爾金傳》、《翁山蘇姬》、《創作者的日常生活》等書。

Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless influence each other's properties--a hypothetical phenomenon his fellow theorist Erwin Schr...(展开全部)

The stunning, critically-acclaimed follow-up to best-selling The Quantum Magician THE ULTIMATE CHASE Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He’s rich, he’s back with the love of his life, and best of all, he has the Time Gates, arguably the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this… …except the utter destruction of his people an...(展开全部)

Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about how best to pursue those goals in the current situation, and then monitor behavioral execution for effectiveness. Nature builds psycholog...(展开全部)

One of America’s foremost philosophers offers a major new account of the origins of the conscious mind. How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and philosophers, who have wondered how the human mind developed its unrivaled ability to create, imagine, and explain. Disciples of Darwin have long aspired to explain...(展开全部)

Throughout human history, the world's knowledge and fruits of the creative imagination have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodol...(展开全部)

【美】约书亚•霍尔登著，JOSHUA HOLDEN 美国罗斯－霍曼理工学院数学教授。1992年毕业于哈佛大学数学系，1998年获布朗大学数学博士学位。