Holding up such anomalies as ESP, psychokinesis, prayer, near-death experiences, and reincarnation under the cool light of scientific scrutiny can be a daunting task. Dean Radin, director of the Consciousness Research Laboratory at the University of Nevada, rises to the challenge in the pioneering and exhaustively researched The Conscious Universe. Fans of The X-Files will need...(展开全部)

Mathematics, that breathtaking invention of ours that reveals the tiniest particles of matter and takes us to the outermost reaches of the cosmos, is found by many people to be intimidating. In The Universe and the Teacup, K. C. Cole demystifies mathematics and shows us-with humor and wonderfully accessible stories-why math need not be frightening. Using the O. J. Simpson trial...(展开全部)

柯爾　K. C. Cole 美國南加州大學安納堡傳播學院教授，《洛杉磯時報》科學專欄作家（1994年迄今），經常在《紐約客》、《紐約時報》、《新聞週刊》、《華盛頓郵報》、《哥倫比亞新聞評論》等媒體發表文章。 1995年、2004年、2005年三度獲得「美國最佳科學寫作獎」，200 2年獲得「美國最佳科學與自然寫作獎」。 由於頻頻獲獎，而有「科學寫作界之達文西」的封號。 著有《數學與頭腦相遇的地方》（The Universe and the Teacup）、《物理與頭腦相遇的地方》（First You Build a Cloud）等書。 柯爾女士成長於巴西首都里約熱內盧、美國紐約州，曾在東歐待過數年，早年的寫作焦點在政治評論與女性議題。 1980年代，與舊金山探險博物館（Exploratorium）創辦人法蘭克．歐本海默（Frank Oppenheim...(展开全部)

Wow! What a Story!, December 27, 2000 By John Bernhardt (Baltimore, MD) - See all my reviews This is the only book I have read where, halfway through, I said, "God, don't let me die suddenly before I finish this book!" The book is so beautifully written, especially the first half. Although I think the Big Bang Theory and Guth's sealing-wax fix to that theory are sadly erroneou...(展开全部)

Neil Shubin is the author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, which was chosen by the National Academy of Sciences as the best book of the year in 2009. Trained at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, Shubin is associate dean of biological sciences at the University of Chicago. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Back Bay takes pleasure in restoring to print the first book by the author of Einstein in Love. Everywhere hailed as a paragon of science journalism, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos is the dramatic, heartbreaking, and often comical story of cosmology and the men and women devoted to discovering the secrets of the universe. Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos was nominated for a National Bo...(展开全部)

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as "forming" the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its...(展开全部)

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as "forming" the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its...(展开全部)

The Physics of Everyday Phenomena, Sixth Edition, introduces students to the basic concepts of physics using examples of common occurrences. Intended for use in a one-semester or two-semester course in conceptual physics, this book is written in a narrative style, frequently using questions designed to draw the reader into a dialogue about the ideas of physics. This inclusive s...(展开全部)

秦克诚，北京大学物理学教授，长期从事物理学的研究与教学工作。从1998年开始，作者花了六年半时间写成了80万字科普作品《邮票上的物理学史》。