How did nonliving atoms evolve into modern people? Find out in this engaging illustrated exploration of how nothing became everything. The science of evolution is a topic of utmost importance, especially as the focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education continues to increase. Fortunately, important doesn’t have to mean boring. From explaining how scientist...(展开全部)

How did nonliving atoms evolve into modern people? Find out in this engaging illustrated exploration of how nothing became everything. The science of evolution is a topic of utmost importance, especially as the focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education continues to increase. Fortunately, important doesn’t have to mean boring. From explaining how scientist...(展开全部)

Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how w...(展开全部)

AN "ECONOMIST" BOOK OF THE YEAR "The Secret Life of Words "is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. ...(展开全部)

Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try "admiral," "lands...(展开全部)

菲利普·鲍尔，1962年生，英国久负盛名的科学作家，曾先后担任《自然》杂志的物理学科编辑和顾问编辑，是《<自然>百年科学经典（英汉对照版）》丛书的两位英方主编之一，擅长从科学与历史、社会和艺术的互动中窥探科学的成就、挫折、趣味和荣光。

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of Hannah Landecker's book. She shows how cell culture changed the way we think about such ...(展开全部)

保罗·戴维斯（Paul Davies） - 著名理论物理学家、宇宙学家和天体生物学家，美国亚利桑那州立大学科学基本概念超越中心主任，“地外智慧生物搜寻”（SETI）计划侦测后任务小组负责人。他曾入选澳大利亚“十位最有创造性的人物”，有一颗小行星以他的名字命名。 - 戴维斯是当代最知名的科学作家之一，写过多部畅销科普作品，包括《上帝与新物理学》《宇宙的最后三分钟》《关于时间：爱因斯坦未完成的革命》等。他曾因科学成就及向大众传播科学知识的卓越贡献获得尤里卡奖、英国物理学会开尔文奖和英国皇家学会法拉第奖等。《华盛顿邮报》称他为“大西洋两岸最好的科学作家”。

保罗·戴维斯（Paul Davies） - 著名理论物理学家、宇宙学家和天体生物学家，美国亚利桑那州立大学科学基本概念超越中心主任，“地外智慧生物搜寻”（SETI）计划侦测后任务小组负责人。他曾入选澳大利亚“十位最有创造性的人物”，有一颗小行星以他的名字命名。 - 戴维斯是当代最知名的科学作家之一，写过多部畅销科普作品，包括《上帝与新物理学》《宇宙的最后三分钟》《关于时间：爱因斯坦未完成的革命》等。他曾因科学成就及向大众传播科学知识的卓越贡献获得尤里卡奖、英国物理学会开尔文奖和英国皇家学会法拉第奖等。《华盛顿邮报》称他为“大西洋两岸最好的科学作家”。

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。