达娃•索贝尔（Dava Sobel）曾担任《纽约时报》科学专栏的记者，是《经度》、《伽利略的女儿》和《致父亲的信》等书的作者。她在三十年的科学新闻记者生涯中，多次为《奥杜邦》（Audubon）、《发现》、《生活》和《纽约客》等几家杂志撰稿，并担任过《哈佛杂志》和《全知》（Omni）的特约编辑，还与人合著了六部著作，其中包括与天文学家弗兰克•德雷克（Frank Drake）合著的《那里有人吗？》（Is Anyone Out There ?）以及与威廉•安德鲁斯（William J. H. Andrewes）合著的《经度图解》（The Illustrated Longitude）。 索贝尔女士长期致力于增进民众对科学的理解，因此荣获了美国国家科学委员会享有崇高声誉的 “个人公众服务奖”、波士顿科学博物馆颁发的布拉德福德•沃什波恩奖（Bradford Wa...(展开全部)

With her blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter , Dava Sobel used her rare and luminous gift for weaving difficult scientific concepts into a compelling story to garner rave reviews and attract readers from across the literary spectrum. Now, in The Planets , Sobel brings her full talents to bear on what is perhaps her most ambitious subjec...(展开全部)

‘Absolutely beautiful’ BBC One Show ‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This Morning A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series

The German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen was arguably the most influential figure of the European postwar avant-garde, and unquestionably the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinker of a generation that includes Pierre Boulez, John Cage, and Luciano Berio. His radically new electronic and instrumental music converted Igor Stravinsky to serialism in the 1950s, and has contin...(展开全部)

The phenomenon of retrograde motion is based on our Earth-centered view of the solar system, but the movement and cycles of retrograde planets are based entirely on the apparent motion of the Sun through the zodiac. Erin Sullivan organizes and explains retrograde motion from a systems viewpoint -- the system of the Sun and planets -- and interprets retrograde planets natally, b...(展开全部)

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations, Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker explore some of the key “negative affects” – both eternal and emergent – associ...(展开全部)

Don is a citizen of the Interplanetary Federation - yet no single planet can claim him as its own. His mother was born on Venus and his father on Earth, and Don himself was born on a spaceship in trajectory between planets. And he fights for the rights of this curious citizenship in very curious ways. Heinlein reveals in a dashing fast-moving style what can happen when politics...(展开全部)

Star formation is the fundamental cosmic process which makes galaxies visible, and regulates the evolution of normal matter in the Universe. New instruments and technologies are now enabling the exploration of fundamental cosmic processes. Scientists are beginning to understand the beauty and complexity of star and planet formation and their role in cosmic evolution. This fasci...(展开全部)

尼尔马拉·纳塔瑞杰（Nirmala Nataraj）： 科普作家、编辑，尤其擅长宇宙学、生态学和分子生物学题材，对视觉和表演艺术颇感兴趣。生活在纽约。著有畅销书《地球与太空》。 美国国家航空航天局（National Aeronautics and Space Administration）： 简称NASA，是美国联邦政府的一个行政性科研机构，负责制定、实施美国的民用太空计划于开展航空科学暨太空科学的研究。NASA一直致力于探索浩瀚星空中人类的未知领域，如今已是地球上最权威的航天局，与许多美国国内及国际上的科研机构分享其研究数据。从人类第1次登月、地球2.0的发现，再到发现冥王星上的“心形”冰山区域，NASA承载着亿万人类探索宇宙的梦想与希望，经历过无数次失败后的打击和成功后的喜极而泣，仍然不惜一切代价，为人类的探索梦想投入的资本、最权威尖端的技术，只...(展开全部)

伊恩·里德帕思（Ian Ridpath）是一位英国资深业余天文观测家，以论文和广播节目而成为当今世界天文学领域的主要权威之一。他有著述30多部，文章刊载于世界各地的报纸，杂志。他是新近出版的世界著名的《诺氏星谱》和权威的《牛津天文词典》的编辑，还为成人和儿童制作了大量有关天文学的电视和广播节目。