[英] 吉姆·巴戈特（Jim Baggott） 生于1957年，英国科学史作家。牛津大学化学物理学博士，牛津大学和斯坦福大学博士后，英国雷丁大学化学讲师。葛兰素史克科学作家奖和英国皇家化学学会授予的马洛奖章得主。 巴戈特从事过多年的学术研究工作，二十多年来一直专注于科学、哲学和历史类主题写作。著有《量子空间：通往万物理论的新途径》《希格斯：上帝粒子的提出与发现》《完美的对称：富勒烯的意外发现》《原子：物理学界的第一次大战和原子弹秘史，1939―1949》等书籍，并在《新科学人》《自然》等顶尖科学刊物上发表文章。 2013年，巴戈特在摩根·弗里曼主持的“穿越虫洞”科学系列节目中首次亮相，之后多次参与英国和美国科学广播节目的录制，致力于科学普及。

The Quantum Story begins in 1900, tracing a century of game-changing science. Popular science writer Jim Baggott first shows how, over the space of three decades, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and others formulated and refined the theory--and opened the floodgates. Indeed, since then, a torrent of ideas has flowed from the world's leading physicists, as they explore and apply the...(展开全部)

The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which ph...(展开全部)

When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, ...(展开全部)

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among ...(展开全部)

Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking-a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nanking responded to its themes of the fight for justice and the assertion of cultural identity-themes Chang expands upon in her new book. C...(展开全部)

The first major bioterror event in the United States--the anthrax attacks in October 2001--was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United States Army M...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

作者简介： 瓦莱丽·特鲁埃（Valerie Trouet），生物科学工程博士，亚利桑那大学树木年轮实验室教授，从事树木年轮学研究二十余年，发表论文六十多篇，是欧洲已知最古老的活树（树龄1075年）的发现者。她的研究重点关注过去两千年的气候及其对历史事件和生态系统的影响，曾被《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》《国家地理》等多家媒体报道。 译者简介： 许晨曦，中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所研究员，博士生导师，主要从事树木年轮与全球变化研究。 安文玲，中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所副研究员，研究方向为树木年轮与气候变化。

What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined? Named an April 2020 New and Noteworthy Book by The New York Times Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and...(展开全部)