Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here? The Seekers in history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers who still speak to us: from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Thomas Moore, Machiavelli, and...(展开全部)

For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them -- and some effects, ludicrously, might even happen before their causes. By one hundred years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. An...(展开全部)

汤姆•布朗二世（Tom Brown，Jr.），一位新泽西州的白人少年，自从8岁那年，在自家后院松林荒原的河岸边遇见了来自西南部印第安阿帕奇族的巫师潜近狼（Stalking Wolf），并实现了“灵境预言”中的一次命中注定的传承后，便开始将阿帕奇族古老生活智慧的教导运用到当今的现代文明之中。 如今，他是美国最著名的野外求生教练与生存专家，也是家喻户晓的“灵视追踪师”，名气更胜李昌钰。他同时为包括FBI在内的许多执法单位及紧急救难小组提供指导，也在好莱坞的电影公司担任技术顾问，其非凡的追踪技巧拯救过无数人的生命，并创造商业奇迹。 1978年，在一切因缘的起点，也就是汤姆所钟爱的松林荒原，他创建了著名的追踪师学校（Tracker School），至今已逾33年，学生近30万人。同时，他著有18本关于他的传承及野外求生技巧的畅销书，全球总销售超过50...(展开全部)

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.

The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACE tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of s...(展开全部)

The New York Times best-selling author of PHYSICS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE, PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE and HYPERSPACE tackles the most fascinating and complex object in the known universe: the human brain. For the first time in history, the secrets of the living brain are being revealed by a battery of high tech brain scans devised by physicists. Now what was once solely the province of s...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)