Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts from the opposite premise: He celebrates equations. No history of art would be complete without pictures. Why, then, should a history of mathematics - the universal language of science - keep the master...(展开全部)

达纳·麦肯齐，普林斯顿大学数学博士，自由科学记者，科普作家。他早年在杜克大学等大学教了13年的数学，但从未感觉教书是自己的使命，写作反而是他的最爱。1996年，在发现可以利用互联网传播科学知识后，他决定利用自己的数学和科学知识当一名专职作家，他经常在《科学》《发现》《新科学人》等杂志发表文章，他的著作有：《数学科学在发生着什么》《大撞击，或月球是怎么来的》。2012年麦肯齐获“美国数学政策联合会年度传播大奖”。

安妮·鲁尼（Anne Rooney），英国知名科普作家，剑桥大学博士，皇家文艺学会院士，皇家文学基金会研究员，英国作家协会管理委员会理事并曾担任教育作家委员会主席。她撰写了几十部科普著作，并被翻译为22种语言。其作品《明日科技：人工智能》曾于2004年入围英国皇家学会的“安万特奖”，这一奖项被广泛认为是世界科普图书领域影响力超群的奖项（霍金、彭罗斯等人的作品曾获此奖项）。她还曾入围2015年英国作协的“教育作家奖”最终5 人名单，2018年获得过英国学校图书馆协会的“信息图书奖”，并入围英国皇家学会的“青少年图书奖”最终6人名单。她曾在剑桥大学和约克大学任教，目前居住在剑桥。

安妮·鲁尼（Anne Rooney），英国知名科普作家，剑桥大学博士，皇家文艺学会院士，皇家文学基金会研究员，英国作家协会管理委员会理事并曾担任教育作家委员会主席。她撰写了几十部科普著作，并被翻译为22种语言。其作品《明日科技：人工智能》曾于2004年入围英国皇家学会的“安万特奖”，这一奖项被广泛认为是世界科普图书领域影响力超群的奖项（霍金、彭罗斯等人的作品曾获此奖项）。她还曾入围2015年英国作协的“教育作家奖”最终5 人名单，2018年获得过英国学校图书馆协会的“信息图书奖”，并入围英国皇家学会的“青少年图书奖”最终6人名单。她曾在剑桥大学和约克大学任教，目前居住在剑桥。

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular sinc...(展开全部)

David Crystal works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1941, he spent his early years in Holyhead. His family moved to Liverpool in 1951, and he received his secondary schooling at St Mary's College. He read English at University College London (1959-62), specialised in English language st...(展开全部)

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular sinc...(展开全部)

Pottery tells us about religion, daily life, humor, trade, sex, folklore and creativity. Bearing the imprint of their maker more than any other crafted object, ceramics give us a unique physical link to the past, often the only evidence of long-forgotten civilizations that have otherwise crumbled to dust. From ancient Egyptian canopic death jars to ethereally beautiful porcelai...(展开全部)

Frank Ching brings to life 900 years of Chinese history through his own fascinating family tree. Beginning with his search for the grave of his first recorded ancestor, the 11th century poet Qin Guan, and ending with a moving account of his relationship with his father, a victim of China's historic upheaval, Frank Ching introduces a colourful cast of characters. His unbroken fa...(展开全部)

This volume, Grice's first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosoph...(展开全部)