How did the universe grow from a tiny fireball to its present size? Where did life on earth come from? How do planets form? How will it end? And how do we even know all this anyway? John Gribbin, one of Britain's most popular writers about science and the people who made it happen, has decided to create a biography of the greatest subject of all: the universe itself, from begin...(展开全部)

约翰·格里宾是当今最伟大的科普作家，他所著的畅销书包括《寻找薛定谔的猫》、《星尘》、《科学史》、《深刻的简单性》和《科学家》等。他善于用简单的语言传递复杂的思想。他曾说他写作的目的（他的多数作品都是与妻子玛丽·格里宾共同创作的）是与读者分享他对于宇宙陌生性所怀有的好奇。格里宾毕业于剑桥大学，专业是天体物理学。目前他是苏塞克斯大学天文学专业的访问学者。业余时间他还喜欢从事科幻小说创作。他的大部分作品都是在家里后花园里的小棚子下完成的。

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a ...(展开全部)

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History of Time , introduced the ideas of this brilliant theoretical physicist to readers all over the world. Now, in a major publishing event, Hawking returns with a lavishly illustrated sequel that unravels the mysteries of the major breakthroughs that have occurred in the years since the release of his ac...(展开全部)

Exodus is the second book of the Hebrew Bible, but it may rank first in lasting cultural importance. It is here that the classic biblical themes of oppression and redemption, of human enslavement and divine salvation, are most dramatically expressed. Joel Baden tells the story of this influential and enduring book, tracing how its famous account of the Israelites’ journey to th...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·希伯特（Christopher Hibbert，1924—2008），出生于英国莱斯特郡，毕业于牛津大学拉德利和奥里尔学院。二战期间他在伦敦爱尔兰步枪团任步兵军官，曾两次负伤，并于1945年获得军功十字勋章。普拉姆教授（J. H. Plumb）称其为“能力极高的作家”，《新政治家》称其为“传记作者中的明珠”。他是一位久负盛名的通俗历史学家。 其作品以治学严谨著称，包括《拉格伦王的灭亡》（The Destruction of Lord Raglan，荣获1962年海涅曼文学奖）、《温莎宫廷》（The Court at Windsor）、《查尔斯·狄更斯成名之路》（The Making of Charles Dickens）、《猛龙觉醒：1793—1911年的中国与西方》（The Dragon Wakes: China and the Wes...(展开全部)

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the Middle Ages and the beauty and co...(展开全部)

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, dra...(展开全部)