The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later. Many of science's greatest minds have grappled with the simple yet elusive "double-slit" experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to ...(展开全部)

阿尼尔·阿南塔斯瓦米，《新科学家》杂志的前任副主编和现任顾问，加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯分校科学写作项目客座编辑。他为《国家地理新闻》《探索》等杂志撰稿，并且是美国公共广播公司（PBS）新星纪录片频道开设的博客“现实的本性”的专栏作者。他曾获得英国物理学会物理新闻奖和英国科学作家协会最佳调查新闻奖。他的首部著作《湿婆之舞》被评为《物理世界》“2010年年度图书奖”。

布鲁斯·罗森布鲁姆，美国加州大学圣克鲁斯分校物理系名誉教授，前系主任。 弗雷德·库特纳，美国加州大学圣克鲁斯分校物理系讲师。 向真，清华大学工程物理系副教授，翻译过第一推动丛《存在之轻》《不同的宇宙》《通向实在之路》《时空的大尺度结构》等。

In this sweeping survey, acclaimed science writers Paul Davies and John Gribbin provide a complete overview of advances in the study of physics that have revolutionized modern science. From the weird world of quarks and the theory of relativity to the latest ideas about the birth of the cosmos, the authors find evidence for a massive paradigm shift. Developments in the studies ...(展开全部)

It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert's, comes to stay. Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business inter...(展开全部)

"The World Cafe" is an easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue and creating innovative possibilities for action particularly in large groups. Anyone interested in creating "conversations that matter" can engage the World Cafe approach, with its' seven simple design principles, to improve people's collective capacity to share knowledge and shape the future toget...(展开全部)

雨果·梅西耶，宾夕法尼亚大学哲学、政治和经济学博士后，法国国家科学研究中心研究员，主要研究领域是理性的功能和运作机制。 丹·斯珀伯，法国社会学家、认知学家，法国国家科学研究中心名誉教授，其最具影响力的研究领域是认知人类学及语用语言学。

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense? In their groundbreaking account of the evolution and workings of reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber set out to solve this double enigma. Reas...(展开全部)

The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finds himself as a writer. As he does so, he also observes t...(展开全部)