Explore an illustrated history of the world through timelines for kids. From dinosaurs and Vikings to the history of robots and espionage, discover incredible world history in this lavish collection of timelines. Jam-packed with surprising facts and amazing details, such as the most bloodthirsty pirate of all time and the first crime to be solved by studying fingerprints, Timel...(展开全部)

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embrac...(展开全部)

Duration: 06:21:17 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * "[A] pleasure...I found it helpful—not reassuring, certainly, but mind-expanding—to be reminded of our place in a vast cosmos." —James Gleick, The New York Times Book Review "A thrilling tour of potential cosmic doomsdays....Beyond her deep exper...(展开全部)

From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. We know the universe had a beginning. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a ...(展开全部)

史蒂芬·贝利（Stephen Bayley），英国著名文化评论家、畅销书作者、艺术策展人与节目主持人。20世纪80年代早期，他与特伦斯·康伦爵士在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆合作创办了英国第一个永久性设计展览“锅炉房项目”，后来又担任伦敦设计博物馆首席主管。他同时是多家设计师和建筑师事务所的顾问，为包括可口可乐、福特汽车、大众汽车、宝马汽车、绝对伏特加和哈维·尼克斯百货在内的诸多品牌提供咨询服务。作为一名意见鲜明、直言不讳的评论界权威人士，他经常在电视节目中出镜，还是众多报刊的固定撰稿人。他曾应邀在全球各地的大学举办讲座，获得“法兰西文学艺术骑士勋章”，还是英国皇家建筑师协会荣誉会员、威尔士大学和利物浦表演艺术学院荣誉研究员。

史蒂芬·贝利（Stephen Bayley），英国著名文化评论家、畅销书作者、艺术策展人与节目主持人。20世纪80年代早期，他与特伦斯·康伦爵士在维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆合作创办了英国第一个永久性设计展览“锅炉房项目”，后来又担任伦敦设计博物馆首席主管。他同时是多家设计师和建筑师事务所的顾问，为包括可口可乐、福特汽车、大众汽车、宝马汽车、绝对伏特加和哈维·尼克斯百货在内的诸多品牌提供咨询服务。作为一名意见鲜明、直言不讳的评论界权威人士，他经常在电视节目中出镜，还是众多报刊的固定撰稿人。他曾应邀在全球各地的大学举办讲座，获得“法兰西文学艺术骑士勋章”，还是英国皇家建筑师协会荣誉会员、威尔士大学和利物浦表演艺术学院荣誉研究员。

Geared to the layperson, a clear, concise, non-mathematical explanation of the "Theory of Everything" and its profound implications is followed by transcripts of interviews with most of the physicists involved in its development.

A Brief History of Everything Ken Wilber Now available for the first time on audio, here is Ken Wilber’s concise account of our place in a universe of sex, soul, and spirit. Told in an accessible and entertaining question-and-answer format, A Brief History of Everything examines the course of evolution as the unfolding manifestation of Spirit, from matter to life to mind, ...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)