Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises th...(展开全部)

THE NEW EARTHSEA NOVEL--NOW IN MASS MARKET World Fantasy Award Winner--Best Novel

THE NEW EARTHSEA NOVEL--NOW IN MASS MARKET World Fantasy Award Winner--Best Novel

Filled with characters and Earthsea lore from Le Guin's previous novels, this new story introduces a sorcerer who makes a desperate last stand against the land of the dead when he dreams of an imminent invasion.

查尔斯·格雷伯（Charles Graeber） 美国医学领域资深记者、作家。他为《纽约时报》《卫报》《连线》《纽约客》等众多刊物撰稿，获得海外记者俱乐部国际新闻杰出奖、纽约记者俱乐部奖等。

查尔斯·格雷伯（Charles Graeber） 美国医学领域资深记者、作家。他为《纽约时报》《卫报》《连线》《纽约客》等众多刊物撰稿，获得海外记者俱乐部国际新闻杰出奖、纽约记者俱乐部奖等。

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their ...(展开全部)

A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era. When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his troops were astonished to discover ancient temples, tombs and statues, all covered with hieroglyphs -- the last remnants of an unreadable script and a language lost in time. On their ...(展开全部)

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology's most important molecule "Ramakrishnan's writing is so honest, lucid and engaging that I could not put this book down until I had read to the very end." --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself...(展开全部)

马修·科布 Matthew Cobb 英国曼彻斯特大学动物学教授、神经科学家、科学作家，出版过多部科学史题材的作品，其中面向大众读者的神经科学全史《大脑传》获中国国家图书馆第十八届文津图书奖，入选《泰晤士报》《泰晤士报文学副刊》《大众科学》等多家英美著名媒体的年度书单，并获得美国五院院士（会士）、美国科学促进会前主席、美国国家科学基金会前主席理查德·C. 阿特金森等多位英美科学院院士以及鲁白、仇子龙等中国神经科学家的高度赞誉。他讲述17世纪的科学家探索性别和生命体生长与发育的作品《卵子与精子的竞赛》获伦敦动物学会2007年度科学传播奖。 2021年，英国最具影响力的遗传学学术组织英国遗传学会将该年度的霍尔丹奖（JBS Haldane Lecture Award）授予科布，表彰他在向公众普及遗传学方面的杰出贡献。