弗兰克·克洛斯（Frank Close），牛津大学理论物理学荣休教授和牛津大学埃克塞特学院物理学荣休研究员。曾任哈韦尔的卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室理论物理学部门负责人、英国科学促进协会副主席、日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心传播与公众教育部门负责人。1996年，因“对公众理解物理学的杰出贡献”而被授予英国物理学会凯尔文奖章；2000年，因“为研究和公众理解科学所做的工作”而被授予大英帝国官佐勋章；2013年，因“很好的科学传播”而被授予英国皇家学会迈克尔·法拉第奖。

Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announced at the Potsdam Conference that the US possessed a nuclear bomb, Stalin a...(展开全部)

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation crea...(展开全部)

This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions - what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it? In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation crea...(展开全部)

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: ...(展开全部)

Germania is propelled by a wish to reclaim the brilliant, chaotic, endlessly varied German civilization that the Nazis buried and ruined, and that, since 1945, so many Germans have worked to rebuild. A very funny book on serious topics---how we are misled by history, how we twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. It is a book full of curiosities: ...(展开全部)

约翰·托什（John Tosh），英国萨里－罗汉普顿大学历史学教授，主要著作有Manliness And Masculinities In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays On Gender，Family And Empire；Historians On History：An Anthology等。

约翰·托什（John Tosh），英国萨里－罗汉普顿大学历史学教授，主要著作有Manliness And Masculinities In Nineteenth-Century Britain: Essays On Gender，Family And Empire；Historians On History：An Anthology等。

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movemen...(展开全部)

J.R.波尔(J.R.Pole)是牛津大学教授，主要从事美国历史和制度研究；他曾是罗得斯奖学金获得者，现为英国学术院院士。其主要著作还有：《英国政治代表权与美利坚共和国的起源》(Political Representation in England and theOrigins of the American Republic)、《通向美国历史之路》(Paths to the AmericanPast)等。