科普
漫画相对论 豆瓣
作者: (日)山本将史|译者 译者: 张舒鹏 科学出版社 2010 - 11
《漫画相对论》以轻松有趣、通俗易懂的漫画及故事的方式将抽象、复杂的相对论知识融会其中,让人们在看故事的过程中就能完成对物理学相关知识的“扫盲”。读完《漫画相对论》,您一定会感觉,原来相对论并没有我们想象得那样高深,它就在我们身边,我们每天都会触到它。
这是一本实用性很强的图书,与我们传统的教科书比较起来,具有几大突出的特点,一漫画的形式更易于让人接受,二边读故事边学知识,轻松且易于记忆,三更能让读者明白并记住相对论相关问题在现实生活中的应用。通过这种轻松的阅读学习,帮助读者掌握在实际工作中要用到的相对论常识,也可以作为广大青少年的物理学知识读本。
2022年2月27日 已读
知识方面不错,狭义相对论看懂了,广义篇幅好小,没看懂;故事方面扶额,老师对学生的种种行为已经构成性骚扰。
manga 日本 漫画 科学 科普
The Body Factory 豆瓣
作者: Heloise Chochois Graphic Mundi - PSU Press 2021 - 7
A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him. The subject of the painting introduces himself as Ambroise Paré, the French barber-surgeon who revolutionized the art of amputation. From this wonderfully absurd premise, the two begin an imaginary conversation that takes them through a sweeping history of surgical amputation, from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Unencumbered by pathos or didacticism, this graphic novel explores the world of amputation, revealing fascinating details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies.
Playfully illustrated and seriously funny, The Body Factory is sure to delight anyone interested in the history and future of medicine and how we repair and even enhance the body.
你一定爱读的极简欧洲史 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Shortest History of Europe
8.1 (313 个评分) 作者: [澳]约翰·赫斯特(John Hirst) 译者: 席玉苹 广西师范大学出版社 2011 - 11
“欧洲,为什么老是抢第一?”澳大利亚知名历史学家约翰•赫斯特在本书中的一场引人入胜的探索,为我们梳理出欧洲文明所以能改变全世界的各种特质。
作者从三大元素:古希腊罗马文化、基督教教义以及日耳曼战士文化开篇,描述了这三大元素如何彼此强化,又相互对立,最终形塑为欧洲文明的内 核;继而在诸多世纪以来催生帝国与城邦,激发征服与十字军东侵,造就出许多性格截然分明的人物——如仁慈的皇帝、好斗的教皇、侠义的骑士,乃至世上第一批享受繁荣和启蒙果实的公民。哲学思维、民主制度的渊源、政治权力的传递、甚至是医学、生物学使用拉丁文的源始,这种种欧洲因素不断形塑了现代文明的各种特质,使欧洲遥遥走在现代世界的前列。
本书以清晰、幽默、发人深省的笔调,杂以活泼的插图,叙述了一个不同凡响的文明,及其对人类社会的巨大冲击与巨大贡献。
2019年1月2日 已读
果真是极简,第一章非常精彩,但后面几章展开了讲就有点信息量缺失而觉得有点难懂,不过现在可以带着问题去读其他的书了。
历史 文化 欧洲 科普 通识
Homo Deus 豆瓣
8.7 (12 个评分) 作者: Yuval Noah Harari Harvill Secker 2016 - 9
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.
2018年5月3日 已读
前面部分真是有点啰嗦了,作者属于举例子狂人,幸好最后一部分提出了几个挺有意思的观点补回票价,总体是推荐的。
History 人类学 科普
数学女孩 豆瓣 谷歌图书
Math Girls
8.1 (9 个评分) 作者: [日]结城浩 译者: 朱一飞 人民邮电出版社 2016 - 1
《数学女孩》以小说的形式展开,重点描述一群年轻人探寻数学中的美。内容由浅入深,数学讲解部分十分精妙,被称为“绝赞的初等数学科普书”。内容涉及数列和数学模型、斐波那契数列、卷积、调和数、泰勒展开、巴塞尔问题、分拆数等,非常适合对数学感兴趣的初高中生以及成人阅读。
2018年4月18日 已读
故事是真中二,但题目都好好玩啊,再次领略了数学的魅力!
数学 科普
Sapiens 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.8 (26 个评分) 作者: Yuval Noah Harari Harvill Secker 2014 - 9
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.
Us.
Homo sapiens.
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.
2017年8月25日 已读
文笔很好,开头一段概括得极其精到,整本书跨域了很多领域,由于自己对这些领域均了解不足,所以很多时候只能做个聋哑观众尽量让自己可以被科普一下,但还是选择了在充分了解之前不要尽信书中的观点。
Anthropology History 人类学 历史 社会