《勾勒姆医生》内容简介：勾勒姆是犹太神话中由黏土和水制成的有生命的假人，它不了解自己的力量，也不知晓自己有多无知。医学也是个勾勒姆，但它的错误应该由我们来买单。
面对医学本身的复杂性、不确定性和可错性，我们能做什么？医学是一门以群体利益、长远成功率为重的纯科学，还是一种以个人利益、短期效益为上的救助手段？我们总在如此追问，因为与其他学科相比，医学与个人的关系更加密切、后果更加立竿见影。本书作者在考察医学固有的难题、虫突、谜团和复杂性之时，既对医学的局限性进行了分析，也未否定医学的效力。他们提醒读者，医学科学同时处在社会背景和经济背景之下，医学的发展始终在大部分人的健康和小部分人的牺牲之间寻求着平衡。

Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

Brian Cox教授带我们用物理学揭开种种宇宙奇迹的奥秘，阐释人类和宇宙的深邃联系。茫茫宇宙，人类从何而来？宇宙又将走向何处？带着万千的疑问，我们跟随Brian Cox教授一起感受地球上罕见的景观，在这些壮丽的景观背后，隐藏着宇宙的秘密……让我们在欣赏美景的同时，深入了解物理学，逐渐揭开宇宙各种奇迹的神秘面纱，明了了人类与宇宙的深邃联系。
阳光帅哥Brian Cox是一位粒子物理学家，曼彻斯特大学高能物理学教授，英国皇家学会会员，也是瑞士欧洲核物理研究组织(CERN)之大型强子对撞器(LHC)的六大实验参与者之一。但他的成名却是由于近年来常常出现在是BBC科普节目中。BBC曾播出他主持的科教节目的Wonders of the Solar System（《BBC:太阳系的奇迹》）。

生物技术公司正在创造拥有奇特力量、经过精心设计的作物——从降低胆固醇的大豆到利用太阳能制药的烟草。它们有着巨大的利益前景：增进消费者的健康，以及提高农业产量。但这场景也有其凶险的一面，它正唤起人们对在利润驱动下篡改和损害生命的恐惧。
在本书中，丹尼尔;查尔斯讲述了“弗兰肯斯坦食品”背后真实的故事 ——一个你不可能从生物技术企业或者他们的狂热对手那里获悉的故事。他首次揭露了导向第一批基因工程食品的残酷的科学竞争以及幕后的商业交易。他披露了大西洋两岸展开的旨在打败生物技术企业的运动的秘密。本书以惊人的翔实史料记述了科学、商业和政治。
本书追循着三个年轻科学家的脚步，他们在20世纪80年代被诱离学术界为孟山都（Monsanto）效力，后者是一家企图涉足生物技术领域的化工企业。这三位科学家都希望提高植物产量，终结全球饥荒。希望成为一次绿色革命先锋的他们，对于即将发生的一切毫无准备……

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson's challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It's not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.