《物理学基础》(原书第6版)(精装)适合高等院校学生使用，也是广大教师（包括中学教材）、物理科研人员和物理爱好者十分有价值的参考书。
大卫·哈里德（David Halliday），罗伯特·瑞斯尼克（Robert Resnick）和杰尔·沃克（Jearl Walker）的《物理学基础》长期以来一直是一部在国际物理界具有很大影响和相当高权威性、并受到广泛好评的经典物理教材，同时它又以独特的易学性和生动性以及与当代最新科技的紧密联系，成为世界教材市场上经久不衰、最受欢迎和最畅销的大学物理教材。

这是一本破天荒的书，著名物理学家斯莫林在书中指出作为所有其他科学的基础的物理学迷失了方向。为什么物理学突然陷入了困境？我们能为它做些什么？
在斯莫林看来，一个主要问题出在弦理论：一个野心勃勃的“万物之理”的蓝图。想要解释自然的所有粒子和力，解释宇宙的起源和演化。弦理论凭它新奇的新粒子和平行宇宙抓住了公众的想象力，也赢得了很多物理学家的心。但这是理论的陷阱：弦理论没有一点曾被证实，也没人知道如何去证实它。实际上，理论出现了无限多个形式，意味着没有实验能否定它。作为一个科学理论，它失败了。但是因为它吸引了大量的资源，招揽了最优秀的头脑，严重伤害了在其他路线上追求的年轻物理学家，所以它也拖累了其他物理学的前进步伐。

艺术阐释视觉的世界，物理学描述其不可见的作品，这种区别使得两个领域看上去似乎完全是对立的。但在《艺术与物理学》一书中，史莱因通过历史面面俱到地追溯了艺术与物理学的背景，提示了在各种想象力中惊人的相关性。
从古希腊的雕塑家到瓦霍耳和姜斯，从亚里士多德到爱因斯坦，艺术家们预见到了科学家们的发现，例如莫奈和塞尚就由直觉知道了将由爱因斯坦在物理学中引发的剧变。在其生动多彩的叙述中，史莱因探索了在整个历史中如此众多的场合，艺术的突破怎样地预示了物理学家们富于想象的洞见。
《艺术与物理学》一书既令人激动，又富于创新，是艺术的浪漫与科学的剧作之天衣无缝的结合，是一部令人愉悦的思想史。

《一个数学家的辩白》是英国著名数学家哈代的一部科普经典，自面世以来畅销不衰，再版重印达19次之多，被众多评论家称为是“用最优雅的语言对数学真谛进行的最完美的揭示”。

In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.
• Does food with a brand name really taste better?
• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?
• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel?
• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly refilled itself?
• What does your favorite comfort food really say about you?
• Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?
Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He’s spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden cues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the “hidden persuaders” used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the “mindless margin” to lose–instead of gain–ten to twenty pounds in the coming year?

Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite.

From Publishers Weekly
When, as a medical student in the 1950s, Kandel said he wanted to locate the ego and id in the brain, his mentor told him he was overreaching, that the brain had to be studied "cell by cell." After his initial dismay, Kandel took on the challenge and in 2000 was awarded a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research showing how memory is encoded in the brain's neuronal circuits. Kandel's journey into the brain spans five decades, beginning in the era of early research into the role of electrical currents flowing through neurons and ending in the age of genetic engineering. It took him from early studies of reflexes in the lowly squid to the founding of a bioengineering firm whose work could some day develop treatments for Alzheimer's and on to a rudimentary understanding of the cellular mechanisms underlying mental illness. Kandel's life also took him on another journey: from Vienna, which his Jewish family fled after the Anschluss, to New York City and, decades later, on visits back to Vienna, where he boldly confronted Austria's unwillingness to look at its collusion in the Final Solution. For anyone considering a career in science, the early part of this intellectual autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of a scientist's formation: learning to trust his instincts on what research to pursue and how to pose a researchable question and formulate an experiment. Much of the science discussion is too dense for the average reader. But for anyone interested in the relationship between the mind and the brain, this is an important account of a creative and highly fruitful career. 50 b&w illus. (Mar.)
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From Scientific American
Kandel, who received the Nobel Prize in 2000, traces advances in understanding learning and memory. His own groundbreaking findings showed that learning produces changes in behavior by modifying the strength of connections between nerve cells. He conveys his immense grasp of the science beautifully, but it is his personal recollections that make the book especially compelling. He begins with his searing childhood memories of the German annexation of Austria and his family’s escape to the U.S. when he was nine. And he ends with a conference he organized in Vienna to examine the strange reluctance of Austria (unlike Germany) to acknowledge its role in the Holocaust. One comes away in awe of the scientific advances—and of a life well and fully lived.
Editors of Scientific American --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

《20世纪统计怎样变革了科学:女士品茶》以某位喝茶的英国女士的假设学说为起点，引出了近代数理统计的开创者——费歇尔，以及费歇尔为解决类似问题而发明的实验设计法。书中细数了二十世纪参与这场科学变革的代表性人物与事迹。

At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test. For Fisher had brought to the field of statistics an emphasis on controlling the methods for obtaining data and the importance of interpretation. He knew that how the data was gathered and applied was as important as the data themselves.
In The Lady Tasting Tea, readers will encounter not only Ronald Fisher's theories (and their repercussions), but the ideas of dozens of men and women whose revolutionary work affects our everyday lives. Writing with verve and wit, author David Salsburg traces the rise and fall of Karl Pearson's theories, explores W. Edwards Deming's statistical methods of quality control (which rebuilt postwar Japan's economy), and relates the story of Stella Cunliff's early work on the capacity of small beer casks at the Guinness brewing factory.
The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.

信息技术、生物工程、纳米材料是当代科技三大前沿，到21世纪，这三大技术将合力打造出的新的智能机器，将重塑人类的大脑和躯体。作者大胆预测：到21世纪，人类和机器将难分彼此，人类将不再是万物之灵。电脑将比人脑有高一万倍的智能。机器不仅具有智能，而且具有灵魂，将具有人类的意识、情绪和欲望；而人类身体中植入了用生物工程和纳米材料制成的电脑芯片、人造器官，将比现代人类更长寿，有更强的学习能力，更灵敏的视觉和听觉，而虚拟现实有可能使人机发生“恋爱”……这不是科幻小说，更不是天方夜谭，这是库兹韦尔为我们描述的“灵魂机器的时代”。
库兹韦尔在书后的大事年表中展示了宇宙演化、生命进化和科技发展的历程，使读者对世界科技的发展过程和未来走向一目了然。
感谢余秋雨先生为本书中文版写的精彩序文，它为我们如何阅读这本万花筒般的书指明了路径。

Examining the widespread sense of the "difficulty" of science, this work considers why many people find it so hard to grasp how science works, why there is so much suspicion of its success, and why many still seek refuge in religion or New Age spirituality. The author draws on anthropological and psychological material, as well as physics, astronomy and chemistry, and provides a wealth of detail and scientific information.

Acclaimed one of the "seminal books...comparable in ultimate importance to...Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead." -- Saturday Review

沃尔夫·莱佩尼斯以其著作《忧郁和社会》（1969），《自然史的结束》（1976）和对19世纪社会学的研究为理解现代社会做出了重要贡献。1981年，他的四卷本《社会科学的历史》问世，研究了这一学科的认知、社会和历史同一性。他的代表作《三种文化——在文学与科学之间的社会学》，讨论了社会科学的建立及其在英、法、德各国的不同特色，成为这一领域研究的经典之作。1997年，莱佩尼斯因其为法国文学批评家圣博夫所撰传记《圣博夫——在现在的门槛上》而为更多人所了解。他的新书《文化与政治——德国历史》于2006年7月出版，展示了18世纪到20世纪政治与文化之间的棘手关系。2006年德国书业和平奖授予给了沃尔夫·莱佩尼斯。

This book is a study of the origins and development of Greek science, focusing especially on the interactions of scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth centuries BC. The starting point is an examination of how certain Greek authors deployed the category of 'magic' and attacked magical beliefs and practices, and these attacks are related to their complex background in Greek medicine and speculative thought. In his second chapter Dr Lloyd outlines the development, and assesses the significance, of the theory and practice of argument in early Greek science, and he follows this with a study of the development of empirical research. Finally the author confronts the question of why the Greeks invented science: what precisely was their contribution to science, and what social, economic, ideological and political factors had a bearing on the growth of science in Greece.

Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers numerous intriguing examples, Davis Baird gives us the tools to "read" the material products of science and technology and to understand their place in culture. Making a provocative and original challenge to our conception of knowledge itself, "Thing Knowledge" demands that we take a new look at theories of science and technology, knowledge, progress, and change. Baird considers a wide range of instruments, including Faraday's first electric motor, eighteenth-century mechanical models of the solar system, the cyclotron, various instruments developed by analytical chemists between 1930 and 1960, spectrometers, and more.