本书中，加来道雄博士以其无与伦比的解说才能，讲述了现代物理学得出的一种最令人难以置信、最激动人心的可能性，即，可能存在着广阔无垠的宇宙之网，里面排列着许多宇宙，也许是无穷多个宇宙，而我们这一宇宙只不过是其中之一。他运用生动巧妙的类比，幽默的语言，耐心地向读者介绍有关平行宇宙的种种 话题，从量子力学、宇宙学，到最新出现的M-理论，一路娓娓道来。读读这本书吧，在学者的陪同下，作一次奇妙的宇宙漫游，他的见解可将我们的想象力推向极限。

《从一到无穷大：科学中的事实和臆测》是当今世界最有影响的科普经典名著之一，1970年代末由科学出版社引进出版后，曾在国内引起很大反响，直接影响了众多的科普工作者。
作品以生动的语言介绍了20世纪以来科学中的一些重大进展。先漫谈一些基本的数学知识，然后用一些有趣的比喻，阐述了爱因斯坦的相对论和四维时空结构，并讨论了人类在认识微观世界（如基本粒子、基因）和宏观世界（如太阳系、星系等）方面的成就。

It is Sylvia’s sixteenth birthday, and her life as an adult is about to begin—not with the party she had been planning, but with a car accident and a broken leg. Behind the wheel is a talented young soccer player, just arrived from Buenos Aires and set for stardom on and off the field. As their destinies collide and a young romance is set in motion, across town, Sylvia’s father and grandfather are finding their own lives suddenly derailed by a violent murder and a secret affair with a prostitute.
Set against the maze of Madrid’s congested and contested streets, Learning to Lose follows these four individuals as they swerve off course in unexpected directions. Each of them is dodging guilt and the fear of failure, but their shared search for happiness, love, purity, redemption, and, above all, a way to survive, forms a taut narrative web that binds the characters together.
From one of Spain’s most celebrated contemporary writers, Learning to Lose is a lucid and gripping view into the complexities of lives overturned and into the capriciousness of modern life, with its intoxicating highs and devastating lows.

Will we ever discover a single scientific theory that tells us everything that has happened, and everything that will happen, on every level in the Universe? The quest for the theory of everything - a single key that unlocks all the secrets of the Universe - is no longer a pipe-dream, but the focus of some of our most exciting research about the structure of the cosmos. But what might such a theory look like? What would it mean? And how close are we to getting there? In New Theories of Everything, John D. Barrow describes the ideas and controversies surrounding the ultimate explanation. Updating his earlier work Theories of Everything with the very latest theories and predictions, he tells of the M-theory of superstrings and multiverses, of speculations about the world as a computer program, and of new ideas of computation and complexity. But this is not solely a book about modern ideas in physics - Barrow also considers and reflects on the philosophical and cultural consequences of those ideas, and their implications for our own existence in the world.Far from there being a single theory uniquely specifying the constants and forces of nature, the picture today is of a vast landscape of different logically possible laws and constants in many dimensions, of which our own world is but a shadow: a tiny facet of a higher dimensional reality. But this is not to say we should give up in bewilderment: Barrow shows how many rich and illuminating theories and questions arise, and what this may mean for our understanding of our own place in the cosmos.

The idea that we might be robots is no longer the stuff of science fiction; decades of research in evolutionary biology and cognitive science have led many esteemed thinkers and scientists to the conclusion that, following the precepts of universal Darwinism, humans are merely the hosts for two replicators (genes and memes) that have no interest in us except as conduits for replication. Accepting and now forcefully responding to this disturbing idea that precludes the possibilities of morality or free will, among other things, Keith Stanovich here provides the tools for the "robot's rebellion," a program of cognitive reform necessary to advance human interests over the limited interest of the replicators. He shows how concepts of rational thinking from cognitive science interact with the logic of evolution to create opportunities for humans to structure their behavior to serve their own ends. These evaluative activities of the brain, he argues, fulfill the need that we have to ascribe significance to human life. Only by recognizing ourselves as robots, argues Stanovich, can we begin to construct a concept of self based on what is truly singular about humans: that they gain control of their lives in a way unique among life forms on Earth - through rational self-determination.

A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in writing that the New York Times called "a masterpiece"--Richard Dawkins builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutionary adaptation as the mechanism for life on earth. The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time. Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age.

The title of this 1986 work, Dawkins's second book, refers to the Rev. William Paley's 1802 work, Natural Theology, which argued that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Dawkins: ”All appearances to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way... it is the blind watchmaker.” ...

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新的智能机器，将重塑人类的大脑和躯体。作者大胆预测：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”。 本书最末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走向一目了然。

本书共分三篇，内容包括：“DNA功能与结构：阐明脱氧核糖核酸(遗传物质)的结构”、“RNA结构的功能：破解遗传密码，发现信使”、“蛋白质结构和功能：蛋白质分子是怎样工作的”。

本书共分为七章，主要内容包括：示爱；生命之舞；滑行；适应；体验恢复；创作；死亡。

20世纪60年代初，美国一些理工科大学鉴于当时的大学基础物理数学与现代科学技术的发展不相适应，纷纷试行教学改革，加利福尼亚理学院就是其中之一。该校于1961年9月至1963年5月特请著名物理学家费恩曼主讲一二年级的基础物理课，事后又根据讲课录音编辑出版了《费恩曼物理学讲义。本讲义共分三卷，第1卷包括力学、相对论、光学、气体分子运动论、热力学、波等，第2卷主要是电磁学，此外还有性、流体的流动及弯曲空间等内容，第3卷是量子力学。全书内容十分丰富，在深度和广度上都超过了传统的普通物理教材。
当时美国大学物理教学改革试图解决的一个主要问题是，基础物理教学应尽可能反映近代物理巨大成就。《费恩曼物理学讲义》在基础物理的水平上对20世纪物理学的两大重成就——相对论和量子力学做了系统的介绍，对于量子力学，费恩曼教授还特地准备了套适合大学二年级水平的讲法。教学改革试图解决的另一个问题是按照当前物理学工作者在各个前沿研究领域所使用的方式来介绍物理学的内容。在《费恩曼物理学讲义》一书中对一些问题的分析和处理方法，反映了费恩曼自己以及其他在前沿研究领域工作的物理学家所通常采用的分析和处理方法。全书对基本概念、定理和定律的讲解不仅生动清晰、通俗易懂，而且特别注重从物理上做出深刻的叙述。为了扩大学生的知识面，全书还列举了许多基本物理原理在各个方面(诸如天体物理、地球物理、生物物理等)的应用，以及物理学的一些最新成就。由于全书是根据课堂讲授的录音整理编辑的，它在一定程度上保留了费恩曼讲课的生动活泼、引人入胜的独特格。
《费恩曼物理学讲义》从普通物理水平出发，注重物理分析，深入浅出，避免运用高深烦琐的数学方程，因此具有高以上物理水平和初等微积分知识的读者阅读起来不会感到十分困难。至于大学物理系的师生和物理工作者更能从此书中获得教益。为此我们特将此书译成中文，以飨读者。
原书第一版发行后，深受广大读者欢迎。1989年，为了纪念费恩曼教授逝世一周年，编者重新出版了本书，并加了新的言及介绍费恩曼生平的短文。本卷在课程内容上则增加了弯曲空间一章，使得《费恩曼物理学讲义》这套书的内容更为完整。我们按照新版的原本进行了翻译。
本书中的费恩曼自序由郑永令在吴子仪译稿的基础上重译，前言由李洪芳翻译，潘笃武校阅，关于费恩曼和《费恩曼物理学讲义》另序由潘笃武翻译。本卷正文由李洪芳、钟万蘅在王子辅译稿的基础上重新翻译，第42章郑永令校阅

介绍20世纪物理学奇妙思想的好书比比皆是，但伽莫夫之外再也无人能让一般大众这么深入地去看离他们那么远的物理世界，这是感受20世纪最重要的科学思想的最好地方。...

也许可以说，组成人类基因组的23对染色体的图谱绘制是新世纪最重大的科学发现，它提出的问题与它解答了的问题同样多。这些问题将深刻地影响我们对疾病、寿命和自由意志的思考方式。这些问题将影响你的后半生。这个让人难以置信的突破会有什么后果？《基因组：人类自传》在这方面提供了超群的洞察力。通过在每一对染色体上选择一个新近发现的基因并讲述其故事，马特·里德利叙述了我们这个物种及祖先从生命出现之初到未来医学边缘的历程。他探讨了由于基因组的图谱绘制而出现的科学、哲学等问题，这将帮助你理解这个科学里程碑对你、对你的孩子、对人类意味着什么。

在这部受到普遍称赞的权威性的《古拉格:一部历史》著作中，安妮•阿普尔鲍姆第一次对古拉格——一个大批关押了成百上千万政治犯和刑事犯的集中营——进行了完全纪实性的描述，从它在俄国革命中的起源，到斯大林治下的扩张，再到公开性时代的瓦解。阿普尔鲍姆深刻地再现了劳改营生活的本质并且将其与苏联的宏观历史联系起来。
《古拉格:一部历史》出版之后立即被认为是一部人们期待已久的里程碑式的学术著作，对于任何一个希望了解二十世纪历史的人来说，它都是一本必读书。

克雷格•查尔兹的大半生都在荒野中探险。他曾在美国大峡谷被大角羊追逐，在不列颠哥伦比亚的海岸与鲨鱼一起浅游，也曾在空中观看游隼以每小时二百英里的速度表演特技，在水洞边与美洲狮展开激烈的对峙。
他写下了自己与30多种动物的偶遇过程。每一次相遇，他都将自身还原为生命的原始状态，去感受自然界的生存、繁衍、搏斗与死亡。
他了解每一种动物的生活习性和动物王国中蕴含的野性之美。
他的优美文字深深唤起了人们对于失去的天空、原野以及生命的好奇和敬畏。
◇ 美国当代最优秀的自然作家克雷格•查尔兹代表作，饱含生命平等思想、科学探索精神和人文关怀的自然写作典范
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◇ 一场生命与生命的相遇，讲述动物王国自身漫长而华丽的生存轨迹，展现大自然最真实的野性与诗意
◇ 美洲狮、大角羊、鲨鱼、游隼……遭遇30多种野生动物，让你呼吸骤然停止的探险经历
◇ 优美抒情，又不乏哲思和幽默的文字，唤起人们对于失去的天空、原野以及生命的好奇和敬畏