John Robbins, the man who started the "food revolution" with the ground-breaking Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. His latest book presents compelling new information regarding the fields of nutrition, heart disease and cancer, agribusiness, and bioengineering. It discusses the latest discoveries about the relationships between diet and longevity, aging, and vitality. Armed with powerful statistics, fascinating viewpoints, and incisive exposes, Robbins argues for adopting a vegetarian diet for personal well-being as well as for the well-being of the planet.

This textbook has its origins in a course that I began developing at Union College
in the mid-1980s to teach physics to life science students in a way that would interest
them and show the connections of fundamental physics to modern biology and
medicine. From my own research experiences and interests in biophysics, I know
that almost all areas of modern life sciences integrally involve physics in both
experimental techniques and in basic understanding of process or function.
However, I and many colleagues with whom I have spoken have been unhappy over
the years with published attempts to direct a textbook to this audience. Most such
texts are watered down engineering physics books with occasional added sections
on related biology topics that are easy to skip over or assign students to read on
their own.
As I set out to write this textbook, I had certain definite goals in mind. I wanted
to write a book that was truly directed at life science students, one that integrated
modern biology, biophysics, and medical techniques into the presentation of the material.
Believing in the less is more credo, I chose to omit certain standard topics that are
usually included in texts for this audience, while expanding on topics that have more
relevance to the life and biomedical sciences. From my experience teaching to these
students, I also wanted a book that would be shorter and could be fully covered in a
two-semester course. Although students at Union College and comparable institutions
taking this introductory course have all had some calculus, only algebra and trigonometry
are used in the main body of the text. At this level, I believe that calculus adds little
to the understanding of the material and can detract from focusing on the basic
physical ideas. However, I have sprinkled in optional boxed calculations that do use
some calculus where I felt they truly added to the discussion (averaging less than one
box per chapter). These “sidebars” can be omitted without any loss of continuity.
The order of topics for this text follows a more or less traditional sequence. An
exception to this is the presentation of one-dimensional mechanics through forces
and energy before introducing vectors and generalizing to motion in more than one
dimension. This allows students to focus on the physics concepts of kinematics,
forces, and energy without being distracted by the ideas of vector analysis.
Beyond the order of topics, the presentation of material is unique in that, wherever
possible, themes from biology or medicine are used to present the physics material. The
material speaks to life science students. Rather than optional sections at the end of occasional
chapters, life science themes are plentiful and integral to the text. The role of these
topics here is more fundamental, as can be gleaned from a list of some examples.

At last, here’s what you should’ve learned in high school biology! This paperback edition is an Everyman’s humorous look at the real differencesbiological, historical, psychologicalbetween men and womenwith fun and provocative insight into what really drives behavior and interactions between men and women. Men talk about women to men. Women talk about men to women. Men and women talk to each other (or try to) about relationships. It’s Not You, It’s Biology provides insight, ammunition, snappy comebacks, and interesting cocktail party banter for everyone who ever wondered why we do what we do vis-a-vis the opposite sex. It’s Freakonomics for the Relationship-Challenged.

Ice cream as we recognize it today has been in existence for at least 300 years, though its origins probably go much further back in time. Though no one knows who invented ice cream. The first ice cream making machine was invented by Nancy Johnson, of Philadelphia, in the 1840s. The Science of Ice Cream begins with an introductory chapter on the history of ice cream. Subsequent chapters outline the physical chemistry underlying its manufacture, describe the ingredients and industrial production of ice cream and ice cream products respectively, detail the wide range of different physical and sensory techniques used to measure and assess ice cream, describe its microstructure (i.e. ice crystals, air bubbles, fat droplets and sugar solution), and how this relates to the physical properties and ultimately the texture that you experience when you eat it. Finally, some suggestions are provided for experiments relating to ice cream and ways to make ice cream at home or in a school laboratory. The Science of Ice Cream is ideal for undergraduate food science students as well as for people working in the ice cream industry. It is also accessible to the general reader who has studied science to A level and provides teachers with ideas for using ice cream to illustrate scientific principles.

Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).
This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don't consider yourself a geek.
Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd

《20-30岁你拿这十年做什么》2讲述了0-30岁，是人生中最美好的十年，更是最关键的十年。对于每一个渴望成功的年轻人来说，这十年中的每一天对一生都是至关重要的。

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.
Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America.
According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen disguising the ceaseless conflict between elites and the masses whom they oppress and exploit. Historian Zinn sides with the latter group in chronicling Indians' struggle against Europeans, blacks' struggle against racism, women's struggle against patriarchy, and workers' struggle against capitalists. First published in 1980, the volume sums up decades of post-war scholarship into a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography. This edition updates that project with new chapters on the Clinton and Bush presidencies, which deplore Clinton's pro-business agenda, celebrate the 1999 Seattle anti-globalization protests and apologize for previous editions' slighting of the struggles of Latinos and gays. Zinn's work is an vital corrective to triumphalist accounts, but his uncompromising radicalism shades, at times, into cynicism. Zinn views the Bill of Rights, universal suffrage, affirmative action and collective bargaining not as fundamental (albeit imperfect) extensions of freedom, but as tactical concessions by monied elites to defuse and contain more revolutionary impulses; voting, in fact, is but the most insidious of the "controls." It's too bad that Zinn dismisses two centuries of talk about "patriotism, democracy, national interest" as mere "slogans" and "pretense," because the history he recounts is in large part the effort of downtrodden people to claim these ideals for their own.
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A whole new generation will be climbing aboard this sunny, psychedelic
storybook, while nostalgic Beatles fans of all ages will be clamoring for a ticket to ride.
Once upon a time (or maybe twice), some 80,000 leagues beneath the sea, there lay a colorful land of song and laughter called Pepperland, where Sergeant Pepper's Band was always playing your song — until the Blue Meanies burst on the scene and chased all the music and magic away. So began the classic 1968 film Yellow Submarine, inspired by a song and hailed as an avant-garde amalgam of pop art, Beatles music, and highly innovative animation. Now that film's dazzling images — and its lighthearted, witty tale — is showcased in a glorious picture book sure to be savored by fans and readers of all ages.

《魔戒》的電影改寫劇本時間長達七年，籌備時間高達三年，拍攝時間共計二百七十四天，動員人數高達數萬人。呈現在銀幕上的是如詩如畫，栩栩如生的中土世界。究竟這個電影是如何呈現出這麼細緻而又詩意的，卻從來不曾存在於這個世界上的視覺風格？本書中數百幅之前從未曾曝光的彩圖、草稿，描 繪了這部電影背後重造新世界的企圖與野心！以下是幾則讓人讚嘆不已的情報，但卻不過是本書的幾個經典範例而已：•電影中許多精彩的特效都是結合了模型和高科技才完成的。在甘道夫奔馳進艾辛格尋找薩魯曼的畫面中，竟然只有甘道夫和座下的駿馬是真實的，其餘的樹木、道路、建築和山川，全都是來自紐西蘭各地的風景拼貼而成！如果不是這本書道出幕後的秘密，您絕對不可能會知道！
人類、精靈、矮人的服裝如何設計，書中完整收錄了詳細的設計圖，讓讀者清楚瞭解為了銀幕上一閃即逝的鏡頭，工作人員付出多少的心血！
本書將透過那些創造了魔戒奇蹟的藝術家之口，加上大量圖片的輔助，娓娓道來電影幕後製作的驚人細節和眾人所投注的心思。書中的圖片超過五百禎！

本书是“汉译大众精品文库”的一种。本书是一部全面介绍人类以科学的方法为工具，努力探索宇宙奥秘的科普著作。其内容涵盖了物理科学、生物科学及各个分支的发展状况和所取得的成就，阐述了各门学科之间的相互渗透和交叉。 本书作者阿西莫夫早在本世纪50年代就以创作撰写科幻小说和科普读物而蜚声文坛。他那非凡的驾驭语言和概念的能力，不断对虚构世界和真实世界的新探索，以及他所取得的成就和名望，为他的作品赢得了广大的读

Science starts to get interesting when things don’t make sense.

Science’s best-kept secret is this: Even today, there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar “anomalies” have revolutionized our world, like in the sixteenth century, when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse, and in the 1770s, when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied all the theories of the day. And so, if history is any precedent, we should look to today’s inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense , Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow’s breakthroughs.
13 Things opens at the twenty-third Solvay physics conference, where the scientists present are ready to throw up their hands over an anomaly: is it possible that the universe, rather than slowly drifting apart as the physics of the big bang had once predicted, is actually expanding at an ever-faster speed? From Solvay and the mysteries of the universe, Brooks travels to a basement in Turin to subject himself to repeated shocks in a test of the placebo response. No study has ever been able to definitively show how the placebo effect works, so why has it becomea pillar ofmedicalscience? Moreover, is 96 percent of the universe missing? Is a 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Might giant viruses explain how life began? Why are some NASA satellites speeding up as they get farther from the sun—and what does that mean for the laws of physics?
Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology, chemistry to psychology to physics, Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement, messiness, and controversy of the battle over where science is headed. “In science,” he writes, “being stuck can be a sign that you are about to make a great leap forward. The things that don’t make sense are, in some ways, the only things that matter.”

如何去观察水的万种风情？如何去观赏水结晶的喜怒哀乐？如何领悟并陶醉在水结晶所蕴含的对生命的感谢和热爱？该书独辟蹊径，从另一个侧面向人们展示了科学研究的魅力，拓展了人类既成视野，从而一个瑰丽并新奇的世界也显现在眼前。 122幅震惊世界的水结晶照片，令人难以置信的科学观察，这是一本与《时间简史》同样神奇的书！畅销日韩，轰动欧美！

当我揣摩福尔摩斯这个错综复杂的角色时，偶尔会觉得自己是在轻轻地弯曲一根柳条，却从不真正折断它。
——杰里米•布莱特
在许多人眼中，他是福尔摩斯的化身。
他在格兰纳达的剧集里扮演了整整十年的福尔摩斯，共出演四十一部剧集和电视电影，直到去世。
他是史上最成功的福尔摩斯扮演者，极其忠于原著，又带着危险的锋芒。
福尔摩斯不仅是他最著名的角色，也成为他的一部分，令他着迷、深陷、恐慌、挣扎；有时合二为一，有时避之不及。福尔摩斯构成了他整个后半生。

Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. A burgeoning DIY community has brought a distinctive Victorian-fantasy style to their crafts and art. Steampunk evokes a sense of adventure and discovery, and embraces extinct technologies as a way of talking about the future. This ultimate manual will appeal to aficionados and novices alike as author Jeff VanderMeer takes the reader on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors of Steampunk history.

When a rare antiquarian book is discovered in the disheveled study of an old Vermont farmhouse, the house's new owner feels obligated to get the volume translated. It takes nearly a year, with help from experts at great universities who can discern the strange hybrid language in which the text is written. But when the translation is finished, the result is "The Book of the Shepherd". Set in a mythical time, in an unnamed land, "The Book of the Shepherd" opens with a small boy being mercilessly beaten by his father in the market. A shepherd who witnesses the beating knows it is done in accordance with the law of filial infractions. But the shepherd wonders if there is another way besides the harsh code of 'an eye for an eye' that guides this world. Called by a dream, the shepherd sets off on an uncertain journey to find 'the new way'. Accompanied by Elizabeth, a former slave who radiates a spirit of relentless goodness and 'reckless generosity'; and David, the boy beaten in the market who must learn to walk in new shoes, the shepherd leads his new friends over hills and dale, through villages and towns, guided by an old map given to Elizabeth by her dying grandfather. The travelers press on, motivated by the prediction of Elizabeth's grandfather that 'an age of miracles' will come when the new way is found. But the journey is long and not without incident. As Joshua, Elizabeth and David head toward a treacherous cave beneath the cliffs near the Great Inland Sea, they meet a cast of extraordinary characters, including The Story Teller, the Apothecary, the Blind Man and the Stranger. Each imparts an important story and lesson that pushes the travelers toward their encounter with destiny. Reaching the cave, where profound secrets have long been hidden, Joshua will be severely tested to see if he can 'bring forth what is within him'. But he, Elizabeth and David will also discover an important truth...sometimes the treasure we seek has been inside us all along.

Something about our modern way of life is making us sick. The antidepressants of old caused such painful and disabling side effects that the new sophisticated medications featuring fewer side effects seem to present an effortless solution to overcoming depression. Although depression requires physical intervention to correct the brain chemistry imbalance, author Henry Emmons believes that this physical intervention can be effectively achieved without medication. Many physicians and psychologists rely on medication as the first response to treating depression but medications are certainly not the only way to treat depression nor are they always the best way to provide the necessary physical intervention. Dr Emmons believes that it is crucial to treat depression with a diet, exercise and lifestyle plan that helps to rebalance brain chemistry. The programme as presented in his book, focuses on creating a pathway from depression to joyful living and shares a plan for each of the three types of depression: anxious depression, agitated depression and sluggish depression.