Asimov's New Guide to Science 作者：Isaac Asimov 出版社: Penguin (1993年5月27日) 丛书名: Penguin Press Science 平装: 896页 语种： 英语 ISBN: 0140172130 条形码: 9780140172133 商品尺寸: 12.9 x 3.8 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 540 g 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者。 内容简介 Asimov tells the stories behind the science: the men and women who made the important discoveries and how they did it. Ranging from Galile
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In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied theprinciples of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind.Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining thedirection of evolution and human history–and discerning wherehistory will lead us next. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, eversince the primordial ooze, life has followed a basic pattern.Organisms and human societies alike have grown more complex bymastering the challenges of internal cooperation. Wright'snarrative ranges from fossilized bacteria to vampire bats, fromstone-age villages to the World Trade Organization, uncovering suchsurprises as the benefits of barbarian hordes and the usefulstability of feudalism. Here is history endowed with moralsignificance–a way of looking at our biological and culturalevolution that suggests, refreshingly, that human morality hasimproved over time, and that our instinct to discover meaning mayitself serve a higher purpose. Insightful, wi
This graduate-level text develops the aspects of group theory most relevant to physics and chemistry (such as the theory of representations) and illustrates their applications to quantum mechanics. The first five chapters focus chiefly on the introduction of methods, illustrated by physical examples, and the final three chapters offer a systematic treatment of the quantum theory of atoms, molecules, and solids. The formal theory of finite groups and their representation is developed in Chapters 1 through 4 and illustrated by examples from the crystallographic point groups basic to solid-state and molecular theory. Chapter 5 is devoted to the theory of systems with full rotational symmetry, Chapter 6 to the systematic presentation of atomic structure, and Chapter 7 to molecular quantum mechanics. Chapter 8, which deals with solid-state physics, treats electronic energy band theory and magnetic crystal symmetry. A compact and worthwhile compilation of the scattered material on standard methods, this volume pr
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