《The Selfish Gene：40th Anniversary Edition》 by Richard Dawkins(Author) Product details Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: OUP Oxford; 4 edition (9 Jun. 2016) Language: English ISBN-10: 0198788606 ISBN-13: 978-0198788607 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 3.6 x 13.2 cm Product De*ion As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. Forty years later, its insights remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This 40th anniversary

宇宙 英文原版 Cosmos Abacus Carl Sagan RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX "Cosmos" is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Featuring a new Introduction by Sagan s collaborator, Ann Druyan, full color illustrations, and a new Foreword by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, "Cosmos" retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. Praise for "Cosmos" Magnificent . . . With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, "Cosmos" often seems too good to be

From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a livinglegend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes thiscandid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice forthose starting out their academic careers. In Avoid Boring People , Watson lays down a life’s wisdom forgetting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisinglyhonest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists shouldchoose the projects that will shape their careers, the supremeimportance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within thesame institution. It’s an irreverent romp through Watson’s colorfulcareer and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturingthe life of the mind.

An adventure into the heart of Nothing by bestselling authorK. C. Cole. Once again, acclaimed science writer K. C. Cole bringsthe arcane and acad-emic down to the level of armchair scientistsin The Hole in the Universe, an entertaining and edifying searchfor nothing at all. Open the newspaper on any given day and youwill read of a newly discovered planet, star, and so on. Yetscientists and mathematicians have spent generations searching thefar reaches of the universe for that one elusive state-nothingness.Although this may sound like a simple task, every time the absolutevoid appears within reach, something new is discovered in itsplace: a black hole, an undulating string, an additional dimensionof space or time-even another universe. A fascinating and literarytour de force, The Hole in the Universe is a virtual romp into theunknown that you never knew wasn't there.

al readers how Complexity--the watershed science agenda forat least the nexttwo decades--is affecting our lives.

This classic of contemporary science writing by a NobelPrize-winning physicist explains to general readers what happenedwhen the universe began, and how we know..

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Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discoveryin twentieth-century physics: Einsteins Theory of Relativity. Noonenot even Einstein himselfexplained these difficult,anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto,than Feynman.

What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and ProfessorJeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-firstcentury science to unpack Einstein’s famous equation. Explainingand simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light—while explodingcommonly held misconceptions—they demonstrate how the structure ofnature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, wevisit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments everconducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a giganticparticle accelerator capable of re-creating conditions that existedfractions of a second after the Big Bang. A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in theUnited Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why DoesE=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations ofthe theory of relativity.

David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands.He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, and vernal ponds and thecreatures who live in them as most of us are about our families andclosest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks,dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges--everything that swims,flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this"intimate and wise book" (Sue Hubbell), Carroll takes us on alively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his ownelegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are soimportant to his life and ours -- and to all life on Earth.