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The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia What would it be like to be tasked...

The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail. What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts....

Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.

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A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it.In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius charts the little known history of eugenics in America–a movement that began in the early twentieth...

物理世界體現了美麗。 物理世界充滿了痛苦、紛亂與壓抑。 無論如何，我們都不該忘記另一面的存在。 ——維爾澤克 2004年諾貝爾物理獎得主維爾澤克，從研究自然界的最小組成單位而獲獎，繼而轉身朝向廣袤的世界，不禁提出大哉問：宇宙萬物的結構是否體現了「美」的設計？ 《萬物皆數》是一位諾獎大物理學家在自然哲學領地裡思辨的成果。他以一種詩意的語言來寫作，雄心勃勃地追求「物理之美」與「藝術之美」的和諧。 ——陳瑞麟（國立中正大學哲學系系主任） 【本書重點】 作者帶領我們綜覽西方古典物理史上的孜孜矻矻，更進一步引領我們看見物理學中的純粹概念，從理想一步步逼近真實，每一次關於真實的發現，我們對世界的了解更趨完美，也從中體會科學背後深刻的哲學基礎與觀點。 「上帝的偉大與榮耀在他所有的作品中奇妙閃耀，尤其是可從天空那本打開的書中讀到……」——伽利略 畢達哥拉斯導出「畢氏定理」，「世界」第一次與「數字」產生連結——畢氏企圖推演萬物與數字的關係，認定萬物存在理想而優美的設計。柏拉圖的洞穴寓言與正多面體同樣傳達出「真實」應是美好理想的構成與投影。從畢氏與柏拉圖開始，世界的組成即與心智中的理想串連起來…… 「我們不得不這麼覺得，這些數學公式獨立存在，並具有自己的智慧，比我們還聰明，甚至比發明者還聰明；人類得到的總是超過原先放進去的。」——赫茲 牛頓是古典物理的創始人，以精確度量與嚴謹的宇宙觀。取代以主觀好惡判斷日常。而寫出電磁方程組的馬克士威，更帶來全新的視野與方法：因為對稱性而補全的電磁方程組，不僅統一電與磁，並解釋光的存在，直至今天成為電磁學的穩固基礎。原來方程式如同一般物體具有對稱性！大自然基本法則的無數方程式，更充滿大量的對稱性！ 「宇宙最不能理解之處，在於它可以被理解。」——愛因斯坦 「物質告訴時空如何彎曲，時空告訴物質如何移動。」——惠勒 從波耳原子模型中看見駐波；從愛因斯坦相對論中看見伽利略不變性；從量子色動力學中又再度看見馬克士威。原來世界不只是可以用物理法則詮釋，乍看不同的法則彼此之間彷若鏡面裡外，相互輝映。看完此書，你將會發現，自然的基礎是如此精簡至極，極度對稱的方程式可將其特性表露無遺。...

“One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists.” – Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from writing...

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume.

This book reflects the latest research results in computer modelling of landslide-induced debris flows. The book establishes an understanding of the initiation and propagation mechanisms of landslides by means of numerical simulations, so that mitigation strategies to reduce the long-term losses from...

A narrative account of Darwin’s historic 4-year voyage on the Beagle to South America, Australia and the Pacific in the 1830s that combines the adventure and excitement of Alan Moorehead’s famous (and now out of print) account with an expert assessment of the scientific discoveries of that journey....

At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten...

In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides...

Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.