Sean Carroll: 17 books

Una brillante y esclarecedora explicación del experimento científico más importante de las últimas décadas. El bosón de Higgs ha sido descrito por muchos como el mayor avance en la comprensión de nuestro universo y como uno de los descubrimientos científicos más fascinantes de nuestro...

**"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but utterly wondrous reality." —Brian Greene As you read these words, copies of you are being created.** Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of...

A partir de la entropía, la física cuántica, los viajes en el tiempo o el significado de la vida, Sean Carroll profundiza en uno de los grandes enigmas de la ciencia: ¿Qué es el tiempo? Hace veinte años Stephen Hawking intentó explicar el tiempo a través de la comprensión del...

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can’t unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today’s hottest young physicists,...

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it. “Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times “Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science “A tour de force.”—Salon Already internationally acclaimed for...

Twins in Time is a visual adventure written in verse. It is written with children in mind, but particularly intelligent adults are welcome to come along. Twins in Time explores the classic physics question called "The Twins Paradox" in a brisk and lighthearted style.  Each page is...

Winner of the prestigious 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books “A modern voyage of discovery.” —Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, author of The Lightness of Being The Higgs boson is one of our era’s most fascinating scientific frontiers and the key to understanding...

◎前所未見的科學世界觀著述 ◎紐約時報即時銷售榜 ◎票選史上最具影響力的科學類書籍 在一個沒有起因、也沒有目的的物理世界中， 任何一個人的存在，真的有那麼重要嗎？ 人類的目標和意義，是否能融入科學的新世界觀？ 一個人很渺小，生命短暫如蜉蝣，與宇宙相較，我們的身量甚至不如一顆原子和地球的相對尺寸。任何一個人的存在，真的有那麼重要嗎？ 在一次高速公路瀕死經驗中，作者與生命的有限性面對面交鋒。他瞬間深刻感受人類生命的渺小與短暫。 不禁問出：任何一個人的存在，相對於整個宇宙，真有那麼重要嗎？ 蕭恩．卡羅爾身為世界知名物理學家，提出了自達爾文以來科學典範轉移之後，幾乎沒有人可以迴避的重要問題。在本書中，他不單以卓絕智慧處理希格斯玻色子和額外維度的問題，還探討所有人類面臨的最深邃問題，面對世界的基底現實，我們該如何處理以下問題：我們身處何方？我們是誰？我們的生命是否有意義？ 面對這道哲學問題，作者引導我們看見過去幾百年來接連不斷的發現，如何改變我們的世界，對我們產生深遠的影響。這本書以極大的企圖心，試圖將人類的目標和意義，安置在科學的新世界觀中。 作者以詩意文字與洗鍊文筆，引領我們一探「詩性自然主義」，儘管自然世界只有一個，「詩性」卻提醒我們，談論世界的方式不只一種，宇宙並非某種單一且統一的情節，而是不同層次都有各自適用的描述，而且都是對於現實真實的描述。而我們的任務，就是找到這些不同層級的描述之間的關連性，從而組成一個讓我們安身立命的信念星球。 書中50個簡短篇章，充滿耐人尋味的歷史軼聞、旁白省思和嚴謹闡述。卡羅爾以耀眼奪目的獨特手法，鋪陳從達爾文和愛因斯坦，乃至於生命和意識，以及宇宙起源等一波波科學革命所依循的原理原則。 本書是前所未見的科學世界觀著述，這部力作當能在往後歲月與史蒂芬．霍金、卡爾．薩根、丹尼爾．丹尼特（Daniel...

Now the subject of a feature film that the New York Times calls "spellbinding" How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream?...

In this landmark work, the author team led by Dr. Sean Carroll presents the general principles of the genetic basis of morphological change through a synthesis of evolutionary biology with genetics and embryology. In this extensively revised second edition, the authors delve into the latest discoveries,...

“A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American Scientist For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo—Evolutionary Developmental Biology—is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the...

Throw out your fossils—the best evidence for evolution is now found in DNA. DNA is the genetic blueprint of all creatures. Scientists have only recently discovered that it is also a living chronicle of evolution. In this book, leading biologist and writer Sean B. Carroll takes us on an exhilarating...

New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...

The never-before-told account of the intersection of some of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, and a fascinating look at how war, resistance, and friendship can catalyze genius. ** ** In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod...