Stephen hawking

作者：  Stephanie Sammartino McPherson[著];王乐译注

出版社：上海外语教育出版社,2008

简介：《外教社人物传记系列:史蒂芬?霍金(英汉对照)》由专门从事青少年文学创作的美国资深作家撰写，语言生动活泼，故事性强，引人入胜。外教社特邀一批在翻译方面颇有建树的年轻学者对丛书进行翻译和注释，希望英汉对照加注释这一形式能更好地帮助读者学习英语，享受阅读。 《外教社人物传记系列:史蒂文?斯皮尔伯格(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:拳王阿里(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:本杰明?富兰克林(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:泰格?伍兹(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:卓别林(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:玛丽莲?梦露(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:比尔?盖茨(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:魔术师约翰逊(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:莎士比亚(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:达?芬奇(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:甲壳虫乐队(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:马丁?路德?金(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:戴安娜王妃(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:奥普拉?温弗瑞(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:马克?吐温(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:德兰修女(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:拿破仑?波拿巴(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:伊丽莎白女王一世(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:简?奥斯丁(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:超人克里斯托弗?里夫(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:乔治?卢卡斯(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:温斯顿?丘吉尔(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:兰斯?阿姆斯特朗(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:纳尔逊?曼德拉(英汉对照)》 点击查看 《外教社人物传记系列:埃及女王克娄巴特拉(英汉对照)》 点击查看

Stephen Hawking

作者：  (英)J.P.麦克沃伊(J. P. McEvoy)，(英)奥斯卡·扎拉特(Oscar Zarate)著;储亚萍译

出版社：安徽文艺出版社,2007

简介： 斯蒂芬·霍金是一位全球闻名的物理学家，但是在他的研究领域之外的就很少有人知道他到底做了些什么，在大众眼里，他是一个不幸的人，尽管他是一位天才科学家，写出了杰出的畅销书《时间简史》，但是他被限制在轮椅上，不能说话也不能写字。 霍金很好的掌握了20世纪物理学上的两个伟大的理论--爱因斯坦的相对论和量子力学理论，并且对这两个理论的某引起不足或是重叠有着惊人的发现，例如，在黑洞的边缘或是在宇宙的大爆炸起源上。 本书很好的介绍了霍金的研究，此书的作者在写这本书时曾和霍金进行了几次详谈，获得了很大帮助上，另外，精关幽默的插图也对这部作品进行了极好的阐释说明。

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出版社：北京理工大学出版社 2018年12月

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【目录】
目录
*部分经济贸易类
Text 1India Undermines Its Own Economy 印度削弱自身经济（2）
Text 2Banking Is for the 1% 银行是为了1%的人服务的（5）
Text 3Looking for a Google 寻找下一个谷歌（8）
Text 4Americas Economy 美国经济（11）
Text 5The Guardian View on Apple’s Valuation: A Digital Milestone
《卫报》对苹果公司的价值的看法:一个数字里程碑（15）
Text 6UK Losing Millions in VAT from Non-EU Sellers on Amazon and EBay
英国在亚马逊和eBay的非欧元区损失数千万，罪魁在于增值税（18）
Text 7Google is fined 4.3 bn in the Biggest-ever Antitrust Penalty
谷歌被罚款43亿欧元——有史以来*的反垄断罚款（21）
Text 8Underground: Overbudget 地下交通：预算超支（25）
Text 9Life on the Land 农田里的生命力（28）
Text 10Everywhere in (Supply) Chains 遍布供应链（32）
Text 11Why African Firms Create So Few Jobs
为何非洲的公司创造的就业机会如此之少（36）
Text 12Come Rain or Shine 雨天还是晴天（39）
Text 13Finding the Perfect Pace for Product Launches 为产品发布找准节奏（42）
Text 14Who Killed the Newspaper 报业之殇（46）
第二部分能源环境类
Text 1How Fast Can Obama Fix U.S. Environment Policy?
奥巴马能多快修复好美国的环境政策？（53）
Text 2Is Texas the Greenest State? By One Measure, Maybe
得州是*“绿色”的州？某种标准下，可能的确如此（56）
Text 3Numerous States Prepare Lawsuits Against Obama’s Climate Policy
多个州准备通过法律途径阻止奥巴马的环境政策（59）
Text 4Climate Change Forces New Pentagon Plan 气候变化敦促五角大楼新计划（64）
Text 5Build That Pipeline! 建那条管道！（68）
Text 6EPA Tells BP to Use Less-Toxic Chemicals
美环保署告诫英国石油公司使用低毒化学物质（71）
Text 7Japans Hydra-Headed Disaster 日本灾难重重（74）
Text 8Blooming Horrible 可怕的富营养化（78）
Text 9Japan May Have Lost Race to Save Nuclear Reactor
日本未来得及挽救核反应堆（82）
Text 10Carbon Targets, Renewables and Atomic Risks
碳目标、可再生能源与原子能风险（85）
Text 11Plastic Fishing in the Southern Ocean 在南太平洋打捞塑料粒子（91）
Text 12Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign’s Victory in Australia Will Be a Moral One
澳大利亚矿物燃料撤资活动的道德胜利（95）
Text 13Australia Needs U.S.-Style Green Card Deal for Climate-Threatened Pacific Islanders
为了受气候威胁的太平洋岛民，澳大利亚需要美国式绿卡（99）
Text 14Driving Toward Disaster 向灾难迈进（103）
Text 15How Natural Resources Can Save Africa
自然资源如何能拯救非洲（106）
Text 16Let the Sun Shine 让阳光闪耀（109）
第三部分社会生活类
Text 1Tracing the Roots of Human Morality in Animals
从动物窥探人类道德的根源（115）
Text 2Eric Holder Vows to Aggressively Challenge Voter ID Laws
埃里克?霍尔德宣布向身份法律发起猛攻（118）
Text 3Oregon Becomes Eighth State to Expand Background Checks on All Gun Sales
俄勒冈州成为第八个将背景调查扩大到全枪支销售的州（122）
Text 4The Pedestrian Loses the Way 人行横道迷路了（125）
Text 5India Will Be Most Populous Country Sooner than Thought, U.N. Says
联合国：印度即将成为人口数量*多的国家，速度比预想的更快（129）
Text 6Modern Love 现代爱情（132）
Text 7Long Bus, Short Wait 大公交，少等待（135）
Text 8The Guardian View on Food Cultures: Sharing, Not Snatching
《卫报》对饮食文化的看法: 分享，而不是抢夺（137）
Text 9Gun Control 枪支管制（140）
Text 10Fix My Family Shows the Value—and the Difficulty—of Keeping Families Together
《修复我的家庭》显示了保持家庭完整的价值和困难（143）
Text 11Leeds to Paris in Four Hours—But High-Speed Rail Plan Faces Protests
四小时内从利兹至伦敦——但是这一高速铁轨面临抗议（147）
Text 12The Real Reason I Wanted Another Baby 我想要二胎的真正原因（150）
Text 13Are We Losing the Art of Telephone Conversation?
我们正在失去电话交谈的艺术吗？（155）
Text 14Car Trips Are Bad Trips 开车旅行是糟糕的经历（158）
Text 15Signals at Danger for New Boss of UK Railways
英国铁路公司新老板处于危险中的信号（161）
Text 16Why We Should All Debate Racism
我们为什么全要辩论种族歧视（166）
Text 17Men Who Advocate for Others in the Workplace Face Backlash
在工作场合为他人辩护的男性会遭到反对（169）
第四部分文化教育类
Text 1Grad School, a Leg Up—in Debt 研究生院，债务占了上风（174）
Text 2A Turning Point for a Polish Ballet Company 波兰芭蕾舞公司的转机（177）
Text 3A New Language for Pakistan’s Deaf 巴基斯坦聋哑人的新语言（182）
Text 4Its a Boy Thing (Or Is It?) 这是男孩的问题（是吗？）（185）
Text 5The Diplomatic Power of Art 文化外交力量（190）
Text 6Maps to the Stars Shows an Oscar Winner’s Untamed
《星图》展现了奥斯卡得主野性的一面（193）
Text 7Ian McEwan Writes the Book on Climate Change
伊恩?麦克尤恩写了本关于气候变化的书（195）
Text 8The Favre Connection 法佛尔情结（199）
Text 9Teach Us, Mr. Mayor 给我们上课吧，市长先生（202）
Text 10Snow Flower and the Not-So-Secret Metaphor 雪花和并不隐秘的隐喻（206）
Text 11Universities: Pile Them High 大学：多多益善（209）
Text 12Flipping the Floppers 轻惩假摔（213）
Text 13Why So Little Chinese in English 英语中的汉语借用词为何如此之少（216）
Text 14A Grim Half-Century 糟糕的半世纪（219）
Text 15The $1aWeek School 每周一美金的学校（222）
Text 16How God Propelled Stephen Hawking into the Bestsellers Lists
上帝是怎样激励斯蒂芬?霍金登上畅销书榜单的（226）
Text 17Thanks But No Thanks 心领了，但不用了（230）
Text 18The Guardian View on Creative Workers: Britain Needs Them
《卫报》对创造性工作者的看法:英国需要他们（234）
第五部分医疗健康类
Text 1LowFiber Diets Cause Waves of Extinction in the Gut
低纤维饮食习惯引起肠道微生物一波接一波的灭绝（238）
Text 2For Toilets，Money Matters 对于厕所来说，钱比较重要（242）
Text 3Warning to New Yorkers：There’s a Lot of Salt in That
给纽约人敲响警钟：这些食物里盐过多（246）
Text 4American Red Cross offering Amazon Gift Card in Exchange for Critically
Needed Blood Donations 美国红十字会急需献血，用亚马逊礼品卡作交换（250）
Text 5The Price of Health Reform 医疗改革的价格（252）
Text 6Better Health，Not Just Better Health Care 更健康，而不只是更好的医疗服务（256）
Text 7Wireless Health Care 移动卫生保健（260）
Text 8A New York State of Mind 纽约人的心境（263）
Text 9Special Report：Stretching the Safety Net 特殊报告：延长安全网（266）
Text 10The Nobel Prize：Good Eggs 诺贝尔奖：有用的卵子（269）
Text 11To Improve Health Care，Governments Need to Use the Right Data
改善医疗，政府应采用合理数据（272）
Text 12Threat to Mental Health Programme That Aims to Get Patients Back to Work
帮助患者重回岗位的心理健康项目因经费缩减而受威胁（275）
Text 13A Matter of Life and Death 事关生死（279）
Text 14Computer Test Could Spot Children at Risk of Developing Depression
电脑检测能定位有患抑郁症风险的儿童（282）
Text 15Scheme Sees Police Work with Mental Health Staff to Manage Crisis Call-Outs
分类方案见证警察与心理健康从业人员协作应对出警危机（285）
Text 16Swaddling Babies Can Cause Them Hip Problems，Doctors Warn
医生警告，用襁褓包裹婴儿会导致其髋关节出现问题（289）
Text 17Creation：The Origin of Life；The Future of Life
创造：生命之源；生命未来（292）
Text 18Keeping a Child’s Nightmares at Bay
让孩子远离噩梦（295）
第六部分科学技术类
Text 1Advances in Neuroscience Raise Medical Hopes，Social Questions
神经科学的进步燃起了医学希望，也引发了社会问题（300）
Text 2The Newly Discovered，Very Important Ice Mountains of Pluto
*重要发现：冥王星上存在冰山（303）
Text 3The Internet of Everything Holiday Shopping Guide
网络——涵盖所有节日礼物的指南（307）
Text 4The Call of Mars 来自火星的呼唤（310）
Text 5Technology Gives Citizens a Say in Redistricting
技术给予民众选区重划方面的话语权（314）
Text 6Time to Build a More Secure Internet
是时候建立一个更安全的网络环境了（317）
Text 7Google Car’s Computer Got Smarter in 2015
谷歌车载电脑在2015年变得更智能（320）
Text 8The Social Network’s Shares Recover as It Fixes Its Search Problem
修复自身搜索问题，脸书行情重新见涨（324）
Text 9What Is Electricity? 什么是电？（327）
Text 10From Young Mozart to Black Holes，350 Years of the Royal Society Go Online
从年轻的莫扎特到黑洞，英国皇家学会的350年历史走上网络（330）
Text 11Mirrors Could Replace Air Conditioning by Beaming Heat into Space
镜面可将热量传送至太空，有望取代空调（335）
Text 12Admit It, Older People—You Are Addicted to Your Phones, Too
承认吧，老年人们，你们也对手机上瘾了（338）
Text 13Ichthyosaurs and the Bends 鱼龙与减压病（341）
Text 14Thigh Bone Points to Unexpectedly Long Survival of Ancient Human Ancestors
股骨化石表明古人类祖先长期存在（343）
Text 15European Commission Proposes Ban on Experiments Involving Great Apes
欧盟委员会提出禁止实验涉及类人猿（346）
Text 16Chips off the Old Block 机器人也能像监护人一样照顾孩子（350）
Text 17A Better Way to Use Satellite Images to Save Lives After Tremors
震后救生利用卫星图像效果更佳（355）

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the Grand Design

作者：  Stephen

出版社： 2011年08月

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　　THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’SGREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THEULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE When and how did the universe begin? Whyare we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What isthe nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tunedas to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And,finally, is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence ofa benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offeranother explanation?
　　The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universeand of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy theterritory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—ifonly to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and LeonardMlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about themysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by bothbrilliance and simplicity.
　　In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantumtheory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence orhistory, but rather that every possible history of the universeexists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole,this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect.But the “top-down” approach to cosmology that Hawking and Mlodinowdescribe would say that the fact that the past takes no definiteform means that we create history by observing it, rather than thathistory creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselvesare the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe,and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea thatours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously outof nothing, each with different laws of nature.
　　Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventionalconcept of reality, posing a “model-dependent” theory of reality asthe best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a rivetingassessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us andour universe that is currently the only viable candidate for acomplete “theory of everything.” If confirmed, they write, it willbe the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and theultimate triumph of human reason.
　　A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide todiscoveries that are altering our understanding and threateningsome of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is abook that will inform—and provoke—like no other.

Curious Minds 英文原版

作者：  John

出版社：Random House US 2005年09月

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　　In this anthology of reminiscences by prominent scientists,the roll includes Richard Dawkins, Murray Gell-Mann, Joseph Ledouxand Ray Kurzweil, along with 23 others. The mandate of the book'seditor, literary agent Brockman (The Third Culture), to each ofthese authors was to write an essay explaining how he or she cameto be a scientist. Some take him at his word and write meanderingstories of childhood. David Buss found his calling—the study ofhuman mating behavior—while working at a truck stop after droppingout of school. Paul Davies says he was born to be a theoreticalphysicist. Daniel Dennett, on the other hand, seems to have triedevery other profession before landing, as if by accident, inscience. A few writers let their essays get hijacked by the sciencethey have devoted their lives to. And in the midst of this, like akeystone in an arch, is an essay by Steven Pinker explaining whythe entire exercise is a bunch of hooey: scientifically speaking,he says, people have no objective idea what influenced theirbehavior, and that writing a memoir is creative storytelling, notobjective observation of what actually happened. Whether or notthese essays are scientifically sound is open to debate, but theydo offer occasionally inspiring glimpses into the minds of today'sscientific intelligentsia.
　　Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of ReedElsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to theHardcover edition.
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　　When the late evolutionist and polymath Stephen Jay Gould was atoddler, he became fascinated and terrified by the toweringTyrannosaurus rex skeleton at the American Museum of NaturalHistory. Gould later claimed to have been instantly "imprinted" onthe monstrous saurian, like a duckling on its mama. The little boydecided on the spot to become a paleontologist--years before heeven learned the word. In John Brockman's Curious Minds: How aChild Becomes a Scientist, a collection of 27 autobiographicalessays by leading savants, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinkerscoffs at this oft-told story. Pinker relates that Gould dedicatedhis first book: "For my father, who took me to see theTyrannosaurus when I was five," and admires Gould's "genius ... forcoming up with that charming line." But he doesn't buy it. Pinkergoes on to tell his own childhood story, with the caveat thatlong-term memory is notoriously malleable and that we often concoctretrospective scenarios to fit satisfying *s of our lives. Sodon't believe anything in this book, he warns, including his ownself-constructed mythology; many children are exposed to books andmuseums, but few become scientists. Pinker concludes that perhapsthe essence of who we are from birth shapes our childhoodexperiences rather than the other way around. Nevertheless, whenBrockman asked Pinker and others to trace the roots of their adultobsessions for this book, he received some unexpected andentertaining responses. Primatologist Robert Sapolsky, for example,haunted the Bronx Zoo and the natural history museum, as Gould did,but fell in love with living primates rather than fossil bones. Hedidn't want to just study mountain gorillas, he recalls of hischildhood crush on monkeys and apes, "I wanted to be one." For thepast few decades, Sapolsky has spent half of each year in hisphysiology lab and the other half among wild baboon troops in EastAfrica. Some people, such as theoretical psychologist NicholasHumphrey, are simply born into science. His grandfather, Nobellaureate A. V. Hill, often took him along to the physiology lab.Grandfather Hill--quoting his friend Ivan Pavlov--taught youngNicholas that "facts are the air of a scientist. Without them youcan never fly." Among frequent visitors to the family home were hisgreat-uncles Maynard and Geoffrey Keynes, members of Britishscience's aristocracy, as well as his great-aunt Margaret, agranddaughter of Charles Darwin. He recalls how their long-termhouseguest, an adolescent, "bossy" Stephen Hawking, once marched upand down the hallways clutching a military swagger stick, barkingat a "platoon of hapless classmates." Science was Humphrey'sbirthright. Richard (The Selfish Gene) Dawkins, one of England'spreeminent Darwinians, admits that he never cared for science orthe natural world during his early years. He was inspired, however,by the fanciful children's books about Dr. Dolittle by HughLofting. The good doctor was a Victorian gentleman who heldintelligent conversations with mice and parrots and whales. Anadventurous sort, he traveled the world to learn the secrets offaraway places. When the adult Dawkins encountered the life andworks of Charles Darwin, he welcomed him as an old friend and heroof his youth. Dolittle and Darwin, he opines, "would have been soulbrothers." Lynn Margulis's early interest in the wonders of themicroscopic world began when she was a "boy crazy" adolescent, whowas amazed to learn that some minuscule creatures never need sex inorder to reproduce. Enter a teenage heartthrob: the buddingastrophysicist Carl Sagan. ("Tall, handsome in a sort of galootyway, with a shock of brown-black hair, he captivated me.") She was16 when they met; eventually they married. Sagan's fascination with"billions and billions" of cosmic bodies resonated with her ownfixation on the billions of microcosms to be observed through themicroscope. Margulis's study subjects have included a tiny animalin a termite's gut that is made up of five distinct genomes cobbledtogether. She has argued that we and other animals are compositecritters, whose every cell harbors long-ago invaders--minutesymbiotic organisms that became part of our makeup. Her innovativeapproach to evolution has profoundly influenced biology. Harvardpsychologist and neurologist Howard Gardner says his youth wasnotable for its lack of any clues indicating a future in science:"I did not go around gathering flowers, studying bugs, ordissecting mice ... I neither assembled radios nor tore apartcars." Yet, for others, there was a decisive turning point. Andsome could clearly remember it. I was fortunate in having been achildhood friend of Steve Gould's and can vouch for the sincerity of his conviction that his extraordinary career as a paleontologist,historian of science and evolutionary theorist began when that T.rex followed him into his nightmares. Once, during our junior highschool days, I stood with him beneath that iconic carnosaur in themuseum, observing his reverence and awe on revisiting the shrine ofhis inspiration. Professor Pinker, of course, is free to believethat I'm making this up for my own psychological reasons.

George and the Big Bang 乔治的宇宙大爆炸ISBN9781442440067

作者：  Stephen

出版社：Simon & Schuster 2013年09月

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出版社:Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; Reprint (2013年9月3日)丛书名:George's Secret Key平装:304页读者对象:8 - 12 岁
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　　Explore how the universe began―and thwart evil along the way―in this cosmic adventure from Stephen and Lucy Hawking that includes a graphic novel.

　　George has problems. He has twin baby sisters at home who demand his parents’ attention. His beloved pig Freddy has been exiled to a farm, where he’s miserable. And worst of all, his best friend, Annie, has made a new friend whom she seems to like more than George. So George jumps at the chance to help Eric with his plans to run a big experiment in Switzerland that seeks to explore the earliest moment of the universe. But there is a conspiracy afoot, and a group of evildoers is planning to sabotage the experiment. Can George repair his friendship with Annie and piece together the clues before Eric’s experiment is destroyed forever?

　　This engaging adventure features essays by Professor Stephen Hawking and other eminent physicists about the origins of the universe and ends with a twenty-page graphic novel that explains how the Big Bang happened―in reverse!

The Grand Design《大设计》斯蒂芬霍金著作,该书旨在反驳艾萨克·牛顿爵士的信仰：宇宙应该是由上帝创造的，它不会诞生于混沌世界.《大设计》是霍金在其《时间简史》之后重要的著作.当当5星级英文阅读产品

作者：  Stephen

出版社：Random House US 2012年02月

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　　When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What isthe nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of ouruniverse evidence of a benevolent creator who set things inmotion—or does science offer another explanation? In this startlingand lavishly illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinowpresent the most recent scientific thinking about these and otherabiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language markedby brilliance and simplicity.
　　According to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just asingle existence or history. The authors explain that we ourselvesare the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe, andshow how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea thatours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously outof nothing, each with different laws of nature. They conclude witha riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the lawsgoverning our universe that is currently the only viable candidatefor a “theory of everything”: the unified theory that Einstein waslooking for, which, if confirmed, would represent the ultimatetriumph of human reason.

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简介：By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar insight into the nature and origins of consciousness. From this convergence Wallace then connects the approaches of contemporary cognitive science, quantum mechanics, and the philosophy of the mind. He links Buddhist and Christian views to the provocative philosophical theories of Hilary Putnam, Charles Taylor, and Bas van Fraassen, and he seamlessly incorporates the work of such physicists as Anton Zeilinger, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. Combining a concrete analysis of conceptions of consciousness with a guide to cultivating mindfulness and profound contemplative practice, Wallace takes the scientific and intellectual mapping of the mind in exciting new directions.

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简介：Best-selling author and physicist Stephen Hawking assembles the most groundbreaking works by Albert Einstein together into one volume. From the text that revealed the famous "Theory of Relativity" - renowned as the most important scientific discovery of the 20th Century - to his significant works on quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and the photoelectric effect, here are the writings that changed physics, and subsequently, the way we view the world. Einstein also thought deeply on both political issues and religious thought, so many of Einstein's philosophical essays are included. Hawking provides introductions to each work, which provides both historical and scientific perspective. From the papers that shaped modern scientific thought to Einstein's later musings on his landmark findings, A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion is a collection of Einstein's most important work, with commentary from our greatest living physicist. - Publisher. The name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius, and his equation E=mc虏 is the most famous of all time. Renowned author and physicist Stephen Hawking has brought together Einstein's collected writings on his Theory of Relativity - known as the most important scientific discovery of the twentieth century. Explaining relativity in his own words - from passages in the Principle of Relativity and The Meaning of Relativity to The Evolution of Physics - Einstein presents a world of paradoxes in which space is bent and time is curved. Yet his findings suggest that the universe could have been no other way. Einstein was known not only for his groundbreaking ideas in physics, but also his thoughtful views on politics, religion, and the interplay between science and the world. A number of his essays on the development of physics are included here, many from Out of My Later Years and Autobiographical Notes, in which Einstein recalls his own scientific coming-of-age. Hawking provides introductions to each of Einstein's passages, giving both historical and scientific perspective. From the papers that shaped modern scientific thought to Einstein's later musings on his landmark findings, A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion traces Einstein's thinking about his scientific and philosophical work, and includes commentary from the greatest living physicist. - Dust jacket.

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简介：　　In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddle of existence from the ancient world to modern times. 　　Whether framed philosophically as “Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?” or more colloquially as “But, Mommy, who made God?” the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and fascinating question of all time. Following in the footsteps of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose, and even Stephen Hawking, Jim Holt emerges with an engrossing narrative that traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. As he takes on the role of cosmological detective, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God vs. the Big Bang. Whether interviewing a cranky Oxford philosopher, a Physics Nobel Laureate, or a French Buddhist monk, Holt pursues unexplored and often bizarre angles to this cosmic puzzle. The result is a brilliant synthesis of cosmology, mathematics, and physics—one that propels his own work to the level of philosophy itself.　　

Stephen Hawking

作者：  (美)克里斯廷·拉森(Kristine Larsen)著;张可平译

出版社：上海远东出版社,2010

简介：　　《霍金传》共包括20章分别介绍了第一章 孩子的天命：幸运的降生与不拘一格的培养、第二章 忙于训练的科学家：牛津时代、第三章 灾难与成就：致命的疾病与博士论文、第四章 孩子与计算：有妻儿的男人和理论家、第五章 “全让斯蒂芬给改变了”：黑洞不是黑的、第六章 加利福尼亚理工学院与剑桥大学：探索新的视界、第七章 是物理还是空头理论？“无边界”提议、第八章 挑战与争议：一阵意外的沉默和时间箭头、第九章 “没人预知”的畅销书《时间简史》、第十章 勇敢地前进：时间旅行和电视、第十一章 表演、p一膜和投票：私人生活与公开声明、第十二章 书籍与打赌：果壳里的宇宙与一个佯谬的终结。

霍金讲演录.2版

作者：  (英)史蒂芬·霍金(Stephen Hawking)著

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简介：这是一本有关宇宙和它的一位探索者的书。这位探索者不是别人，正是作者本人，剑桥大学的史蒂芬·霍金。他惊天动地的学说彻底改变了人类的宇宙观。宇宙的演化孕育出生命、思维和智慧，宇宙之于生命，犹如母亲之于婴儿。只要我们生活得稍微抽象一些，暂且忘却一下世界的无聊，就能从宇宙这本大书中读到真善美。 　本书收集了13篇精彩的文章和1992年圣诞节BBC播出的会晤纪实。它们反映了霍金作为科学家、普通人、充满想像力的思想家的不同侧面。

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简介：作者简介： Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of our time. This book contains a personal selection of his most significant papers on gravitational theory applied to cosmology and black holes. His early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed that spacetime must come to an end at singularities that will occur both in the Big Bang and in black holes. This means更多>>

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简介：Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called "the Big Bang." The question of whether Big Bang cosmology supports theism or atheism has long been a matter of discussion among the general public and in popular science books, but has received scant attention from philosophers. This book sets out to fill this gap by means of a sustained debate between two philosophers, William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith, who defend opposing positions. Craig argues that the Big Bang that began the universe was created by God, while Smith argues that the Big Bang has no cause. Alternating chapters by the two philosophers criticize and attempt to refute preceding arguments. Their arguments are based on Einstein's theory of relativity and include a discussion of the new quantum cosmology recently developed by Stephen Hawking and popularized in A Brief History of Time.

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简介："Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes andaccessible examples (like the cow as sphere, which illustrates the principle of simplifying the world in order to explain it), Fear of Physics nimbly ranges over the tools and thought behind the world of modern physics, taking the mystery out of what is essentially a very humanintellectual endeavor. An internationally known theoretical physicist, as well asfor many years the very popular teacher of a "physics for poets" class at Yale University, Lawrence M. Krauss shows how simple ideas at the heart of physics can be built uponto develop the very theories that drive modern research. The book proves that physics can be accessible, exciting, and enjoyable even to those who shamefully wear the scarlet letters SI ("scientifically illiterate"). The key to understanding, according to Krauss, is not to learn more names and facts but to learn how physicists think. Among the topics treated are how to handle the "art" of numbers, how physicists define truth, how and when to plagiarize creatively, and much more. At the same time, this witty and engrossing book provides new and valuable insights even for confirmed scientific junkies. Fear of Physics takes readers on a joy ride from Galileo to Stephen Hawking, from Plato to Marshall McLuhan, through new presentations of original classics and into subjects so current that they have never before been discussed in the popular literature. Fear of Physics is must reading for anyone who has ever wanted to understand where modern physics is coming from and where it is going.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the publication of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel assembled a series of unique review papers by many of the world's foremost researchers in cosmology, relativity, and particle physics. The resulting volume reflects the significant and exciting advances that have been made in these fields since the editors' acclaimed volume, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey (CUP 1979). Newton's immense contribution to the physical sciences is assessed, and its relevance to today's physics made clear. The international group of contributors then chart the major developments in the study of gravitation, from Newtonian gravity to black hole physics. In the fields of galaxy formation, inflationary and quantum cosmology, and superstring unification, the book provides important overviews written by workers involved in the many advances described. By shaping such a wide-ranging and scholarly series of articles into a cohesive whole, the editors have created a fitting and lasting memorial to the man who continues to inspire scientists the world over.  

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简介：Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of our time. This book contains a personal selection of his most significant papers on gravitational theory applied to cosmology and black holes. His early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed that spacetime must come to an end at singularities that will occur both in the big bang and in black holes. This means that time will have a beginning and an end. Hawking's later work has been concerned with understanding these two situations. This requires a combination of the two great theories of the first half of the 20th century: general relativity and quantum mechanics. Although a completely unified theory remains elusive, Hawking has been able to make considerable progress, both with black hole radiation and with the no-boundary proposal for the origin to the universe. This compilation of Stephen Hawking's most important works, complete with an introduction by him, is an essential collector's item and an important source of reference for theoretical physicists. It bears testimony to the courage of a man who has overcome severe physical disability to push the frontiers of science to new heights.

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简介：In his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking literally transformed the way we think about physics, the universe, reality itself. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist sinceEinstein, he has opened our minds to today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos. Now Stephen Hawking returns to shed new light on the darkest regions of space and time...and to reveal an extraordinary array of possibilities for our understanding of the universe. These thirteen essays and one remarkable extended interview broadcast over the BBC on Christmas day 1992 range from the autobiographical to the purely scientific. Building on his earlier work, Stephen Hawking discusses imaginary time, how black holes can give birth to baby universes, and scientists' efforts to find a complete unified theory that would predict everything in the universe, a concept that he believes will come to seem as natural to the next generation as the idea that the world is round. With the great unfolding mysteries of the universe as a backdrop, Stephen Hawking also reflects on free will, the value of life, and his perceptions of death. He looks at how science theory converges with - and diverges from - science fiction, as well as how science fact interfaces with our own lives. The pieces in this collection reveal Stephen Hawking variously as the scientist, the concerned world citizen, the man, and - always - the rigorous and imaginative thinker. Severely disabled by ALS - Lou Gehrig's disease - he describes the way in which this has affected but not constrained his personal and intellectuallife: from the special computer technology that lets him translate his thoughts into words and his words into sounds, enabling him to write and speak, to the process ofevolving his ideas, teaching his students, and working with his colleagues. Using his characteristic mastery of language, his sense ofhumor, his commitment to plain speaking, and his disdain for pompousness, Stephen Hawking invites us in this book to know him better and to share his passion for the voyageof intellect and imagination that has opened new ways to understanding the very nature of the universe.

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简介：　　Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time was a publishing phenomenon. Translated into thirty languages, it has sold over nine million copies worldwide. It continues to captivate and inspire new readers every year. When it was first published in 1988 the ideas discussed in it were at the cutting edge of what was then known about the universe. In the intervening years there have been extraordinary advances in our understanding of the space and time. The technology for observing the micro- and macro-cosmic world has developed in leaps and bounds. During the same period cosmology and the theoretical sciences have entered a new golden age. Professor Stephen Hawking has been at the heart of this new scientific renaissance. Now, in The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking brings us fully up-to-date with the advances in scientific thinking. We are now nearer than we have ever been to a full understanding of the universe. In a fascinating and accessible discussion that ranges from quantum mechanics, to time travel, black holes to uncertainty theory, to the search for science's Holy Grail - the unified field theory (or in layman's terms the 'theory of absolutely everything') Professor Hawking once more takes us to the cutting edge of modern thinking. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with original artwork commissioned for this project, The Universe in a Nutshell is guaranteed to be the biggest science book of 2001.　　

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简介：A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.