Author: (English) bill Blethen, translated by Yan Weiming.
Publishing House: Relay Publishing House
Release date: July 2009-1
Format: 16
Pricing: 68.00 yuan "A Brief History of Everything" is a landmark masterpiece on the development history of human science. With extraordinary wisdom and humorous brushwork, combined with the discovery of modern science, the author outlines the evolutionary history of nature and the scientific process of people understanding the universe and exploring everything.
In order to let children readers know A Brief History of Everything, the author, with his love for children and awe of science, carefully rewrote the original work, kept the essence of the original work, narrated it in concise, fluent and accurate language, and added more than 400 pictures that are in harmony with the content, thus achieving this A Brief History of Everything (children's painted version).
Did humans evolve from the earliest animals on earth? How many hundreds of millions of password letters does a person's DNA have? How can the body of an average-sized adult contain the energy of 30 hydrogen bombs? Mendeleev discovered the periodic law of chemical elements, which was inspired by the solitaire game in North America. Darwin played the piano for earthworms in order to study the influence of sound and vibration on them. Jarvik, a Swedish paleontologist who discovered the first batch of terrestrial Ankylosaurus fossils, actually counted the wrong number of fingers and toes and hid the fossils for 48 years. ...
Beautiful stories, beautiful pictures, humorous cartoon shapes, and unique "split-shot" page display have great visual impact, which enables children and readers to have a spiritual dialogue with science masters easily and happily, roam the ocean of science, explore the mysteries of the universe and the world, and think about the future of mankind. A Brief History of Everything seems destined to be a classic of modern popular science works.
-The New York Times
Science has never been so fascinating, and the world we live in has never been so magical and wonderful.
-Publishers Weekly
Science is not as mysterious and profound as people think. It happens around us every day.
—— Xu Zhihong (President Peking University, Academician of China Academy of Sciences)
A scientific journey full of wisdom, humor and eye-opening.
-Gan Zhaozi (academician of China Academy of Sciences, the first chief scientist of the National Superconducting Expert Committee)
This ambitious book connects science with the widest possible audience in a wise and understandable way.
-Roger Winston (Chairman of the Jury of the Royal Society's Aventis Award)
A Brief History of Everything can be listed as one of the most fascinating books.
-Peter Agins (a famous professor at Oxford University and president of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry)
Landmark works ... will become more attractive if all schools are included in the first choice textbooks for science education.
-Tim flannery (Chairman of the Science Council of South Australia, author of "The Missing Ring of Nature")
In another 20 years, Blethen will certainly receive many letters from young scientists. They told him that it was his book that led them into the hall of science and made them understand how to spend their lives.
-"Oregonian" Bill Brighton, a world-renowned travel literature writer. 195 1 was born in Iowa, USA, and graduated from Drake University. Since 1973, he has lived in England for 20 years, worked for The Times and The Independent, and also wrote articles for The New York Times and National Geographic magazine. Then moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. In 2003, Mr. and Mrs. Blethen returned to England with their four children and now live in Wymendem, Norfolk. In 2005, Blethen was appointed as the president of Durham University, a famous British university, and was awarded honorary degrees by many universities. From June 5, 2006 to February 2006, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to literature, Queen Elizabeth awarded him the British Empire Medal. June 5438 +2007 10, literature and history association, University of Dublin, Ireland, named James? The Joyce Prize went to Breton. Blethen is good at looking at the world he travels with different eyes. In his book, British wisdom and humor are wonderfully combined with American humor. His acerbity and erudition make his writing full of humor, agility and wisdom, making him "the most interesting travel literature writer living in the world at present" (Times).
The masterpiece is "Ha! Small Britain, Europe is fermenting, step into small America, don't climb mountains, excuse me, is this America? "and so on. , located in the forefront of the best-seller list in the United States, Britain and Canada. Among them, "Ha! "Little Britain" was selected by British readers as "the work that can convey the British soul most profoundly". order
Vast universe
How do they know? Know about this planet
A way to create the universe and make explosions.
What happened after the big bang?
Yeah! You did it! How did you get here?
Listen to the Big Bang, cosmic radiation and you.
How far is it to the edge of the universe?
Space travel, our vast solar system
Looking for Pluto's new dwarf planet
The end of Voyager's adventure.
Who else is outside? Are there advanced life in other parts of the universe?
Supernova explorer, the great Reverend Robert Evans.
The size of the earth
Back to Earth, Newton and Gravity
Determine the size and circumference of the earth.
The bulge of the earth, our planet is not a sphere.
What's the circumference? Two unfortunate investigation expeditions
Follow Venus and chase transit of venus.
Weigh the earth, the bow force and the weight of Shihalin Mountain.
Calculate and measure Cavendish at a very light level.
Finding out the age of the earth: a new science: geology
Geological society of London
The slow and steady success of Lyle and tectonic plates
Fossils were found in Britain and stratigraphic maps were drawn.
Dating rocks, the great geological age
Teeth and claws dig out weird bones
People are looking for dinosaurs "terrible lizards"
This is the age of bones and the age of the earth.
Dalton, a powerful atom, is called an atom.
Chemicals increase the number of elements.
Mendeleev sorted out some clues about the periodic table of elements.
Marie Curie and deadly radiation
The beginning of a new era
The genius Einstein's special theory of relativity
Space-time has shapes.
Large screen Hubble space telescope
"Bad" Inventions of Lead and Chlorofluorocarbons
Dating meteorites
Dangerous planet
Fossil Records of Pan-Palaeozoic and Travelling Trilobites
The earth's crust is collapsing and the tectonic plate L has been discovered.
Everything is drifting with the tide. Where are the sediments?
Underground fire, the land under our feet.
Thunder San hellens volcano erupts.
The volcano that will erupt in Yellowstone National Park
A big earthquake determines the intensity of the earthquake.
Impact meteorites from space and KT extinction events
Asteroids hit rocks and are flying towards us?
Life itself
We have a small foothold in a place where we can live comfortably.
The earth's cover protects our atmosphere.
Gale, the weather on earth.
Function of marine thermos bottle
There is water everywhere, a water planet.
Dive into the deep sea and live at the bottom of the sea.
Protein Juice Ocean-Where Life Began.
Bacteria and microorganisms in the struggle appeared.
Your microscopic world is bacteria that feed on us.
Infectious microorganisms that make you sick.
Citizens of the cell country, you and your cells.
How long can you exist? Adapt or die.
Big winners, trilobites and other fossils
It's time to start. The long history of the earth before human beings.
When living things leave the sea and land,
Where do we come from? From reptiles to mammals
Come, come, go to genocide.
Label life and classify animals and plants.
Can't count it? Unknown creatures on earth
Future Journey Darwin and the Origin of Species
Mendel, a taciturn monk, and genetic research
The same happy family genetics and chromosomes.
Life chain Crick and Watson and DNA]
The road to us
Cold and hot ice fields and climate
Cold times live in the ice age.
Early human remains found in skulls and bones
Lucy's most famous Australopithecus.
From there to here, Homo sapiens appeared.
A person who can make tools, the inventor of the first technology.
Man took over the earth and destroyed it.
What's the situation now? A polluted planet
Goodbye, our planet and us.