About the author: David Macaulay, an educator, writer and architect, has created a series of imaginative books, which is internationally renowned; He has won many international awards, including the Cadic Gold Award, the Boston Global Horn Book Award, the American Institute of Architects Special Award, the Washington Intellectual Children's Book Award, the German Youth Literature Award and the Dutch Silver Pencil Award, and has been nominated for the International Andersen Award twice. He is also the teacher of david wiesner, a master of picture books. Time once commented: "Macaulay paints better than any pen and ink illustrator in the world."
Content abstract: David Macaulay, the gold medal winner of Cadillac, is a classic popular science picture book. This creative book about the physical world has been selling well for half a century since its publication, making a wonderful connection between seemingly unrelated things. The lovely and humorous mammoth will lead us into a fascinating physical world. It describes the principles of hundreds of mechanical operations in a humorous way, and shows the development process of physics from life, from simple cranes to high-tech networks. The words are easy to understand and humorous. Even readers without any scientific common sense can suddenly realize the complex physical world. It is a must-have collection to stimulate young people's physical enthusiasm.
Recommended reason: douban reading friend orange run: I thought it was for a child, but I didn't know until I turned it over that I was the child.
2 "Invisible Forest"
About the author:
David? The research and teaching work in haskell mainly involves biological evolution and animal protection, especially the protection of birds and invertebrates living in forests. In addition to many scientific research articles, he also published several essays and poems about science and nature. Oxford America listed him as the most creative teacher in the southern United States in 201/kloc-0. He is currently a professor of biology at Southern University, head of the Department of Biology, and an environmental researcher at Southern University Alliance.
Content introduction:? This is a forest observation note.
In this book, a biologist takes a year as the main line, and reveals the secret of a square meter area of Tibetan forest for us in each observation.
In this completely original book, biologist David takes a small piece of forest as a microcosm of the whole nature, and vividly shows us the living conditions of this forest and its residents.
Recommended reason
The beautiful language of this book makes readers regard the reading process as a grand trip to find the mysteries of nature, while the author is like a tour guide, leading everyone to explore the wonderful world that exists under our feet or is hidden in our backyard.
3 "A Brief History of Information"
About the author:
James. Gerecke graduated from Harvard College, worked as a journalist and editor in The New York Times for a long time, and wrote a technical column for Time magazine for many years. 1987, his first work, Chaos: Creating a New Science, was shortlisted for the finals of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in the United States and became a bestseller, making the arguments of "Chaos" and "Butterfly Effect" widely known, and now it has sold more than one million copies. Later, books such as Feynman's Biography: A Scientific Genius Born in 0/000 Years, Faster and Faster: Everything in the Flight Age, and Newton's Biography were published one after another, which were translated into more than 20 languages.
Content abstract: The history of human beings meeting with information goes back to ancient times. James. Gerecke's history unexpectedly began with the African drum language. African indigenous tribes used drums to send messages before they directly crossed the mobile phone, but how did they do it? The next chapter goes on to tell several key events with far-reaching influence in this history, including the invention of writing, Robert? Caudry's first English dictionary, Charles? Babbage's extension and Ada? Byron's program, the Sharp brothers' cell phone tower and Morse code.
Recommended reason: A Brief History of Information is an ambitious and insightful book, which leads us back to the long journey from talking drums in Africa to electronic computers with enthusiastic brushwork, and adds a lot of useful arguments and examples. This is a very rare book, which provides a brand-new framework for us to understand the world around us. -jocelyn Bell Bourne.
4 interstellar
About the author: Kip Thorne, the world's top theoretical physicist, is one of the world leaders in the field of astrophysics under the general theory of relativity. Committed to the study of curvature of spacetime, he founded the world-famous LIGO project. Interstellar, the only scientific consultant of Hollywood brain-burning giant, is the strongest guarantee of film science.
Content description: the most concise and clear introduction to space-time theory. Professor Kip Thorne cracked the jaw-dropping wonders of the universe-the Big Bang, black holes, curved space-time, tidal force, wormholes, gravitational slingshots, interstellar travel, etc.-and explained all the astrophysical theories that promoted the plot in plain language. He also divided the scientific knowledge in the book into three kinds: scientific facts, well-founded speculation and speculation, and made clear annotations to help us solve all the mysteries of plot design and time travel.
Highlight: black hole, wormhole, bending, five-dimensional space, time travel ... This is a scientific feast and an exploration of human destiny. In this material world built by Kip Thorne, although human beings are small and helpless, they will never forget your innovative spirit and persistence in pursuing your dreams. In the end, the superego rescued Cooper, and everyone was happy. This is the beauty and charm of science. It can not only make us understand the wonder of the universe, but also further broaden our thinking, ignite the spark of curiosity, and make our thoughts "cross" and pass them on to the next generation. However, in reality, the fate of human beings is naturally in their own hands, and the password is in the depths of the universe. -Ouyang Ziyuan
5 "The Journey of a Firefly"
About the author: Fu Xinhua has been engaged in the classification of fireflies, the exchange and evolution of bisexual lightning information, chemical defense and ecological protection since 2000. He is the first doctor in China to study fireflies, and he first carried out the study of firefly flash communication in Chinese mainland. Now he works in the School of Plant Science and Technology of Huazhong Agricultural University and the Key Laboratory of Insect Resource Utilization and Pest Sustainable Management in Hubei Province. Many fireflies were found and named, such as Schleswig, Wuhan, Qiongyu, Taishan and China. Photography enthusiast, popular science writer.
Content abstract: This book is a popular science literature written by Fu Xinhua, the first doctor specializing in fireflies in China. It tells their beautiful and short lives in the tone of a firefly, and introduces the species, habits and related Chinese and foreign cultures of fireflies, which is very readable and ornamental.
Highlight: What a lovely book ~ Studying fireflies sounds romantic and interesting! I hope I can go to Ampawa, Xishuangbanna or Wuhan in Thailand in the future, and I'd better go to Japan to see this "fallen star" with my own eyes. -Douban reading friend
6 "The Magical Human Biological Clock"
About the author: Thiel? Lenneberg is a professor of medical psychology at Ludwig University in Munich, Germany, and a representative figure in the field of chronobiology.
Content abstract: This is a masterpiece about the emerging discipline "Time Biology". The seemingly invisible human biological clock actually has a great influence on our psychological and physical health, and even determines whether people's lives are happy or not.
Recommended reason:
Professor Lenneberg's academic career spans biology, physics, psychology, medicine and many other fields. It was this experience that enabled him to jump out of the limitations of the discipline and study the biological clock with a comprehensive macro-vision. The publication of this book has attracted the attention of popular science circles and popular psychology circles, and many experts and social researchers in Europe and America are scrambling to read it.
7. Change
About the author: Dunzhe Ling, an independent scholar and popular science writer in China, whose masterpiece is Four Years of Disgusting. He thinks about the hot spots of contemporary physics in his own unique way. There are no complicated mathematical formulas in the book, and many problems are described in the most understandable language. Such as inertia, gravity, special relativity, general relativity, quantum entanglement, time, matter and so on. This is an inspiring and creative popular science book.
Content Description: Change is a basic reading for popular science of cosmic physics, with rich content, vivid narration and wonderful illustrations. More importantly, this book is an enlightening expansion on the basis of existing physics. For the most basic problems, gravity, inertia, relativity, speed of light, time and space all have unique views. Suitable for readers with junior high school, senior high school and junior high school education in science and engineering universities. This book introduces readers to various and colorful "cosmic physics". There is no complicated mathematical description in the book.
Highlight: Change is an inspiring and creative book. His way of thinking and reasoning is refreshing. It is a rare popular science book.
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