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過酷な熱帯の密林に築かれた古代都市の興亡と、星々の運行から時を支配したマヤ文明の壮大な歴史を解き明かす知的探求の旅。日々の通勤時間や夜の静寂の中でこの物語に耳を傾ければ、日常の喧騒から離れて数千年前...

Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the 20th century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and best-selling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative coupled with clear and novel expositions of science at the limits.

絶対的だと信じて疑わなかった「時間」と「空間」の常識を鮮やかに打ち砕き、あなたの宇宙に対する認識を根底から変える、痛快でスリリングな物理学のパラダイムシフトへようこそ。毎日の通勤電車に揺られる時間や...

Author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway best seller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers.

生命の設計図であるDNAの暗号解読という壮大なミクロの探検を通し、専門知識がなくても生命科学の神秘を深く理解できる、知的好奇心を刺激する極上のポピュラーサイエンスです。毎日の通勤時間や夜のリラックスタイ...

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only 24, a young scientist hungry to make his mark. His uncompromisingly honest account of the heady days of their thrilling sprint against other world-class researchers to solve one of science's greatest mysteries gives a dazzlingly clear picture of a world of brilliant scientists with great gifts, very human ambitions, and bitter rivalries.

Brought to you by Penguin. An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the...

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters.

沈黙する事件現場に落ちた微小な痕跡が、いかにして冷酷な殺人犯を暴く絶対的な証拠へと変わるのか、法科学と犯罪捜査の劇的な進化を紐解きます。毎日の通勤電車や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに、あなたの知的好奇...

人類を脅かす病という見えない敵との果てしない戦いと、犠牲の先に医療技術という光を掴み取った劇的な歴史ノンフィクション。通勤の移動時間や静かな夜のひとときに耳を傾ければ、祈りにすがるしかなかった古代か...

得体の知れない運命や悪い空気が病気の原因だと信じられていた時代から、目に見えない微生物が感染症を引き起こすという歴史的なパラダイムシフトへと至る、知的好奇心を激しく刺激する医学革命の物語です。毎日の...

当日常物理常识在亚原子世界彻底失效，真正的量子力学究竟隐藏着怎样颠覆认知的现实结构？抛开令人望而生畏的复杂数学公式，这场干货满满的科普之旅将直接带你跃入原子的核心地带。你将在极度震撼的物理奇观中，彻...

Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the ribosome - an enormous molecular machine made up of a million atoms - that makes DNA come to life, turning our genetic code into proteins and therefore into us. Gene Machine is an insider account of the race for the structure of the ribosome, a fundamental discovery that both advances our knowledge of all life and could lead to the development of better antibiotics against life-threatening diseases. 

Discover the fascinating science that shapes our world. Written for curious minds and complete newcomers, Chemistry for Beginners by Hereward Carrington provides a clear, engaging introduction to the principles of chemistry and the remarkable discoveries that transformed humanity's understanding...

難解な数式を一切捨て去り、日常の素朴な疑問から宇宙を支配する万物の法則へと迫る、知的好奇心を刺激する科学と物理学の壮大な探求の旅。毎日の通勤時間や夜の静かなリラックスタイムに耳を傾けるだけで、見慣れ...

「地球外生命体は存在するのか」という宇宙の壮大な謎を、古代の神話から最新の天文学による探査まで紐解き、私たちの存在意義を根本から問い直すスリリングな知的探求の旅が今始まります。夜空を見上げてふと孤独...

中世の伝統と新たな発見が静かに衝突するパラダイムシフトの瞬間を追体験し、人類が「科学」という革新的な世界観を獲得していく歴史のうねりを紐解く知的ノンフィクション。毎日の通勤時間やリラックスしたい夜の...

Financial Times Book of the Year Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year Guardian Book of the Year New Statesman Book of the Year ‘Roundly debunks racism’s core lie – that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power’ Reni Eddo-Lodge For millennia, dominant societies have...

Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-19th century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately - childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared - they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end. 

In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank and their radical idea is to create a new science: complexity. They want to know how a primordial soup of simple molecules managed to turn itself into the first living cell--and what the origin of life some four billion years ago can tell us about the process of technological innovation today.