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如何蓋一座大教堂？：學習工程師「解決問題的思維」！從重大歷史工程到日常小物，一窺創新與發明背後的故事

The Things We Make:The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

de 比爾．漢馬克, Bill Hammack Ph.D. ...

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你可曾想過，中世紀的石匠們，他們既沒學過數學、物理，也沒有精密的量尺與結構力學知識，為什麼他們蓋出來的宏偉大教堂，卻能屹立數百年不倒？他們掌握了哪種知識與祕密力量？胡佛獎章｜國家科學委員會「公共服務獎」｜拉爾夫・科茨・羅獎章｜美國科學作家協會「社會科學獎」｜美國化學學會「格雷迪・斯塔克獎章」｜美國物理學會「科學寫作獎」屢獲大獎工程學專家／「工程人」百萬Youtuber 比爾．漢馬克第一次揭露「工程思維」的祕密心法嘗試錯誤╳承襲既有知識╳折衷取捨＝解決當下難題 ★附多幀精采插圖與詳解★ ★這不僅是一本探索發明史的書，更是一部關於人類進步的宏大敘事★ ▎工程界最常被大眾誤判與低估：「如果成功，那就是科學奇蹟；如果釀成慘禍，那就是工程失誤！」 ▎工程學不等於應用科學，工程師必須馬上解決問題，甚至常常走在科學得出合理解釋之前 ▎工程方法動用了人類最高的創意表現，綿延千年至今 ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

你可曾想過，中世紀的石匠們，他們既沒學過數學、物理，也沒有精密的量尺與結構力學知識，為什麼他們蓋出來的宏偉大教堂，卻能屹立數百年不倒？他們掌握了哪種知識與祕密力量？胡佛獎章｜國家科學委員會「公共服務獎」｜拉爾夫・科茨・羅獎章｜美國科學作家協會「社會科學獎」｜美國化學學會「格雷迪・斯塔克獎章」｜美國物理學會「科學寫作獎」屢獲大獎工程學專家／「工程人」百萬Youtuber 比爾．漢馬克第一次揭露「工程思維」的祕密心法嘗試錯誤╳承襲既有知識╳折衷取捨＝解決當下難題 ★附多幀精采插圖與詳解★ ★這不僅是一本探索發明史的書，更是一部關於人類進步的宏大敘事★ ▎工程界最常被大眾誤判與低估：「如果成功，那就是科學奇蹟；如果釀成慘禍，那就是工程失誤！」 ▎工程學不等於應用科學，工程師必須馬上解決問題，甚至常常走在科學得出合理解釋之前 ▎工程方法動用了人類最高的創意表現，綿延千年至今
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The Things We Make

The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

de Bill Hammack ...

Discover the secret method used to build the world…For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let ... Leer más

$13.69 USD

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Discover the secret method used to build the world…For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of—let
... Leer más

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Fatal Flight

The True Story of Britain's Last Great Airship

de Bill Hammack ...

Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship -- a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

Fatal Flight brings vividly to life the year of operation of R.101, the last great British airship -- a luxury liner three and a half times the length of a 747 jet, with a spacious lounge, a dining room that seated fifty, glass-walled promenade decks, and a smoking room. The British expected R.101 to spearhead a fleet of imperial airships that would dominate the skies as British naval ships, a
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Eight Amazing Engineering Stories: Using the Elements to Create Extraordinary Technologies

de Bill Hammack, Patrick Ryan, Nick Ziech ...

Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched uranium, batteries, microwave ovens, lasers, and anodized metals. In addition, short primers ... Leer más

$6.99 USD

Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched uranium, batteries, microwave ovens, lasers, and anodized metals. In addition, short primers
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How Engineers Create the World: The Public Radio Commentaries of Bill Hammack (The Complete Collection)

de Bill Hammack ...

In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity andimpact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements -jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws hisdeepest insights from the everyday, the quotidian. He finds beauty,elegance and meaning in Ferris wheels, Tupperware, Slinkys, moodrings, waterless urinals and Velcro. Delivered originally on publicradio ... Leer más

$4.99 USD

In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity andimpact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements -jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws hisdeepest insights from the everyday, the quotidian. He finds beauty,elegance and meaning in Ferris wheels, Tupperware, Slinkys, moodrings, waterless urinals and Velcro. Delivered originally on publicradio
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Michael Faraday’s The Chemical History of a Candle

With Guides to Lectures, Teaching Guides & Student Activities

de Bill Hammack, Don DeCoste ...

This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This edition is a companion book to the popular EngineerGuy YouTube series of the lectures. This books contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by ... Leer más

$3.99 USD

This book introduces modern readers to Michael Faraday’s great nineteenth-century lectures on The Chemical History of a Candle. This edition is a companion book to the popular EngineerGuy YouTube series of the lectures. This books contains supplemental material to help readers appreciate Faraday’s key insight that “there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of science than by
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The Things We Make

The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans

de Bill Hammack ...

Narrado por Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Completo

7 hora 43 minutos

Discover the secret method used to build the world . . .For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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Discover the secret method used to build the world . . .For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method", is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of
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Size決定世界：從動物心臟到飛機座椅，電視與油輪尺寸，從生物學到經濟學，一場關於萬物大小、比例、分布的思辨之旅

Size: How It Explains the World

de 瓦茲拉夫．史密爾, Vaclav Smil ...

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「沒有哪位作家的書，像瓦茲拉夫．史密爾的如此令我期待。」──比爾．蓋茲全球百大頂尖思想家經濟學暢銷書《這個世界運作的真相》作者瓦茲拉夫．史密爾最新力作東西愈大愈好嗎？有沒有什麼東西會持續無限生長？暢銷作家瓦茲拉夫．史密爾就這些有趣龐大的問題尋根究柢，將改變你對身處世界的看法。　　為什麼體重是你兩倍重的人，頭圍和心臟不會是你的兩倍大？巨杉為何不會長到突破天際，跟摩天大樓的限制？腦與體型的比，從鼩鼱的1/23到弓頭鯨的1/22000，有無規律？螢幕發明以來，如何從追求愈大愈好，到手機時代變得愈小愈好？油輪的載噸重與運油的成本攤提有何關係，輪船本身的造價與吃水量又扮演何關鍵角色？航空公司的座椅寬度如何平衡載客量與人體工學？城市的人口為何無法無限增加，馬路設計為何不是愈寬愈好？不同文化偏好的頭身比和腰臀比有何差異？虛榮尺碼如何讓人們更滿意自己的身材？為何在一些國家，男性身高愈高，收入也愈高 ... Leer más

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「沒有哪位作家的書，像瓦茲拉夫．史密爾的如此令我期待。」──比爾．蓋茲全球百大頂尖思想家經濟學暢銷書《這個世界運作的真相》作者瓦茲拉夫．史密爾最新力作東西愈大愈好嗎？有沒有什麼東西會持續無限生長？暢銷作家瓦茲拉夫．史密爾就這些有趣龐大的問題尋根究柢，將改變你對身處世界的看法。　　為什麼體重是你兩倍重的人，頭圍和心臟不會是你的兩倍大？巨杉為何不會長到突破天際，跟摩天大樓的限制？腦與體型的比，從鼩鼱的1/23到弓頭鯨的1/22000，有無規律？螢幕發明以來，如何從追求愈大愈好，到手機時代變得愈小愈好？油輪的載噸重與運油的成本攤提有何關係，輪船本身的造價與吃水量又扮演何關鍵角色？航空公司的座椅寬度如何平衡載客量與人體工學？城市的人口為何無法無限增加，馬路設計為何不是愈寬愈好？不同文化偏好的頭身比和腰臀比有何差異？虛榮尺碼如何讓人們更滿意自己的身材？為何在一些國家，男性身高愈高，收入也愈高
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So Very Small

How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

de Thomas Levenson ...

Narrado por Mike Cooper ...

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10 hora 11 minutos

“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.” ... Leer más

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“An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.”
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新冷戰：中國崛起、俄國侵略、與美國捍衛西方之戰

New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

de 大衛．桑格, 瑪莉．布魯克斯 ...

Traducido por 顏涵銳 ...

Series series 黑盒子
一部最接近決策核心、揭露世界劇變真相的權威紀實《紐約時報》白宮資深記者與普立茲獎團隊深入五任美國總統決策核心，直擊地緣戰略的關鍵內幕從冷戰終局走向晶片與AI主導的全球新戰線隨著俄烏戰爭到台海危機的臨界時刻逐步逼近一場牽動國際秩序與民主前途的重大轉折正悄然展開★《紐約時報》暢銷書★美國國家公共電台年度最佳書籍★美國亞馬遜逾700位讀者4.6顆星高評價★Goodread逾1,800位讀者4.3顆星高評價　　冷戰真的結束了嗎？　　多年來，美國一直堅信，只要同意華盛頓的條件，俄羅斯和日益富裕的中國就能被引誘進一個由西方主導的秩序，而這個秩序承諾繁榮與相對和平。但當美國走出恐怖主義時代之時，顯然這只是一個幻想。　　如今，這三個核武大國正展開一場高風險的鬥爭，爭奪軍事、經濟、政治和科技霸權，世界各國都面臨了選邊站的壓力。然而，這三個大國都發現，他們正在一個遠比想像中更動盪的世界裡爭奪影響力 ... Leer más

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一部最接近決策核心、揭露世界劇變真相的權威紀實《紐約時報》白宮資深記者與普立茲獎團隊深入五任美國總統決策核心，直擊地緣戰略的關鍵內幕從冷戰終局走向晶片與AI主導的全球新戰線隨著俄烏戰爭到台海危機的臨界時刻逐步逼近一場牽動國際秩序與民主前途的重大轉折正悄然展開★《紐約時報》暢銷書★美國國家公共電台年度最佳書籍★美國亞馬遜逾700位讀者4.6顆星高評價★Goodread逾1,800位讀者4.3顆星高評價　　冷戰真的結束了嗎？　　多年來，美國一直堅信，只要同意華盛頓的條件，俄羅斯和日益富裕的中國就能被引誘進一個由西方主導的秩序，而這個秩序承諾繁榮與相對和平。但當美國走出恐怖主義時代之時，顯然這只是一個幻想。　　如今，這三個核武大國正展開一場高風險的鬥爭，爭奪軍事、經濟、政治和科技霸權，世界各國都面臨了選邊站的壓力。然而，這三個大國都發現，他們正在一個遠比想像中更動盪的世界裡爭奪影響力
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改變世界的17個方程式

Seventeen Equations that Changed the World

de 伊恩．史都華, Ian Stewart ...

Series series 科學新視野
當代最會說故事的數學家&英國皇家學會成員：伊恩．史都華運算、觀測、相互的挑戰與傳承；古往今來的科學家們，創造出17條方程式，聯手翻轉了地球的中心，也改變了現代世界的樣貌！　　★英國亞馬遜科普數學類Top 1！五顆星滿分評鑑！　　★「一位闡述數學的大師……趣味橫生又具權威性。」--《BBC焦點》（BBC Focus）　　★「當今英國最偉大、最多產的數學家……」--《衛報》（Guardian）　　從牛頓的重力定律到釐定期權定價的布萊克休斯模型，從電子學到全球通訊、雷達、雷射、太空載具及原子彈，數學方程式無所不在，更可說是每日生活的根本。被等號分隔的兩組數字或符號，真的能夠改變世界？是的！不只是這樣：它們揭露了自然的法則以及宇宙的祕密！　　英美最負盛名的數學科普作家伊恩．史都華，揭示了數學方程式如何開啟人類經驗，從古希臘時期開始，敘述橫跨2500年，帶領讀者看見一個時代的創見如何在之後的歲月發揮影響 ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

當代最會說故事的數學家&英國皇家學會成員：伊恩．史都華運算、觀測、相互的挑戰與傳承；古往今來的科學家們，創造出17條方程式，聯手翻轉了地球的中心，也改變了現代世界的樣貌！　　★英國亞馬遜科普數學類Top 1！五顆星滿分評鑑！　　★「一位闡述數學的大師……趣味橫生又具權威性。」--《BBC焦點》（BBC Focus）　　★「當今英國最偉大、最多產的數學家……」--《衛報》（Guardian）　　從牛頓的重力定律到釐定期權定價的布萊克休斯模型，從電子學到全球通訊、雷達、雷射、太空載具及原子彈，數學方程式無所不在，更可說是每日生活的根本。被等號分隔的兩組數字或符號，真的能夠改變世界？是的！不只是這樣：它們揭露了自然的法則以及宇宙的祕密！　　英美最負盛名的數學科普作家伊恩．史都華，揭示了數學方程式如何開啟人類經驗，從古希臘時期開始，敘述橫跨2500年，帶領讀者看見一個時代的創見如何在之後的歲月發揮影響
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Queen of All Mayhem

The Blood-Soaked Life and Mysterious Death of Belle Starr, the Most Dangerous Woman in the West

de Dane Huckelbridge ...

Narrado por George Newbern ...

Completo

10 hora 5 minutos

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point by her outlaw sobriquet “Belle Starr”—was blown from her horse saddle and killed by a pair of shotgun blasts, delivered by an unseen assailant, only a ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday, Myra Maybelle Shirley—better known at that point by her outlaw sobriquet “Belle Starr”—was blown from her horse saddle and killed by a pair of shotgun blasts, delivered by an unseen assailant, only a
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