IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 07980010B36323
English Summary/英文概要： An engaging, accessible and fascinating look at science’s ’best bits’ by popular comedian and particle physicist Ben Miller
Black holes. Global warming. The Hadron Collider. Ever had that sinking feeling that you really should know about these things, but somehow never quite grasped them? Don’t worry – you’re not alone. Before Ben Miller was a comedian, he used to be a physicist, working towards a PhD in Novel Quantum Effects In Quasi-Zero-Dimensional Electron Systems. But then he woke up twenty years later and realised he didn’t know any of this stuff either. And so he set out on a mission. He worked out the ten most vital things in science – the things you really need to know. He talked to experts, he visited research labs, he went to see the Hadron Collider in action... And then he wrote this book. Ben Miller studied physics at Cambridge and was working on his PhD when he left to pursue a career in comedy. He is now half of Britain’s most popular TV comedy duo, Armstrong & Miller, and a successful actor, but has always maintained a passionate interest in science. Ben has recently been cast to star in an exciting Anglo-French co-production drama series called Death in Paradise.
1. First Love Runs Deep
2. The Super-Duper Atom Smasher
3. We Are Slowly Falling into an Enormous Black Hole
4. Mankind and Other Fossils
5. The Secret Code of Creation
6. Let Them Eat Cake
7. The End of the World is Nigh
8. Fly Me to the Asteroid!
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本•米勒用轻松幽默的语言，引领读者走进奇妙的科学世界，汇成人人都看得懂、都爱看的八堂极简科学课——DNA造物密码、黑洞之谜、宇宙大爆炸、美食的奥秘美拉德反应、探索外星人等。作者以兴趣为导向，将众多耳熟能详又知之甚少的重大科学理论娓娓道来，为读者展开一段段妙趣横生的科学史话。没有拗口的术语和枯燥的论证，只有诙谐的叙述和生动的比喻，带你轻松越过重重障碍，感受科学之美！
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Chinese rights (simplified characters) - Beijing Zito Books Review:
This book makes climate change actually seem interesting. Not just important - it’s obviously important - but interesting.
As a result I bought lots of other books about climate change, something I now regret---David Mitchell
Ben Miller has made a successful career out of concealing his intellect, but in this book he fails to obscure his scientific credentials beautifully. It’s a fun and insightful ride through the whole of science - it’s almost as if he’d finished his PhD! ---Professor Brian Cox
About the Author/作者介绍： 狂热的科学爱好者，曾于剑桥大学攻读物理学博士，英国《泰晤士报》科学专栏作家，BBC喜剧明星，“憨豆特工”搭档演员，国际知名导演、编剧和制片人，曾获第63届英国电影和电视艺术学院奖等多项大奖。米勒结合科学与艺术两种卓越的能力和天赋，用轻松幽默的语言，理清深奥难懂的科学术语和理论，同时又不失科学的权威。还著有《外星人来了！》等科普书。
Ben Miller is, like you, a mutant ape living through an Ice Age on a ball of molten iron, orbiting a super massive black hole. He is also an actor, comedian and approximately one half of Armstrong & Miller. He’s presented a BBC Horizon documentary on temperature and a Radio 4 series about the history of particle physics, and has a regular science column in The Times. He is slowly coming to terms with the idea that he may never be an astronaut.
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