40亿年前，海底热泉偶然地成为你和其他生命的起源之地；之后，DNA的复制密码让你得以繁衍；直到光合作用制造出氧气，你才解决了能源问题；接着，复杂细胞让你的构成从简单变为复杂；有性生殖打乱了遗传组合，让你结合父母的优点；运动扩大猎食范围，让生存变得容易；眼睛成为你获取信息的主要来源；热血提升新陈代谢速率，以维持你的大脑消耗；意识更是让你得以学习、思考以及成长；而最后的最后，直到生命尽头，你会发现死亡才是一切生生不息的奥秘所在……
总而言之，在地球上，生命已经进化了40亿年。但与达尔文猜测的不同，进化的过程并不是一成不变，顺理成章地向前滚动；而是在某个时间点忽然跃升，激进地一路狂奔。DNA、光合作用、眼睛、性等10次进化，少了其中任何一次，你都不可能成为今天的样子。
翻开本书，见证你本身就是40亿年来最大的奇迹。

《车迷不可不知的100个汽车知识》内容共分9章，分别介绍汽车关键系统和零部件中令车迷们比较感兴趣而又相对难懂的内容。全书以图文并茂的形式，重点对车迷密切关注的汽车知识性内容进行介绍，抛弃了相对浅显的一般大众读者都了解的内容。涵盖汽车发动机知识、变速器知识、传动行驶系统知识、转向系统知识、制动系统知识、汽车电子电器知识、辅助系统知识、底盘悬架知识，以及新能源汽车相关知识等。《车迷不可不知的100个汽车知识》内容系统实用，深入浅出、通俗易懂，适合初中级大众车迷、青少年、中小学生以及对汽车知识感兴趣的读者阅读和参考。

编者考虑到国内读者对软物质物理学学习和研究兴趣的日益增加以及缺乏基本参考书的现实，应同行们的要求，编者们根据暑期学校的教学交流内容，邀请两位讲演人和部分专家根据自己的研究领域撰写了有关章节，编出了这本《软物质物理学导论》。本书共分三篇26章：第一篇5章为软物质物理学概论，介绍了软物质的基本特性和研究方法；第二篇9章论述了软物质的表面和界面物理；第三篇12章分别介绍了软物质物理学研究的若干领域，包括软物质的自组织、生物膜膜泡形状、胶体物理、电流变液、二维泡沫系统、生物大分子和颗粒物质等方向。、
本书的第一篇以英文文稿交稿，第二篇以法文文稿交稿。第三篇中也有两章以英文文稿。

本书是一本综合介绍天体和天文现象的书。它从一些最基本的天体出发，透彻地解释了天文现象如何发生，为什么发生，天文学家如何收集关于恒星、星系和太阳系的信息，并如何解释这些信息等。

When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage opened new opportunities for exchange of goods as well as ideas. Traders were joined by ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars from Portugal, England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany, all hoping to learn about India for reasons as varied as their particular nationalities and professions. In the following centuries they produced a body of knowledge about India that significantly shaped European thought.
Europe’s India tracks Europeans’ changing ideas of India over the entire early modern period. Sanjay Subrahmanyam brings his expertise and erudition to bear in exploring the connection between European representations of India and the fascination with collecting Indian texts and objects that took root in the sixteenth century. European notions of India’s history, geography, politics, and religion were strongly shaped by the manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts—both precious and prosaic—that found their way into Western hands.
Subrahmanyam rejects the opposition between “true” knowledge of India and the self-serving fantasies of European Orientalists. Instead, he shows how knowledge must always be understood in relation to the concrete circumstances of its production. Europe’s India is as much about how the East came to be understood by the West as it is about how India shaped Europe’s ideas concerning art, language, religion, and commerce.