《不完美的宇宙》一书从一个崭新的视角探讨宇宙起源、物质起源和 生 命起源等问题，阐述人类在宇宙间的位置，呼吁保护我们的家园——地球 。 从本书中，我们可以看到马塞洛·格莱泽渊博的知识，开阔的胸怀， 独 特的眼光，迷人的文采。 在本书中，我们可以了解宗教的实质、生物学的趣味、天文学的发展 、 物理学的脉络、数学的精彩、宇宙学的模型、跨学科的研究；可以了解文 学 作品特别是科幻影片与科技发展的密切关系…… 本书涉及宇宙学、粒子力学、生物学以及天体生物学的许多尖端课题 。 让我们徜徉在科学海洋，漫步于文学天地，感受单纯的快乐，享受读 书 的幸福。

当一些哲学家问到“哲学究竟还有什么问题”时，无疑也道出了许多科技哲学同仁们心中的疑惑：科学技术中究竟还有些什么问题？对这个问题的不同看法，可能会形成对国内乃至国际科技哲学目前的学术发展状况的不同评价。 正是为这种“追求问题”并“追踪前沿”的激动所驱使，身处南粤、执教于华南理工的一批中青年科技哲学工作者，将多年来在自己所关注的领域中所关注的前沿问题提交出来，作为分析的对象，终于形成了这套“科学技术哲学前沿丛书”。

本书试图回答自然界是怎样演化发展的。作者根据耗散结构理论等非平衡自组织理论的成果，结合当代科学的其他新成果，并放到科学史和文化史中进行考察，指出自然系统从混沌到有序、从已有的有序演化到新的有序的过程，是“活”物质的自组织过程。作者志在把热力学嵌入到动力学之中，重新发现时间的意义，进而消除物理学和生物学的对立，把自然科学和人文科学、西方文化和东方文化结合起来，在更高的起点上建立起人与自然的新联盟。 科学元素是科学史和人类文明史上划时代的丰碑，是人类文化的优秀遗产，是历经时间考验的不朽之作。它们不仅是伟大的科学创造的结晶，而且是科学精神、科学思想和科学方法的载体，具有永恒的意义和价值。

Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the nature of reality.

《量子》(物理篇)是一本介绍量子思想的通俗读物。作者以生动的语言叙述了贯穿整个20世纪的量子思想革命，同时深入浅出地阐释了量子思想的精义，从而向读者完整地展示了自然的最神秘的量子本性。此外，作者还浅显地介绍了量子的最激动人心的新应用，如量子计算机等。

Richard Feynman once quipped: "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist. In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic evidence for the nonexistence of time, explaining what a timeless universe is like and showing how the world will nonetheless be experienced as intensely temporal. It is a book that strikes at the heart of modern physics, that casts doubt on Einstein's greatest contribution, the space-time continuum, but that also points to the solution of one of the great paradoxes of modern science: the chasm between classical and quantum physics. Indeed, Barbour argues that the unification of Einstein's general relativity and quantum mechanics may well spell the end of time--time will cease to have a role in the foundations of physics. Barbour writes with remarkable clarity, as he ranges from ancient philosophers such as Heraclitus and Parmenides, to such giants of science as Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, to the work of contemporary physicists such as John Wheeler, Roger Penrose, and Steven Hawking. Along the way, the author treats us to an enticing look at some of the mysteries of the universe and presents intriguing ideas about multiple worlds, time travel, immortality, and, above all, the illusion of motion. Turning our understanding of reality inside-out, The End of Time is a vibrantly written and revolutionary book.