Spring is in full bloom, and the long-awaited fifth issue of "New Discoveries: Popular Science Booklist" is finally here!
"New Discoveries Popular Science Booklist" is the first booklist brand in China to specifically review popular science books, with the purpose of leading readers to pay attention to scientific reading, adhering to the value proposition of "science into the future", and is committed to gathering good popular science books from all over the country, and regularly launching a national popular science book list with selection credibility, social influence and market recognition. The book list is divided into three sub-lists: Science and Humanities, Science Life, and Science Youth.
At present, 46 shortlisted books have been produced, and the two good book recommendations for today's shortlisted book list have been freshly released, so stay tuned~
Science Junior Sub Book List
07
Lu Haijun, Qin Xiaowen, Wei Fengwen
9000302002345
Tsinghua University Press
January 2024
Introduction
"A Different Physics Classroom at the High School Affiliated to the National People's Congress" introduces the discipline of physics from three levels: daily, macro and micro, and each volume contains nearly 20 core concepts. While helping readers build a body of knowledge, it depicts the tortuous process by which these concepts have been established in the history of science. In this book, you will see how science is going deeper step by step, and you will feel the joy of discovery, the power of questioning, and experience the feast of exploration.
"New Horizons: The Multiple Faces of Classics" focuses on classic concepts in physics, such as motion, mass, force, and temperature. "The Great Time and Space! The Universe Has an Arbitrary Door" mainly introduces dark matter, antimatter, relativity, black holes and other knowledge related to cosmic physics. "Tiny Particles! Quantum is a Different World" focuses on fermions, bosons, strange quantum phenomena, and the power inherent in the nucleus.
Expert recommendation
As the basic discipline of modern natural science, physics plays a pivotal role in the development and progress of human society, but there are few popular science books that can explain physics to the public, especially those relatively more cutting-edge branches of physics. The series of books "The High School Affiliated to the National People's Congress: A Different Physics Classroom" responds to this problem, starting from the concept and explaining the application system of physics at the daily, macro and micro levels. Although the book is mainly text-based, the content is not boring, but it is lively and interesting. In particular, there are humanistic stories about each physical concept, from its inception to its development and change, which makes people read it interestingly without any sense of obscurity. The creators of this series of books are all physics teachers with rich teaching experience, so the reading is step-by-step, which is very suitable for the reader's reading psychology and learning process. At the same time, the book also focuses on cutting-edge fields such as the universe and quantum physics in the selection of content, which can stimulate readers' curiosity and desire for knowledge.
08
Nick Arnold by Ian Graham
Translated by Sun Zhengfan
9787115597410
人民邮电出版社 | 信通传媒
January 2024
Introduction
Focusing on the game of marble, this book introduces physical concepts such as force and motion, velocity, acceleration, matter, mass, etc., and explains these concepts and related scientific principles in detail. At the same time, the book comes with a pinball table making kit, which contains more than 60 kinds of colored cardboard parts and a variety of ancillary components (marbles, rubber bands, stickers, etc.). Reading this book, children can not only make a pinball table by themselves with the kit, but also understand the scientific principles contained in the pinball table, as well as the movements and changes in life, and then learn scientific knowledge through the game.
Expert recommendation
As an important branch of children's popular science books, "experimental" popular science books have always been popular among children, and this kind of books can allow them to find endless fun in exploring in hands-on experiments.
Created by the famous British popular science writer Nick Arnold, "Let's Learn Science Together: Newton's Pinballs" breaks through the book attributes of traditional experimental science books in form, and directly integrates the books into an experimental table, allowing young readers to learn the basic principles of physics by making classic game boxes. Through ingenious design, the author perfectly integrates boring scientific concepts such as force and motion, speed, acceleration, matter, and mass into the game process, which can enhance children's curiosity, imagination and desire to explore to a considerable extent.
I believe that every child who gets this mysterious game box will be interested in learning science.
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