A CONSERVATIONIST'S DEEPLY PERSONAL AND FASCINATING REFLECTION ON OWNING AND REVITALIZING A FARM IN RURAL FRANCE A Sting in the Tale, Dave Goulson's account of a lifetime studying bees, was a powerful call to arms for nature lovers everywhere. Brilliantly reviewed, it was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for the best nonfiction book of the year, and debuted the already ...(展开全部)

The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories tha...(展开全部)

A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth. Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the human body, one organ stood out as vital. The heart was warm, it was central, and it moved as it pumped blood. The ancient Egyptians treated it with reverence, mummifying it separately from the body so that the soul inside it could be weighed. Aristotle believed...(展开全部)

理查德・康尼夫，职业新闻记者与随笔作家，为《大西洋月刊》、《发现杂志》、《史密森学会会刊》、《国家地理杂志》等众多刊物撰写文章。他也是“国家地理频道”、“发现频道”的节目撰稿人与制作人，曾获艾美奖最佳编剧奖提名，并于1997年荣获美国“国家杂志奖”。他的著作包括《魔鬼的笔》、《无脊椎世界的奇闻》、《爬行动物》和《千面老鼠》。他现定居于美国康涅迪格州。

A tantalizing, droll study of the idiosyncratic existence of the very rich, through the unexpected lens of the naturalist. Journalist Richard Conniff probes the age-old question "Are the rich different from you and me?" and finds that they are indeed a completely different animal. He observes with great humor and finesse this socially unique species, revealing their strategi...(展开全部)

伯恩哈特（PeterBetnhardt，1952一），美国圣路易斯大学生物系教授，美国密苏里植物园、澳大利亚悉尼皇家植物园副研究员。讲授的课程有《植物与真菌》、《民族植物学》（Ethnobotany）、《传粉生物学》、《兰花生物学与兰花分类》。出版的植物学通俗作品有《狡猾的堇菜和地下兰》、《自然韵事》、《玫瑰之吻》以及《花园中的诸神》。 译者简介： 刘华杰（1966一），植物爱好者，北京大学哲学系、北京大学科学传播中心教授。研究方向为科学哲学、科学思想史和科学传播学。关注博物学生存方式和博物学的复兴问题。主要作品有《浑沌语义与哲学》、《分形艺术》、《一点二阶立场》、《中国类科学》、《看得见的风景：博物学生存》、《草木相伴》等。

Discover why flowers are so colourful, how they evolved, and how insects exploit them for their nectar. Peter Bernhardt presents a wide-ranging look at the natural history of flowers, how they look, what they do, and their often hidden interactions with the surrounding environment. Looking also at other living organisms upon which flowers depend for their survival, this work wi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Clear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? ...(展开全部)