Is natural history a science? Are there scientific ways in which we can give wild animals a better chance of survival? How does conservation actually work? Ullas Karanth has been evolving practical, science-based conservation solutions for over a quarter of a century. He has developed camera-trap sampling techniques that are now employed to monitor predators such as tigers, jag...(展开全部)

Is natural history a science? Are there scientific ways in which we can give wild animals a better chance of survival? How does conservation actually work? Ullas Karanth has been evolving practical, science-based conservation solutions for over a quarter of a century. He has developed camera-trap sampling techniques that are now employed to monitor predators such as tigers, jag...(展开全部)

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

From Buffett to Bono, how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists--the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give--it's like business. Largely trained ...(展开全部)

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

真人真事回忆录，科学界用“噬菌体治疗”战胜超级细菌鲍曼不动杆菌的故事。 贴一下当时的新闻报导，基本就是这本书的内容了：http://news.ifeng.com/a/20170515/51091274_0.shtml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A "fascinating and terrifying" (Scientific American) memoir of one woman's extraordinary effort to save her husband's life and the discovery of a forgotten cure that has the po...(展开全部)

◎著者 ［美］马西娅・比约内鲁德（Marcia Bjornerud）是劳伦斯大学的地球科学和环境学教授。她是一名构造地质学家，重点研究地震物理和造山运动。著有《阅读岩石：地球的自传》（Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth）、《地质词典》（Geopedia）和《向岩石求教：发现岩石的微妙智慧》（Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks）。《垂向时间》获2019年美国出版商协会大众科学与数学类的专业与学术卓越奖。 ◎译者 林葳，博士毕业于北京大学地球与空间科学学院。向往自然，目前从事地质学与地理学科普教育。

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is some...(展开全部)

Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fie...(展开全部)