Evolution can be a difficult idea to wrap our brains around: it deals with random, unlikely events, combined with vast lengths of time too enormous to comprehend. But the evidence is all around us – in the fossils of long-dead creatures, and in our genes and the relationships between all living beings. Amazing Evolution shines a light on this incredible process, from the beginn...(展开全部)

Evolution can be a difficult idea to wrap our brains around: it deals with random, unlikely events, combined with vast lengths of time too enormous to comprehend. But the evidence is all around us–in the fossils of long-dead creatures, and in our genes and the relationships between all living beings. Amazing Evolution shines a light on this incredible process, from the beginnin...(展开全部)

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in convers...(展开全部)

From the beach to the moon – explore the incredible hidden world of sand, seen through a microscope. To the naked eye, the tiny particles that make up sand are less than inspiring. Under the microscope, however, it's a completely different story. Looking at sand under extreme magnification, we quickly find ourselves immersed in a new world of brilliant colors, organic shapes, a...(展开全部)

How did life invent itself? Where did DNA come from? How did consciousness develop? Powerful new research methods are providing vivid insights into the makeup of life. Comparing gene sequences, examining atomic structures of proteins, and looking into the geochemistry of rocks have helped explain evolution in more detail than ever before. Nick Lane expertly reconstructs the his...(展开全部)

Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution s history by describing its ten greatest inventions from sex and warmth to death resulting in a stunning account of nature s ingenuity.

查尔斯•科克尔（Charles S. Cockell），英国爱丁堡大学天体生物学教授，英国天体生物学中心主任。多年来，他致力于对恶劣条件下的生命特征、外星生物的宜居性，以及太空探索和移居等课题的研究。他曾在美国国家航空航天局和英国南极观测站工作，对北极和南极以及其他恶劣天气环境下的生命特征都有研究，发表过300多篇论文和多部著作。

Where does DNA come from? What is consciousness? How did the eye evolve? Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its ten greatest inventions-from sex and warmth to death-resulting in a stunning account of nature's ingenuity.

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also an accomplished scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In Other Minds, he brings his parallel careers together to tell a bold new story of how nature became aware of itself. Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch o...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 彼得·戈弗雷-史密斯（Peter Godfrey-Smith），纽约城市大学研究生院哲学系特聘教授，悉尼大学科学史和科学哲学教授。他曾著有《理论和实在：科学哲学入门》（Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science）和《达尔文群体和自然选择》（Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection），后者曾荣获2010年拉卡托什奖。他在水下拍摄的章鱼视频可见于《美国国家地理》和《新科学家》等媒体。 ◎ 译者简介 黄颖，哲学博士在读，主要研究兴趣为心灵哲学、科学哲学，以及涉及还原论的形而上学。