The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent...(展开全部)

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are dr...(展开全部)

Humans live in landscapes of make-believe: we spin fantasies, we devour novels, films, and plays, and even our sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. It’s easy to say that humans are “wired” for story, but why? In this delightful and original book, Jonathan Gottschall offers the fi...(展开全部)

杰 · 英格拉姆（Jay Ingram） ♢ 加拿大探索频道《每日星球》主持人、知名科普作家； ♢ 荣获加拿大总督功勋奖（Order of Canada），该奖项创立于加拿大建国 100 周年，纪念有卓越成就或对国家做出重大贡献的人，是加拿大公民的最高荣誉之一； ♢ 荣获加拿大皇家学会桑福德·弗莱明奖（Sandford Fleming Medal）； ♢ 荣获加拿大皇家社科院麦克尼尔科普奖（McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science）； ♢ 荣获加拿大科学与工程研究理事会迈克尔·史密斯科学促进奖（Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion）等。

A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences—what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”—create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world. In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin’s theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction...(展开全部)

'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees 'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins _________________________ Jungle tells the remarkable story of the world's tropical forests, from the arrival of the first ...(展开全部)

To many of us, tropical forests are the domain of movies and novels. These dense, primordial wildernesses are beautiful to picture, but irrelevant to our lives. Jungle tells a different story. Archaeologist Patrick Roberts argues that tropical forests have shaped nearly every aspect of life on earth. They made the planet habitable, enabled the rise of dinosaurs and mammals, and...(展开全部)

彼得内尔·范·阿斯戴尔是一名美国作家、图书编辑。她在新泽西州纽瓦克市长大，并在布林莫尔学院(Bryn Mawr College)主修英国文学，然后进入图书出版行业，从编辑助理一路晋升为小说和非虚构类图书的执行编辑，最终以独立编辑的身份自立门户。《沉睡的野兽》是她的第一部长篇小说。

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard--only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are...(展开全部)

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal communities, Animal Life explores and explains every aspect of animal behavior, including courtship and mating rituals, family relationships and defense mechanisms, hunting techniques and feeding habits. Now in paperback!