A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric poets; they discover and shape...(展开全部)

A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric poets; they discover and shape...(展开全部)

In his earlier books, Shadows in the Cave (1982) and Phenomenological Hermeneutics and the Study of Literature (1987), Mario Valdes laid the foundation for his phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to literary criticism. With this book he continues the development of his ideas, using his views of literature, cinema, and art to unravel what he calls 'the imaginative configuratio...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 杜格尔·狄克逊，著名科学作家，曾经就读于英国苏格兰的圣安德鲁斯大学，学习地质和古生物学。他拥有150余个头衔，大部分集中于化石、恐龙和进化领域。研究生在读期间，他参与了不列颠群岛古地理学标准的修订工作。他是一位多产的科普作家，出版了很多关于地球科学和生命进 化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 高瑞雪，本科就读于南京大学，地质学专业（古生物方向），研究生阶段在北京师范大学学习语言学及应用语言学专业。

◎ 作者简介 杜格尔·狄克逊，著名科学作家，曾经就读于英国苏格兰的圣安德鲁斯大学，学习地质和古生物学。他拥有150余个头衔，大部分集中于化石、恐龙和进化领域。研究生在读期间，他参与了不列颠群岛古地理学标准的修订工作。他是一位多产的科普作家，出版了很多关于地球科学和生命进 化的书籍。 ◎ 译者简介 高瑞雪，本科就读于南京大学，地质学专业（古生物方向），研究生阶段在北京师范大学学习语言学及应用语言学专业。

A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific repor...(展开全部)

本书是古埃及艺术的早期探索者Prisse d'Avennes（1807 - 1879）的经典著作，在1868到1878年间发行于巴黎,被认为是关于古埃及艺术的最美丽的现代著作之一。内容是作者绘制的大量彩图。包含了许多已遗失艺术品的唯一记录。是古埃及艺术和建筑的绝佳参考。 This enchanted tour of Egyptian art by one of its early explorers is one of the most beautiful modern works on ancient Egyptian art. Prisse d'Avennes's monumental work, first published in Paris over a ten-year period between 1868 and 1878, incl...(展开全部)

Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto have been generating some of the most provocative thinking in the field for nearly twenty years. With "Atlas of Novel Tectonics", Reiser and Umemoto hone in on the many facets of architecture and illuminate their theories with great thought and simplicity. The Atlas is organized as an accumulation of short chapters that address the wor...(展开全部)

A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific repor...(展开全部)