Step inside the weird and wonderful world of zoos, where all four corners of our planet come together. We're opening the gates, just for you! Join us on an epic behind-the-scenes adventure of zoos and aquariums. From tigers and tortoises to giraffes and jellyfish, you'll learn about hundreds of different animals and how they are looked after by their keepers.

This behind-the-scenes guide showcases a huge range of incredible artifacts from history and reveals the hard work, care, and effort that goes into collecting, preserving, and storing them. Ever wondered what happens to an astronaut's spacesuit after it's been worn on the Moon? Or how the world's most valuable diamond is looked after? Find out all about how museums work and the...(展开全部)

萨姆·沃克，《华尔街日报》企业新闻版副主编，该部门主要负责《华尔街日报》的头版深度报道和调查性报道项目。沃克曾担任过记者、专栏作家，他在2009年创立了《华尔街日报》屡获殊荣的每日体育报道版块，同时也是畅销书《梦幻国度》的作者。

约翰•伯宁罕(John Burningham) 于1936年生于英国萨里郡。童年就读于夏山学校，在校时大部分时间用来作画。1959年毕业于伦敦中央艺术学院。曾经设计海报、圣诞卡及画漫画。以图画书创作技巧来说，伯宁罕具有纯熟的绘图技巧与设计概念，透过运用不同的媒质，掌握其特色，并加上明暗及线条的运用，在画面上制造许多对比或惊喜等视觉效果，和文字一搭一唱，使故事呈现得更生动丰富，深深吸引全世界无数的读者。 1963年，他的第一本图画书《宝儿》（Borka）出版，即获得英国最高图画书奖项凯特•格林纳威大奖（Kate Greenaway Award)。《宝儿》是一个“丑小鸭”式的故事，是一本关于生命的励志书，跟随宝儿的奇异之旅，读者可以从中感受坚强品格的可贵，领悟到生命的奇遇。 1970年，他以《和甘伯伯去游河》（Mr. Gumpy’s Outing）再度获...(展开全部)

This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems. You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors, mouth-feel, and vocabulary of the major beer styles — including ales, lagers, weissb...(展开全部)

Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified flavours, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds of differen...(展开全部)

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many...(展开全部)

"An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition", is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct...(展开全部)

An ordinary trip to the zoo turns out to be extraordinary? as an imaginative, fun-filled, animal adventure takes hold of a little girl. (Meanwhile, her poor beleaguered parents experience an adventure of their own.) It's a trip youngest animal lovers (and dreamers) will want to take again and again.

In 1695, Isaac Newton, already renowned as the greatest mind of his age, made a surprising career change. He left quiet Cambridge, where he had lived for thirty years and made his earth-shattering discoveries, and moved to London to take up the post of Warden of His Majestys Mint. Newton was preceded to the city by a genius of another kind, the budding criminal William Chaloner...(展开全部)