Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centres, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from...(展开全部)

You want a play to be challenging, ambitious, nuanced and complicated. You also want it to sell tickets. You want to make art, and you know you’re in show business. These are some of the balancing acts that the National Theatre, and this book, is about. This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spec...(展开全部)

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scen...(展开全部)

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second...(展开全部)

When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. They're greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that...(展开全部)

托马斯·帕克南，英裔爱尔兰历史学家和树木学家，毕业于牛津大学莫德林学院。在埃塞俄比亚旅行了一段时间之后，他回到英国他担任《泰晤士报教育副刊》的编辑，后来又为《星期日电讯报》和《观察家报》工作。他在英国伦敦和爱尔兰韦斯特米斯郡之间频繁往来，是爱尔兰树木协会主席和图林纳利城堡的名誉管理人。托马斯·帕克南撰写了多本关于非洲历史、维多利亚和后维多利亚英国历史以及树的书，其中《争夺非洲》获得了史密斯奖和艾伦·帕顿奖。

The Spirit of Nineteenth-Century naturalistic investigation lives in British historian Thomas Pakenham, who has spent the last two decades chronicling the lives of the world's most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction. In Remarkable Trees of the World, Pakenham takes us on a breathtaking voyage across four continents, introducing, with a passionate text an...(展开全部)

托马斯·帕克南，英裔爱尔兰历史学家和树木学家，毕业于牛津大学莫德林学院。在埃塞俄比亚旅行了一段时间之后，他回到英国他担任《泰晤士报教育副刊》的编辑，后来又为《星期日电讯报》和《观察家报》工作。他在英国伦敦和爱尔兰韦斯特米斯郡之间频繁往来，是爱尔兰树木协会主席和图林纳利城堡的名誉管理人。托马斯·帕克南撰写了多本关于非洲历史、维多利亚和后维多利亚英国历史以及树的书，其中《争夺非洲》获得了史密斯奖和艾伦·帕顿奖。

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700...(展开全部)