Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. I...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（1941—2002年），美国古生物学家、演化生物学家，科学史学家与科普作家，职业生涯中大多在哈佛大学担任教职，并曾在纽约的美国自然史博物馆工作。1972年，他与纽约美国自然史博物馆的尼尔斯·埃尔德里奇（Niles Eldredge）共同提出“间断平衡”（Punctuated Equilibrium）进化理论，由此享誉全球。作品有《生命的壮阔》《熊猫的拇指》《自达尔文以来》等。 译者：傅强，地层与古生物学博士，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究员，南京古生物博物馆副馆长。长期从事古植物学、化石资源调查研究和科学传播工作，2014年获得国家科学技术进步奖二等奖。 张锋，地层与古生物学博士，教授级高级工程师。就职于重庆市规划和自然资源局，重庆市地质矿产勘查开发局，市级科普基地负责人。从事古生物学即地质遗迹研究与科普宣传工作。

刘鹗（è）（1857年10月18日—1909年8月23日），清末小说家。谱名震远，原名孟鹏，字云抟、公约。后更名鹗，字铁云（刘铁云[1]），又字公约，号老残。署名“洪都百炼生”。汉族，江苏丹徒（今镇江市）人，寄籍山阳（今江苏淮安区）。刘鹗自青年时期拜从太谷学派李光(龙川)之后，终生主张以“教养”为大纲，发展经济生产，富而后教，养民为本的太谷学说。他一生从事实业，投资教育，为的就是能够实现太谷学派“教养天下”的目的。而他之所以能屡败屡战、坚韧不拔，太谷学派的思想可以说是他的精神支柱。

From a young British scientist, a groundbreaking exploration of a radically different approach to physics There is a vast class of things that science has so far almost entirely neglected. They are central to the understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of the most fundamental phenomena in physics, yet have traditionally been assumed to be im...(展开全部)

The first book to examine the science behind both mild and extreme compulsive behavior—using fascinating case studies to understand its deeper meaning and reveal the truth about human compulsion. Whether shopping with military precision or hanging the tea towels just so, compulsion is something most of us have witnessed in daily life. But compulsions exist along a broad continu...(展开全部)

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy. Ginzburg’s study The Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller, first published in 1976, is one of those fascinating micro-histories which explores the remote lives of unknown and forgotten people. The story of Menocchio is one of a peasant life of obscurity but also one of strange and powerful ideas – confus...(展开全部)

Penguin wants to fly like other birds, but he has trouble doing so when he tries! Penguin is confused because he has wings and can flap, waddle, and leap like other birds, but he lands flat on his stomach when he tries to fly. When Penguin asks his dad why he can't fly, his father tells him that penguins swim. But Penguin doesn't want to accept this! Will he be able to find a w...(展开全部)

A collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photographer Robert Adams offers over two dozen meditations on the purpose of art and the responsibility of the artist. In particular, Adams advocates art that evokes beauty without irony or...(展开全部)

By bestselling author Ken Blanchard (whose 40 + books have sold over 18 million copies), Know Can Do! Tells the story of how a well known author learns to bridge the gap between what we all know-all the advice we've taken in from books, seminars, etc.-and how we actually use that knowledge.