- Clear, engaging, and scientifically-based guide to understanding the major issues surrounding overfishing - Considers all sides of overfishing issue and provides a balanced view - Includes case studies of major fisheries as a frame for understanding major issues Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the s...(展开全部)

Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War's end, all signs indicate that we are living through an era of resurgent authoritarianism. Around 40 percent of the world's people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world's countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Erica Frantz guides ...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·森博洛夫（Daniel Simberloff）， 美国田纳西大学诺克斯韦尔分校环境研究学教授。荣获2012年拉蒙·马加利夫奖生态学奖、2006年美国生态学会杰出生态学家奖。

Invasive species come in all sizes, from plant pathogens like the chestnut blight in eastern North America, to the red imported fire ant that has spread throughout the South, the predatory Indian mongoose now found in the Caribbean and Hawaii, and the huge Burmese python populating the Florida swamps. And while many invasive species are safe and even beneficial, the more harmfu...(展开全部)

[美]迈克尔·G.雷默（Michael G. Raymer），美国物理学会会士，美国光学学会会士，美国俄勒冈大学物理学教授。主要研究方向为量子力学、量子信息科学、非线性光学和激光物理。曾担任《物理评论快报》(Physical Review Letters）和《现代光学杂志》(Journal of Modern Optics）编委会成员。

Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman performance, producing novel text, images, music, and software by analyzing enormous collections of digitized information. Soon, these systems will provide expert medical care; offer legal advice; draft...(展开全部)

菲利普•J.兰德里根（Philip J. Landrigan），流行病学家，哈佛医学院医学博士，现任波士顿学院全球公共卫生计划主任。曾在美国疾病预防控制中心和美国国家职业安全与健康研究所工作，并在美国疾病预防控制中心建立了环境流行病学部门。原为《柳叶刀》污染与健康委员会联合主席。曾被授予美国公共卫生杰出服务奖章，并于2006年获得美国环境保护署儿童健康冠军奖。 玛丽•M.兰德里根（Mary M. Landrigan），健康教育专家，曾在美国韦斯特切斯特郡卫生局工作25年。

Michael Mann is one of the most influential sociologists writing today. His three-volume work The Sources of Social Power, the third volume of which has just been completed, has transformed our way of thinking about power and has rewritten the history of human societies. No one interested in understanding how the modern world was shaped, how we got to where we are today and whe...(展开全部)

We are surrounded by images as never before: on Flickr, Facebook, and YouTube; on thousands of television channels; in digital games and virtual worlds; in media art and science. Without new efforts to visualize complex ideas, structures, and systems, today's information explosion would be unmanageable. The digital image represents endless options for manipulation; images seem ...(展开全部)