A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"--the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields, from wetlands to dry zones, from one imperial colony to another. This...(展开全部)

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, The Nature of Crops takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication...(展开全部)

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, The Nature of Crops takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication...(展开全部)

"This is a very scary book by a very bright man, offering a picture of humanity's future that is both ominous and exhilarating." -Edward O. Wilson This eye-opening book by the legendary author of the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog persuasively details a new approach to our stewardship of the planet. Lifelong ecologist and futurist Stewart Brand relies ...(展开全部)

斯图尔特•布兰德（Stewart Brand），斯坦福大学生态学毕业，EFF（电子前线基金会）荣誉董事，“全球商业网络”（GBN）、“生态信任”组织（拯救保护阿拉斯加至洛杉矶雨林的组织）和麻省理工学院媒体实验室顾问。“地球索引”（Whole Earth Catalog）创始人。“全球电子目录”（TheWELL）系统和 GBN 的创办人之一。GBN 图书俱乐部为多家跨国企业探索及发展未来策略。 他终身都是生态学家、未来学家。在他眼中，所有事情都是可以解决的设计问题。Stay foolish，stay hungry,最早的这句话由他说出，他是乔布斯年轻时的偶像，他的观念整整影响了一代人。