After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)

It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine a...(展开全部)

比尔·布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价，每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。 比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地，并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家，是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界，他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态，布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣，使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学，让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默...(展开全部)

Hundreds of facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, the duo behind Maps. Dive below the surface and find out what happens under earth and under sea—from early submarines and deep-sea life to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels.

Hundreds of fascinating facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski, the creative duo behind the bestselling Maps. Dive below the surface, and find out what happens under the earth and under the water. From early submarines and deep-sea life, to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels - you will never look at the world in the same...(展开全部)

福雷斯特·斯图尔特 现为斯坦福大学社会学教授，斯坦福民族志实验室主任，城市研究项目主任，麦克阿瑟研究员，社会研究学会会员。著有《子弹之歌》（Ballad of the Bullet）。 他用城市民族志的方法做研究，采用田野调查和档案研究等质性研究方法探索城市贫困的成因、现状和后果。他延续芝加哥社会学派的方法，观察个人和社群如何理解自身所处的社会世界，提倡公共社会学的理念，期望社群成员也成为知识的生产者。 2020年，获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues tha...(展开全部)

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary natur...(展开全部)