A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences—trail...(展开全部)

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences—trail...(展开全部)

We know fungi are important, for us as well as the environment. But how they live, and what they can do, remains mysterious and surprising. Filled with stunning photographs, The Lives of Fungi presents an inside look into their hidden and extraordinary world. The wonders of fungi are myriad: a mushroom poking up through leaf litter literally overnight, or the sensational hit of...(展开全部)

沙伦.莫勒姆 博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成 30 余种语言。 莫勒姆博士是《阿兹海默病期刊》(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)的副主编。他通过科学研究最终发现了 Siderocillin，一种全新的用来对抗对多种抗生素具有耐药性或可称为“超级病菌”的微生物的抗生素类药物，他还荣获了 19 项与生物技术和人类健康有关的发明专利，他与别人共同创办了两家生物技术公司。莫勒姆博士和他的研究项目已为《纽约时报》《新科学家》杂志、《时代》杂志以...(展开全部)

沙伦.莫勒姆 博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成 30 余种语言。 莫勒姆博士是《阿兹海默病期刊》(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)的副主编。他通过科学研究最终发现了 Siderocillin，一种全新的用来对抗对多种抗生素具有耐药性或可称为“超级病菌”的微生物的抗生素类药物，他还荣获了 19 项与生物技术和人类健康有关的发明专利，他与别人共同创办了两家生物技术公司。莫勒姆博士和他的研究项目已为《纽约时报》《新科学家》杂志、《时代》杂志以...(展开全部)

Moths are among the most underappreciated insects on the planet, yet they make up the majority of some 180,000 known species of Lepidoptera. Filled with striking images, The Lives of Moths looks at the remarkable world of these amazing and beautiful creatures. While butterflies may get more press than moths, Andrei Sourakov and Rachel Warren Chadd reveal that the lopsided atten...(展开全部)

沙伦.莫勒姆 博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成 30 余种语言。 莫勒姆博士是《阿兹海默病期刊》(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)的副主编。他通过科学研究最终发现了 Siderocillin，一种全新的用来对抗对多种抗生素具有耐药性或可称为“超级病菌”的微生物的抗生素类药物，他还荣获了 19 项与生物技术和人类健康有关的发明专利，他与别人共同创办了两家生物技术公司。莫勒姆博士和他的研究项目已为《纽约时报》《新科学家》杂志、《时代》杂志以...(展开全部)

An underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior There are more than thirty thousand species of fish--more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish think, feel, and behave. In What a Fish Knows, the etho...(展开全部)

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, "the island of the wind", and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and a garden taken over by cacti and many insects, that the 533 days of writing take place. The result is not a diary, nor a set of movements of the soul organised by dates...(展开全部)