In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of “deep time”—most often associated with geological epochs—began as a metaphorical language used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the origins of life beyond the written record. Their ideas about “the abyss of time” created a way to think about the...(展开全部)

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploratio...(展开全部)

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane），英国作家、评论家，剑桥学者，英国皇家文学学会会员，最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。 1976年出生于英国诺丁汉，牛津大学哲学硕士、剑桥大学博士。剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院研究员、英语系文学与环境人文学教授。学术研究和写作侧重深耕自然与文学的关系。文章与评论多见于《新科学家》《纽约客》《自然》《卫报》《纽约时报》《格兰塔》。 麦克法伦以行走滋养书写，处女作便将当代旅行写作推向了新高度。《格兰塔》前主编誉之为“当代最好的行走文学作家”，《华尔街日报》称他为“当代最好的自然作家及诗人”。2003年获《卫报》首作奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家奖。2004年获毛姆文学奖。2017年获E. M. 福斯特文学奖。2019年获温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖。

In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice a...(展开全部)

From the best-selling, award-winning author of Landmarks and The Old Ways, a haunting voyage into the planet’s past and future. Hailed as "the great nature writer of this generation" (Wall Street Journal), Robert Macfarlane is the celebrated author of books about the intersections of the human and the natural realms. In Underland, he delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploratio...(展开全部)

罗伯特·麦克法伦（Robert Macfarlane），英国作家、评论家，剑桥学者，英国皇家文学学会会员，最年轻的布克奖评委会主席。 1976年出生于英国诺丁汉，牛津大学哲学硕士、剑桥大学博士。剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院研究员、英语系文学与环境人文学教授。学术研究和写作侧重深耕自然与文学的关系。文章与评论多见于《新科学家》《纽约客》《自然》《卫报》《纽约时报》《格兰塔》。 麦克法伦以行走滋养书写，处女作便将当代旅行写作推向了新高度。《格兰塔》前主编誉之为“当代最好的行走文学作家”，《华尔街日报》称他为“当代最好的自然作家及诗人”。2003年获《卫报》首作奖、《星期日泰晤士报》年度青年作家奖。2004年获毛姆文学奖。2017年获E. M. 福斯特文学奖。2019年获温赖特奖、美国国家户外图书奖。

The 4.4-billion-year history of the oceans and their role in Earth's climate system It has often been said that we know more about the moon than we do about our own oceans. In fact, we know a great deal more about the oceans than many people realize. Scientists know that our actions today are shaping the oceans and climate of tomorrow--and that if we continue to act recklessly,...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and ...(展开全部)

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific romance" in the 1880s and 1890s. The "Golden Age" of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the...(展开全部)

Book Description "A Brief History of Time", published in 1988, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing and in worldwide acclaim and popularity, with more than nine million copies sold. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe. Since its publication, however, there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of...(展开全部)