迈克尔·博尔特（Michael Boulter）英国籍古生物学家，曾任教东伦敦大学，担任过古生物学会编辑、生物科学国际联盟英国代表。2002年因《灭绝：演化与人类末日》（Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man）一书而声名大噪，指出人类距离绝种的时间可能比预期更近。他也是推动全球最大的化石资料库“化石记录二”的创始人之一。

迈克尔·博尔特（Michael Boulter）英国籍古生物学家，曾任教东伦敦大学，担任过古生物学会编辑、生物科学国际联盟英国代表。2002年因《灭绝：演化与人类末日》（Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man）一书而声名大噪，指出人类距离绝种的时间可能比预期更近。他也是推动全球最大的化石资料库“化石记录二”的创始人之一。

迈克尔·博尔特（Michael Boulter）英国籍古生物学家，曾任教东伦敦大学，担任过古生物学会编辑、生物科学国际联盟英国代表。2002年因《灭绝：演化与人类末日》（Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man）一书而声名大噪，指出人类距离绝种的时间可能比预期更近。他也是推动全球最大的化石资料库“化石记录二”的创始人之一。

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

Introduction by Barbara Hardy

The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes—fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hong Kong—the heart of Asia—rich in every trade…money, flesh, opium, power.

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)

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)