Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rath...(展开全部)

It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries ...(展开全部)

辛西娅•巴内特（Cynthia Barnett） 美国著名环境记者。一生追随水的足迹，从家乡佛罗里达州的萨旺尼河，到远隔重洋的花园岛国新加坡，再到深藏于印度的植被蓊郁的世界雨极乞拉朋齐，脚印遍及各大洲，孜孜不倦采访、追踪、调查，写下了无数有关河流、海洋、水循环的精彩报道与故事。 文章多见于《美国国家地理》《纽约时报》《大西洋月刊》，作品兼具科学的严谨与人文的诗意，记者的求实及作家的匠心独运。八次获得绿色眼罩奖，2009年被美国职业新闻记者协会授予了西格玛三角洲迟浩田奖。

For millennia, corals were a marine enigma, organisms that confounded scientific classification and occupied a space between the animal and plant kingdoms. Our cultural relationships with coral have been similarly ambiguous. The danger posed by unseen underwater reefs led to an association of coral with death and interment that has figured in literature, poetry, music, and film...(展开全部)

What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for engaging and often surprising stories about beer. They explain how we came to drink beer, what ingredients combine to give beers thei...(展开全部)

A captivating survey of the science of wine and winemaking for anyone who has ever wondered about the magic of the fermented grape An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to w...(展开全部)

罗宾C.莫兰，世界级的蕨类植物专家，纽约植物园名誉园长，纽约蕨类植物协会主席，以及园林系统植物学杂志《布里顿尼亚》（Brittonia）和《美国蕨类植物》（American Fern Journal）的副主编。主要研究方向为蕨类和石松类植。发表过多篇关于蕨类植物的论文，出版合著或专著四种，其中《蕨类植物的秘密生活》获美国园艺作家协会“2005年最佳写作奖”。 武玉东，植物学硕士，毕业于中国科学院植物研究所，曾参与石松类及蕨类植物系统分类学研究工作。 蒋蕾，植物学硕士，毕业于中国科学院昆明植物研究所。主要从事生物多样性调查与科普工作。参与过华东、华南、西南等地的多项生物多样性调查及植物资源保护、生态规划设计等项目。发表冬青属新种2个和铁角蕨属新种2个，并参与多本植物专著的编写工作。

A Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants. Ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes, and unlike seed plants, which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring, ferns reproduce by minute spores. There are floating ferns, ferns that climb or live on trees, and ferns ...(展开全部)

Global warming and the future of the climate is one of the greatest challenges of our time, but what do we know about climate variations 500 years ago, or 5000 years ago? How can we know anything at all about the history of weather? What impact have climate changes had on human prosperity and the spirit of invention? In this major new book Wolfgang Behringer introduces us to th...(展开全部)

How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. Indi...(展开全部)