理查德·梅比（Richard Mabey），英国博物学家和主持人，致力于探讨自然和文化的关系，被称为“英国最前沿的自然作家”。20世纪80年代曾任英国自然保护委员会顾问，2011年被选为皇家文学学会会员。凭借《吉尔伯特·怀特传》荣获1986年惠特布雷德传记奖，畅销作品《植物大英百科全书》荣获大英图书奖等多项大奖，《免费的食物》《非正式的乡村》《黑暗中的鸣叫》等著作皆获高度评价。他还是《泰晤士报》《卫报》《独立报》园艺专栏作家，英国广播公司电视系列片《来自乡间的明信片》的总撰稿人和制片人。现居诺福克，任诺福克和诺维奇博物学家学会会长。

理查德·梅比（Richard Mabey），英国博物学家和主持人，致力于探讨自然和文化的关系，被称为“英国最前沿的自然作家”。20世纪80年代曾任英国自然保护委员会顾问，2011年被选为皇家文学学会会员。凭借《吉尔伯特·怀特传》荣获1986年惠特布雷德传记奖，畅销作品《植物大英百科全书》荣获大英图书奖等多项大奖，《免费的食物》《非正式的乡村》《黑暗中的鸣叫》等著作皆获高度评价。他还是《泰晤士报》《卫报》《独立报》园艺专栏作家，英国广播公司电视系列片《来自乡间的明信片》的总撰稿人和制片人。现居诺福克，任诺福克和诺维奇博物学家学会会长。

More than any other writer, Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before Darwin, White realised the crucial role of worms in the formation of soil and understood the significance of territory and song in birds. His precise, scrupulously honest and unaffectedly witty observations led him to interpret animals' behaviour in a u...(展开全部)

Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature...(展开全部)

Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries, philosophical tracts, political discussions, and medical literature from the eighteenth century to the present, historian of the emotion...(展开全部)

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable a...(展开全部)

With some 400,000 species, beetles are among the largest and most successful groups of organisms on earth, making up one-fifth of all plant and animal species. No other animals exhibit such a dazzling range of size, form, and color. Mostly small, sturdy, and compact, beetles are incredibly well-equipped to find food, reproduce, and avoid predators. Additionally, their collectiv...(展开全部)

约翰·亚瑟·汤姆森（John.ArthurThomson），爵士是苏格兰著名自然学家，1861年7月8日出生于苏格兰，曾于1893年至1899年，1899年至1930年分别在英国皇家兽医学院和阿伯丁大学任教，并获封爵士，其著作试图调和科学与宗教的关系，认为“生命无处不在”主张整体性生物学，强调自然界共生和合作的重要，1933年2月12日辞世。