The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

乔治·阿克洛夫：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，国际货币基金组织客座学者，加州大学伯克利分校杰出荣誉教授。著有《现实主义经济学之路》等。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，哥伦比亚大学教授。著有《让全球化造福全球》、《国际间的权衡交易——贸易如何促进发展》、《东亚奇迹的反思》、《经济学（第四版）》、《公共部门经济学（第三版）》等。

乔治·阿克洛夫：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，国际货币基金组织客座学者，加州大学伯克利分校杰出荣誉教授。著有《现实主义经济学之路》等。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，哥伦比亚大学教授。著有《让全球化造福全球》、《国际间的权衡交易——贸易如何促进发展》、《东亚奇迹的反思》、《经济学（第四版）》、《公共部门经济学（第三版）》等。

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the ...(展开全部)

Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her uncle Julian. Not long ago there were seven Blackwoods - until a fatal dose of arsenic found its way into the sugar bowl one terrible night. Acquitted of the murders, Constance has returned home, where Merricat protects her from the curiosity and hostility of the villagers. Their days pass in happy ...(展开全部)

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely tradi...(展开全部)