For nearly six centuries, scientists have been documenting the plants and fungi of the world through herbaria. The wealth of specimens available today, carefully preserved through the centuries, is a unique source of data that not only helps scientists understand how the world's vegetation has changed over time, but also allows them to predict how it will change in the future. ...(展开全部)

"An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition", is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct...(展开全部)

As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digit...(展开全部)

吉纳维芙·冯·佩金格尔（Genevieve von Petzinger） 加拿大古人类学家、岩画研究专家，专注于对欧洲冰河世纪早期（约4万到1万年前）岩画遗址中几何图形的研究，她利用从欧洲400多处史前遗址收集来的5000多个符号，建立起了一个独一无二的数据库。2011年成为TED全球研究员，2013-2015年当选TED高级研究员，2016年被选为美国《国家地理》“新晋探险家”，作品见于《新科学家》《科学画报》等科普杂志。她于2015年发表的TED演讲已有超过650万人次观看。

His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hilleman came close. Maurice Hilleman is the father of modern vaccines. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly deadly diseases—including mumps, rubella, and measles—nearly forgotten. Author Paul A. Offit's rich and ...(展开全部)

作者简介 艾米•斯图尔特是获奖书作家，她写了六本关于危险与乐趣并存的自然界的书，其中有三本书是《纽约时报》的最佳销售作品，它们分别是：《邪恶的虫子》（Wicked Bugs）、《邪恶的植物》（Wicked Plants）和《鲜花帝国》（Flower Confidential）。她是著名的博客“Garden Rant”的创始人之一，《优雅园艺》（Fine Gardening）杂志的特约编辑。艾米和她的丈夫现居住在加利福尼亚州的尤里卡，并开了一家叫“Eureka Books”的古书店。 译者简介 刘夙，1982年生。2012年毕业于中国科学院植物研究所，获博士学位。2014年任上海辰山植物园科普部工程师，从事科普编著和科普百科网站建设。为上海市科普作家协会会员，已发表科普文章逾百篇，参著或翻译有科普图书《基因的故事》《植物名字的故事》等八种。

In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety—before these ...(展开全部)

The Metamorphosis of Plants, published in 1790, was Goethe's first major attempt to describe what he called in a letter to a friend "the truth about the how of the organism." Inspired by the diversity of flora he found on a journey to Italy, Goethe sought a unity of form in diverse structures. He came to see in the leaf the germ of a plant's metamorphosis--"the true Proteus who...(展开全部)

Nicholas Harberd's narrative of the changing seasons has as its focus one tiny thale-cress plant in an East Anglian churchyard. He describes both what can be seen with the naked eye and the hidden molecular mechanisms that underlie it. He also tells the story of the last ten years of discovery in his own laboratory, as the team works to understand the genetic control of the gro...(展开全部)

唐纳德·R·基尔希（Donald R. Kirsch） 博士，有35年药物研发经验，拥有24项与药物有关的专利，撰写了50篇论文，一直是著名期刊的评论员，曾在惠氏（Wyeth）、氨基氰（Cyanamid）、施贵宝（Squibb）和威尔士制药（Cambria Pharmaceuticals）等公司担任领导、研究团队主管和首席科学家，目前在哈佛进修学校教授药物研发。他目前居住在马萨诸塞州的贝德福德。 奥吉·奥加斯（Ogi Ogas） 哲学博士，专业的科学作家。《十亿个邪恶想法》（A Billion Wicked Thoughts）和《收缩》（Shrinks）的合著者，曾在《华尔街日报》（Wall Street Journal）、《波士顿环球报》（Boston Globe）、《连线》（Wired）、《魅力》（Glamour）、《种子》（Seed）、《今日心...(展开全部)