How can it be that rational adults suddenly find themselves making obscene gestures at drivers who just cut them off? Why do people react with tears to events as disparate as winning a sports championship and the death of a parent? How can a child cry continuously in a cunningly strategic manner for five minutes, and then speak with no trace of the tears that were just shed? Ja...(展开全部)

作者：大卫 麦考利是《机械运转的秘密》的作者，凯迪克金奖、波士顿环球报号角图书奖、德国青少年文学奖、安徒生大奖两度提名奖获得者，著名的教育家、作家、画家、建筑师。他在30多年的图书创作生涯中，已出版了近20部作品，获得了华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖、德国青少年读物图书奖等十余项国际大奖，并两度被提名国际安徒生大奖，多部作品已被制作成电视节目。对于少儿读物来讲，麦考利的书显得相当奢华，书中的插图每一幅都近乎设计师的图纸。年逾60的麦考利至今还像孩子玩玩具般驰骋在创意的空间里。 译者：吕梦佳，男，首都师范大学信息工程（光电信息）专业工学学士、应用英语专业文学学士和科学技术史专业理学硕士。曾就读于美国马萨诸塞州Pioneer Valley Regional School，美国国家高中荣誉生会(NHS)成员。团中央第十五届、首都师范大学第十二届研究生支教团团长，于...(展开全部)

How Pathogenic Viruses Work is a concise summary of the basics of virology written in an understandable and entertaining manner. The book is composed of nine lectures covering the essential elements of virus-host interactions with descriptive graphics, helpful mnemonic tactics for retaining the concepts, and brief lecture reviews. This is an ideal text for medical, science, and...(展开全部)

How Pathogenic Viruses Work is a concise summary of the basics of virology written in an understandable and entertaining manner. The book is composed of nine lectures covering the essential elements of virus-host interactions with descriptive graphics, helpful mnemonic tactics for retaining the concepts, and brief lecture reviews. This is an ideal text for medical, science, and...(展开全部)

What could Greek poets or Roman historians say in their own language that would be lost in translation? After all, different languages have different personalities, and this is especially clear with languages of the ancient and medieval world. This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first intro...(展开全部)

All of us are drug users, in the broadest sense of the word. Drugs can be medicines, they can be used for pleasure, and they can also be used to protect our long-term health. It is important that we are well informed about the drugs we use - how they work, their benefits and their risks. This book is a unique guide for the general science reader to the drugs of everyday life - ...(展开全部)

Everyone knows that a picture tells a thousand words. But what about the elements that make up a picture? Using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood as an example, Molly Bang uses boldly graphic artwork to explain how images—and their individual components—work to tell a story that engages the emotions: Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves calming? Why does red feel hot and...(展开全部)

Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient.How to Make Collaboration Work shows how collaboration can become a joy rather than a chore-a kind of chemical reaction that releases energy than it consumes.

Molly Bang's brilliant, insightful, and accessible treatise is now revised and expanded for its 25th anniversary. Bang's powerful ideas—about how the visual composition of images works to engage the emotions, and how the elements of an artwork can give it the power to tell a story—remain unparalleled in their simplicity and genius. Why are diagonals dramatic? Why are curves cal...(展开全部)

Award-winning artist David Macaulay introduces readers to his hilarious new creations, Sloth and Sengi, in How Machines Work: Zoo Break! Complete with a unique jacket with an interactive compound machine incorporating several of the simple mechanisms featured in the book, How Machines Work: Zoo Break! uses models and illustrations to demonstrate the technology of six simple mac...(展开全部)