Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the...(展开全部)

We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us simply don't understand how our world really works. Professor Vaclav Smil is not a pessimist or an optimist, he is a scientist, and this book is a much-needed reality check on topics ranging from food production and nutrition, through energy and the environment, to globalization and the future. For examp...(展开全部)

This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century....(展开全部)

巴里·艾肯格林（Barry Eichengreen） 加州大学伯克利分校的政治学教授和经济学教授。他的其他著作包括：《金色的羁绊：黄金本位与大萧条》《嚣张的特权：美元的国际化之路及对中国的启示》和《资本狂流：国际货币体系史》。 阿尔诺·梅尔（Arnaud Mehl） 欧洲中央银行的高级研究员（principal economist） 利维娅·齐图（Livia Chitu） 欧洲中央银行的研究员。

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations. In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jessop provides a critical introduction to the state as both a concept and a reality. He lucidly guides readers throu...(展开全部)

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However, the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of different interpretations. In this book, distinguished state theorist Bob Jessop provides a critical introduction to the state as both a concept and a reality. He lucidly guides readers throu...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball），科学作家，英国皇家化学会会员、欧盟委员会合成生物学专家团成员、BBC“科学的故事”栏目出品人，曾任《自然》期刊编辑20余年，著有《化学元素发现史》《明亮的泥土：颜料发明史》《如何制造一个人》等20多部科普作品，还为“牛津通识读本”系列撰写了《分子》和《元素》。作品曾获2003年英国技术史学会年度图书奖和2007年英国科学史学会年度科普图书奖。 【译者简介】 王乔琦，南京大学天文学学士，编辑，从事科普工作。译著有《发现天王星》《万物发明指南》《量子力学的真相》等。

科学图书奖得主菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball）对生物学提出了前沿的新观点，建议修正我们对生命的概念。生物学正在经历一场平静而深刻的变革。关于生命如何运作的标准图景有几个方面已被揭露为不完整、误导或错误的。 在《生命如何运作》一书中，菲利普·鲍尔探索了新的生物学，揭示了生命远比我们想象的要丰富、巧妙得多。这些知识带来了新的可能性。如今，我们可以重新设计和重组生命系统、组织和生物体。 例如，我们可以对细胞进行重新编程，使其执行新的任务，并生长成自然界中从未见过的结构。一些研究人员认为，我们后将能够再生肢体和器官，甚至可能创造出进化论从未想象过的新生命形式。《生命如何运作》融合了新的研究成果和见解，是对生命本质这一新领域的一次多方面探索，这一领域将重塑我们对生命的认识。 A cutting-edge new vision of biology tha...(展开全部)

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Lif...(展开全部)

The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria...(展开全部)