Bestselling author and acclaimed nature illustrator Clare Walker Leslie invites beginning birdwatchers to hone their observational skills with this easy-to-use visual guide. Using her signature nature journal illustrations, Leslie shows readers the key clues to look for, from the shape of the beak or talons to distinctive feather colorings, flight patterns, and behavioral trait...(展开全部)

Which of us, when finding ourselves in the presence of a painting, has not sensed that we lack the keys to decipher it? We feel an emotional response, but the work still seems to evade our understanding. Francoise Barbe-Gall combines a nuanced understanding of the way viewers respond to paintings with a rich knowledge of their context and circumstances of their creation. The re...(展开全部)

'...visually stunning and mentally stimulating' - "Scientific American". 'the author of "What Painting Is" (1998) has written a fascinating new book filled with gorgeous illustrations that would inspire us 'to learn to see anything.' It's a tall order, to be sure, but one that the author pulls off admirably!. "How to Use Your Eyes" is a wondrous visual tour that Elkins hopes wi...(展开全部)

I hope this book will inspire every reader to stop and consider things that are...so clearly meaningless that they never seemed worth a second thought.... Grass, the night sky, a postage stamp, a crack in the sidewalk, a shoulder. Ordinary objects of everyday life. But when we look at them--really look at them--what do we see? In the tradition of John Berger's bestselli...(展开全部)

童文菲（Wenfei Tong），美国生物学家、保护工作者。出生于新加坡，自12岁开始观鸟。先后就读于普林斯顿大学和牛津大学，后获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，目前在该校任助理研究员。著有《怎样理解一只鸟》《鸟类之爱：鸟儿的家庭生活》，通过写作、绘画、摄影、教学、演讲及自然导赏，与公众分享她对大自然和科学的热爱。

童文菲（Wenfei Tong），美国生物学家、保护工作者。出生于新加坡，自12岁开始观鸟。先后就读于普林斯顿大学和牛津大学，后获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，目前在该校任助理研究员。著有《怎样理解一只鸟》《鸟类之爱：鸟儿的家庭生活》，通过写作、绘画、摄影、教学、演讲及自然导赏，与公众分享她对大自然和科学的热爱。

弗朗辛•杰（Francine Jay），整理术研究专家，超级畅销书作家，人气网站MissMinimalist.com的创始人，成功帮助了数以百万计的人整理和简化自己的生活，长期活跃在CNN、BBC及《芝加哥论坛报》《卫报》《金融时报》《福布斯》《赫芬顿邮报》等各大媒体上。

How can you be 100 percent sure you will win a bet? Why did so many Pompeians stay put while Mount Vesuvius was erupting? Are you more likely to work in a kitchen if your last name is Baker? Ever since the dawn of human civilization, we have been trying to make predictions about what the world has in store for us. For just as long, we have been getting it wrong. In How to Expec...(展开全部)

臺北市野鳥學會與行政院農業委員會林務局於103年合作出版『臺灣野鳥手繪圖鑑』，為首本國人自力完成的繪圖式鳥類圖鑑，完整呈現台灣鳥類最新資訊與個別鳥種介紹。藉由本書英文版的呈現，期能吸引國際觀鳥人士來到臺灣觀鳥，提升臺灣保育國際能見度及開拓生態觀光市場。

China is one of the largest countries in the world, covering 7% of the earth's land surface, and encompassing a hugely diverse range of habitats. As a result it boasts a rich and diverse avifauna, including some of the most spectacular and fascinating birds to be found anywhere in the world. John MacKinnon and Karen Phillipps' important new guide will be the first truly compreh...(展开全部)