作者简介： 劳伦·E.奥克斯是一名生态学家、作家和教育家。她是野生动物保护协会气候适应项目的环境保护科学家，斯坦福大学地球系统科学的兼职教授。劳伦教授关于科学故事讲述技巧以及大学科学传播课程。她于2015年获得斯坦福大学埃米特环境与资源跨学科项目博士学位，2004年获得布朗大学环境研究与视觉艺术学士学位。她的森林相关研究已经被《大西洋月刊》《基督教科学箴言报》《科学美国人》《科学星期五》《赫芬顿邮报》《户外杂志》《史密森尼》和其他媒体报道过。她曾为《纽约时报》和《国家地理》的“开放探索者”撰稿，并联合制作了《红色黄金》和《阿拉斯加黄金》两部环境题材纪录片。 译者简介： 李可欣，同济大学风景园林硕士，四川德阳人。

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Ja...(展开全部)

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. 'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly.' Neil MacGregor It is told through the eyes of people who greeted this change not with the confidence and grasping ambition of Ja...(展开全部)

Our understanding of world history is changing, as new discoveries are made on all the continents and old prejudices are being challenged. In this truly global journey Andrew Marr revisits some of traditional histories, which have tended to be Eurocentric, telling mankind's story through tales of Greece and Rome and the crowned heads of Europe's oldest monarchies. Here he widen...(展开全部)

An up-to-the-minute account of the long history and remarkable biology of the extraordinary animals that capture the imagination of every child. The dinosaurs are much more varied than the popular picture of lumbering giants and matching meat eaters. Steve Brusatte expertly leads the reader through the latest discoveries to unravel their great range of lifestyles in a vanished ...(展开全部)

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a...(展开全部)

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under contract with Monsanto. What began as a...(展开全部)

[英]克里斯托弗·哈丁，博士，英国爱丁堡大学高级讲师，主要研究方向为当代亚洲及东西方关系文化，有《亚洲之光：东学西渐》等著作，在英国广播公司《历史》杂志、《卫报》、《电讯报》、《纽约时报》等报刊上发表多篇亚洲主题文章。

[英]克里斯托弗·哈丁，博士，英国爱丁堡大学高级讲师，主要研究方向为当代亚洲及东西方关系文化，有《亚洲之光：东学西渐》等著作，在英国广播公司《历史》杂志、《卫报》、《电讯报》、《纽约时报》等报刊上发表多篇亚洲主题文章。

The French bestseller The Diary of a Nose is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Hermès. Perfume creation is an exclusive and secretive endeavour. What is day to day life like for a perfume-maker? How does the creation of a new scent begin? How do you capture the essence of a smell on the skin? For one year, Jean-Claude Ellena kept a diary of h...(展开全部)