Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched and filled with intricate and beautiful paintings, this video adaptation of the extraordinary book by acclaimed a...(展开全部)

亨利•尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），作家、广播节目主持人，在演化生物学、环境保护及科学史方面颇有研究。长期为《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《BBC野生生物》（BBC Wildlife)等知名刊物撰稿。著有《熊猫之路》（The Way of Panda)等书。他的头一本书《孤独的乔治》（Lonesome George)就讲述了加拉帕戈斯群岛及全球性保护的故事。从2008年开始，尼克尔斯成为加拉帕戈斯保护基金会半年刊《加拉帕戈斯记事》（Galapagos Matters)的编辑。2002年至2009年，尼克尔斯还任职科学史季刊《奋进》（Endeavour)总编。目前，他已成为《奋进》的编委会成员。 林强，毕业于中山大学生命科学学院和中科院南海海洋所，海洋生物学硕士，现为学术期刊编辑。笔名“任天”，业余爱...(展开全部)

The Galapagos were once known to the sailors and pirates who encountered them as Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands, home to marvellous creatures and dramatic volcanic scenery. This captivating history of the world's most famous islands charts their evolution from deserted wilderness to profoundly important scientific resource and now global tourist destination. The Galapago...(展开全部)

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest background in mat...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

Eli Maor 知名科普作家，以色列理工学院博士，曾在芝加哥洛约拉大学教授数学史课程。著有畅销书《三角之美：边边角角的趣事》、《勾股定理：悠悠4000年的故事》、《无穷之旅：关于无穷大的文化史》等。在各国期刊上发表过大量论文，涉及应用数学、数学史和数学教育等领域。