博尔特·霍尔多布勒（Bert Hölldobler），德国维尔茨堡大学行为生理学和社会生物学教授，亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会奖和戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖的获得者。 爱德华·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），美国生物学家、博物学家，“社会生物学”奠基人，是最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。1949年毕业于亚拉巴马大学，1955年获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，同年开始在哈佛大学执教。于1969年当选为美国国家科 学院院士。长期致力于蚂蚁和其他群居性昆虫研究。著有《昆虫的社会》《论人的天性》《大自然的猎人》《社会生物学：新的综合》等，凭《论人的天性》和《蚂蚁》两度获得普利策奖。 译者毛盛贤，遗传学教授。1962年毕业于北京师范大学生物系生物物理专业，留校从事遗传学教学和科研工作。1981—1983年，作为高级访问学者到英国伯明翰大学遗传学系专...(展开全部)

"Journey to the Ants" combines autobiography and scientific lore to what study of ants can offer. Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, an account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In this captivating book, neuroscientist Shane O’Mara invites us to marvel at the benefits walking confers on our bodies and brains— ones we’ve all come to appreciate after months indoors. O’Mara traces walking’s evolutionary origins to life forms on the ocean floor, reveals new findings from cutting- edge research, and reminds us to get out of our chairs and discover a happier...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five y ears previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays i...(展开全部)

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing in...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡帕卡·卡萨波娃（Kapka Kassabova）1973年出生于保加利亚首都索非亚，1992年时跟随家人移居新西兰，现居苏格兰。曾经出版小说《和平别墅》（Villa Pacifica）、回忆录《无名之街》（Street Without a Name）和《十二分钟的爱：探戈故事》（Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story）。 . 【译者简介】 马娟娟，浙江人，国际关系学院毕业，曾在新闻媒体长期从事国际新闻工作，译有《软实力》《战略：一部历史》《以色列总理私人史》等作品。

From the author of the bestselling "The Man Who Knew Infinity" comes an unprecedented look at the traditional master-apprenticeship relationship alive today in modern science. Along the way, using interviews and anecdotes, Kanigel takes readers into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University and captures...(展开全部)

A revelatory new theory of consciousness that returns emotions to the center of mental life. For Mark Solms, one of the boldest thinkers in contemporary neuroscience, discovering how consciousness comes about has been a lifetime’s quest. Scientists consider it the "hard problem" because it seems an impossible task to understand why we feel a subjective sense of self and how it ...(展开全部)