肖恩·B.卡罗尔（Sean B. Carroll） 美国进化发展生物学家、作家、教育家。美国国家科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士、威斯康星大学分子生物学和遗传学教授、富兰克林生命科学奖。 与爱德华·威尔逊、奥利弗·萨克斯和理查德·道金斯等人齐名的科普大师，刘易斯·托马斯科学写作奖得主。 霍华德·休斯医学研究所科学电影制片人，所拍摄的科学短片和教育素材供成千上万的学生免费使用。

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates...(展开全部)

An award-wining biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness.Our sense of how old it was? Vague and vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species' history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had been known for millennia, but they were seen...(展开全部)

One hundred fifty years ago, most of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age and origins was vastly off the mark, and our own species' history was a set of myths and fairy tales. How did we learn so much so fast? In the tradition of "The Microbe Hunters" and "Gods, Graves, and Scholars," Sean Carroll's "Remarkable Creatures" celebrates the pioneers who repl...(展开全部)

An award-wining biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness.Our sense of how old it was? Vague and vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species' history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had been known for millennia, but they were seen...(展开全部)

One hundred fifty years ago, most of the world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age and origins was vastly off the mark, and our own species' history was a set of myths and fairy tales. How did we learn so much so fast? In the tradition of "The Microbe Hunters" and "Gods, Graves, and Scholars," Sean Carroll's "Remarkable Creatures" celebrates the pioneers who repl...(展开全部)

Just 150 years ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vastly off the mark. And what we believed to be the history of our own species consisted of fantastic myths and fairy tales; fossils, known for millennia, were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures. How did we learn so much so quickly? Remarkable Creatures celebrates...(展开全部)

肖恩·B.卡罗尔（Sean B. Carroll） 美国进化发展生物学家、作家、教育家。美国国家科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士、威斯康星大学分子生物学和遗传学教授、富兰克林生命科学奖。 与爱德华·威尔逊、奥利弗·萨克斯和理查德·道金斯等人齐名的科普大师，刘易斯·托马斯科学写作奖得主。 霍华德·休斯医学研究所科学电影制片人，所拍摄的科学短片和教育素材供成千上万的学生免费使用。

史景迁（Jonathan D. Spence），1936年出生于英国，是国际知名的中国近现代史专家，1965—2008年在美国耶鲁大学历史系任教。著作极丰，主要有《追寻现代中国》、《雍正王朝之大义觉迷》、《太平天国》、《改变中国》、《曹寅与康熙》、《康熙》、《天安门》、《大汗之国：西方眼中的中国》、《王氏之死》、《利玛窦的记忆宫殿》、《胡若望的疑问》。

"A remarkable achievement...vivid...fluent, graceful.... A publishing event."—Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history....(展开全部)