Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms is the newest collection of best-selling scientist Stephen Jay Gould's popular essays from Natural History magazine (the longest-running series of scientific essays in history). It is also the first of the final three such collections, since Dr. Gould has announced that the series will end with the turn of the millennium. I...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德（1941—2002年），美国古生物学家、演化生物学家，科学史学家与科普作家，职业生涯中大多在哈佛大学担任教职，并曾在纽约的美国自然史博物馆工作。1972年，他与纽约美国自然史博物馆的尼尔斯·埃尔德里奇（Niles Eldredge）共同提出“间断平衡”（Punctuated Equilibrium）进化理论，由此享誉全球。作品有《生命的壮阔》《熊猫的拇指》《自达尔文以来》等。 译者：傅强，地层与古生物学博士，中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所研究员，南京古生物博物馆副馆长。长期从事古植物学、化石资源调查研究和科学传播工作，2014年获得国家科学技术进步奖二等奖。 张锋，地层与古生物学博士，教授级高级工程师。就职于重庆市规划和自然资源局，重庆市地质矿产勘查开发局，市级科普基地负责人。从事古生物学即地质遗迹研究与科普宣传工作。

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain exp...(展开全部)

Literature Guides A complete guide to teaching My Side of the Mountain. Includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students.

Literature Guides A complete guide to teaching My Side of the Mountain. Includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students.

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy. Ginzburg’s study The Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller, first published in 1976, is one of those fascinating micro-histories which explores the remote lives of unknown and forgotten people. The story of Menocchio is one of a peasant life of obscurity but also one of strange and powerful ideas – confus...(展开全部)

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy. Ginzburg’s study The Cheese & The Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-century Miller, first published in 1976, is one of those fascinating micro-histories which explores the remote lives of unknown and forgotten people. The story of Menocchio is one of a peasant life of obscurity but also one of strange and powerful ideas – confus...(展开全部)

One of the most famous and popular of Jin Yong's works, Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain is a riveting martial arts tale enmeshed in intrigue, action, and suspense. Set in 1781 Manchuria during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, it tells the story of the feud between descendants of the bodyguards of the would-be usurper of the Ming dynasty more than a century prior. As the only...(展开全部)

One of the most famous and popular of Jin Yong's works, Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain is a riveting martial arts tale enmeshed in intrigue, action, and suspense. Set in 1781 Manchuria during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, it tells the story of the feud between descendants of the bodyguards of the would-be usurper of the Ming dynasty more than a century prior. As the only...(展开全部)

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in se...(展开全部)