Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remov...(展开全部)

We are tempted to think of maternal instinct as a quality a woman has or lacks. But the belief that mothers instinctively nurture their offspring--one of the West's most cherished ideals and a view widely accepted even in scientific circles--has become increasingly controversial. Mother Nature presents a radical new way of understanding how mothers act and why, and how this ne...(展开全部)

蒂姆·弗兰纳里（Tim Flannery） 澳大利亚科学院院士，哺乳动物学家、古生物学家、环境学家、探险家、作家，自然资源保护主义者、科学传播活动家。 1984年在新南威尔士大学获得古生物学博士学位，随后进入澳大利亚博物馆并担任哺乳动物馆负责人。历任阿德莱德大学教授、南澳大利亚博物馆馆长、哈佛大学澳大利亚研究客座教授、麦考瑞大学教授等。在古生物和哺乳动物学研究中，他已发现了数十种未被描述过的新物种，并于2007年入选“澳大利亚年度人物”。

蒂姆·弗兰纳里（Tim Flannery） 澳大利亚科学院院士，哺乳动物学家、古生物学家、环境学家、探险家、作家，自然资源保护主义者、科学传播活动家。 1984年在新南威尔士大学获得古生物学博士学位，随后进入澳大利亚博物馆并担任哺乳动物馆负责人。历任阿德莱德大学教授、南澳大利亚博物馆馆长、哈佛大学澳大利亚研究客座教授、麦考瑞大学教授等。在古生物和哺乳动物学研究中，他已发现了数十种未被描述过的新物种，并于2007年入选“澳大利亚年度人物”。

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. "Skin: A Natural History" celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of...(展开全部)

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A...(展开全部)

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular idea stating that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individual...(展开全部)

Biological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. In 1966, simple Darwinism, which holds that evolution functions primarily at the level of the individual organism, was threatened by opposing concepts such as group selection, a popular idea stating that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individual...(展开全部)

罗宾C.莫兰，世界级的蕨类植物专家，纽约植物园名誉园长，纽约蕨类植物协会主席，以及园林系统植物学杂志《布里顿尼亚》（Brittonia）和《美国蕨类植物》（American Fern Journal）的副主编。主要研究方向为蕨类和石松类植。发表过多篇关于蕨类植物的论文，出版合著或专著四种，其中《蕨类植物的秘密生活》获美国园艺作家协会“2005年最佳写作奖”。 武玉东，植物学硕士，毕业于中国科学院植物研究所，曾参与石松类及蕨类植物系统分类学研究工作。 蒋蕾，植物学硕士，毕业于中国科学院昆明植物研究所。主要从事生物多样性调查与科普工作。参与过华东、华南、西南等地的多项生物多样性调查及植物资源保护、生态规划设计等项目。发表冬青属新种2个和铁角蕨属新种2个，并参与多本植物专著的编写工作。

A Natural History of Ferns is an entertaining and informative look at why ferns and their relatives are unique among plants. Ferns live in habitats from the tropics to polar latitudes, and unlike seed plants, which endow each seed with the resources to help their offspring, ferns reproduce by minute spores. There are floating ferns, ferns that climb or live on trees, and ferns ...(展开全部)