From Mappa Mundi to Myst - the bestselling "Just My Type" author turns his gaze to maps. Maps have the most amazing stories - and Simon Garfield is the perfect author to tell them. This is a book that will inspire mapophiles but engage even those of us who stare blankly at an OS pathfinder's hieroglyphs. Just as Garfield found the magic in fonts, here he creates compelling narr...(展开全部)

作者 菲利普•鲍尔：科普作家，毕业于牛津大学化学专业，并取得了布里斯托大学物理学博士学位，现定居伦敦。习作常见于《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《纽约时报》（New York Times）、《卫报》（the Guardian）和《新政治家》（New Statesman）。身为英国皇家化学学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）的一员, 菲利普也供职于《化学世界》（Chemistry World）编辑委员会。菲利普撰写了多部脍炙人口的科普读物，并曾在2005喜获该年度的安万特科学奖。 译者 李祖凰：一只献身科普的小白兔，喜欢借阅读拓展视野，更常出没与山野间体味自然的美丽。4年21世纪前沿学科生命科学的浸染外加3年爬雪山过矿井的区系研究磨砺，毕业后却摇身一变任职BBC Knowledge 中国版《...(展开全部)

Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfield’s Just My Type illuminated the world of fonts and made everyone take a stand on Comic Sans and care about kerning. Now Garfield takes on a subject even dearer to our fanatical human hearts: maps. Imagine a world without maps....(展开全部)

西蒙·加菲尔德（Simon Garfield），英国记者与非小说作家。他是多家报刊的职业供稿人，包括包括《独立报》《周日独立报》《观察家报》等。之前曾出版《字体故事》（Just My Type），颇受中外读者好评。 译者 段铁铮，毕业于英国赫特福德大学哲学系、伦敦经济学院哲学系现供职于中国社会科学院新闻与传播研究所，电脑爱好者翻译爱好者，已为东西文库译有多部图书。

Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everyth...(展开全部)

Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He questions the idea that there is a world that encompasses everything like a container life, the universe, and everyth...(展开全部)

Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the wo...(展开全部)

Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the wo...(展开全部)

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)

Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of life on earth - and all complex life s hares many strange properties, from sex to ageing and death. If life evolved on other planets, would it be the same or completely different? In The Vital Question, Nick Lane radically reframes evolutionary history, putting forward a cogent solu...(展开全部)