It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. Swifts are among the most extraordinary of all birds. Their migrations span continents and their twelve-week stopover, when they pause to breed in European rooftops, is the very definition of summer. They may nest in our homes but much about their lives passes over our heads. No birds are more wreathed in mystery. Captivat...(展开全部)

The Atlas of Life on Earth offers a comprehensive, chronological survey of the Earth, its landscape and its life forms, from the beginning of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago to the present.The atlas is accessibly organized in six major parts, with 18 chapters devoted to each of the major geological periods, in which the crucial geological and biological developments in t...(展开全部)

The Atlas of Life on Earth offers a comprehensive, chronological survey of the Earth, its landscape and its life forms, from the beginning of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago to the present.The atlas is accessibly organized in six major parts, with 18 chapters devoted to each of the major geological periods, in which the crucial geological and biological developments in t...(展开全部)

"In a work of majestic sweep and bold speculation, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [Christian] de Duve presents an awesome panorama of life on Earth."-- Publishers Weekly

"In a work of majestic sweep and bold speculation, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [Christian] de Duve presents an awesome panorama of life on Earth."-- Publishers Weekly

For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, Canada to Sweden to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest species survive at these latitudes including the ic...(展开全部)

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is...(展开全部)

Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is...(展开全部)

钟山，博士，特任研究员。2006年和2011年毕业于中国科学技术大学，分别获得理学学士、工学双学士和理学博士学位。2011年至2013年在中国科学技术大学生命科学学院免疫识别与信号转导实验室从事博士后研究工作。主要成果发表于Cell、Immunity等国际高水平杂志。获得2015年度中科院卢嘉锡青年人才奖。 Terry 和 Gerry Audesirk二人于1970年喜结连理。Terry取得南加州大学的海洋生态学博士学位，Gerry取得加州理工学院的神经生物学博士学位。二人曾为华盛顿大学海洋实验室的博士后，以一种海洋软体动物为模式生物，进行生物行为的神经生物学基础方面的研究。二位作者现在已经退休，并任科罗拉多丹佛大学的生物学名誉教授，他们曾经于1982―2006年间在这所大学教授生物学导论和神经生物学两门课程。他们还进行了关于环境中低浓度污染物对神经...(展开全部)

钟山，博士，特任研究员。2006年和2011年毕业于中国科学技术大学，分别获得理学学士、工学双学士和理学博士学位。2011年至2013年在中国科学技术大学生命科学学院免疫识别与信号转导实验室从事博士后研究工作。主要成果发表于Cell、Immunity等国际高水平杂志。获得2015年度中科院卢嘉锡青年人才奖。 Terry 和 Gerry Audesirk二人于1970年喜结连理。Terry取得南加州大学的海洋生态学博士学位，Gerry取得加州理工学院的神经生物学博士学位。二人曾为华盛顿大学海洋实验室的博士后，以一种海洋软体动物为模式生物，进行生物行为的神经生物学基础方面的研究。二位作者现在已经退休，并任科罗拉多丹佛大学的生物学名誉教授，他们曾经于1982―2006年间在这所大学教授生物学导论和神经生物学两门课程。他们还进行了关于环境中低浓度污染物对神经...(展开全部)