Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When Wangari returned home from college in America, she found the...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

"Wonderful stories and in-depth information you will normally never find in books about trees." — Piet Oudolf, Landscape Designer and creator of the planting design for New York's High Line "Entwining fascinating facts about 100 trees with inspiring stories of their importance to ancient civilizations, trade, religious and pagan beliefs, wellbeing and medicinal uses over the ag...(展开全部)

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenyas largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyusome one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met th...(展开全部)

A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas an...(展开全部)

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witness...(展开全部)

托马斯·帕克南，英裔爱尔兰历史学家和树木学家，毕业于牛津大学莫德林学院。在埃塞俄比亚旅行了一段时间之后，他回到英国他担任《泰晤士报教育副刊》的编辑，后来又为《星期日电讯报》和《观察家报》工作。他在英国伦敦和爱尔兰韦斯特米斯郡之间频繁往来，是爱尔兰树木协会主席和图林纳利城堡的名誉管理人。托马斯·帕克南撰写了多本关于非洲历史、维多利亚和后维多利亚英国历史以及树的书，其中《争夺非洲》获得了史密斯奖和艾伦·帕顿奖。

The Spirit of Nineteenth-Century naturalistic investigation lives in British historian Thomas Pakenham, who has spent the last two decades chronicling the lives of the world's most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction. In Remarkable Trees of the World, Pakenham takes us on a breathtaking voyage across four continents, introducing, with a passionate text an...(展开全部)

托马斯·帕克南，英裔爱尔兰历史学家和树木学家，毕业于牛津大学莫德林学院。在埃塞俄比亚旅行了一段时间之后，他回到英国他担任《泰晤士报教育副刊》的编辑，后来又为《星期日电讯报》和《观察家报》工作。他在英国伦敦和爱尔兰韦斯特米斯郡之间频繁往来，是爱尔兰树木协会主席和图林纳利城堡的名誉管理人。托马斯·帕克南撰写了多本关于非洲历史、维多利亚和后维多利亚英国历史以及树的书，其中《争夺非洲》获得了史密斯奖和艾伦·帕顿奖。

The publication of Remarkable Trees of the World took American audiences by storm. Thomas Pakenham embarks on a five-year odyssey to most of the temperate and tropical regions of the world to photograph sixty trees of remarkable personality and presence: Dwarfs, Giants, Monuments, and Aliens; the lovingly tended midgets of Japan; the enormous strangler from India; and the 4,700...(展开全部)