Oliver Sacks has been described (by The New York Times Book Review) as "one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century," and his books, including the medical classics Migraine and Awakenings, have been widely praised by critics from W. H. Auden to Harold Pinter to Doris Lessing. In his last book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Dr. Sacks undertook a fascinating j...(展开全部)

There is more to a seed than the plant it will someday become: seeds, seedheads, and pods have their own dazzling beauty that sometimes even surpasses that of flowers. Bitter melon seeds resemble a handful of rubies. And butterfly vine seeds look exactly like those delicate insects captured in mid-flight. Seeds also come with fascinating stories. Lotus seeds sent into orbit by ...(展开全部)

亚德哈罗南德·芬恩（Adharanand Finn） 英国作家、《卫报》编辑，自小热爱跑步运动，并在跑步之余探寻世界各地的跑步文化。 凭借代表作《跑出肯尼亚》获英国体育类图书奖新秀作家称号，该书还被《星期日泰晤士报》评为年度体育类好书，并入围威廉·希尔体育类图书奖决选名单。 此外，芬恩还为英国的《跑步者世界》《独立报》等媒体撰写专栏。

From the beach to the moon – explore the incredible hidden world of sand, seen through a microscope. To the naked eye, the tiny particles that make up sand are less than inspiring. Under the microscope, however, it's a completely different story. Looking at sand under extreme magnification, we quickly find ourselves immersed in a new world of brilliant colors, organic shapes, a...(展开全部)

Elisabetta Lattanzio Illy was born in Trieste and received her degree in International Economics from Trieste University. She has been a journalist since 1999 and writes regularly for BMM (a quarterly magazine on culture and lifestyle), Monsieur, Spirito diVino, and I Viaggi del Sole (a monthly supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore).

Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people - from the competitive investm...(展开全部)

A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then, Dr. Alexander's own brain was attacked by a rare i...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。

Internationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander always considered himself a man of science. His unwavering belief in evidence-based medicine fuelled a career in the top medical institutions of the world. But all this was set to change. One morning in 2008 he fell into a coma after suffering a rare form of bacterial meningitis. Scans of his brain revealed massive damage...(展开全部)

埃本•亚历山大（Eben Alexander） 美国知名神经外科医生。在过去的20多年中，一直都做着神经外科医生的工作和相关领域的研究。他曾在布莱根妇幼医院和哈佛医学院供职。 其作品《天堂的证据》一经面世就在国际出版界引起轰动，之后一个月内卖出英国、德国、荷兰、俄罗斯、澳大利亚、巴西、日本、韩国等35国版权。 想了解关于他更多的信息，请访问www.lifebeyonddeath.net。