【作者简介】 诺曼•C.埃尔斯特兰德，加州大学河滨分校著名植物学教授，在植物居群遗传学和进化生物学领域做了大量卓越的研究工作，发表过200余篇科研文章，其中包括发表在Nature，PNAS, Evolution, Molecular -Ecology等主流杂志上具有重要影响力的学术成果。 【译者简介】 王晨，北京林业大学观赏园艺专业学士，观赏园艺与园林植物专业博士肄业。自由译者，主要从事科普和专业图书译介工作。代表译著有《园艺百科全书》《伟大的博物学家》《授粉博物志》《蔷薇秘事》《理性的边界》等。

【作者简介】 诺曼•C.埃尔斯特兰德，加州大学河滨分校著名植物学教授，在植物居群遗传学和进化生物学领域做了大量卓越的研究工作，发表过200余篇科研文章，其中包括发表在Nature，PNAS, Evolution, Molecular -Ecology等主流杂志上具有重要影响力的学术成果。 【译者简介】 王晨，北京林业大学观赏园艺专业学士，观赏园艺与园林植物专业博士肄业。自由译者，主要从事科普和专业图书译介工作。代表译著有《园艺百科全书》《伟大的博物学家》《授粉博物志》《蔷薇秘事》《理性的边界》等。

Praised by everyone from Bernie Siegel to Daniel Goleman to Larry Dossey, Rachel Remen has a unique perspective on healing rooted in her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist, and a long-term survivor of chronic illness. In a deeply moving and down-to-earth collection of true stories, this prominent physician shows us life in all its power and mystery ...(展开全部)

Contrary to what is often believed, good food was valued highly in the Middle Ages - the fragrance of exotic spices filled the air, meat turned on the spit and fish was consumed in abundance for religious reasons. The wealthy made a show of their prosperity by serving peacock or wild boar at banquets, while the poor ate vegetables, porridge and bread. Fresh and preserved fish...(展开全部)

'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone' Inspired by the rhythms of the "Periodic Table", Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the diff...(展开全部)

迈克尔•翁达杰Michael Ondaatje（1943— ） 加拿大小说家、诗人。生于斯里兰卡，十一岁随母亲来到英国，十九岁移居加拿大，现居多伦多。迄今为止，翁达杰共出版了六部长篇小说、十余部诗集及非虚构作品。其中，《英国病人》（1992）获布克奖，后被改编成同名电影，大获成功；《菩萨凝视的岛屿》（2000）获吉尔奖和美第奇奖；《遥望》（2007）获加拿大总督文学奖。迈克尔•翁达杰的文字富于想象，兼具视觉和听觉效果，为诗歌和小说两个领域都注入了新的生机。

迈克尔•翁达杰Michael Ondaatje（1943— ） 加拿大小说家、诗人。生于斯里兰卡，十一岁随母亲来到英国，十九岁移居加拿大，现居多伦多。迄今为止，翁达杰共出版了六部长篇小说、十余部诗集及非虚构作品。其中，《英国病人》（1992）获布克奖，后被改编成同名电影，大获成功；《菩萨凝视的岛屿》（2000）获吉尔奖和美第奇奖；《遥望》（2007）获加拿大总督文学奖。迈克尔•翁达杰的文字富于想象，兼具视觉和听觉效果，为诗歌和小说两个领域都注入了新的生机。

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble f...(展开全部)