【作者简介】 罗兰•拉赞比，美国著名篮球记者、传记作家，曾出版《乔丹传》、《杰里•韦斯特：篮球偶像的人生和传奇》等多本著作。在过去的30年间，他采访了不计其数的球员、教练、球队职员和各类人士，并不断用文字记录着他眼中的联盟。他现居于弗吉尼亚州的塞勒姆市。 【翻译简介】 虎扑篮球翻译团，成立于2005年，由资深虎扑Jrs组成的专业篮球翻译团队。十余年来，翻译团致力于推广NBA文化，传播篮球技战术资料，为广大中国球迷带来了无数优质篮球译文。

【作者简介】 罗兰•拉赞比，美国著名篮球记者、传记作家，曾出版《乔丹传》、《杰里•韦斯特：篮球偶像的人生和传奇》等多本著作。在过去的30年间，他采访了不计其数的球员、教练、球队职员和各类人士，并不断用文字记录着他眼中的联盟。他现居于弗吉尼亚州的塞勒姆市。 【翻译简介】 虎扑篮球翻译团，成立于2005年，由资深虎扑Jrs组成的专业篮球翻译团队。十余年来，翻译团致力于推广NBA文化，传播篮球技战术资料，为广大中国球迷带来了无数优质篮球译文。

The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. "Lazenby's detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBA's greats." (Kurt Helin, Pro Basketball Talk, NBC Sports) Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points in a single game, MVP, and one of the best shooting guards in NBA league history: Kobe Bryant is am...(展开全部)

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth.

"Not since Darwin has an author so lifted the science of ecology with insight and delightful imagery" - Richard Dawkins. In this book a master scientist tells the great story of how life on earth evolved. E.O. Wilson eloquently describes how the species of the world became diverse, and why the threat to this diversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before. ...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson takes readers through time--tracing the processes that create new species, the five cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution over the past 600 million years, and how humans are destroying diversity at a projected rate of 20 percent over the next 30 years. "In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence somet...(展开全部)

The Machinery of Life is a journey into the sub-microscopic world of molecular machines. Readers are introduced to the types of molecules built by cells, including proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, and polysaccharides; then, in a series of full-color "watercolor" illustrations, which show a portion of a living cell magnified by 1,000,000 times, the reader is guided through the i...(展开全部)

Life is a great gift and as we reach years of discretion we most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.