Simon Winchester, from the introduction to Skulls: "Skulls tells the story of the skull, in both the human and the animal world. Skulls-human in the main, but by no means exclusively-have exerted for scores of thousands of years an almost inexplicable power over the human imagination. They are symbols both of existence and of former existence; they are freighted with terror and...(展开全部)

The skull is one of the most recognizable symbols of today's contemporary visual culture. Since its 1970 s renaissance in the iconic album designs of bands such as the Grateful Dead, the skull has found its way into the visual vocabulary of urban life, adorning T-Shirts, badges and rock memorabilia as the ultimate symbol of anarchy and rebellion. Repurposed and recast by artist...(展开全部)

An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our feathered friends being 'bird brained', and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence in other animals. Bird Brain will start by looking at the structures and functions of the avian brain, and move on to examine different types of intel...(展开全部)

安·诺伊曼（Ann Neumann）是美国纽约大学宗教与媒体中心的访问学者，同时担任《启示者》杂志的特约编辑，为其撰写专栏“病人之躯”，专门从事宗教与医学领域的交叉研究与探讨。她长期关注临终医助，在《纽约时报》《书籍论坛》《国家》《格尔尼卡》等杂志发表过多篇相关文章。《辞世之路：美国的临终医助》是她的第一本专著。

Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but 'imagine' what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being a conscious activity - we direct our eyes, we c...(展开全部)

The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays never before published in English, discussing subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. Italo Calvino’s unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his wor...(展开全部)

The last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime, Collection of Sand is a group of essays never before published in English, discussing subjects ranging from cuneiform and antique maps to Mexican temples and Japanese gardens. Italo Calvino’s unbounded curiosity and masterly imagination are displayed in peak form in Collection of Sand, the last of his wor...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 肖恩•厄舍 Shaun Usher 信件与清单的爱好者，1978年出生于英国圣奥尔本斯，现居英国曼彻斯特。他于2009年建立了博客“信件陈列馆”（Letters of Note），以在线博物馆的形式收集各式各样的信件。厄舍的第一部作品于2013年出版，盘踞《周日泰晤士报》畅销榜六周，并售出了多国版权。在收集信件的过程中，厄舍也发现了很多有趣的清单。2011年，他建立了博客“清单陈列馆”（Lists of Note），展示收集到的各种有趣的清单。