In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and...(展开全部)

The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet’s most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in....(展开全部)

柯斯特利金，1929年2月生于大莫雷斯。1952年毕业于莫斯科大学数学力学系，1959年获数理科学博士学位。1972年任莫斯科大学高等代数教研室主任，1976年升为教授，同年当选为苏联科学院通讯院士，1977—1980年任数学力学系主任，1991年起为莫斯科大学学术委员会成员。主要从事李代数、有限群、非结合代数、上同调群、群和代数的组合理论、表示论、整数格等的研究。1968年获苏联国家奖。...

柯斯特利金，1929年2月生于大莫雷斯。1952年毕业于莫斯科大学数学力学系，1959年获数理科学博士学位。1972年任莫斯科大学高等代数教研室主任，1976年升为教授，同年当选为苏联科学院通讯院士，1977—1980年任数学力学系主任，1991年起为莫斯科大学学术委员会成员。主要从事李代数、有限群、非结合代数、上同调群、群和代数的组合理论、表示论、整数格等的研究。1968年获苏联国家奖。...

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of touch, wry humour and accessibility.

In Alien Species and Evolution, biologist George W. Cox reviews and synthesizes emerging information on the evolutionary changes that occur in plants, animals, and microbial organisms when they colonize new geographical areas, and on the evolutionary responses of the native species with which alien species interact. The book is broad in scope, exploring information across a wid...(展开全部)

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such theories, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, "Frontiers of Justice" is dedicated to this proposition. Taking up three urgent proble...(展开全部)

Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they raised thwarted human efforts to master nature during the so-called Enlightenment—a historical moment when rigid classification pervaded the study of natural history, people traded in people, and imperial avarice wrapped its tentacles around the globe. Whi...(展开全部)