A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, perfect for readers of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt Throughout history, orchards have served many sacred purposes: they aresites of worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and vibrant community hubs. Moreover, they are places of sustenance. In Taming Fruit, award-winning...(展开全部)

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, perfect for readers of Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt Throughout history, orchards have served many sacred purposes: they aresites of worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and vibrant community hubs. Moreover, they are places of sustenance. In Taming Fruit, award-winning...(展开全部)

From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would link cities that had hitherto been isolated, and would one day span continents. Christian Wolmar reveals how the rise of the train stimulating daring feats of engineering, architectural innovation and the rapid movement of p...(展开全部)

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution that would forever transform the way we live. Blood, Iron, and Gold takes us on a journey encompassing jungle, mountain, and desert, revealing the huge impact of the railroads as they spread rapidly across entire countries, and linked cities that hitherto had little reac...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas ...(展开全部)

主编简介： 罗新，1963年生于湖北，北京大学中国古代史研究中心暨历史学系教授，专业研究方向为魏晋南北朝史和中国古代民族史。专业代表作《中古北族名号研究》（2009）、《黑毡上的北魏皇帝》（2014），著有旅行文学作品《从大都到上都——在古道上重新发现中国》（2018） 。 作者简介： 海伦娜·阿特利，非虚构作家和特稿撰稿人，皇家文学基金会会员。她写了多本有关意大利花园和世界各地花园文化史的书。作品有《行走的柠檬：意大利的柑橘园之旅》、《列夫的小提琴》（Lev’s Violin: An Italian Adventure）、《英国伟大的花园》（Great Gardens of Britain）、《日本的花园》（Gardens of Japan）等。 译者简介： 张洁，1985年生于上海松江。本科就读于复旦大学历史系，获历史学学士学位。研究生就读于复旦...(展开全部)

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the best-selling author of "How We Decide "comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative "types," Jonah L...(展开全部)

Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output? From the best-selling author of "How We Decide "comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the new science of creativity. Shattering the myth of muses, higher powers, even creative "types," Jonah L...(展开全部)

Featured as one of "Six Books to Help Understand Trump's Win" by The New York Times --- A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week: "An intelligent guide to a phenomenon by no means over." -- Fareed Zakaria, CNN --- "Well-written and well-researched, powerfully argued and perfectly timed." ― The Economist --- Named one of the Best Books of 2016 by Bloomberg --- "Far and away the mos...(展开全部)