From the Arctic to South Africa - one finds them everywhere: Ants. Making up nearly 15% of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system. Their caste system, the division of labor, the origin of altruistic behavior and the complex forms of chemical communication ...(展开全部)

This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Handouml; lldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large f...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal s...(展开全部)

勒克莱齐奥，一九四0年生于法国尼斯，一九六三年出版第一部小说《诉讼笔录》，并获得勒诺多文学奖。至今已出版四十多部作品，包括小说，随笔，翻译等。一九八0年，勒克莱齐奥以小说《沙漠》获得保尔·莫朗文学奖。一九九四年，他在法国《读书》杂志一次读者调查中，被评选为当代最伟大的法语作家之一。 二00八年，勒克莱齐奥荣获诺贝尔文学奖。

In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare and fragile commodity – a fleeting glimmer in the long night of cosmic history. That Earth should harbour not just one but ...(展开全部)

博尔特·霍尔多布勒（Bert Hölldobler），德国维尔茨堡大学行为生理学和社会生物学教授，亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会奖和戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖的获得者。 爱德华·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），美国生物学家、博物学家，“社会生物学”奠基人，是最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。1949年毕业于亚拉巴马大学，1955年获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，同年开始在哈佛大学执教。于1969年当选为美国国家科 学院院士。长期致力于蚂蚁和其他群居性昆虫研究。著有《昆虫的社会》《论人的天性》《大自然的猎人》《社会生物学：新的综合》等，凭《论人的天性》和《蚂蚁》两度获得普利策奖。 译者毛盛贤，遗传学教授。1962年毕业于北京师范大学生物系生物物理专业，留校从事遗传学教学和科研工作。1981—1983年，作为高级访问学者到英国伯明翰大学遗传学系专...(展开全部)

"Journey to the Ants" combines autobiography and scientific lore to what study of ants can offer. Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, an account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR AN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applicati...(展开全部)

It is fast becoming clear that our lives revolve around the powers of emergence. Order arrives from the bottom-up, not top-down. Complexity is resolved through simplicity. Everywhere the same laws are obeyed, the same swarm logic is at work. "Emergence" looks at the cities we inhabit, the media frenzies we suffer and the games we play, showing how individual actions without cen...(展开全部)