伊恩•斯图尔特，英国皇家学会院士，毕业于剑桥大学（硕士）和华威大学（博士），拥有5个荣誉学位，。他先后出版了100多部著作，包括与特里•普拉切特（Terry Pratchett）、杰克•科恩（Jack Cohen）合著的《蝶形世界的科学》系列畅销书。他获得过英国皇家学会法拉第奖章、英国数学及应用研究所金奖、塞曼奖、路易斯•托马斯奖等，曾多次出现在电台和电视节目中，研究领域主要包括图形的形成、混沌、网络动态、生物数学等。

作者 菲利普•鲍尔：科普作家，毕业于牛津大学化学专业，并取得了布里斯托大学物理学博士学位，现定居伦敦。习作常见于《自然》（Nature）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《纽约时报》（New York Times）、《卫报》（the Guardian）和《新政治家》（New Statesman）。身为英国皇家化学学会（Royal Society of Chemistry）的一员, 菲利普也供职于《化学世界》（Chemistry World）编辑委员会。菲利普撰写了多部脍炙人口的科普读物，并曾在2005喜获该年度的安万特科学奖。 译者 李祖凰：一只献身科普的小白兔，喜欢借阅读拓展视野，更常出没与山野间体味自然的美丽。4年21世纪前沿学科生命科学的浸染外加3年爬雪山过矿井的区系研究磨砺，毕业后却摇身一变任职BBC Knowledge 中国版《...(展开全部)

From opals to orchids and tapirs to toadstools, this beautiful collection brings more than 100 incredible items from the natural world, from microscopic life to plants and animals. Perfect for all the nature-loving readers on the planet we call home.

The year 1694 saw the death of Samuel Pufendorf, who, with Hugo Grotius, was the foremost representative of the modern tradition of natural law theory, and the birth of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, who helped transform the tradition and convey it to new generations. As professor of natural law in Geneva, Burlamaqui used Pufendorfs works on natural law but taught and wrote on the s...(展开全部)

This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights. Incorporating insights from recent work in ethical, legal and social theory, it presents a robust and original account of the natural law tradition, challenging common perceptions of natural law a...(展开全部)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity tha...(展开全部)

In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history. By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled wit...(展开全部)

Discover Earth's most beautiful and fascinating natural landmarks. From the spectacular granite domes of Yosemite to the reefs of the Bahama Banks and the ice sheets of the Antarctic, this is an unparalleled survey of the world's natural treasures. From the Rocky Mountains to the Great barrier Reef and everything in between, Natural Wonders of the World combines breathtaking la...(展开全部)

This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Some of the essays trace particular textual traditions, while others follow the development of scholarly and professional communities. Some concentrate on the internal analysis of primary sources, while others examine the spread of p...(展开全部)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focus...(展开全部)