Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps...(展开全部)

Natalie Angier knows all that scientists know - and sometimes more - about the power of symmetry in sexual relations, about the brutal courting habits of dolphins, about the grand deceit of orchids, about the impact of female and male preferences on evolution. She knows how scientists go about their work, and she describes their ways, their visions, and their arguments. Perhaps...(展开全部)

纳塔莉・安吉尔 纳塔莉・安吉尔：《纽约时报》科普专栏作家，她把创造性和无穷探索的精神与机智幽默的文学风格结合起来，对大自然和生命本质进行深刻考察和思索，对人类最新科学成就进行通俗而又妙趣横生的综述。其杰出成就使她获得了新闻及科普文学的最高奖项――普利策奖、刘易斯・托马斯奖和美国科学进步协会奖。本书是其最为人所称道的代表作，在美国畅销不衰。

纳塔莉・安吉尔 纳塔莉・安吉尔：《纽约时报》科普专栏作家，她把创造性和无穷探索的精神与机智幽默的文学风格结合起来，对大自然和生命本质进行深刻考察和思索，对人类最新科学成就进行通俗而又妙趣横生的综述。其杰出成就使她获得了新闻及科普文学的最高奖项――普利策奖、刘易斯・托马斯奖和美国科学进步协会奖。本书是其最为人所称道的代表作，在美国畅销不衰。

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story t...(展开全部)

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, Andrei A. Znamenski uncovers an exciting story t...(展开全部)

苏珊娜·麦克尼尔（Suzanne McNeill），设计师、艺术家、专栏作家。她非常喜爱尝试各类艺术形式，并将其运用到禅绕画的实际创作中，她的禅绕画灵感艺术作品被称作“魔力艺术”。苏珊娜所写的关于禅绕画的书都受到了广大读者的欢迎。 辛迪·谢帕德（Cindy Shepard），实验艺术家，她的创作专注于材料的循环利用和混合媒介材质的艺术表现。辛迪的禅绕画作品丰富多样，又各具特色。 李阳琨，设计师、自由译者。在国外留学、工作多年，主要从事文化交流、设计和翻译等工作，热衷公益事业。

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend ...(展开全部)