"The water "coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a "Tyrannosaurus rex." Rather than only three states of water--liquid, ice, and vapor--there is a fourth, "molecular water," fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that's where most of the planet's water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used...(展开全部)

The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for drinking again. In fact, water can be made so clean that it actually becomes toxic. As Charles Fishman brings vibrantly to life...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 弗雷德•斯皮尔（Fred Spier）,国际大历史协会创始人之一，曾任该协会主席，大历史学派理论重要的贡献者，荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学高级讲师（Senior Lecturer）。最初研习生物化学，后转向文化人类学和社会史，全身心投入到大历史研究和普及事业中。1994年至2016年在阿姆斯特丹大学组织并教授大历史课程；2003年至2013年在埃因霍温理工大学开办大历史系列讲座；2009年至2018年在阿姆斯特丹大学学院开办大历史课程。斯皮尔进行了广泛的学术研究，包括植物的遗传操作、秘鲁的宗教，政治和生态。已出版《秘鲁的宗教制度》（Religious Regimes in Peru）、《大历史的结构：从大爆炸到今天》（The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today）、《大历史...(展开全部)

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that pla...(展开全部)

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that pla...(展开全部)

The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to myself, what has h...(展开全部)

Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. These two contrasting themes - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have originated since the 1980s. In this book, scientist E.O. Wilson describes exactly what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose fo...(展开全部)

Our world is far richer than previously conceived, yet so ravaged by human activity that half its species could be gone by the end of the 21st century. These two contrasting themes - unexpected magnificence and underestimated peril - have originated since the 1980s. In this book, scientist E.O. Wilson describes exactly what treasures of the natural world we are about to lose fo...(展开全部)

The eminent Harvard naturalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Wilson marshals all the prodigious powers of his intellect and imagination in this impassioned call to ensure the future of life. Opening with an imagined conversation with Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond, he writes that he has come "to explain to you, and in reality to others and not least to myself, what has h...(展开全部)

Water is an endangered resource, imperiled by population growth, mega-urbanization, and climate change. Scientists project that by 2050, freshwater shortages will affect 75 percent of the global population. Steven Mithen puts our current crisis in historical context by exploring 10,000 years of humankind’s management of water. Thirst offers cautionary tales of civilizations def...(展开全部)