Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would ...(展开全部)

Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would ...(展开全部)

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” – The New York Times “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” – Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he h...(展开全部)

The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy. More than 15 years after its premiere, Grey's Anatomy remains one of the most beloved dramas on television in the US and the UK. It continues to win its time slot and has ranked in the Top 20 most watched shows in primetime for most of its 17-season run. It currently averages more than 9 mill...(展开全部)

From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as one of only a few people to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. For years, Heather B. Arms...(展开全部)

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.

A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With ...(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.