《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

《好奇小猴乔治》是作者汉斯和玛格丽特夫妇爱的结晶，故事出自太太玛格丽特手笔，先生汉斯负责插画，以简单线条描绘出戏剧张力十足、妙趣横生的故事，夫妇联手开启了这一系列脍炙“童”口的奇想之旅。 在汉斯去世前，夫妇两人总共创作了7本关于小猴子乔治的故事绘本，在汉斯去世后，玛格丽特又续写了几本，直到1996年她也辞世。自1941年美国Houghton Mifflin出版社推出第一本《好奇小猴乔治》起，该系列迄今已经被翻译成17种语言文字，售出3000万本有余，这只东奔西闯的可爱小猴子早已成为了经典绘本形象与商品偶像。 1898年9月16日，汉斯·奥古斯都·雷(Hans Augusto Rey)在德国汉堡出生，从小就对动物和绘画感兴趣。1906年5月16日，玛格丽特·伊丽莎白·华尔斯坦(Margarete Elizabeth Waldstein)也出生在汉堡，热...(展开全部)

This gorgeously illustrated picture book opens to a detailed spread of a gray city. If you look closely, you can spot the tiny figure of a red-headed boy, Liam, walking down the street. THE CURIOUS GARDEN tells the story of how this young boy discovers a door that leads up to abandoned railroad tracks where he finds a forgotten garden. He cares for the plants and helps them flo...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of ...(展开全部)

This is a unique and quirky exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives. From combs and keys to sweets and handkerchiefs, certain objects, though seemingly mundane, can have a magical quality, and an often surprising power to arouse, absorb, disturb, or soothe. Take bags, for example. Why do most women carry handbags, while men rely ...(展开全部)

The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko, who died in 1976, symbolizes one of the most notorious yet obscure episodes in the history of the Soviet Union. Emerging from provincial shadows in the Ukraine during the twenties, Lysenko achieved a meteoric career under Stalin's dictatorship, when ever greater claims were officially made for his 'environmentalism'. Overlord and autocrat o...(展开全部)

亨利·尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），专门从事自然科学写作的记者与作家，关心演化、生态、环保等议题。凭着深入浅出、轻松诙谐的文笔，以及在科学、历史与人文之间自在穿梭的功力，在世界知名报刊如《自然》《新科学家》《卫报》《独立报》上已发表上百篇文章。他的上一本书《寂寞的乔治》讲述的是加拉巴戈群岛上的一只陆龟，在2006年获选为英国《卫报》的一流好书奖，并入围英国皇家学会的综合图书奖。

Nicholls is surely set to become an author of many more fascinating science books. In many ways, this book is what good science writing is all about—explanation through a ripping narrative. (The independent [London] ) A fascinating story of an extraordinary animal. (Desmond Morris, famed zoologist and author of The Naked Ape ) A brilliant storyteller and narrative stylist in th...(展开全部)