Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys are thought to be made of slugs and snails - since he was a boy. Now, in this funny and necessary book, he turns round to look at men with a clear eye and ask, what sort of men would make the world a better place, for everyone?

This is the next novel in the ground-breaking, bestselling series that tells the story of the Horus Heresy - the civil war that nearly tore the human Imperium apart, ten thousand years ago. This novel explores the early history of the Dark Angels Legion and their Primarch Lion El'Johnson. When news of Horus' treachery reaches Caliban, the loyalties of this proud and mysterious ...(展开全部)

伊莲·摩根（Elaine Morgan，1920-），毕业于英国牛津大学，曾担任20多年的电视编剧，并获得多个奖项。1972年，她写作出版了《女人的起源》一书，由此成为了国际知名的女性主义作家。之后，她花费10年的时间钻研进化论，特别是英国海洋生物学家哈代爵士的“水生理论”，并于1982年出版了其另一本畅销著作《水猿》。目前，伊莲·摩根所致力的“水猿假说”，在科学家和大众中获得了越来越多的肯定和支持。

伊莲·摩根（Elaine Morgan，1920-），毕业于英国牛津大学，曾担任20多年的电视编剧，并获得多个奖项。1972年，她写作出版了《女人的起源》一书，由此成为了国际知名的女性主义作家。之后，她花费10年的时间钻研进化论，特别是英国海洋生物学家哈代爵士的“水生理论”，并于1982年出版了其另一本畅销著作《水猿》。目前，伊莲·摩根所致力的“水猿假说”，在科学家和大众中获得了越来越多的肯定和支持。

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...(展开全部)

1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)

Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science", illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his ...(展开全部)

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.