This classic introductory text is best known for its vivid examples fromnatural history, comprehensive coverage of evolution, and quantitative approach. The Sixth Edition builds on the book's hallmark features: its strong evolutionary focus, its breadth and diverse set of examples, its extensive coverage of behavioral ecology, and a thorough presentation of population ecology.

This concise and accessible introduction offers a broad and balanced view of all the major aspects of ecology, from the ecosystem and evolution to population and community. Full of vivid examples from natural history, the Fifth Edition of The Economy of Nature blends the major principles and concepts of natural history with the idea of ecology as a practical science that confro...(展开全部)

The classic introductory text offers a balanced survey of Ecology. It is best known for its vivid examples from natural history, comprehensive coverage of evolution and quantitative approach. Due to popular demand, the fifth edition update brings twenty new data analysis modules that introduce students to ecological data and quantitative methods used by ecologists. It supplemen...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

本书的英文版The Economy of Nature是美国最有名、使用最广泛的生态学教材之一。该教材按生命与自然环境、生态系统、生物体、种群、种间相互作用、群落和生态学应用7部分编写。作者在这本生态学入门书中始终贯彻3个原则：有扎实的博物学知识基础，生物体是生态学的基本单位，进化论思想居生态学研究的中心地位。全书很好地平衡了理论与实验研究和生态模式的经验事例，不仅在第25和26章专门介绍了应用生态学，而且几乎在每章介绍基本原理时，都使用应用性很强的事例。作者特别强调人类活动对于各种生态系统过程的影响和破坏，并明确指出：人类持续生存的关键是人类与生物圈建立其持续的相互作用，也就是要保护好生物圈和生态系统的种种生态过程，所以要学习好生态学。　　该书编排精心，重点突出，正文中安插了175个建立新概念用的技巧块，帮助说明基础概念和数学模型。例如“生态学家在...(展开全部)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored...(展开全部)

Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology. But this beauty is often buried underneath layers of unnecessary formalism, and exciting recent results like interactive proofs, phase transitions, and quantum computing are usually considered too advanced for the...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1920 and based on the Tarner Lectures in the philosophy of science, this early work by Alfred North Whitehead made an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. It also featured his assessment of the impact of Einstein's theories and the new findings of modern physics on the concept of nature.