The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet’s most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in....(展开全部)

First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land. Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section ...(展开全部)

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom Studying zoology made Lucy Cooke feel like a sad freak. Not because she loved spiders or would root around in animal feces: all her friends shared the same curious kinks. The problem was her sex. Being female meant she was, by nature, a loser. Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists have been conv...(展开全部)

伊桑·卡宁（Ethan Canin），美国作家、编剧，旧金山作家小组的创办人之一。1960年7月生于密歇根州，童年在俄亥俄、宾夕法尼亚和加利福尼亚度过。从斯坦福大学英文系毕业后，卡宁进入爱荷华大学学习创意写作，并于1984年拿到硕士学位，随后又进入哈佛医学院，19 91年获得医学博士学位。此后他一面从医一面写作，直到1998年离开医学界，返回爱荷华大学教授创意写作课程至今。 卡宁以两部短篇小说集打入文学界，随后又出版了五部长篇小说，并担任多部电影的编剧。1999年，《纽约时报》选出二十位“新千年作家”，卡宁跻身其中。 译者 张鲲，1976年生于安徽，1997年接触文学翻译，曾多次获得戈宝权文学翻译奖和韩素音青年翻译奖。译有《末日巨塔》《伯恩的通牒》《黑色回声》《史迈利的告别》等作品。

“The authors look at art and science together to examine how innovations―from Picasso’s initially offensive paintings to Steve Jobs’s startling iPhone―build on what already exists and rely on three brain operations: bending, breaking and blending. This manifesto . . . shows how both disciplines foster creativity.” ―The Wall Street Journal “The Runaway Species approach[es] creat...(展开全部)

The Runaway Species: How human creativity remakes the world is a deep-dive into the creative mind, a celebration of the human spirit, and a vision of how humanity can improve our future by understanding and embracing our ability to innovate. Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman rifle through the inventions of human society like paleontologists ransacking the fossil record. Explori...(展开全部)

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and...(展开全部)

For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,000 functioning satellites have been launched into Earth's orbit and beyond - some to the farthest reaches of the Solar System - and more than...(展开全部)