Here， the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America， boldly posits that， collectively， our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If， according to chaos theory， the beating of a butterfly s wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world， try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in...(展开全部)

Here， the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America， boldly posits that， collectively， our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If， according to chaos theory， the beating of a butterfly s wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world， try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in...(展开全部)

A journey through the cutting-edge science of how our mindset shapes every facet of our lives, revealing how your brain holds the keys to unlocking a better you What you believe can make it so.

The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into ...(展开全部)

The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into ...(展开全部)

Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and val...(展开全部)

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is ...(展开全部)

From John Robbins, a new edition of the classic that awakened the conscience of a nation. Since the 1987 publication of Diet for a New America, beef consumption in the United States has fallen a remarkable 19%. While many forces are contributing to this dramatic shift in our habits, Diet for a New America is considered to be one of the most important. Diet for a New America is ...(展开全部)

◎著者 ［美］马西娅・比约内鲁德（Marcia Bjornerud）是劳伦斯大学的地球科学和环境学教授。她是一名构造地质学家，重点研究地震物理和造山运动。著有《阅读岩石：地球的自传》（Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth）、《地质词典》（Geopedia）和《向岩石求教：发现岩石的微妙智慧》（Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks）。《垂向时间》获2019年美国出版商协会大众科学与数学类的专业与学术卓越奖。 ◎译者 林葳，博士毕业于北京大学地球与空间科学学院。向往自然，目前从事地质学与地理学科普教育。

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is some...(展开全部)