Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. Unhappy people living in profoundly unstable states, he notes, inspire pathos and make for good copy, but not for good karma. So Weiner, admitted grump and self-help book aficionado, undertook a year's research to travel the globe, looking for the "unhe...(展开全部)

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in...(展开全部)

《纽约时报》畅销书 Borders原声奖图书 Barnes & Noble发现新人奖图书 BookSense 杰出图书 一个美国记者， 手持幸福指南针， 游走世界十国， 从地理到心理， 绘就一幅色彩斑斓的幸福地图。 寻找《世界上最幸福的地方》也许一路曲折，但很高兴你没有迷路。 这本书是旅行手册吗？没错，但又不全是。纵观这趟历时一年的探索之路，你会发现，这其实是一本思想的游行手册。我游历世界，希望凭一己之力解决这个时代的一些迫切问题：幸福生活需要哪些必要因素？为什么有些地方比其他地方幸福？地理如何造就我们？飞机为什么不能供应像样点的午餐？ 这本书是新闻报道吗？并不全然。可以说它是新闻报道的一种变体。像我这样的驻外记者，喜欢出访一些不幸的国度（如伊拉克、阿富汗），采访那里不幸的民众（如难民、战争孤儿）。但有时，这些故事也会让人心情低落。因此，在这本书中，...(展开全部)

An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller "The Tulip." "The Naming of Names "traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. Redefining man's relationship with nature was a major pursuit during the Renaissance. But in a world full of poisons, there was also an u...(展开全部)

安娜·帕福德，英国《独立报》园艺版记者，《观察家》、《乡村生活》和《Elle装潢》等多家杂志的专栏作家，曾写作《郁金香》、《花坛全书》、《植物拍档》等八部作品，其中《郁金香》最为畅销。她是英国古迹保护组织成员、古代园林及建筑修缮工作的负责人，曾耗时近三十年参与重新修复了原属该地区首席神父的花园。近年来，她又开始了另一处花园的修葺。

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth—our home—habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geogr...(展开全部)

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth—our home—habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geogr...(展开全部)

A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor -- 400 million years old -- a four-limbed dinofish! In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anyth...(展开全部)

We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be one universe among many. "In Search of the Multiverse" takes us on an extraordinary journey, examining the most fundamental questions in science. What are the boundaries of our universe? Can there be differen...(展开全部)

We once had to abandon the idea of earth being at the centre of the universe. Now, we need to confront an even more profound possibility: the universe itself might just be one universe among many. "In Search of the Multiverse" takes us on an extraordinary journey, examining the most fundamental questions in science. What are the boundaries of our universe? Can there be differen...(展开全部)