‘An exceptionally beautiful book’ – The Sunday Telegraph The great naturalists described, experimented, collected and gave us the means to order and understand the natural world – to exploit it, but also to conserve it and ensure its future survival. The stories of nearly 40 of these great pioneers, from all over Europe and America, take us from Classical times to the end of th...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the fascinating stories of the world’s greatest cities. A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopot...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world's greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here? From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global met...(展开全部)

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山姆•菲利普斯（Sam Phillips），皇家美术学院艺术杂志编辑，艺术专栏作家，为Time Out、Blueprint、i-D Magazine、The Guardian、Sunday Telegraph等众多报刊撰写文章。

The turbulence of the 1960s permanently changed social and cultural values around the world. British author and editor Perry (Magic Movie Moments), who has written extensively on popular culture and the performing arts, has compiled this photojournalism series from the works of numerous photographers. Each volume uses the same format, beginning with a short introduction that se...(展开全部)

乔治•E•哈洛博士（George E. Harlow），美国自然历史博物馆矿物科学部门的主管，也是一位著名的矿物学者和晶体学专家。同时对地质学的许多方面都很感兴趣，他主攻造岩矿物，最近还针对翡翠品种进行研究，探寻危地马拉的玉石来源以及新世界玉器的起源。 安娜•S. 索菲尼蒂斯（Anna S. Sofianides），地球化学和地质学的硕士学，毕业于美国宝石学院。她在美国自然历史博物馆矿物科学部门工作了23年，现在退休了。索菲尼蒂斯女士自1974年起便开始收集关于宝石和博物馆藏品的资料，是一位勤奋的研究员。 郭颖，中国地质大学（北京）珠宝学院副教授、珠宝学院副院长。中国科协全国矿物学科首席科学传播专家，多次作为特邀珠宝鉴定专家，参与中央电视台、北京电视台、中央人民广播电台珠宝、收藏等节目的录制。主编北京市高等教育精品教材《玉雕与玉器》与《观赏石》，并出...(展开全部)

乔治•E•哈洛博士（George E. Harlow），美国自然历史博物馆矿物科学部门的主管，也是一位著名的矿物学者和晶体学专家。同时对地质学的许多方面都很感兴趣，他主攻造岩矿物，最近还针对翡翠品种进行研究，探寻危地马拉的玉石来源以及新世界玉器的起源。 安娜•S. 索菲尼蒂斯（Anna S. Sofianides），地球化学和地质学的硕士学，毕业于美国宝石学院。她在美国自然历史博物馆矿物科学部门工作了23年，现在退休了。索菲尼蒂斯女士自1974年起便开始收集关于宝石和博物馆藏品的资料，是一位勤奋的研究员。 郭颖，中国地质大学（北京）珠宝学院副教授、珠宝学院副院长。中国科协全国矿物学科首席科学传播专家，多次作为特邀珠宝鉴定专家，参与中央电视台、北京电视台、中央人民广播电台珠宝、收藏等节目的录制。主编北京市高等教育精品教材《玉雕与玉器》与《观赏石》，并出...(展开全部)

With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould's books now matches their critical acclaim. Reissued in a larger format, with a handsome new cover, The Panda's Thumb will introduce a new generation of readers to this unique writer, who has taken the art of the scientific essay to new heights.

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)