In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said "Yes" and then suddenly, walked out of his life and made Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil, and Russia to discover the true worth of this s...(展开全部)

In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil and Russia to discover the true worth of this sh...(展开全部)

Time is relative! Award-winning illustrator Torben Kuhlmann’s brilliant new book bends time and imagination! When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he’s determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss ph...(展开全部)

Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, Arabia is Levison Wood's account of his most complex expedition yet: circumnavigating the Arabian Peninsula. Travelling through some of the harshest and most beautiful environments on earth, he seeks to challenge our perceptions of an often misunderstood part of the world, seeing how ...(展开全部)

Elisabetta Lattanzio Illy was born in Trieste and received her degree in International Economics from Trieste University. She has been a journalist since 1999 and writes regularly for BMM (a quarterly magazine on culture and lifestyle), Monsieur, Spirito diVino, and I Viaggi del Sole (a monthly supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore).

Elisabetta Lattanzio Illy was born in Trieste and received her degree in International Economics from Trieste University. She has been a journalist since 1999 and writes regularly for BMM (a quarterly magazine on culture and lifestyle), Monsieur, Spirito diVino, and I Viaggi del Sole (a monthly supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore).

作者簡介 凱瑟琳•皮特拉斯 Kathryn Petras 羅斯•皮特拉斯 Ross Petras 凱瑟琳與羅斯是一對兄妹寫作搭檔，其作品銷售超過五百三十萬本，包括《紐約時報》暢銷書「單字迷」書籍《你唸錯了》（You’re Saying It Wrong.）。他們一同在全國公共廣播電台（NPR的KMUW）主持同名播客，節目主題與字彙、文法和字源學有關。他們從孩童時期在埃及開羅時即開始合作，如今雖然一個在西班牙格拉納達，一個在加拿大多倫多，仍一同開心工作……儘管偶爾會有時差的問題。 譯者簡介 林楸燕 英美文學博士，現職為大學教授，兼職翻譯。學術專長為中世紀英國歷史與文學、文藝復興時期劇作。著有《關於人生，莎士比亞的神回覆》；譯作《文藝復興並不美》、《教養是一種可怕的發明》、《讓我們假裝沒發生過！》、《我們的婚姻診斷書：百年好合的八堂基本課》以及...(展开全部)

For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. Yet recently researchers have discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that underwrite a numb...(展开全部)

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that ...(展开全部)

For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins. From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing process, only now are the effects and the vital functions of these junk regions beginning to emerge. Scientists' rapidly growing knowledge of this often controversial field has already ...(展开全部)