威廉•罗森是获奖历史著作《查士丁尼的跳蚤：瘟疫、帝国与欧洲的诞生》（Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe）一书的作者，先后在麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan）、西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon&Schuster）和自由出版社（the Free Press）做编辑和出版人长达25年。目前居住在新泽西州普林斯顿市。

威廉•罗森是获奖历史著作《查士丁尼的跳蚤：瘟疫、帝国与欧洲的诞生》（Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe）一书的作者，先后在麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan）、西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon&Schuster）和自由出版社（the Free Press）做编辑和出版人长达25年。目前居住在新泽西州普林斯顿市。

Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era, including the St. Gothard rail tunnel through the Alps, the clearing of New York harbor, the Panama Canal, and countless others. Dynamite also caused terrible injuries and great loss of life, and, in some cases, incalculable...(展开全部)

Welcome to the world of Pokémon. For 25 years, this series has entertained leagues of aspiring Trainers. Starting as a mere idea in the mind of Satoshi Tajiri, drawing from his experiences catching bugs as a child, it grew into a duet of Game Boy games that captured the hearts of Japan. From then, the Pocket Monsters set their sights on taking over the rest of the world by stor...(展开全部)

Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what...(展开全部)

The idea of a town must be strong enough to survive the inevitable chaotic overlay of urban experience, Joseph Rykwert asserts in this fundamental book on urban form. In his preface to this new edition he reviews the developments over the past thirty ears, in archeology, in historical and philological work, and in urban planning and architectural trends that make The Idea of a ...(展开全部)

The idea of a town must be strong enough to survive the inevitable chaotic overlay of urban experience, Joseph Rykwert asserts in this fundamental book on urban form. In his preface to this new edition he reviews the developments over the past thirty ears, in archeology, in historical and philological work, and in urban planning and architectural trends that make The Idea of a ...(展开全部)

作者简介： 劳伦·E.奥克斯是一名生态学家、作家和教育家。她是野生动物保护协会气候适应项目的环境保护科学家，斯坦福大学地球系统科学的兼职教授。劳伦教授关于科学故事讲述技巧以及大学科学传播课程。她于2015年获得斯坦福大学埃米特环境与资源跨学科项目博士学位，2004年获得布朗大学环境研究与视觉艺术学士学位。她的森林相关研究已经被《大西洋月刊》《基督教科学箴言报》《科学美国人》《科学星期五》《赫芬顿邮报》《户外杂志》《史密森尼》和其他媒体报道过。她曾为《纽约时报》和《国家地理》的“开放探索者”撰稿，并联合制作了《红色黄金》和《阿拉斯加黄金》两部环境题材纪录片。 译者简介： 李可欣，同济大学风景园林硕士，四川德阳人。

In this sweeping new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values, Hanno Sauer shows how modern society is just the latest step in the long evolution of good and evil and everything in between. What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? And has it always been that way? Hanno Sauer's sweeping new history...(展开全部)

This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard ...(展开全部)