In the tradition of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief, and Mark Kurlansky’s Cod —a renowned culinary adventurer goes into the woods with the iconoclasts and outlaws who seek the world’s most coveted ingredient . . . and one of nature’s last truly wild foods: the uncultivated, uncontrollable mushroom. Within the dark corners of Ameri...(展开全部)

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness t...(展开全部)

Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes--and to a writer with the comic genius of Bill Bryson, it also provides endless opportunities to witness t...(展开全部)

With a new afterword by the author The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams t...(展开全部)

A bold, eye-opening account of the coming integration of Europe and Asia Weaving together history, diplomacy, and vivid personal narratives from his overland journey across Eurasia from Baku to Samarkand, Vladivostok to Beijing, Bruno Maçães provides a fascinating portrait of the shifting borderlands between Europe and Asia, tracking the economic integration of the two continen...(展开全部)

[葡]布鲁诺·玛萨艾斯(Bruno Maçães)，目前是伦敦Flint Global 的高级顾问、中国人民大学高级研究员、华盛顿哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2013~2015 年担任葡萄牙外交欧洲事务部部长。毕业于哈佛大学，获得政治学博士学位，之前在华盛顿的美国企业研究院和布鲁塞尔的卡耐基研究院担任研究员。 刘晓果，东北师范大学翻译专业硕士，现为社会科学文献出版社 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies（ESCI 来源期刊）英文期刊负责人。

[葡]布鲁诺·玛萨艾斯(Bruno Maçães)，目前是伦敦Flint Global 的高级顾问、中国人民大学高级研究员、华盛顿哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2013~2015 年担任葡萄牙外交欧洲事务部部长。毕业于哈佛大学，获得政治学博士学位，之前在华盛顿的美国企业研究院和布鲁塞尔的卡耐基研究院担任研究员。 刘晓果，东北师范大学翻译专业硕士，现为社会科学文献出版社 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies（ESCI 来源期刊）英文期刊负责人。

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas f...(展开全部)

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas f...(展开全部)

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and loser s, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: ...(展开全部)