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。

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)

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。

From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals , a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout.As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of ours hands. But we still consume the energy of the sun in the form of food. The sun is available...(展开全部)

From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals , a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout.As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of ours hands. But we still consume the energy of the sun in the form of food. The sun is available...(展开全部)

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)

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)

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)