While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction. A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps in as little as 300 years. Already there have been five mass extinctions in the last 600 mil...(展开全部)

威廉·C.伯格（William C. Burger）是美国芝加哥自然博物馆植物馆馆长，也是备受赞誉的《花：它们如何改变了世界》《完美的星球，智慧的物种》的作者，几十年来一直致力于生物多样性重组与保护等研究，尤其擅长用通俗的语言讲深刻的原理，帮助非生物学专业的读者更好地理解生物世界的运行规律。

威廉·C.伯格（William C. Burger）是美国芝加哥自然博物馆植物馆馆长，也是备受赞誉的《花：它们如何改变了世界》《完美的星球，智慧的物种》的作者，几十年来一直致力于生物多样性重组与保护等研究，尤其擅长用通俗的语言讲深刻的原理，帮助非生物学专业的读者更好地理解生物世界的运行规律。

This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the eth...(展开全部)

This best-selling classic tells the story of one of the world's greatest scientific adventures. Jane Goodall was a young secretarial school graduate when the legendary Louis Leakey chose her to undertake a landmark study of chimpanzees in the wild. In the Shadow of Man is an absorbing account of her early years at Gombe Stream Reserve, telling us of the remarkable discoveries s...(展开全部)

Jane Goodall's account of her life among the wild chimpanzees of Gombe is one of the most enthralling stories of animal behavior ever written. Her adventure began when the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey suggested that a long-term study of chimpanzees in the wild might shed light on the behavior of our Stone Age ancestors. Accompanied by only her mother and her African assis...(展开全部)

Jane Goodall's classic account of primate research provides an impressively detailed and absorbing account of the early years of her field study of, and adventures with, chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa. It is a landmark for everyone to enjoy. 'Jane Goodall's work has already passed into the legends of culture...and represents one of the Western world's great scientific achieve...(展开全部)

迈克尔•斯宾塞 Michael Spence 现任纽约大学斯特恩商学院经济学教授、胡佛研究所高级研究员，并担任增长和发展委员会（CGD）主席。由于在不对称信息市场分析方面的开创性研究，他于2001年获得诺贝尔经济学奖。 《下一次大趋同》是他的最新　力作。