In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you t...(展开全部)

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you t...(展开全部)

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cu...(展开全部)

Beloved as the herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our affections for centuries. The oldest song in English celebrates the cuckoo's arrival, telling us that 'Sumer is icumen in'. But for many other birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom, for it is Nature's most notorious cheat. Cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into ...(展开全部)

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats o...(展开全部)

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas -- spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells -- and adapts them for human use. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus takes us into the lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are applying nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival: stirring vats o...(展开全部)

【作者】 珍妮弗•加维•贝格（Jennifer Garvey Berger） 世界五百强企业总裁教练、企业顾问、作家及演说家，同时也是两位孩子的母亲。珍妮弗是成人意识进化领域中少有的能同时兼备研究及顾问于一身的行业先锋。她师承美国哈佛大学享负盛名的罗伯特• 凯根教授，获得心理学博士学位；她成立了领导力成长管理顾问公司，致力于将意识进化的概念应用到企业的领导力发展工作上，帮助组织和个体以一种更广阔的视角和创造性的方式实现变革。珍妮弗•加维•贝格在美国哈佛大学肯尼迪政府学院公共领导力中心的网站发表专栏博客。2006年她辞去美国大学教职，现与家人居住在新西兰。 【译者】 陈颖坚 Joey Chan 组织发展顾问，首位在中国提出整合型管理与领导成长的导师，他潜心研究成人意识及发展领域超过十年，有着非常丰富的管理咨询理论与实践经验。陈颖坚是领导力成长管理顾问公...(展开全部)

A newly arrived immigrant to New York experiences a series of devastating misfortunes. Just as he begins to lose his faith in God, something comes along to restore his faith, a miracle that will have the reader rejoicing.

卢克莱修(Lucretius，Carus约前99～前55)古罗马诗人、哲学家。他继承古代原子学说，特别是阐述并发展了伊壁鸠鲁的哲学观点。认为物质的存在是永恒的，提出了“无物能由无中生，无物能归于无”的唯物主义观点。反对神创论，认为宇宙是无限的，有其自然发展的过程，人们只要懂得了自然现象发生的真正原因，宗教偏见便可消失。承认世界的可知性，认为感觉是事物流射出来的影像作用于人的感官的结果，是一切认识的基础和来源，驳斥了怀疑论。认为幸福在于摆脱对神和死亡的恐惧，得到精神的安宁和心情的恬静。著有哲学长诗《物性论》。