The Oldest Living Things in the World is an epic journey through time and space. Over the past decade, artist Rachel Sussman has researched, worked with biologists, and traveled the world to photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. Spanning from Antarctica to Greenland, the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback, the result is a stunning and...(展开全部)

"The Living World" is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". "The Living World" focuses on concepts rather than terminology and technical information, and features a straightforward, clea...(展开全部)

This book has cutting edge biological concepts delivered with a greater emphasis on evolution and a logical use of analogies. George Johnson's textbook, "The Living World" is often considered to be a student favorite. Dr. Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why th...(展开全部)

George Johnson's textbook has often been considered a student favorite. Dr. Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". This authoritative textbook features a straightforward, clear writing style and a wide variety of media assets to en...(展开全部)

The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". The Living World focuses on concepts rather than terminology and technical information, and features a straightforward, clear wr...(展开全部)

In Miniature takes a big look at small things. It is a celebration of the obsessive, eccentric and meticulous, and welcomes us into the world of collectors, modellers and fans. Simon Garfield is a master of finding delight and fascination in unlikely places and here we discover flea circuses, 1,000 tiny Hitlers, miniature crime scenes, model villages and railways, minuscule foo...(展开全部)

China is one of the world’s leading producers and consumers of liquor, with alcohol infusing all aspects of its culture, from religion and literature to business and warfare. Yet to the outside world, China’s most famous spirit, baijiu, remains a mystery. This is about to change, as baijiu is now being served in cocktail bars beyond its borders. Drunk in China follows Derek San...(展开全部)

What you are today is not important... for in thisrunaway bestseller you will learn how to changeyour life by applying the secrets you are about todiscover in the ancient scrolls.

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and, exploding social divisions and ruptures. But, he asks, if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end ...(展开全部)

米歇尔·罗尔布朗谢（ Michel Lorblanchet) 旧石器时代艺术研究领域的重要专家。曾担任法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）研究负责人、澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民研究所研究顾问。他开创了复制远古艺术的实验性方法及测定艺术年代的科学方法。 保罗·巴恩 (Paul Bahn) 英国考古学家，研究方向为原始艺术。主要著作有：入选牛津通识读本的《考古学的过去与未来》（Archaeology：A Very Short Introduction），被视为岩画艺术入门必读的《冰河时代的图像》（Images of the Ice Age）等。同时与他人合著了多部广受欢迎的考古学书籍，其中《考古学：理论、方法与实践》（Archaeology：Theories, Methods and Practice）是极具影响力的畅销教材。