What does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt even more questions. Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student pursuing a creative career, a person of faith, someone who likes walks on the beach,...(展开全部)

This stunningly illustrated guide to the world's primates covers nearly 300 species, from the feather-light and solitary pygmy mouse lemurs of Madagascar--among the smallest primates known to exist--to the regal mountain gorillas of Africa. Organized by region and spanning every family of primates on Earth, the book features 72 splendid color plates, facing-page descriptions of...(展开全部)

Umberto Eco, semiotician at the University of Bologna, is widely known as one of the finest living authors whose best-selling novels include The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.

Umberto Eco, semiotician at the University of Bologna, is widely known as one of the finest living authors whose best-selling novels include The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.

Amazingly, there has never been a book quite like The Art of Horror a celebration of frightful images, compiled and presented by some of the genre's most respected names. While acknowledging the beginnings of horror-related art in legends and folk tales, the focus of the book is on how the genre has presented itself to the world since the creations of Bram Stoker and Mary Shell...(展开全部)

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。