David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans. Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world, exploring the trees’ connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, coo...(展开全部)

Classic of erotic literature (1894), celebrating lesbian love, translation of original edition, complete with 161 sensuous illustrations by Willi Pogany.

A major contribution to our understanding of the basic laws of the universe -- from the author of The Book of Nothing . The constants of nature are the fundamental laws of physics that apply throughout the universe: gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. They encode the deepest secrets of the universe, and express at once our greatest knowledge an...(展开全部)

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....

阿瑟•克拉克 (Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008) 英国科幻作家，被誉为科幻小说之王，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因一起并称为“20世纪科幻三巨头”。他一生创作了100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，作品总销量突破1亿册，并多次获得雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等科 幻至高奖项。1986年，克拉克获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终身成就奖——大师奖。 克拉克曾在英国皇家空军服役，担任雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位。同时，他也被称为伟大的太空预言家，他针对太空技术作出的许多预测都成为了现实，他曾经预言过人体冷大脑记忆备份、地球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端科技，地球静止轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 克拉克的绝大多数作品属于“硬科幻”，以翔实精准的科技描述著称，并运用哲学的思考方式，探究人类在宇宙中的位置，以及人类与人类技术所能达到...(展开全部)

阿瑟•克拉克 (Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008) 英国科幻作家，被誉为科幻小说之王，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因一起并称为“20世纪科幻三巨头”。他一生创作了100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，作品总销量突破1亿册，并多次获得雨果奖、星云奖、轨迹奖等科 幻至高奖项。1986年，克拉克获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终身成就奖——大师奖。 克拉克曾在英国皇家空军服役，担任雷达技师，退役后获得了数学和物理学的学士学位。同时，他也被称为伟大的太空预言家，他针对太空技术作出的许多预测都成为了现实，他曾经预言过人体冷大脑记忆备份、地球通讯卫星、地震预防预测等尖端科技，地球静止轨道正是因为他而被命名为“克拉克轨道”。 克拉克的绝大多数作品属于“硬科幻”，以翔实精准的科技描述著称，并运用哲学的思考方式，探究人类在宇宙中的位置，以及人类与人类技术所能达到...(展开全部)

Over the past fifty years, the United States and other developed countries have made the transformation from industrial to information societies; knowledge has replaced mass production as the basis of wealth, power, and social interaction. At the same time, Western societies have endured increasing levels of crime, massive changes in fertility and family structure, decreasing l...(展开全部)

A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas an...(展开全部)

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. The fig tree witness...(展开全部)