露西•库克（Lucy Cooke），牛津大学动物学硕士，师从英国知名演化生物学家暨动物行为学理查德•道金斯，建立了动物保护组织——“树懒观赏学会”。露西是《每日电讯报》《赫芬顿邮报》的撰稿人，还是获奖电视及电影工作者，并曾出现在BBC及美国国家地理频道等黄金时段的专题节目中。 -- 黄悦，自由职业，曾任美国国家地理频道及BBC专题片的翻译和校审。代表译作：《第三极的馈赠》《有待探险的世界》《艺术的故事》等。

'Eye-opening, informative and very funny!' - Chris Packham History is full of strange animal stories, invented by the brightest and most influential, from Aristotle to Disney, and they reveal as much about us and the things we believe as they do about the animals they misrepresent. We once thought that eels were born from sand, that swallows hibernated under water, and that bea...(展开全部)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince" "The Nightingale and the Rose" "The Selfish Giant" "The Devoted Friend" "The Remarkable Rocket".

This collection of Michael Dummett's philosophical essays, spanning more than twenty years, ranges in topic from time to the philosophy of mathematics, but is unified by a steady philosophical outlook. The essays are, in one way or another, informed by Dummett's concern with metaphysical questions and his belief that the correct approach to them is via the theory of meaning. Re...(展开全部)

Take a pinch of unease. Stir it into a large dollop of the macabre, add a generous helping of dark and stylish wit, garnish with the bizarre and what do you have? Roald Dahl at his brilliant, hypnotizing best, cooking up some of the most unusual stories ever told. Here in one volume are "Tales of the Unexpected and More Tales of the Unexpected", making this a superb compendium ...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. In The Tame and the Wild, Marcy Norton tells a new history of the colonization of the Americas, placing wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. Encounters between European and Indigenous beliefs about animal life trans...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated ...(展开全部)

A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were vaster than the oceans that had separated ...(展开全部)

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do: sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell’s family’s experiences, from the many ecc...(展开全部)