亨利·尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），专门从事自然科学写作的记者与作家，关心演化、生态、环保等议题。凭着深入浅出、轻松诙谐的文笔，以及在科学、历史与人文之间自在穿梭的功力，在世界知名报刊如《自然》《新科学家》《卫报》《独立报》上已发表上百篇文章。他的上一本书《寂寞的乔治》讲述的是加拉巴戈群岛上的一只陆龟，在2006年获选为英国《卫报》的一流好书奖，并入围英国皇家学会的综合图书奖。

Nicholls is surely set to become an author of many more fascinating science books. In many ways, this book is what good science writing is all about—explanation through a ripping narrative. (The independent [London] ) A fascinating story of an extraordinary animal. (Desmond Morris, famed zoologist and author of The Naked Ape ) A brilliant storyteller and narrative stylist in th...(展开全部)

Nicholls is surely set to become an author of many more fascinating science books. In many ways, this book is what good science writing is all about—explanation through a ripping narrative. (The independent [London] ) A fascinating story of an extraordinary animal. (Desmond Morris, famed zoologist and author of The Naked Ape ) A brilliant storyteller and narrative stylist in th...(展开全部)

亨利·尼科尔斯（Henry Nicholls），专门从事自然科学写作的记者与作家，关心演化、生态、环保等议题。凭着深入浅出、轻松诙谐的文笔，以及在科学、历史与人文之间自在穿梭的功力，在世界知名报刊如《自然》《新科学家》《卫报》《独立报》上已发表上百篇文章。他的上一本书《寂寞的乔治》讲述的是加拉巴戈群岛上的一只陆龟，在2006年获选为英国《卫报》的一流好书奖，并入围英国皇家学会的综合图书奖。

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy presents fifty original essays, each specially written by a leading figure in the field, covering the entire subject of the history of political philosophy. They provide not only surveys of the state of research but substantial pieces that engage with, and move forward, current debates. Part I addresses questions of met...(展开全部)

When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at h...(展开全部)

From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal wo...(展开全部)

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)

《淑女与熊猫：首位从中国带回其最富异国情调动物的美国女探险家的真实经历》 During the Great Depression, inexpensive entertainment could be had at any city zoo. The exploits of the utterly macho men who bagged the beasts also made good adventure-film fodder. Yet one of the most famous animals ever brought to America—the giant panda—was captured by a woman, Ruth Harkness. Vicki Constantine Croke, the "Animal Beat" co...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)