罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan, New York Times best-selling author and one of the country’s most influential strategic thinkers, paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United...(展开全部)

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

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A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

A survey of 'The Man-made World' including Ethics And Religion, Art, Politics And Warfare (with Woman and the State)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HEALTH AND BEAUTY AMONG the many paradoxes which we find in human life is our low average standard of health and beauty, compared with our power and knowledge. All creatures suffer from...(展开全部)

√ A panoramic view of life on Earth. drawing on geology, cosmology, chemistry, biology, and medicine √ Shows how oxygen drove the evolution of sophisticated cells, multicellular organisms, large animals and plants, photosynthesis, predators, giant insects, two sexes, and ageing √ Links the extremes of the living world, from bacterial tolerance of cosmic radiation, to the organi...(展开全部)