Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Ta...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb ...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb ...(展开全部)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Ta...(展开全部)

The debut collection of a writer whose accolades precede her: a Whiting Award, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Best American Essays selection, and a Pushcart Prize, all received before her first book-length publication. This book represents a major break-out of an entirely new brand of nonfiction writer, in a mode like that of Ander Monson, John D'Agata, and Eula Biss, but a new sort of ...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing...(展开全部)

Trees provoke deep affection, spirituality, and creativity. They cover about a third of the world’s land and play a crucial role in our environmental systems—influencing the water, carbon, and nutrient cycles and the global climate. This puts trees at the forefront of research into mitigating our climate emergency; we cannot understate their importance in shaping our daily live...(展开全部)

作者：保罗·史密斯（Paul Smith） 深耕植物保护领域30年，现任国际植物园保护联盟（BGCI）秘书长，BGCI牵头开展了全球树木评估项目，并于2021年发布了《世界树木状况报告》。此前，他曾担任英国皇家植物园邱园千年种子库（MSB）的负责人。 他是非洲南部植物和植被方面的专家，也是威尔士国家植物园受托人、世界自然保护联盟植物保护委员会联合主席和英格兰树木园咨询委员会主席，获得过新英格兰野花协会国际植物保护服务奖章和戴维·费尔柴尔德植物探索奖章。 译者：殷茜 国家植物园科普馆高级实验师。先后任职于江苏省中国科学院植物研究所和国家植物园，从事过植物保护、植物引种保育、科普教育等工作。曾获得全国科普讲解大赛三等奖，所著《遗世独立：珍稀濒危植物手绘观察笔记》获得2020年度中国科普作家协会优秀科普作品奖银奖。

作者：保罗·史密斯（Paul Smith） 深耕植物保护领域30年，现任国际植物园保护联盟（BGCI）秘书长，BGCI牵头开展了全球树木评估项目，并于2021年发布了《世界树木状况报告》。此前，他曾担任英国皇家植物园邱园千年种子库（MSB）的负责人。 他是非洲南部植物和植被方面的专家，也是威尔士国家植物园受托人、世界自然保护联盟植物保护委员会联合主席和英格兰树木园咨询委员会主席，获得过新英格兰野花协会国际植物保护服务奖章和戴维·费尔柴尔德植物探索奖章。 译者：殷茜 国家植物园科普馆高级实验师。先后任职于江苏省中国科学院植物研究所和国家植物园，从事过植物保护、植物引种保育、科普教育等工作。曾获得全国科普讲解大赛三等奖，所著《遗世独立：珍稀濒危植物手绘观察笔记》获得2020年度中国科普作家协会优秀科普作品奖银奖。