All around the world -- in the sea, in the soil, in the air, and in your body -- there are living things so tiny that millions could fit on an ant's antenna. They're busy doing all sorts of things, from giving you a cold and making yogurt to eroding mountains and helping to make the air we breathe. If you could see them with your eye, you'd find that they all look different, an...(展开全部)

文/（英）尼古拉•戴维斯 图/（英）艾蜜莉•萨顿 译/陈宏淑 尼古拉•戴维斯，动物学专业毕业，主要研究鲸鱼和蝙蝠，曾为英国BBC电视台的自然历史单元工作过。她创作了一系列儿童读物，如《关于自然的第一本书》《大蓝鲸》《海豚宝宝》等，并屡屡获奖。她目前居住在威尔士的阿伯加文尼。 艾蜜莉•萨顿毕业于爱丁堡艺术艺术学院的插画专业，除了为图画书绘制插图外，她也画油画、做雕塑并做平面设计。《微生物 看不见的魔术师》是她与英国沃克出版社合作出版的第一本书。

文/（英）尼古拉•戴维斯 图/（英）艾蜜莉•萨顿 译/陈宏淑 尼古拉•戴维斯，动物学专业毕业，主要研究鲸鱼和蝙蝠，曾为英国BBC电视台的自然历史单元工作过。她创作了一系列儿童读物，如《关于自然的第一本书》《大蓝鲸》《海豚宝宝》等，并屡屡获奖。她目前居住在威尔士的阿伯加文尼。 艾蜜莉•萨顿毕业于爱丁堡艺术艺术学院的插画专业，除了为图画书绘制插图外，她也画油画、做雕塑并做平面设计。《微生物 看不见的魔术师》是她与英国沃克出版社合作出版的第一本书。

Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author's award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In "The Price," a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every nigh...(展开全部)

Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author's award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In "The Price," a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every nigh...(展开全部)

Too many of us feel trapped by work that keeps us from living our purpose. We fantasize about starting our own business, yet we're warned against falling into debt, working eighty hours a week, and coping with the pressure to grow.

Too many of us feel trapped by work that keeps us from living our purpose. We fantasize about starting our own business, yet we're warned against falling into debt, working eighty hours a week, and coping with the pressure to grow.

Almost every animal will at some time or other become the home of a parasite. Not only are parasites the most sucessful life-forms on Earth, they triggered the development of sex, shape, ecosystems, and have driven the engine of evolution. Carl Zimmer describes the frightening and amazing ingenuity these commando invaders use to devour their hosts from the inside and control th...(展开全部)

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters--the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 meters, the oceans offer 99% of the space on Earth where life can develop. And the deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness...(展开全部)

In autumn, a strong wind blows flower seeds high in the air and carries them far across the land. One by one, many of the seeds are lost -- burned by the sun, fallen into the ocean, eaten by a bird. But some survive the long winter and, come spring, sprout into plants, facing new dangers -- trampled by playing children, picked as a gift for a friend. Soon only the tiniest seed ...(展开全部)