作者简介： 瓦莱丽·特鲁埃（Valerie Trouet），生物科学工程博士，亚利桑那大学树木年轮实验室教授，从事树木年轮学研究二十余年，发表论文六十多篇，是欧洲已知最古老的活树（树龄1075年）的发现者。她的研究重点关注过去两千年的气候及其对历史事件和生态系统的影响，曾被《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《卫报》《国家地理》等多家媒体报道。 译者简介： 许晨曦，中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所研究员，博士生导师，主要从事树木年轮与全球变化研究。 安文玲，中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所副研究员，研究方向为树木年轮与气候变化。

What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined? Named an April 2020 New and Noteworthy Book by The New York Times Children around the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and...(展开全部)

From the author of The History of the World in 100 Animals , a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week, comes an inspirational new book that looks at the 100 plants that have had the greatest impact on humanity, stunningly illustrated throughout.As humans, we hold the planet in the palms of ours hands. But we still consume the energy of the sun in the form of food. The sun is available...(展开全部)

Welcome to the world of Pokémon. For 25 years, this series has entertained leagues of aspiring Trainers. Starting as a mere idea in the mind of Satoshi Tajiri, drawing from his experiences catching bugs as a child, it grew into a duet of Game Boy games that captured the hearts of Japan. From then, the Pocket Monsters set their sights on taking over the rest of the world by stor...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author and nationally renowned minister Timothy Keller unlocks new insights into the life of Jesus Christ. King's Cross is Timothy Keller's revelatory look at the life of Christ as told in the Gospel of Mark. There have been many biographies of Jesus, but few will be as anticipated as one by Keller, the man Newsweek calls "a C.S. Lewis for t...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

作者简介： 劳伦·E.奥克斯是一名生态学家、作家和教育家。她是野生动物保护协会气候适应项目的环境保护科学家，斯坦福大学地球系统科学的兼职教授。劳伦教授关于科学故事讲述技巧以及大学科学传播课程。她于2015年获得斯坦福大学埃米特环境与资源跨学科项目博士学位，2004年获得布朗大学环境研究与视觉艺术学士学位。她的森林相关研究已经被《大西洋月刊》《基督教科学箴言报》《科学美国人》《科学星期五》《赫芬顿邮报》《户外杂志》《史密森尼》和其他媒体报道过。她曾为《纽约时报》和《国家地理》的“开放探索者”撰稿，并联合制作了《红色黄金》和《阿拉斯加黄金》两部环境题材纪录片。 译者简介： 李可欣，同济大学风景园林硕士，四川德阳人。

【英】西蒙·加菲尔德（Simon Garfield） 英国作家、毛姆奖获得者，著有多部非虚构作品，其中《字体故事：西文字体的美丽传奇》《书信的历史：鹅毛笔的奇幻旅行》《把世界装进火柴盒：微缩的历史》等已出中文简体版。 李旭 北京大学法律史专业博士研究生，研究方向为近现代国际法史、帝国史、区域国别研究，译有《经济制裁》《俘虏危机》等书。

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of childr...(展开全部)

作者： J.R.R. 托尔金（J.R.R. Tolkien） 英国文豪，天才的语言学家，生于1892年1月3日，1925年开始担任牛津大学教授。他创作了一系列脍炙人口的中洲世界史诗，影响最为深远的是《霍比特人》和《魔戒》。这两部巨作被誉为当代奇幻作品的鼻祖。1972年3 月28日，托尔金获英国女王伊丽莎白二世颁发的大英帝国指挥官勋章。 托尔金于1973年9月2日在牛津逝世。托尔金死后，其作品声名未减，至今全球已畅销2.5亿余册，《魔戒》在英国Waterstones书店和第四频道合办的票选活动中被选为20世纪之书，被亚马逊网络书店票选为两千年以来最重要的书。 译者： 邓嘉宛，专职译者，英国纽卡斯尔大学社会语言学硕士。从事文学与基督教神学翻译工作二十年，译有《魔戒》《精灵宝钻》《胡林的子女》等四十余种作品。喜欢一个人有书有猫做伴的生活。 石中歌，资深托迷...(展开全部)