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。

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)

You can tell a lot about a tree from the company it keeps. James Nardi guides you through the innermost unseen world that trees share with a wondrous array of creatures. With their elaborate immune responses, trees recruit a host of allies as predators and parasites to defend against uninvited advances from organisms that chew on leaves, drain sap, and bore into wood. Microbial...(展开全部)

Examines the diverse life one can find on a tree and relates how the various plants and animals coexist

简介：虐甜，隐囚文。

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez,, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf Storm. 'Suddenly, as if a whirlwind had set down roots in the centre of the town, the banana company arrived, pursed by the leaf storm'Drenched by rain, the town has been...(展开全部)

What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, k...(展开全部)

What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, k...(展开全部)

The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire "A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome."—Nick Romeo, Christian Science Monitor Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is fi...(展开全部)

The dramatic story of Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire "A fascinating study of political life in ancient Rome."—Nick Romeo, Christian Science Monitor Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is fi...(展开全部)