Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koemer tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, this book also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre econ...(展开全部)

Carl Linnaeus, Pioneer of Modern Botany combines the story of his life with a clear exposition and evaluation of his contribution to botanical science.

18世纪50年代到19世纪40年代，英国民众提出权利主张的形式发生了显著变化。世界性、模式化、自发性的集体行动逐渐取代了狭隘的、特殊的、分化的集体行动，这种转变催生了英国民众参与国家政治的浪潮，英国大众抗争逐步议会化和民主化。本书全面审视了1758—1834年英国的大众抗争剧目，深入剖析了英国大众抗争变化的原因。这部引人入胜的研究著作生动再现了英国民众在关键历史时期的群像，同时指出了这一时期英国大众集体行动转型的深刻意义。

查尔斯·蒂利（1921—2008），著名社会学家、政治学家，被誉为“21世纪社会学之父”。曾任美国哥伦比亚大学约瑟夫·伯滕威泽社会科学教授，曾在特拉华大学、哈佛大学、多伦多大学、密歇根大学、社会研究新学院等校兼任教职；是美国国家科学院、美国艺术和科学研究院、美国哲学学会、美国艺术与科学促进会会员。 秦汉元 新闻媒体编辑，中国人民大学国际关系学院法学硕士。 杨端程 中国人民大学法学博士，现任华东政法大学政府管理学院讲师。译有《战争之波：现代世界中的民族主义、国家形成与族群排斥》（独译）、《探索之道：社会科学的启发式研究法》（与宋奇合译）。

维尔弗里德·布兰特（Wilfrid Blunt）是伊顿公学资深的绘画老师，皇家艺术大学和伦敦林奈协会的会员，著有多部传记作品和关于欧洲艺术与植物学的著作。他的《植物学插图艺术》已经成为植物科学画的标准的参考读物。逝于1987。 译者：徐保军，1983年生。2012年毕业于北京大学哲学系，获博士学位。现为北京林业大学人文学院副教授。研究方向为科学哲学、科学思想史、博物学、生态文明。

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism—to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the...(展开全部)

Enlightenment botany was replete with sexual symbolism—to the extent that many botanical textbooks were widely considered pornographic. Carl Linnaeus's controversial new system for classifying plants based on their sexual characteristics, as well as his use of language resonating with erotic allusions, provoked intense public debate over the morality of botanical study. And the...(展开全部)

Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, agriculture, medicine, and environmental science, natural history also attracts ...(展开全部)

Since natural history emerged in the middle of the 18th century, it has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life - evolution - and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to ecology, agriculture, medicine and environmental science, natural history attracts enormous popular interest. In this work...(展开全部)