威尔·亨特 《经济学人》《巴黎每日评论》《探索》《返祖》和《户外》等杂志的撰稿人、摄影师或有声讲述者。 目前，他是纽约大学公共知识研究所的访问学者。《地下世界：我们脚下的人类历史》是他的第一部著作。

An exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet--for fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work. Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, ghostly mines, and all varieties o...(展开全部)

威尔·亨特 《经济学人》《巴黎每日评论》《探索》《返祖》和《户外》等杂志的撰稿人、摄影师或有声讲述者。 目前，他是纽约大学公共知识研究所的访问学者。《地下世界：我们脚下的人类历史》是他的第一部著作。

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its globa...(展开全部)

This award-winning, double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey down through the layers of the Earth, all the way to the planet's core and out the other side. When you're out walking around, whether on the city streets or a country trail, there's always so much to see and hear. But do you ever stop and look down? Have you ever wondered what's going on deep in t...(展开全部)

夏洛特•吉兰 从事童书文字创作，作品《寻找大脚怪》（Spaghetti with the Yeti）入围罗尔德•达尔幽默童书奖。她和丈夫合作出书，他们跟两个孩子一起生活在英国牛津郡。 尤瓦•左默 毕业于英国皇家艺术学院，获插画专业硕士学位，现居伦敦。他曾是一名成功的广告创意总监，因为热爱儿童文学，开始从事童书创作，作品包括处女作《山上的蓝色大块头》（The Big Blue Thing on the Hill），备受好评的《一百根骨头》（One Hundred Bones）和《走进奇妙的虫子世界》（The Big Book of Bugs）等。

This book by celebrated biologist Jo Handelsman lays bare the complex connections among climate change, soil erosion, food and water security, and drug discovery. Humans depend on soil for 95 percent of global food production, yet let it erode at unsustainable rates. In the United States, China, and India, vast tracts of farmland will be barren of topsoil within this century....(展开全部)

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

威廉•麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917—2016），知名历史学家、全球史研究奠基人、世界历史学科的“现代开创者”。芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授，曾担任美国历史学会主席、美国世界史学会主席。在全球史方面的研究卓然有成，德高望重，与斯宾格勒、汤因比齐名，被誉为“20世纪对历史进行世界性解释的巨人”，开辟了一个西方世界史学的新时代。 1963年，威廉•麦克尼尔以一部《西方的兴起：人类共同体史》一举成名，并因此获得美国国家图书奖。在长达六十余年的学术生涯中，麦克尼尔笔耕不辍，著作等身，迄今已出版30多部作品。1996年，威廉•麦克尼尔因“在欧洲文化、社会和社会科学领域里做出的杰出贡献”荣获伊拉斯谟奖。2009年，美国总统奥巴马为威廉•麦克尼尔颁授国家人文勋章，以表彰其在人文科学研究方面所做出的卓越贡献。 威廉•麦克尼尔毕生追求博大宽宏的视野...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian Patrick Manning traces how this Human System evolved from Homo sapiens’ beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization – the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today’s newly globa...(展开全部)