This book focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorisation drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down", put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. This book promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against scho...(展开全部)

For decades after identifying the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98% of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. Yet recently researchers have discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that underwrite a numb...(展开全部)

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that ...(展开全部)

For decades, 98 per cent of our DNA was written off as 'junk' on the grounds that it did not code for proteins. From rare genetic diseases to Down's Syndrome, from viral infections to the ageing process, only now are the effects and the vital functions of these junk regions beginning to emerge. Scientists' rapidly growing knowledge of this often controversial field has already ...(展开全部)

In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said "Yes" and then suddenly, walked out of his life and made Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil, and Russia to discover the true worth of this s...(展开全部)

杰里米•普尔曼，生于英国，在英国接受教育，迄今已发表七部著作。他的第一部著作《关于亚利桑那州的有趣事实》为他赢得了英联邦作家大奖和最佳处女作奖。随后他又发表了《勇敢者之歌》《我的美国》和《皮肤》。他的纪实类作品包括为伊丽莎白•贝肯•卡斯特写的传记《掩藏的伤口》和为他曾曾祖父吉普赛•杰姆•梅斯所写的传记，他这位祖先是世界上最后一位不带手套拳击的重量级世界冠军。

The Road of Bones is the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has been at the centre of the nation's history, having witnessed everything from the first human footsteps to the rise of Putin and his oil-rich oligarchy. Tsars, wars, famine and wealth: all have crossed and travelled this road, but no-one has ever told its story. In...(展开全部)

名叫夏瑞狄恩‧薩卡威的男子是特別行動局最頂尖的探員之一，透過陰謀、卑劣的詭計或軍事行動改變星球的命運，好符合「文明」的期望。 名叫狄賽特‧斯瑪的女子從卑微不受注意的地帶將他拉出來，將他推向現在的顯赫成就，但儘管有他們那一切的約定，她並不如她以為的那樣了解他。 名叫斯卡芬─阿姆提斯考的機器人認識這兩個人。它曾經以特別血腥的辦法展開大屠殺而救了女子一命。它認為那位男子已經喪失了熱忱。但即使擁有機器的人工智慧，它也無從見證男子的可怕過去。 無比地聰穎，兼具詼諧與恐怖，《武器浮生錄》是一部科幻小說的傑作。 再也沒有英國科幻作家的作品讓我如此熱切期待……班克斯改寫了整個太空歌劇文類的劇本。──時報雜誌 如詩、幽默、困惑、恐怖、性感──伊恩‧班克斯的書就是這些加上更多。──NME 一本細緻、錯綜複雜的小說，充滿了動作跟道德見解，而且撰寫得如此美麗，讓我永遠不想讓...(展开全部)

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile publi...(展开全部)

During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.Coral Reefs by Jason Chin plunges readers into the ocean with inc...(展开全部)