Weeds is a beautiful collection of the most fascinating vagabond plants around. Gorgeous botanical illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society's archives highlight the delicate charms of 50 captivating species, while in-depth profiles provide key information for the modern gardener on the identification, cultivation and usefulness of weeds. These subversive species no lo...(展开全部)

Weeds is a beautiful collection of the most fascinating vagabond plants around. Gorgeous botanical illustrations from the Royal Horticultural Society's archives highlight the delicate charms of 50 captivating species, while in-depth profiles provide key information for the modern gardener on the identification, cultivation and usefulness of weeds. These subversive species no lo...(展开全部)

Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations' familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe. Yet living so intimately with us, they have be...(展开全部)

Now available in an affordable softcover edition, this classic in Springer's acclaimed Virtual Laboratory series is the first comprehensive account of the computer simulation of plant development. 150 illustrations, one third of them in colour, vividly demonstrate the spectacular results of the algorithms used to model plant shapes and developmental processes. The latest in com...(展开全部)

Weeds survive, entombed in the soil, for centuries. They are as persistent and pervasive as myths. They ride out ice ages, agricultural revolutions, global wars. They mark the tracks of human movements across continents as indelibly as languages. Yet to humans they are the scourge of our gardens, saboteurs of our best-laid plans. They rob crops of nourishment, ruin the exquisit...(展开全部)

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movemen...(展开全部)

玛格丽特·麦克米伦 （Margaret MacMillan） 历史研究及国际关系领域的领军人物，现为牛津大学教授。麦克米伦的曾外祖是英国一战名相劳合·乔治，她的多部作品也与其外祖父的时代背景密切相关，囊括塞缪尔·约翰逊奖、达夫·库珀奖、赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼奖等众多国际大奖。

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

理查德•霍加特（Richard Hoggart，1918—2014），英国学者，主要治学领域为社会学、英语文学和文化研究，曾任伯明翰大学现代英语文学教授、伦敦大学戈德史密斯学院院长等职，也曾担任联合国教科文组织总干事助理。

斯蒂芬·图尔敏(Stephen E.Toulmin，1922―2009)出生于英国伦敦，1948年在剑桥大学以数理逻辑研究获得博士学位，后长期任教于美国的大学，讲授科学哲学、逻辑学和伦理学课程。他的著述有力地论述了传统形式逻辑的局限性，主张用“实践逻辑”补充形式逻辑的不足，提出了在今天国际逻辑和论证研究中*有影响力的“图尔敏论证模型”。