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)

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)

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”。

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”。

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”。

A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of topics, brought up in everyday life or in academic research, can be rationally justified. Is there one universal system of norms, by which all sorts of arguments in all sorts of fields m...(展开全部)

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。

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