A model wife and mother, Clarisse leads an unremarkable life. She has all she's ever wanted: a well-respected engineer husband and three children, tucked away in a wealthy, middle-class neighbourhood. But her tranquillity ends forever with the arrival of an enigmatic Armenian family across the street. The debonair widower, his beguiling tween daughter, and his mother, a dominee...(展开全部)

A heartwarming and humorous insight into the hopes and aspirations of Iranians in the years that led up to the Islamic Revolution Deep in an Iranian suburb, made rich by the booming oil industry, Clarice Ayvazian lives a comfortable life surrounded by the gentle bickering of her children and her gossiping friends and relatives. Happy being at the heart of her family, she devote...(展开全部)

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

乔治·阿克洛夫：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，国际货币基金组织客座学者，加州大学伯克利分校杰出荣誉教授。著有《现实主义经济学之路》等。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，哥伦比亚大学教授。著有《让全球化造福全球》、《国际间的权衡交易——贸易如何促进发展》、《东亚奇迹的反思》、《经济学（第四版）》、《公共部门经济学（第三版）》等。

乔治·阿克洛夫：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，国际货币基金组织客座学者，加州大学伯克利分校杰出荣誉教授。著有《现实主义经济学之路》等。 约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨：2001年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，哥伦比亚大学教授。著有《让全球化造福全球》、《国际间的权衡交易——贸易如何促进发展》、《东亚奇迹的反思》、《经济学（第四版）》、《公共部门经济学（第三版）》等。

The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdiscipli...(展开全部)

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

In We Are What We Eat, Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life’s work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971, she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Customers responded to the locally sourced organic ingredients, to the dishes made by hand, and to the ...(展开全部)

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What d...(展开全部)

Four friends creep through the woods, and what do they spot? An exquisite bird high in a tree! "Hello birdie," waves one. "Shh! We have a plan," hush the others. They stealthily make their advance, nets in the air. Ready one, ready two, ready three, and go! But as one comically foiled plan follows another, it soon becomes clear that their quiet, observant companion, hand outstr...(展开全部)