From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination For millennia, owls have captivated and intrigued us. Our fascination with these mysterious birds was first documented more than thirty thousand years ago in the Chauvet C...(展开全部)

Cat Warren is a university professor and former journalist with an admittedly odd hobby: She and her German shepherd have spent the last seven years searching for the dead. Solo is a cadaver dog. What started as a way to harness Solo’s unruly energy and enthusiasm soon became a calling that introduced Warren to the hidden and fascinating universe of working dogs, their handlers...(展开全部)

• How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? • Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? • By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning us into subliminally controlled shopping zombies? • Were Smell-O-Vision ...(展开全部)

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual level. . . . Voegelin's [work] stands out in bold relief from much of what ...(展开全部)

"Thirty-five years ago few could have predicted that "The New Science of Politics" would be a best-seller by political theory standards. Compressed within the Draconian economy of the six Walgreen lectures is a complete theory of man, society, and history, presented at the most profound and intellectual level. . . . Voegelin's [work] stands out in bold relief from much of what ...(展开全部)

作者简介：沃格林（Eric Voegelin，1901-1985）/ 20世纪西方著名的政治哲学家。在实证主义政治科学独领风骚的年代里，沃格林凭借渊博的学问和深刻的见识，对人之本性、处境和命运进行了深邃的思考和探索，试图恢复对政治事务之本质的洞察，重建真正的政治科学。沃格林生前发表了上百篇论文和多种著作，其中以《新政治科学》和《秩序与历史》最为著名，现有英文版《沃格林全集》34卷行世。 译者简介：段保良 / 政治学博士，执教于陕西师范大学，主要研究领域为政治哲学，西方政治思想史。

A Nobel Prize-winning economist and author of Globalization and Its Discontents challenges perceptions about financial theories stemming from the apparent prosperity of the 1990s, noting such factors as reduced accounting standards and deregulation that caused the economic problems of today. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. Publisher Comments: "The Roaring Nineties offers not o...(展开全部)

加布里埃尔·沃克（Gabrielle Walker），是一位极富天资、多次获奖的科学作家，已经出版了四部科普作品，包括《大气：万物的起源》。她是剑桥大学的化学博士，在BBC的多档新闻热点节目中担任嘉宾主持人，并担任《冰的秘密生活》（The secret Life of Ice ）和《每一次呼吸》（Every Breath We Take ）等多部BBC科学纪录片的策划人和片中解说人。她还是剑桥大学和普林斯顿大学的客座教员，也是《自然》杂志和《新科学家》杂志的特邀编辑。她目前居住在伦敦。

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo-Evolutionary Developmental Biology-is the new science that has finally cracked open the box. Within the pages of his rich and riveting book, Sean B. Carroll explains how we are discovering that complex life is ironically much simpler than anyone ever expected.

In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were “tame and inquisitive . . . quarrelsome and passionate,” and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip ...(展开全部)