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)

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)

Award-winning naturalist and author Jon Young's What the Robin Knows reveals how understanding bird language and behavior can help us to see more wildlife. A lifelong birder, tracker, and naturalist, Jon Young is guided by three basic premises: the robin, junco, and other songbirds know everything important about their environment, be it backyard or forest; by tuning in to thei...(展开全部)

Featuring all kinds of dogs – big, small, graceful, cute, funny – The Book of the Dog is a cool and quirky collection of dog art and illustration by artists around the world. Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts about the artists and different breeds, paying homage to man's best friend. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to dog lovers of a...(展开全部)

Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and other wonders of nature. Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-baking, vegetable-growing, and producing the materials of daily life. In stunning images a...(展开全部)

波·布朗森和阿什利·梅里曼，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，社会学家，心理学家。他们的合著曾在《纽约时报》最畅销榜单中持续夺冠6个月，被翻译成16种语言，在超过35个“年度最佳”名单中出现。他们的研究涉及社会学、心理学、军事学、生物学等诸多领域，多角度研究人类心理与行为的规律和奥秘。他们的合作曾获得美国9个国家奖项，包括美国科学发展协会的杰出新闻奖。

It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu. What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In TOP DOG , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman use cutting edge science to tease out the hidden factors at the core of every great triumph - and e...(展开全部)

波·布朗森和阿什利·梅里曼，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，社会学家，心理学家。他们的合著曾在《纽约时报》最畅销榜单中持续夺冠6个月，被翻译成16种语言，在超过35个“年度最佳”名单中出现。他们的研究涉及社会学、心理学、军事学、生物学等诸多领域，多角度研究人类心理与行为的规律和奥秘。他们的合作曾获得美国9个国家奖项，包括美国科学发展协会的杰出新闻奖。

It's a Dog Eat Dog World. Don't Be on the Menu. What are the differences between a winning and losing performance? Why are we able to rise to the challenge one day, but wilt from it the next? Can we in fact become better competitors? In TOP DOG , Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman use cutting edge science to tease out the hidden factors at the core of every great triumph - and e...(展开全部)