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)

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)

The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed wi...(展开全部)

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)

The most successful journalist on the planet ... Malcolm has a talent Telegraph Mr Gladwell's writing style [is] iconic ... its clarity and easy grace remain difficult to emulate Wall Street Journal Gladwell is a virtuoso writer Independent He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than that he's a genius Times Malcolm Gladwell is ...(展开全部)

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20 th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our ...(展开全部)

What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and...(展开全部)