The acclaimed marine biologist and author of The Brilliant Abyss examines the existential threats the world’s ocean will face in the coming decades and offers cautious optimism for much of the abundant life within in No matter where we live, “we are all ocean people,” Helen Scales emphatically observes in her bracing yet hopeful exploration of the future of the ocean. Beginning...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

西蒙·温彻斯特（Simon Winchester），英国著名作家、探险家、记者，中文名文思淼。生于1944年，1966年自牛津大学地质学专业毕业后，游历过世界很多地方，曾担任《卫报》20余年的海外记者及《星期日泰晤士报》的海外特派员。近年一直为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》、BBC、《观察家》、《史密森学会月刊》等一线媒体撰稿。 他著有多部作品，包括《大西洋的故事》（Atlantic）、《教授与疯子》（the Professor and the Madman）、《李约瑟：揭开中国神秘面纱的人》（The Man Who Loved China）、《OED的故事》（The Meaning of Everything）、《世界边缘的裂缝》（A Crack in the Edge of the World）、《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Ch...(展开全部)

From the rabbit-sized Black-footed Cat of southern Africa to bear-killing Amur tigers of the Russian Far East, the 38 members of the Cat Family include some of the world's most fascinating and magnificent species on earth. Supremely adapted for the kill, all cats are obligate carnivores; they survive only by preying upon other animals, and they have become one of evolution's mo...(展开全部)

Ranging from the largest – the Tiger to the smallest species – the Rusty-Spotted Cat and Black-Footed Cat, the world's wild cats are some of the most beautiful, ferocious and feared carnivores in the world. Wild Cats of the World provides a detailed account of each species of wild cat, examining their importance throughout history and the future of some of the most endangered b...(展开全部)

Did you know that European royalty once used cheetahs to hunt deer, or that caracals can capture birds by leaping six and a half feet straight up into the air from a standing start? Have you ever wondered whether domestic cats really do land on their feet when they fall, or how Canada lynx can stalk their prey in the winter without falling through the deep snow? "Wild Cats of t...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for Writing & Literature Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusi...(展开全部)

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm; there i...(展开全部)

保羅．葛林伯格 （Paul Greenberg） 1967年生，美國作家和散文家。2005年開始，定期為《紐約時報雜誌》（New York Times Magazine）、《紐約時報書評》（New York Times Book Review）和《紐約時報》社論版撰文，主要關注魚類、水產養殖和海洋未來的議題；亦曾為《國家地理雜誌》（National Geographic Magazine）、《GQ》、《Vogue》及其他許多出版品撰文。 美國國家藝術基金會文學獎助金（National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow），以及凱洛格基金會食物暨社會政策獎助金（W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow）得主。以本書獲得2011年詹姆斯比爾德...(展开全部)

Thinking about the future has become essential. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery Ð perhaps the greatest mystery of all Ð since futures are unpredictable, uncertain and often unknowable, the outcome of many known and unknown unknowns. The future can rarely be...(展开全部)