In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and...(展开全部)

Thomas F. Pettigrew是加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校的社会心理学研究教授。自1956年起，他已经发表了超过400篇论文、书的章节以及评论，以及16本书和专著。佩蒂格鲁因其在过去半个世纪将社会心理学的关注点集中于群际接触领域而广受认可。本书的研究聚焦在找到宏观（文化和结构）、中观（情境）和微观（个体）水平的社会科学理论和研究的联接之上，而群际接触正是构成了这样的一种联接。佩蒂格鲁曾担任社会问题心理研究学会（SPSSI）的主席，曾获得过协会的柯特勒温杰出贡献奖，并两次获得协会的戈登奥尔波特群际研究奖。2002年，实验社会心理学会授予他杰出科学家奖。 Linda R. Tropp是马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校的心理学副教授，以及该校和平与暴力心理学项目的主席。她主要的研究兴趣是多数地位群体和少数地位群体的成员间发生的群际接触经验、对社会群体的认同...(展开全部)

The author of The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail now raises challenging questions about some of the major issues of our time--AIDS, drug abuse, and aging. With extraordinary perception, he discusses topics such as evolutionary biology, the development of language, the therapeutic aspects of medicine, and his love for his profession.

Our Earth is more beautiful and more diverse than we can possibly conceive of. The Book of Vanishing Species is a stunning homage to the planet’s most mysterious, bizarre and wondrous creatures and plants. Their stories are captivating, from the eyeless and tiny dragonlike olm to the hawksbill turtle, whose gender will be determined by the temperature of the sand it is born in....(展开全部)

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeedand those that dont Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. In this masterful book, three of todays leading policy experts cut th...(展开全部)

约翰•伯格，英国艺术评论家、小说家、画家和诗人，1926年出生于英国伦敦。1944至1946年在英国军队服役。退役后入切尔西艺术学院和伦敦中央艺术学院学习。1940年代后期，伯格以画家身份开始其个人生涯，于伦敦多个画廊举办展览。1948年至1955年，他以教授绘画为业，并为伦敦著名杂志《新政治家》撰稿，迅速成为英国颇具争议性的艺术批评家。 1972年，他的电视系列片《观看之道》在BBC播出，同时出版配套的图文册，遂成艺术批评的经典之作。小说《G》为他赢得了布克奖及詹姆斯•泰特•布莱克纪念奖。2008年，伯格凭借小说From A to X再次获得布克奖提名。

简介：我们曾经相爱却失散于误会和背叛我们之间的红线在那场车祸中碾碎转角的遇见，再也不是我爱的面容

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ and more! Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afte...(展开全部)

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply. When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she … Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. He does not know that a query from a Mrs Tina Hopgood about a world-famous antiquity in his museum is about t...(展开全部)

An Indie Next and LibraryReads Selection “The charmer of the summer.” ―NPR “Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor.” ―Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes...(展开全部)