In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, Why We Run shows Heinrich's signature blend of biology, anthropology, ps...(展开全部)

In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, Why We Run shows Heinrich's signature blend of biology, anthropology, ps...(展开全部)

[美]海伦·费舍尔（Helen Fisher，PhD）。生物人类学家、金赛研究所资深研究员，交友网站Match.com首席科学顾问。著有《情种起源》（Why We Love）、《谁会爱上你，你会爱上谁》（Why Him, Why Her）。除了研究人类的性与爱情，她在TED上还有关于婚姻与恋爱的演讲，已有超过一千万人点击。目前居于纽约。

蒂姆·弗兰纳里（Tim Flannery） 澳大利亚科学院院士，哺乳动物学家、古生物学家、环境学家、探险家、作家，自然资源保护主义者、科学传播活动家。 1984年在新南威尔士大学获得古生物学博士学位，随后进入澳大利亚博物馆并担任哺乳动物馆负责人。历任阿德莱德大学教授、南澳大利亚博物馆馆长、哈佛大学澳大利亚研究客座教授、麦考瑞大学教授等。在古生物和哺乳动物学研究中，他已发现了数十种未被描述过的新物种，并于2007年入选“澳大利亚年度人物”。

蒂姆·弗兰纳里（Tim Flannery） 澳大利亚科学院院士，哺乳动物学家、古生物学家、环境学家、探险家、作家，自然资源保护主义者、科学传播活动家。 1984年在新南威尔士大学获得古生物学博士学位，随后进入澳大利亚博物馆并担任哺乳动物馆负责人。历任阿德莱德大学教授、南澳大利亚博物馆馆长、哈佛大学澳大利亚研究客座教授、麦考瑞大学教授等。在古生物和哺乳动物学研究中，他已发现了数十种未被描述过的新物种，并于2007年入选“澳大利亚年度人物”。

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. "Skin: A Natural History" celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of...(展开全部)

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. Skin: A...(展开全部)

Pliny's "Natural History" is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remov...(展开全部)

Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and propaganda is being put before us from unknown sources by unknown authors.

Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and propaganda is being put before us from unknown sources by unknown authors.