作者 【美】娜塔莉·安吉尔（NATALIE ANGIER） 《纽约时报》生物学专栏作家。曾荣获普利策奖、美国科学促进会新闻事业奖、刘易斯·托马斯生命科学写作奖以及其他诸多奖项，还曾为《大西洋月刊》《华盛顿月刊》《读者文摘》、福克斯有线电视网、加拿大广播公司以及许多重量级女性杂志撰文。 著有《野兽之美》（The Beauty of the Beastly）、《迷恋自然》（Natural Obsessions）和《女性之书》（Woman）。 译者 黄琪，自由译者。 译作有《昆虫传》《当昆虫遇见人类文明》《科学之种》《当代女性先锋设计师》《隐谷路》以及多部科普类绘本。

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the Year From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (Elle). "Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled read...(展开全部)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information? The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating a...(展开全部)

The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon. Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentieth century's most influential designer. Her extraordinary and unconventional journey-from abject poverty to a new kind of glamour- helped forge the idea of modern woman. Unearthing an astonishing life, this remarkable biography...(展开全部)

侯仁之（1911—2013），北京大学教授，中国科学院院士，历史地理学家。侯仁之是中国现代历史地理学的奠基者、开拓者和学术泰斗，在理论和实践两方面为中国历史地理学的发展做出了重大贡献。他在北京城的起源、发展以及历代水源的开辟方面所作的系统、科学的阐述，为北京的城市发展规划提供了重要参考。

诺曼•庞兹（N. J. G. POUNDS，1912—2006），英国地理学家和历史学家，曾执教于剑桥大学，后移居美国。庞兹著有三十余种著作，涉及自古及今的欧洲历史地理，其中代表作品有《欧洲历史地理》《英国堂区史》等。 王大学，历史地理学博士，复旦大学历史地理研究中心副研究员，主要从事历史地理学、环境史与历史地理信息系统（HGIS）研究，主要著作有《明清“江南海塘”的建设与环境》。曾获得2009年上海市优秀博士论文奖、2011年第四届谭其骧禹贡历史地理学奖。 秦瑞芳，世界史硕士，主攻中世纪民族史，复旦大学图书馆馆员。 屈伯文，同济大学博士，现于深圳大学理论经济学博士后科研流动站从事研究工作，主要研究方向为近代早期西方军事史。译有《西方文明的统一》《跟着圣经去考古》等著作

The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the locations of human activities: the environment, the attitudes and forms of social organization of the many different peoples of Europe and lastly, the levels of technology. Within the b...(展开全部)

This new edition of Urban Social Geography provides a critical yet balanced introduction to the social and spatial patterns and processes of the western city. Not only has the text been fully updated, but it has also been extensively restructured to emphasize the sociospatial dialectic and the socio-cultural dimensions of urban life. Urban Social Geography is the study of the s...(展开全部)