Plants represent the main source of food for many of the world’s animals, and since they are unable to move away from the herbivores that feed on them (or the fungi, bacteria and other microorganisms that attack them), they need other means of protecting themselves. One self-defence strategy they have developed is the production of poisonous and noxious compounds that deter pot...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白·A. 丹西（Elizabeth A. Dauncey）拥有植物分类学博士学位，她曾长期在伦敦盖伊&圣托马斯医院的毒物检测中心工作，并与英国皇家植物园联合发起了搜集医院植物中毒案例的项目。她还出版过一本名为《有毒植物：家长和儿童护理者指南》（Poisonous Plants: A Guide for Parents and Childcare Providers）的书。 桑尼·拉森（Sonny Larsson）拥有药理学博士学位，他曾在丹麦自然博物馆的植物园工作，研究植物中化学特性的演变。自2013年以来，他一直在瑞典毒物信息中心工作，主要研究方向为植物毒素、草药和膳食补充剂。

Fact or fiction? An imaginative assemblage of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the artist’s much mythologized existence. Van Gogh is the most famous artist in the world, yet our understanding of his life is full of contradictions. Art historians, filmmakers, journalists, psychologists, and conspiracy theorists have offered theories o...(展开全部)

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could. The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappear...(展开全部)

An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by a 'mischievous' animal he met in the Falklands: rare, crow-like falcons known today as striated caracaras. These clever, fearless birds o...(展开全部)

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by a 'mischievous' animal he met in the Falklands: rare, crow-like falcons known today as striated caracaras. These clever, fearless birds o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking...(展开全部)

《离开微软 改变世界:一名微软高管的意外人生》记录了伍德如何努力为自己的管理天分和商业才情开辟出一条意义非凡的新路。对于每一位取得过卓越成就却不知该如何回馈社会的人而言，伍德的经历无疑是一个生动感人而又引人入胜的故事。他告诉了人们怎样将从微软这样知名的企业中所学的知识用于解决世界上最棘手的难题之一：基础教育的缺失。本着这样的理念，作者最终放弃在微软的大好前程，成为全心投入为亚洲第三世界国家儿童提供教育机会的慈善基金会创办人。 伍德发现自己最大的热情、成功以及值得他一生为之奋斗的事业：既不在于就读商学院之时，也不在于他20世纪90年代领导微软亚洲区事务时，而是在于他对灵魂进行探求的一次喜玛拉雅之旅中。一边是让自己忙忙碌碌的事业，一边是对做些具有永恒而重大意义的事情的渴望，这其中的取舍让伍德深感流困顿。在感到工作压力之余，他踏上了前往尼泊尔的旅程。因为他...(展开全部)

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal ...(展开全部)