From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz, the beloved Thor Hanson take...(展开全部)

Sue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the t...(展开全部)

《 The Secret Life of Bees 》描述了生活在 1960s 的 14 岁女孩莉莉自幼丧母，与父亲相处并不融洽，与他相依为伴的只有黑人姑娘罗萨林，由于当时种族歧视严重，罗萨林也受到了残酷的对待，这样两个女孩决定离家出走 ... 她们遇见了乐观独立的鲍特莱三姐妹，在这三姐妹的蜜蜂养殖场里莉莉和罗萨林 经历了很多奇妙的体验 ... Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yea...(展开全部)

苏·蒙克·基德（Sue Monk Kidd），美国著名女作家，少女时代深受梭罗的影响。她的文字隽永优美，能触及人心深处最柔软的部分。从自然的灵性中寻找回归的自我，发掘灵魂的美丽，足常常萦绕在她字里行间的主题．小说《蜜蜂的秘密生活》以及《美人鱼椅子》为她赢得各种奖项和提名。

马克斯·皮卡德（Max Picard，1888-1965），瑞士著名哲学家，作为20世纪为数不多的柏拉图式的重要思想家，其作品受到了加布里埃尔·马塞尔、海德格尔、里尔克、荷尔德林等思想家的影响，同时也受到战后现代保守主义的熏陶，注重对一个破碎世界的重塑和恢复。

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that th...(展开全部)

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored...(展开全部)

Computational complexity is one of the most beautiful fields of modern mathematics, and it is increasingly relevant to other sciences ranging from physics to biology. But this beauty is often buried underneath layers of unnecessary formalism, and exciting recent results like interactive proofs, phase transitions, and quantum computing are usually considered too advanced for the...(展开全部)