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山羊豆、牛膝菊、金盏花，还有萹蓄、牛蒡、猪殃殃……在你眼里，它们是怡人的闲花野草，还是可恶的农业公害？是原野上野火烧不尽、春风吹又生的生命力象征，还是花园里离经叛道的麻烦制造者？
理查德·梅比被《泰晤士报》誉为“当代不列颠伟大的博物学作家”，在他笔下，杂草不再是园艺爱好者的敌人，而是机敏顽强的漫游者，是年年岁岁与我们照面的邻人，是自然与文明、野生与驯养交汇处的游民，是饱受严重污染摧残的大地向人类发出的警示。路边毫不起眼的杂草，让我们学会如何在自然的边界上生存。
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英国博物学作家理查德·梅比说，杂草的定义取决于人类看待它们的方式。
杂草和我们比邻而居，梅比一方面为自然界不被待见的植物辩护，一方面从历史、小说、诗歌、戏剧和民间故事中钩沉杂草与人类的复杂关系。
文明背后的野性从未走远。一部人类与自然的博弈史，同时也是一幅庞大的杂草迁徙与流浪图景。
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植物在他笔下丰饶茂盛，作为博物学家，理查德•梅比俨然是自然的一部分……《杂草的故事》为流浪的植物辩护，他的写作愈深入，对战斗在边缘的自然敬意就愈重。
——《卫报》
一部具有讽刺意味但是又妙不可言的图书……梅比哀而不伤地认为，经过一个时代的沧桑巨变，杂草也许是我们硕果仅存的唯一。
——《纽约时报书评》
《杂草的故事》提醒人们以更宏大的时空视野、非人类中心论的视角看待植物。
——刘华杰

历史上最伟大的计算机科学著作之一
融深邃思想、实战技术与趣味轶事于一炉的奇书
带你真正领略计算机科学之美
多年以来，当程序员们推选出最心爱的计算机图书时，《编程珠玑》总是位于前列。正如自然界里珍珠出自细沙对牡蛎的磨砺，计算机科学大师Jon Bentley以其独有的洞察力和创造力，从磨砺程序员的实际问题中凝结出一篇篇不朽的编程“珠玑”，成为世界计算机界名刊《ACM通讯》历史上最受欢迎的专栏，最终结集为两部不朽的计算机科学经典名著，影响和激励着一代又一代程序员和计算机科学工作者。本书为第一卷，主要讨论计算机科学中最本质的问题：如何正确选择和高效地实现算法。
在书中，作者选取许多具有典型意义的复杂编程和算法问题，生动描绘了历史上众大师们在探索解决方案中发生的轶事、走过的弯路和不断精益求精的历程，引导读者像真正的程序员和软件工程师那样富于创新性地思考，并透彻阐述和总结了许多独特而精妙的设计原则、思考和解决问题的方法以及实用程序设计技巧。解决方案的代码均以C/C++语言编写，不仅有趣，而且有很大的实战示范意义。每章后所附习题极具挑战性和启发性，书末给出了简洁的解答。
本书是计算机科学方面的经典名著。书的内容围绕程序设计人员面对的一系列实际问题展开。作者Jon Bentley 以其独有的洞察力和创造力，引导读者理解这些问题并学会解决方法，而这些正是程序员实际编程生涯中至关重要的。本书的特色是通过一些精心设计的有趣而又颇具指导意义的程序，对实用程序设计技巧及基本设计原则进行了透彻而睿智的描述，为复杂的编程问题提供了清晰而完备的解决思路。本书对各个层次的程序员都具有很高的阅读价值。
书评
“《编程珠玑》是对我职业生涯早期影响最大的书之一，其中的许多真知灼见多年之后仍然使我受益匪浅。”
——Steve McConnell，软件工程大师，IEEE Software前主编，《代码大全》作者

本书是一本讲述计算机工作原理的书。不过，你千万不要因为“工作原理”之类的字眼就武断地认为，它是晦涩而难懂的。作者用丰富的想象和清晰的笔墨将看似繁杂的理论阐述得通俗易懂，你丝毫不会感到枯燥和生硬。更重要的是，你会因此而获得对计算机工作原理较深刻的理解。这种理解不是抽象层面上的，而是具有一定深度的，这种深度甚至不逊于“电气工程师”和“程序员”的理解。
不管你是计算机高手，还是对这个神奇的机器充满敬畏之心的菜鸟，都不妨翻阅一下本书，读一读大师的经典作品，必然会有收获。

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.
Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.

The past year has been one of viral panic – panic about viruses, that is. Through headlines, public health warnings, and at least one homemade hazmat suit, we were reminded of the powerful force of viruses. They are the smallest living things known to science, yet they can hold the entire planet in their sway.
A Planet of Viruses is Carl Zimmer's eye-opening look at the hidden world of viruses. Zimmer, the popular science writer and author of National Geographic's award-winning blog The Loom, has updated this edition to include the stories of new outbreaks, such as Ebola, MERS, and chikungunya virus; new scientific discoveries, such as a hundred-million-year-old virus that infected the common ancestor of armadillos, elephants, and humans; and new findings that show why climate change may lead to even deadlier outbreaks. Zimmer's lucid explanations and fascinating stories demonstrate how deeply humans and viruses are intertwined. Viruses helped give rise to the first life-forms, are responsible for many of our most devastating diseases, and will continue to control our fate for centuries. Thoroughly readable, and as reassuring as it is frightening, A Planet of Viruses is a fascinating tour of a formidable hidden world.

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.
By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.

海错的“错”，是种类繁多、错杂的意思。
清代画家兼生物爱好者聂璜绘制的《海错图》，共描绘了300多种生物，几乎涵盖无脊椎动物门和脊索动物门的大部分主要类群，还记载了不少海滨植物，是一本颇具现代博物学风格的奇书。
但时代所限，书中也有很多不靠谱之处，比如有些动物聂璜未曾亲见，仅根据别人描述绘制的外形，就会有很大失真。关于生物习性的记载，也是真假混杂。
正因如此，当我开始用今天生物学的角度，对《海错图》中的生物进行分析考证，从他的文字和画作中发现蛛丝马迹，辨别真伪，一步一步推理分析后，鉴定出画中生物的真身——这就像在破案一样，非常过瘾。
在这期间，我还去了辽宁、福建、广东、广西、天津及日本、泰国等地搜集素材、实地考证……到今天一年半多了，不知不觉也写了30篇文章。“破译”还将继续，先集为一本《海错图笔记》，大家看着玩儿。
在本书中，我采用了中国传统本草书的分类法，把书中生物归为“介部、鳞部、虫部、禽部”4类，以展示古人是怎样给生物分类的。有海洋生物的科普，有故纸堆里的考据，有中国人和大海之间的逸事，也有一些我个人的絮叨。说白了，就是我读《海错图》时做的30篇笔记。如果你看完后，觉得这是一本有意思、有意义的书，那我就很高兴了。
——张辰亮