The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life—eating, drinking, and reproducing—the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book

你有多久没有抬头看看天空的星辰了？又有多久没有在雪地上聆听一次风的声音了？不知何时，人类慢慢失去了静下来倾听大自然喃喃细语的能力。身体变得越来越疲惫，内心也变得越来越浮躁。夜深人静时不禁想问：我们究竟需要怎样的生活？在遥远的阿拉斯加，似乎有什么在一直召唤着我们的心灵。那里有我们未曾见过的冰河、星空、雪岩、极光、北美驯鹿、鲸，还有世界蕞初、蕞美的样子。在那里，我们才能真正感受到内心的宁静与自由，生命的纯真与自在。如果你想获得片刻的安静，或者想放松一下疲惫的身心，请拿起这本书，跟随星野道夫一起远离纷乱的尘世，进入一个仿佛被世界遗弃般宁静的世界。我们听见的也许是极地的呼唤，或是自己因感动而颤抖的心。海报：

在绿色的大房间里，一只小兔子躺在床上。“晚安，房间。晚安，月亮。”他向这个灯光柔和的房间里的一切熟悉事物：三只小熊坐在椅子上的那幅画，座钟和短袜，小猫和手套，等等的所有东西，一一道晚安。
在这部深受一代代读者喜爱的经典儿童文学作品中，安静诗意的文字，与柔和平静、催人欲睡的画面，共同创造了一部完美的睡前故事书。它从孩子的视角出发，获得了无数大小读者的喜爱，荣誉等身，经久不衰。自1947年出版至今，不同译本已发行超过2000万册。
《晚安，月亮》已被翻译成法语、西班牙语、荷兰语、日语、俄语、瑞典语、韩语、巴西葡萄牙语、加泰罗尼亚语、希伯来语、老挝苗语。

夜的故事总是充满魅力的，以夜色做背景，凹凸不平的画布、浮雕式的涂层，让人忍不住想上去触摸一把。厚重的色调，给人以心理上的依托。
动物的每一次叠加，并不是简简单单的重现。每个动物，每一次变化都用不同的方向、不同的角度在释放着他们的力量，一起向上支撑着。
夜色下的月亮是轻盈的，它在游戏着，游戏的名称也许叫“逗你玩”！直到它累了、玩够了。动物们终于尝到了月亮的滋味，尝到了辛劳的回报。吃饱了、吃累了...
最后的结局来得突兀而谐趣，充盈着童稚童真的趣味。一本不可多得的好书！

春天还没来的时候，草是褐色的。但如果你等待，春天会把它变成绿色，再镶上小小的花朵。
如果你等待，一枚蛋会变成一只小鸟，一颗种子会慢慢发芽。从融雪到嫩芽，从春雨到泥巴，从枯草丛生到花园遍染……春天来得忽快忽慢，它总是变化心意。但当它终于留步，你会看到……你喜欢泥巴吗？你喜欢水洼吗？一起翻开这本书，一起嗅闻、感受、体会春天的气息吧！

《老鼠牙医生》内容简介：纽伯瑞银奖作品《老鼠牙医生》讲述的是一个老鼠智斗狐狸的故事。德索托医生是一位牙医生，他医术高明。在能干的助手德索托太太的帮助下，他为大大小小的动物看牙病。他的技术是那样高超，幸运的病人们一点儿都不会觉得疼痛。德索托医生是一位老鼠牙医生，因此从不给吃老鼠的“危险”动物看牙。可是有一天，一只狐狸出现了，他牙疼得要命，乞求德索托医生帮他治病。善良的德索托夫妇怎样打发他？又怎样确保给狐狸装上假牙后他不会露出本性？聪明的德索托医生和太太找到了一个办法……
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Only the person who gave us Tuesday could have devised this fantastic tale, which begins with a school trip to the Empire State Building. There a boy makes friends with a mischievous little cloud, who whisks him away to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7 (the region that includes New York City). The clouds are bored with their everyday shapes, so the boy obligingly starts to sketch some new ones. . . . The wordless yet eloquent account of this unparalleled adventure is a funny, touching story about art, friendship, and the weather, as well as a visual tour de force.

In this inspiring coming-of-age memoir, a world-renowned astrophysicist emerges from an impoverished childhood and crime-filled adolescence to ascend through the top ranks of research physics.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS •“You’ll encounter one extraordinary turn of events after another, as the extraordinary chess player, puzzle solver, and occasional grifter works his way from grinding poverty and deep despair to worldwide acclaim as a physicist.”—Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society
Navigating poverty, violence, and instability, a young James Plummer had two guiding stars—a genius IQ and a love of science. But a bookish nerd is a soft target, and James faced years of bullying and abuse. As he struggled to survive his childhood in some of the country’s toughest urban neighborhoods in New Orleans, Houston, and LA, and later in the equally poor backwoods of Mississippi, he adopted the persona of “gangsta nerd”—dealing weed in juke joints while winning state science fairs with computer programs that model Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Once admitted to the elite physics PhD program at Stanford University, James found himself pulled between the promise of a bright future and a dangerous crack cocaine habit he developed in college. With the encouragement of his mentor and the sole Black professor in the physics department, James confronted his personal demons as well as the entrenched racism and classism of the scientific establishment. When he finally seized his dream of a life in astrophysics, he adopted a new name, Hakeem Muata Oluseyi, to honor his African ancestors.
Alternately heartbreaking and hopeful, A Quantum Life narrates one man’s remarkable quest across an ever-expanding universe filled with entanglement and choice.

这是一个通过辩论的方式思考自己来自何方的故事。故事讲述一个黄木偶和一个粉木偶正在晒太阳，他们不知道自己从哪里来，为什么在这里，于是开始思索起自己的出身。他们推测、争论，黄木偶认为是数百万年来的种种偶然造就了他们，并想出各种可能性来自圆其说，而粉木偶一开始并不同意，但最终还是渐渐被说服。正在这时，一个男人出现，拿起这两个木偶离开了。这个突如其来的变故，打破了两个木偶所有的构想。

献给每一位想要放慢脚步，
在世界的隐秘角落静一静的你。
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简单、自然生活的圣经。
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2009年，年轻的美国创业家、Vimeo视频网站创始人扎克•克莱因在纽约市远郊的山里买了一块地，和朋友们一起盖了几间木屋，结伴而居。他的网站“木屋之色”应运而生。在这里，来自世界各地的人们分享了超过1.2万幅小屋的照片和造屋故事，其中的200幅精美照片和10个动人故事，构成了这本《木屋之色》。
《木屋之色》不只展示自然的大美、木屋的精巧，更呈现人对生命、生活方式的思考。
在10个故事中，人们或隐世而居、或改建旧屋、或凿穴而住，在自然风景中动手建屋，与家人朋友共度美好时光，营造梦想的生活。
而200幅世界各地的木屋风景里，有深山、荒漠、丛林、河海、高崖、土坡……它们告诉你，只要愿意，人可以在喜欢的任何地方惬意安居。
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故事主人公美丽的纯朴开朗给了读者深刻的印象，她只有三个铜板的压岁钱，先是给了需要钱过年的贫困女孩力大第一个铜钱，又忍住美食的诱惑用第二枚铜钱买了鞭炮，第三枚铜钱则给哥哥圣玉带来了财运。虽然压岁钱花完时，美丽多少有些沮丧，而算命道士“统治一个王国”的预言，又令美丽兴奋不已。经过城里一天的历险，善有善报的美丽，在女孩力大的帮助下，顺利出城，踏上回家的路。所有的劳累和饥饿在美丽看到家的那一刻全都融化了，妈妈温柔的问候，热腾腾的年夜饭，是每个归家游子的期盼。

The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and what its epic unraveling says about a financial system drunk on the elixir of Silicon Valley innovation—from the Wall Street Journal correspondents (recently featured in the WeWork Hulu documentary) whose scoop-filled reporting hastened the company’s downfall.
WeWork would be worth $10 trillion, more than any other company in the world. It wasn’t just an office space provider. It was a tech company—an AI startup, even. Its WeGrow schools and WeLive residences would revolutionize education and housing. One day, mused founder Adam Neumann, a Middle East peace accord would be signed in a WeWork. The company might help colonize Mars. And Neumann would become the world’s first trillionaire.
This was the vision of Neumann and his primary cheerleader, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In hindsight, their ambition for the company, whose primary business was subletting desks in slickly designed offices, seems like madness. Why did so many intelligent people—from venture capitalists to Wall Street elite—fall for the hype? And how did WeWork go so wrong?
In little more than a decade, Neumann transformed himself from a struggling baby clothes salesman into the charismatic, hard-partying CEO of a company worth $47 billion—on paper. With his long hair and feel-good mantras, the six-foot-five Israeli transplant looked the part of a messianic truth teller. Investors swooned, and billions poured in.
Neumann dined with the CEOs of JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, entertaining a parade of power brokers desperate to get a slice of what he was selling: the country’s most valuable startup, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a generation-defining moment.
Soon, however, WeWork was burning through cash faster than Neumann could bring it in. From his private jet, sometimes clouded with marijuana smoke, he scoured the globe for more capital. Then, as WeWork readied a Hail Mary IPO, it all fell apart. Nearly $40 billion of value vaporized in one of corporate America’s most spectacular meltdowns.
Peppered with eye-popping, never-before-reported details, The Cult of We is the gripping story of careless and often absurd people—and the financial system they have made.

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A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring exploration of human consciousness and its possibilities
On the morning of December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of her brain. A neuroanatomist by profession, she observed her own mind completely deteriorate to the point that she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall any of her life, all within the space of four brief hours. As the damaged left side of her brain--the rational, grounded, detail- and time-oriented side--swung in and out of function, Taylor alternated between two distinct and opposite realties: the euphoric nirvana of the intuitive and kinesthetic right brain, in which she felt a sense of complete well-being and peace; and the logical, sequential left brain, which recognized Jill was having a stroke, and enabled her to seek help before she was lost completely.
In My Stroke of Insight , Taylor shares her unique perspective on the brain and its capacity for recovery, and the sense of omniscient understanding she gained from this unusual and inspiring voyage out of the abyss of a wounded brain. It would take eight years for Taylor to heal completely. Because of her knowledge of how the brain works, her respect for the cells composing her human form, and most of all an amazing mother, Taylor completely repaired her mind and recalibrated her understanding of the world according to the insights gained from her right brain that morning of December 10th.
Today Taylor is convinced that the stroke was the best thing that could have happened to her. It has taught her that the feeling of nirvana is never more than a mere thought away. By stepping to the right of our left brains , we can all uncover the feelings of well-being and peace that are so often sidelined by our own brain chatter. A fascinating journey into the mechanics of the human mind, My Stroke of Insight is both a valuable recovery guide for anyone touched by a brain injury, and an emotionally stirring testimony that deep internal peace truly is accessible to anyone, at any time. Questions for Jill Bolte Taylor Amazon.com: Your first reaction when you realized what was happening to your body was one you would expect: "Oh my gosh, I'm having a stroke!" Your second, though, was a little more surprising: "Wow, this is so cool!" What could be cool about a stroke? Taylor: I grew up to study the brain because I have a brother who is only 18 months older than I am. He was very different in the way he perceived experiences and then chose to behave. As a result, I became fascinated with the human brain and how it creates our perception of reality. He was eventually diagnosed with the brain disorder schizophrenia, and I dedicated my career to the postmortem investigation of the human brain in an attempt to understand, at a biological level, what are the differences between my brain and my brothers brain. On the morning of the stroke, I realized that my brain was no longer functioning like a "normal" brain and this insight into my brother's reality excited me. I was fascinated to intimately understand what it might be like on the inside for someone who would not be diagnosed as normal. Through the eyes of a curious scientist, this was an absolutely rare and fascinating experience for me to witness the breakdown of my own mind. Amazon.com: What did you learn about the brain from your stroke and your recovery that your scientific training hadn't prepared you for? Taylor: My scientific training did not teach me anything about the human spirit and the value of compassion. I had been trained as a scientist, not as a clinician. I can only hope that we are teaching our future physicians about compassion in medicine, and I know that some medical schools, including the Indiana University School of Medicine, have created a curriculum with this intention. My training as a scientist, however, did provide me with a roadmap to how the body and brain work. And although I lost my left cognitive mind that thinks in language, I retained my right hemisphere that thinks in pictures. As a result, although I could not communicate with the external world, I had an intuitive understanding about what I needed to do in order to create an environment in which the cells in my brain could be happy and healthy enough that they could regain their function. In addition, because of my training, I had an innate trust in the ability of my brain to be able to recover itself and my mother and I respected the organ by listening to it. For example, when I was tired, I allowed my brain to sleep, and when I was fresh and capable of focusing my attention, we gave me age-appropriate toys and tools with which to work. Amazon.com: Your stroke affected functions in your left brain, leaving you to what you call the "la-la land" of your right hemisphere. What was it like to live in your right brain, and then to rebuild your left? Taylor: When the cells in my left brain became nonfunctional because they were swimming in a pool of blood, they lost their ability to inhibit the cells in my right hemisphere. In my right brain, I shifted into the consciousness of the present moment. I was in the right here, right now awareness, with no memories of my past and no perception of the future. The beauty of La-la land (my right hemisphere experience of the present moment) was that everything was an explosion of magnificent stimulation and I dwelled in a space of euphoria. This is great way to exist if you don't have to communicate with the external world or care whether or not you have the capacity to learn. I found that in order for me to be able to learn anything, however, I had to take information from the last moment and apply it to the present moment. When my left hemisphere was completely nonfunctional early on, it was impossible for me to learn, which was okay with me, but I am sure it was frustrating for those around me. A simple example of this was trying to put on my shoes and socks. I eventually became physically capable of putting my shoes and socks on, but I had no ability to understand why I would have to put my socks on before my shoes. To me they were simply independent actions that were not related and I did not have the cognitive ability to figure out the appropriate sequencing of the events. Over time, I regained the ability to weave moments back together to create an expanse of time, and with this ability came the ability to learn methodically again. Life in La-la land will always be just a thought away, but I am truly grateful for the ability to think with linearity once again. Amazon.com: What can we learn about our brains and ourselves from your experience, even if we haven't lived through the kind of brain trauma you have? Taylor: I learned that I have much more say about what goes on between my ears than I was ever taught and I believe that this is true for all of us. I used to understand that I had the ability to stop thinking about one thing by consciously choosing to preoccupy my mind with thinking about something else. But I had no idea that it only took 90 seconds for me to have an emotional circuit triggered, flush a physiological response through my body and then flush completely out of me. We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness. Amazon.com: You are the "Singin' Scientist" for Harvard's Brain Bank (just as you were before your stroke). Could you tell us about the Brain Bank (in song or not)? Taylor: There is a long-term shortage of brain tissue donated for research into the severe mental illnesses. Most people dont realize that when you sign the back of your license as an organ donor, the brain is not included. If you would like to donate your brain for research, you must contact a brain bank directly. There is also a shortage of "normal control" tissue for research. The bottom line reality is that if there were more tissue available for research, then more scientists would be dedicating their careers to the study of the severe mental illnesses and we would have more answers about what is going on with these disorders. The numbers of mentally ill individuals in our society are staggering. The most serious and disabling conditions affect about 6 percent--or one in 17--adults and 9-13 percent of children in the United States. Half of all lifetime conditions of mental illness start by age 14 years, and three-fourths by age 24 years. For more information about brain donation to the Harvard brain bank, please call 1-800-BRAINBANK or visit them at: www.brainbank.mclean.org If you would like to hear me sing the brain bank jingle, please visit www.drjilltaylor.com!

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From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal. Bentley's enthusiasm for photographing snowflakes was often misunderstood in his time, but his patience and determination revealed two important truths: no two snowflakes are alike; and each one is startlingly beautiful. His story is gracefully told and brought to life in lovely woodcuts, giving children insight into a soul who had not only a scientist's vision and perseverance but a clear passion for the wonders of nature. "Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." -- Wilson Bentley. SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY won the 1999 Caldecott Medal.

“美国网评2015十七本最美图画书”之一
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《科克斯书评》2015年度最佳图画书
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☆展现独特的多元家庭生活的温暖，田园牧场的自然风光之美。
《索尼娅的小鸡》展现的是独特的美西田园自然生活。索尼娅爱着她的小鸡，索尼娅的爸爸爱着索尼娅，狐狸爸爸爱着他的小狐狸。万物有灵且美，在这里，人与动物、植物和谐而有序地生长。
索尼娅的家庭是多种族的，画中也展现了他们简单、温暖、丰富而又充满爱意的日常家庭生活。
☆讲述失落与守护的亲情故事，鼓励孩子面对失落，勇敢承担。
在成长过程中，我们很少与孩子谈论失去、死亡和悲伤的话题。这本书通过索尼娅从失去小鸡，接受父亲的安慰，继续细心照料小鸡，直到得到新的鸡蛋的过程，鼓励孩子勇敢地向大人说出自己真实的感受，分享失落和悲伤的情绪，并且对自己所爱的事物，承担起守护的责任。
☆美国新兴人气插画家菲比·瓦尔作品，获奖无数，广受赞誉。
菲比·瓦尔以其独具个人风格的创作题材与绘画风格，无论是插画还是设计产品，都在美国大受欢迎。出生在美国西部地区的她将自由快乐的童年生活融入绘本创作。她擅长运用水彩、拼贴、彩铅等多种技法，营造温馨可爱、稚朴美好的画面。
《索尼娅的小鸡》是她的第一本绘本，为她赢得多项童书大奖。她同时还是关注种族歧视、女性平权等等领域的公益画家。
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索尼娅走到哪儿，她的小鸡们就跟着她走到哪儿，“叽叽叽”地大声叫着。在索尼娅的精心照顾下，小鸡们很快就长成了健康的母鸡，还给索尼娅带来了一份美好的礼物：一只鸡蛋！一天夜里，索尼娅听到了从鸡舍里传来的响动，紧接着她发现其中一只母鸡不见了。
它去了哪里？发生了什么事？当索尼娅找到答案时，她明白了自然万物的关联，也体会到了照顾一个生命的快乐和悲伤。
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这个简单的故事有一种老式、复古的感觉。它创造性地运用了水彩、拼贴、彩色铅笔种种技法……这是一个关于自然，关于死亡，却令人感到欣慰的故事。画面与文字同样精美。
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我爱这本书。我们很少花费时间去和孩子谈论失落、死亡、悲伤等等这些让人感到不舒服的话题。然而儿童，尤其是幼儿，他们都会经历失落和恐惧。我和一些三四岁的孩子对这本书进行了交流，有的孩子拥有足够的能力，去表达自己的恐惧和失落。我从他们身上学到了很多。现在我努力，尝试让所有的孩子，都可以学会与其他孩子分享自己的失落与悲伤。
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这本书非常温柔，丰富，美丽，体贴。（当然，因为它的作者是菲比·瓦尔！）我们被介绍给一个可爱的多元文化家庭，他们过着简单而有爱心的生活。父亲是故事中的保护者。索尼娅的家庭是双重种族的，很少有这个家庭配置的书。
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在这本书中，索尼娅的小鸡经历的一切都那么真实。我想这会让我三岁的孩子更懂得死亡，也懂得鸡块都是由鸡做成的。
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一个从银河系某个星球出发的飞碟向地球无限靠近，最后选择在美国纽约着陆。面对这样一个看似不友好的天外来客，美国警方给出了强烈的回应和攻击。其实来自外星球的智慧生命克拉图踏上地球并非有入侵的妄念，而是带着警示来告知人类－－如果再有“挑衅”之举，践踏和平，地球将惨遭灭亡。随他一同到地球“造访”的还有一个具有超级强悍的机器人戈特，他具有的超级能量能将人类轻易“放倒”。
着陆后，这两个天外来客被警方带到了一个地方进行盘问，警方不友好的行为使得克拉图最终自己从这里逃走。通过与人类的交流和沟通，克拉图开始学习关于地球和人类的诸多知识，也让他对这个人类栖居之地有了了解。一个偶然的机会，克拉图遇到了海伦·班森和她的儿子波比，并在这母子俩的带领下开始了他的纽约之旅。克拉图最终在在林肯纪念堂前驻足，因为他看到了林肯在很久以前发表的文字，而他知道这将是拯救地球的希望。
当母子俩开始对克拉图产生怀疑时，克拉图直言不讳地告诉了自己和戈特此行的目的。原来戈特是银河系超级机器人执法小组的成员，他们以捍卫宇宙和平为己任。他们认为人类对宇宙的和平危机越来越深重，因此有必要对地球进行摧毁。
较量开始了，克拉图在林肯纪念堂前看到的那一段文字“Klaatu barada nikto”果真是解救人类的密码吗？这场地球毁灭战会打响吗？地球真的会惨遭灭绝？谁将会是最后的救世主？

影片讲述美国在不久的将来，爆发了影响全国的内战。在资深战地摄影师李·史密斯（克斯汀·邓斯特 Kirsten Dunst 饰）的带领下，记者们组成了一支强大的专业团队，穿越战线并设法生存下来。他们驱车前往华盛顿特区，希望在总统向名为 "WF"的军事力量投降之前采访总统。

继上一次的怪兽高燃对战之后，金刚和哥斯拉将再度联手对抗一个潜伏在世界中的巨大威胁，并逐步探索这些巨兽们的起源以及骷髅岛等地的奥秘。同时，上古之战的面纱也将会被揭晓，而正是那场战斗创造出了这些超凡的生物，并深刻影响了人类世界的命运。