Thorough and accessible, this book presents the design principles of biological systems, and highlights the recurring circuit elements that make up biological networks. It provides a simple mathematical framework which can be used to understand and even design biological circuits. The text avoids specialist terms, focusing instead on several well-studied biological systems that concisely demonstrate key principles. "An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits" builds a solid foundation for the intuitive understanding of general principles. It encourages the reader to ask why a system is designed in a particular way and then proceeds to answer with simplified models.

由1859年出版的《物种起源》迎来的达尔文革命证明了物理学家世界观不够完善。达尔文的进化思想迫使我们对人在生命世界中的地位采取一种现实主义观念。此外，它还促使我们在哲学思想上容纳物理学家的哲学所轻视或缺少的一些概念，诸如变异、多元论、机遇、不确定性、目的性程序、历史信息以及其他。 本书的主要目的是在生物学的各个部门、各个时期中去发现：未解决的问题是什么，提出了哪些设想去解决它们；占支配地位概念的实质，它们的演变，这些概念被修正以及新概念产生的原因是什么；最后，当时流行的概念或新产生的概念对延滞或加速当时未决问题的解决有哪些影响。这种处理方式在最理想的情况下将能刻划出生物学中每个问题的全部生命史。 门外汉常常以科学太技术化、太数学化作藉口来为自己对科学无知辩护。我要告诉本书的未来读者，这书中几乎没有数学，专业技术性程度也不致使门外汉难于理解。生物学思想史的主要长处是，缺乏对动植物种的名称或分类学基础知识的人也能学习。

Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, "The Blind Watchmaker" offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time. A brilliant and controversial book, which demonstrates that evolution by natural selection - the unconscious, automatic, blind, yet essentially non-random process discovered by Darwin - is the only answer to the biggest question of all: why do we exist?

《人体解剖生理学》共分13章，系统阐述了人体基本组织及运动、神经、感官、血液和循环、呼吸、消化、营养及代谢、泌尿、内分泌和生殖系统的基本知识和基本理论，同时对神经系统作了重点介绍。《人体解剖生理学》大部分章节均反映了近年来在细胞和分子生理学方面的最新进展，同时配有丰富的插图。每章后附有小结和复习参考题。

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

《植物学》上册的原编者陆时万、徐祥生、沈敏健在修订第2版时主要根据“打好基储精选内容、逐步更新、利于教学”的精神，在原教材的基础上进行了全面的修改和补充。各章内容都有所增删，同时，在保证专业基础知识的前提下，加强了联系生产实际的部分，为了便于教学，在某些节的编排顺序上有所更动，并对插图进行了精选和补充。各章末增加了复习思考题，书后附主要参考书，便于教师和学生参考。