The Light Eaters
The Light Eaters
$700
庫存≦3
運送方式：
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 • New York Magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 • Smithsonian’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year • A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Scientific American,New York Public Library, Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly • An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize • Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History
“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
“Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.” –Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
“Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!” –Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction
Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.” (The New Yorker)
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is.
We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants
被翻譯成21種語言版本！
Amazon排行榜No.1暢銷冠軍！
一場超脫人類視野的生命之旅，
一封獻給植物世界的動人情書！
❈ ❈ ❈
植物以光為食，
影響了世界的構造、文化與生命，
它們擁有至高的權力，
卻對人類隱藏了它們的秘密……
❈ ❈ ❈
一如文學大師娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩詩意的形容――世界的詞彙是森林。植物的生態看似自成一格，對世界帶來的影響卻超乎想像。
植物是最瘋狂的旅人，從高山到海洋，它們不斷移動，並採取獨特的方式生長。一株植物就是一套決策網絡，就算沒有大腦，細胞也一直在進行某種「思考」，成百上千的枝條根葉，讓它們無時無刻感知周遭事物的質地，與所處的環境交織共生。
它們追光逐日，透過光合作用產生氧氣，供應生存所需。它們會記住身上的傷，懂得用分裂尋找出路，藉由種子開疆闢土、繁衍重生。它們甚至是人類的親屬，因為我們每一束肌肉，都是植物利用水分與空氣產生的糖編織而成。
植物如今依然持續向上伸展，迎向太陽。億萬年來，這些古老的靈魂就像一張不需破譯的地圖，只要你用另一種角度看待它，許多「自我」就會呈現在我們眼前，並發現，或許這不是一個有植物的人類世界，而是一個有人類的植物世界……
得獎紀錄
《紐約客》年度好書
《波士頓環球報》年度好書
《出版家週刊》年度好書
《圖書館雜誌》年度好書
《科學美國人》年度好書
《紐約公共圖書館》年度好書
《基督教科學箴言報》年度好書
亞馬遜書店編輯選書年度最佳非小說作品
史密森尼學會年度10大科學好書
《時代》雜誌年度10大非小說
《紐約雜誌》年度10大好書
《華盛頓郵報》50本最值得關注的非小說作品
美國國家戶外圖書獎（自然歷史類）得獎作品
入圍美國國家圖書評論家協會非小說類圖書獎
入圍洛杉磯時報圖書獎
感動推薦
【作家】盧郁佳 專文導讀
【普立茲獎得主、《五感之外的世界》作者】艾德．楊
【《編織聖草》作者】羅賓．沃爾．基默爾
【《在大滅絕來臨前》作者】伊麗莎白．寇伯特
【《傾聽地球之聲》作者】大衛．喬治．哈思克
【中央研究院植物暨微生物學研究所特聘研究員】吳素幸
【文字工作者】臥斧
【小說家】黃崇凱
【生態圖文創作者】黃瀚嶢
【作家】彭樹君
【《相信樹的人》作者】鄒欣寧
【詩人】鍾永豐
●中文推薦人依姓名筆畫序排列
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • TIME’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 • New York Magazine’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2024 • Smithsonian’s 10 Best Science Books of the Year • A Best Book of the Year: Boston Globe, Scientific American,New York Public Library, Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly • An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize • Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History
“A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
“Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.” –Ed Yong, author of An Immense World
“Rich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!” –Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction
Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom, “destabilizing not just how we see the green things of the world but also our place in the hierarchy of beings, and maybe the notion of that hierarchy itself.” (The New Yorker)
It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is.
We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants
被翻譯成21種語言版本！
Amazon排行榜No.1暢銷冠軍！
一場超脫人類視野的生命之旅，
一封獻給植物世界的動人情書！
❈ ❈ ❈
植物以光為食，
影響了世界的構造、文化與生命，
它們擁有至高的權力，
卻對人類隱藏了它們的秘密……
❈ ❈ ❈
一如文學大師娥蘇拉．勒瑰恩詩意的形容――世界的詞彙是森林。植物的生態看似自成一格，對世界帶來的影響卻超乎想像。
植物是最瘋狂的旅人，從高山到海洋，它們不斷移動，並採取獨特的方式生長。一株植物就是一套決策網絡，就算沒有大腦，細胞也一直在進行某種「思考」，成百上千的枝條根葉，讓它們無時無刻感知周遭事物的質地，與所處的環境交織共生。
它們追光逐日，透過光合作用產生氧氣，供應生存所需。它們會記住身上的傷，懂得用分裂尋找出路，藉由種子開疆闢土、繁衍重生。它們甚至是人類的親屬，因為我們每一束肌肉，都是植物利用水分與空氣產生的糖編織而成。
植物如今依然持續向上伸展，迎向太陽。億萬年來，這些古老的靈魂就像一張不需破譯的地圖，只要你用另一種角度看待它，許多「自我」就會呈現在我們眼前，並發現，或許這不是一個有植物的人類世界，而是一個有人類的植物世界……
得獎紀錄
《紐約客》年度好書
《波士頓環球報》年度好書
《出版家週刊》年度好書
《圖書館雜誌》年度好書
《科學美國人》年度好書
《紐約公共圖書館》年度好書
《基督教科學箴言報》年度好書
亞馬遜書店編輯選書年度最佳非小說作品
史密森尼學會年度10大科學好書
《時代》雜誌年度10大非小說
《紐約雜誌》年度10大好書
《華盛頓郵報》50本最值得關注的非小說作品
美國國家戶外圖書獎（自然歷史類）得獎作品
入圍美國國家圖書評論家協會非小說類圖書獎
入圍洛杉磯時報圖書獎
感動推薦
【作家】盧郁佳 專文導讀
【普立茲獎得主、《五感之外的世界》作者】艾德．楊
【《編織聖草》作者】羅賓．沃爾．基默爾
【《在大滅絕來臨前》作者】伊麗莎白．寇伯特
【《傾聽地球之聲》作者】大衛．喬治．哈思克
【中央研究院植物暨微生物學研究所特聘研究員】吳素幸
【文字工作者】臥斧
【小說家】黃崇凱
【生態圖文創作者】黃瀚嶢
【作家】彭樹君
【《相信樹的人》作者】鄒欣寧
【詩人】鍾永豐
●中文推薦人依姓名筆畫序排列
——中文簡介摘自平安文化出版《食光者：讀懂植物，就能讀懂這個世界》
