DEADLY BEAUTIFUL: VANISHING KILLERS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Book ID/图书代码： 04410009B30504
English Summary/英文概要： The things that can kill you...
Deadly Beautiful takes you on an entertaining and informative journey through a branch of the animal kingdom long feared - deadly animals. Snakes, crocodiles, spiders, sharks, octopuses, wolves, bears, tigers, hippopotamuses and many many more are explored in Deadly Beautiful; collected together not because of any zoological similarity but because they can and have killed humans.
Clear, up-to-date, scientifically accurate information about the natural history of these species is presented on each animal, examining their day-to-day existence, how they have developed the weapons they possess and how they use them for defence, for hunting and for making love.
Woven into the text are accounts of people’s close encounters with deadly animals — the good, the bad and the bizarre — as well as stories from myth and legend that have contributed to modern perceptions. In addition, realistic risk assessments are included, often in a gently humorous way; for example, how likely you are to die in your bed than be killed by a shark.
Deadly Beautiful will make the perfect gift for animal lovers or those simply fascinated by the animal kingdom.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 可以杀了你的这些事情。。。
致命的美丽通过动物王国一个令人长期恐惧的分支——致命的动物带给你一个娱乐和信息之旅。蛇、鳄鱼、蜘蛛、鲨鱼、章鱼、狼、熊、虎、河马以及其他非常非常多的在致命的美丽中被发现的动物;把他们收集在一起不是因为他们有任何动物学上的相似，是因为他们可以并且已经杀死过人类。
每种动物的清晰的、最新的、科学准确的物种自然历史信息都被呈现出来了，通过观察他们的日常生活,了解他们如何获得了他们所拥有的武器以及如何使用它们来防御、打猎和交配。
编织进这篇文章中的内容大量的来自于人与致命动物的亲密接触——好的、坏的以及怪异的——就像那些已经成为现代观念的神话和传奇故事一样。此外，书中还包括了现实的风险评估在内，通常是以一种小幽默的方式讲出来；例如，与被一条鳄鱼杀死相比，你死在你床上的可能性更大。
致命的美丽会做出最完美的礼物送给动物爱好者或是那些只是着迷于动物王国的人。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Dr Liana Joy Christensen was for five years editor of the wildlife and natural resources magazine Landscope. She has worked extensively with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), earning from them a citation for excellence in science journalism. Her nature essays have regularly appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Australasian GEO, and been excerpted in translation for both German and Korean GEOs. Her work is published in literary and scientific journals around the world, including Dr Liana Joy Christensen曾经在野生动物和自然资源类杂志Landscope做过五年编辑。她曾频繁地与联邦科学与工业研究组织(CSIRO)合作，并从他们那里得到一条科学新闻方面优秀的引证。她的自然散文经常出现在选集和杂志上，比如《澳大拉西亚的GEO》，并被德国和韩国的GEOs所摘录和翻译。她的作品被发表在了世界各地的文学和科学期刊上,包括台湾、北美、荷兰和印度。
Ian Faulkner是一个拥有超过25年经验、热爱自然历史的插画家、漫画家和制图师。他是居住在澳大利亚国立大学的艺术家，也是澳大利亚地理杂志的制图师,并为澳大利亚博物馆和澳大利亚悉尼Taronga动物园工作。
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Ian Faulkner is an illustrator, cartoonist and cartographer with over 25 years experience and a passion for natural history. He has been artist in residence at the Australian National University, and also cartographer at Australian Geographic Magazine, as well as undertaking work for The Australian Museum and Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo.
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