Historian and author, Simon Sebag Montefiore presents a fascinating series on Jerusalem: the place where God meets man, the shrine of three faiths – Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and the most fought over city in history. Montefiore explains how Jerusalem – established by King David 3,000 years ago was fought for and shaped by Kings and Emperors and how the holiness of the city was intensified by myths and fables, borrowed and refined between religions. He then explores how this peerlessly beautiful city rose from a crumbling ruin after the crusades to become a world centre of Islamic pilgrimage, the object of rivalry between Christian nations, a holy refuge for Jews from all over the world and, ultimately, the site of one of the world's most intractable conflicts.

爵士又带你环游全球，从哥斯达黎加的热带雨林到白雪皑皑的苏格兰高地，揭示了动物非凡的和前所未有地使用色彩的方式！通过使用专门为本片打造的革新性摄影技术，观众将体验到人类肉眼看不见的色彩如何在动物的互动中发挥着至关重要的作用。从蝴蝶翅膀上看似神奇的紫外线信号，到孟加拉虎条纹背后令人惊讶却带有重要的目的，一个隐藏的色彩世界正等待着我们去发现。

一个动荡的时代，1971年是音乐创新和重生的一年，政治和文化剧变让新面孔在舞台上大放异彩。

《完美星球》是一部与地球科学巧妙结合的蓝筹自然历史纪录片，它揭示了我们所生存的这颗星球的运转规则。 这部纪录片共分为五集，展示了自然力量如何推动、塑造和维持地球生物的多样性，前四集分别探索了火山、 阳光、天气和海洋的力量，最后一集则着眼于新兴的自然力量:人类，揭示了人类对地球造成的巨大影响以及如何恢复地球完美的生态平衡。
从印度雨季潮湿的土地到夏威夷火山炽热的山坡;从巴哈马的潮汐岛屿到冰天雪地的埃尔斯米尔岛;从冬夜郊外嚎叫的北极狼群到春季结冰的身体慢慢融化的木蛙;从加拉帕戈斯群岛以吸食海鸟鲜血解渴的吸血地雀，到每年成群结队聚集在火山湖中繁殖的非洲小红鹳，《完美星球》将带领我们踏上一场无与伦比的视觉之旅。
这部纪录片将改变我们看待自然家园的方式。我们将一次又一次地见证地球所具有的强大自然力量是如何孕育生命的。

A sharp, witty, mind-expanding and exuberant foray into the world of logic with computer scientist Professor Dave Cliff. Following in the footsteps of the award-winning 'The Joy of Stats' and its sequel, 'Tails You Win - The Science of Chance', this film takes viewers on a new rollercoaster ride through philosophy, maths, science and technology- all of which, under the bonnet, run on logic.
Wielding the same wit and wisdom, animation and gleeful nerdery as its predecessors, this film journeys from Aristotle to Alice in Wonderland, sci-fi to supercomputers to tell the fascinating story of the quest for certainty and the fundamentals of sound reasoning itself.
Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, is no abstract theoretician. 15 years ago he combined logic and a bit of maths to write one of the first computer programs to outperform humans at trading stocks and shares. Giving away the software for free, he says, was not his most logical move...
With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time ever, a computer made entirely of children, running on nothing but logic. We also meet the world's brainiest whizz-kids, competing at the International Olympiad of Informatics in Brisbane, Australia.
'The Joy of Logic' also hails logic's all-time heroes: George Boole who moved logic beyond philosophy to mathematics; Bertrand Russell, who took 360+ pages but heroically proved that 1 + 1 = 2; Kurt Godel, who brought logic to its knees by demonstrating that some truths are unprovable; and Alan Turing, who, with what Cliff calls an 'almost exquisite paradox', was inspired by this huge setback to logic to conceive the computer.
Ultimately, the film asks, can humans really stay ahead? Could today's generation of logical computing machines be smarter than us? What does that tell us about our own brains, and just how 'logical' we really are...?

Nature’s Great Events is a BBC nature documentary series broadcast from 11 February 2009.[1] The British version is narrated by David Attenborough and is being shown on BBC One and BBC HD. It should not be confused with the 1996 Reader's Digest video series of the same name.
In the USA, the series will broadcast on the Discovery Channel under the alternative title Nature’s Most Amazing Events.

Professor Richard Fortey delves into the fascinating and normally-hidden kingdom of fungi. From their spectacular birth, through their secretive underground life to their final explosive death, Richard reveals a remarkable world that few of us understand or even realise exists - yet all life on Earth depends on it.
In a specially-built mushroom lab, with the help of mycologist Dr Patrick Hickey and some state-of-the-art technology, Richard brings to life the secret world of mushrooms as never seen before and reveals the spectacular abilities of fungi to break down waste and sustain new plant life, keeping our planet alive.
Beyond the lab, Richard travels across Britain and beyond to show us the biggest, fastest and most deadly organisms on the planet - all of them fungi. He reveals their almost magical powers that have world-changing potential - opening up new frontiers in science, medicine and technology.

西非撒哈拉沙漠边境，统治族群长达三年之久的黑猩猩戴维面临其他雄性的挑战，为了守住王权，他开始选择结盟。而当遭到围攻后，这位不死的王者又毅然决然踏上夺回王位的复仇之路。南极大陆，数千只帝企鹅爸爸团聚一起，与极其寒冷的永夜作抗争。他们等待新生命的出生，等待 爱人的归来。肯尼亚草原，雌狮查姆竭尽全力守护族群，在巨大的灾难面前，他必须面临生死存亡的考验。津巴布韦国家公园，垂老的三色狼泰特渐感力不从心，她对家族的控制力逐渐减弱，而她的女儿正在崛起，觊觎着母亲的皇位。印度，雌虎拉杰贝拉靠一己之力捕捉猎物，养育四个孩子，但是大自然从不因此对她慈悲半分。

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…

鸵鸟、鸸鹋、鹤鸵、鶆 、鹬鸵等「巨鸟」，虽然有密集的羽毛及翅膀，却无法高飞。终究是甚么缘由招致牠们无法飞行?是先天要素?还是大自然的演化?老爵爷与摄制队走遍南美、非洲、澳洲以及新西兰等地，以诙谐的表达手法，讨论这些被视为「异类」的飞行生物不为人知的故事。虽然无法在天际飞翔，但牠们的「行走」速度惊人，以至克制了身体的缺陷，成为陆地上的王者。但是，当这些「巨鸟」当上父母后，又会悉心照料宏大鸟蛋和初生子女，流露温顺一面，令人慨叹造物主的巨大神奇。

《英国人的言行潜规则》的出版引起英国人自己的大辩论，有人认为它泄露了太多英国人的秘密，也有人认为它一针见血地揭露了英国人行事风格背后的潜规则。不过所有人都一致同意，这本书实在是太有趣了。“老实说，我真弄不懂，人类学家想要研究那些带有古怪观念、神秘习俗的陌生部族文化，为何非要冒着得痢疾、疟疾的危险，大老远地跑到偏远地方，而最古怪、最叫人费解的部族明明近在眼前嘛。”
为什么英国人一见面总是在谈天气，英国酒吧要有多种游戏器具？为什么英国人似乎都有社交拘泥症，而英国足球流氓却一反常态？《英国人的言行潜规则》作者将这些带有民族性的怪癖和性情放在人类学的显微镜下，从中发现了奇异而迷人的文化，以及背后错综复杂的不成文规矩和透着神秘感的行为规范。

In this hallucinatory novel, an automobile provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scientist" turned "nightmare angel of the highways," experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than the last. James Ballard, his friend and fellow obsessive, tells the story of this twisted visionary as he careens rapidly toward his own demise in an internationally orchestrated car crash with Elizabeth Taylor. A classic work of cutting-edge fiction, "Crash" explores both the disturbing implications and horrific possibilities of contemporary society's increasing dependence on technology as intermediary in human relations.

A look at the development of British indie music, born in the 1970s when the music industry was controlled by the major record labels and releasing a record independently seemed an impossible dream.

来自大英图书馆的古老建议
一本彻底“过时”的生活宝典
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 打开大英图书馆百宝箱，搜罗中世纪手稿，维多利亚时代的书籍与自助指南，古老的智慧顾问为你导航，展卷辉煌灿烂的“日不落帝国”历史图谱，开启充满神奇与冒险的“前现代” 生活之旅。
☆ 了解一般人“闻所未闻”的趣味冷知识，掌握一般人“见所未见”的生活小技能——给狮子剥皮、用花语进行交流、用蜗牛预测未来、徒手训练猎鹰、制作全天然润唇膏、不用干洗机干洗衣物、在漫长的海上航行中生存、做个真正的淑女或绅士……
☆ 这是一本如此奇妙的书，它古怪、有趣、让人着迷，恰好适合充满好奇心和求知欲，又不走寻常路的你。
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如果你不确定自己的知识广博到可以回答“如何给狮子剥皮”这样的问题；如果你对古老失传的手艺和技能充满兴趣；如果你是一个冷知识爱好者和不折不扣的“书虫”；如果你具备探险精神并愿意用热情介入历史和生活……别犹豫，这本《如何给狮子剥皮》不会让你失望。
本书从大英图书馆的百宝箱中搜集了各种各样关于生活技巧、社交礼仪、生存技能的建议。资料来自中世纪的手稿、维多利亚时代的生活手册和二十世纪早期的自助指南，从栽花到养蜂，从医学到魔术，带你探秘维多利亚时代多彩的历史画卷，为你展现真实可靠的“前现代”生活图谱。从细节窥见时代，以趣味探索生活，这既是一本奇妙的生活宝典，又是一册不可多得的历史资料汇总，更是一场真正的趣味冷知识盛宴——那些搜索引擎解决不了的问题，在这里可以找到奇妙的答案。

我们为什么要买东西？谁让这个世界变得无节制消费？他们如何做到这一点？调查记者雅克•佩雷蒂审视了无节制消费潮流背后的机制，得出了答案。原来，使这个世界变得无节制消费的元凶，并不是人们普遍认为的广告员和市场推广员，而是这诸多因素背后那些首先改变产品然后改变我们的人们。纪录片表明，长久以来，制造商都梦想着在消费者大脑中植入“升级”观念，从而让无限消费成为现实。他们首先瞄准未被开发的儿童市场，学习应用向儿童销售的方法，从而增加向成年人的销售。但是，那头最肥的能够带来现金的奶牛却来自恐惧——通过挖掘消费者的恐惧，制造商发现了一个对健康和安全产品有巨大需求的世界。

BBC新版《文明》，2018倾情奉献，共九集。涵盖六个大陆，三十一个国家，超过五百件艺术品。主讲人历史学家西蒙·沙玛、学者玛丽·比尔德以及戴维·奥卢索加将一起探索人类创造的渴望。此外，“文明节”将通过创新的数字产品和活动，为博物馆的珍宝赋予新的生命力。