马克·霍尼斯鲍姆（Mark Honigsbaum），英国伦敦大学城市学院高级讲师，研究方向为医学史。曾任《观察家报》首席记者，在《柳叶刀》、Medical History等专业刊物上发表了数十篇学术书评和论文。 著有多部医学史作品，包括《与恩扎一起生活:被遗忘的英国故事和1918年的流感大流行》(被英国皇家学会提名为年度科学书籍）、《人类大瘟疫——一个世纪以来的全球性流行病》（《金融时报》2019年年度图书）等。

Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the his...(展开全部)

作者，J．B．伯里（John Bagnell Bury，1861—1927），是英国著名历史学家、古典学家和文献学家，1902年获任剑桥大学钦定近代史讲座教授。曾涉足多个领域的研究，包括古代希腊、古代罗马、19世纪教皇史、西方思想史等，而尤以晚期罗马帝国史和拜占庭史见长 。 其代表作有《晚期罗马帝国：从阿卡狄乌斯到爱里尼》（1889年）、《东罗马帝国史：从爱里尼垮台到巴塞尔一世登基》（1912年）、《希腊历史学家》（1909年）、《思想自由史》（1914年）、《进步的观念》（1920年）、《晚期罗马帝国史：从提奥多西一世之死到查士丁尼之死》（1923年）、《19世纪教皇史，1864—1878》（1930年）等，并曾为吉本《罗马帝国衰亡史》做校勘和注释。 译者简介： 陈思伟，男，重庆涪陵人，历史学博士（博士后），信阳师范学院历史文化学院人文教育系主任。...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us by surprise, inciting panic and dominating news cycles. From pneumonic plague in LA and ‘parrot fever’ in Argentina to the more recent AIDS, SARS and Ebol...(展开全部)

Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a funny and frightening look at the attitudes towards masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist, Tissot, was the original spoil-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Saying that a little self-induced pleasure ...(展开全部)

Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror is a funny and frightening look at the attitudes towards masturbation throughout history and how they have affected the sex lives of anyone living and breathing today. The French biologist, Tissot, was the original spoil-sport who turned masturbation into the scourge of young men everywhere. Saying that a little self-induced pleasure ...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)