A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas in the sixteenth century that continue to reverberate throughout modernity—a story unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Sudden Death begins with a brutal tennis match that could decide the fate of the world. The bawdy Italian painter Caravaggio and the loutish Spanish poet Quevedo battle it out before a cro...(展开全部)

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the...(展开全部)

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a ce...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding...(展开全部)

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a ce...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding...(展开全部)

简介：之前的太沙雕

作者 約翰·席德 (John Seed) 澳洲著名環保運動家，他所創辦的「雨林資訊中心」( Rainforest Information Centre) 成功地促使南威爾斯的副熱帶雨林得以保留，繼而發起美國雨林行動網路 (Rainforest Action Network, RAN) ，在南美洲、亞洲和太平洋，開創許多保護雨林計畫。席德是推動「深層生態學」的代表人物，並於2011年來台主持「眾生大會工作坊」。 喬安娜·梅西 (Joanna Macy) 梅西博士為美國環保學者及運動人士，研究領域包含佛教與深層生態學，在數十年的學術研究工作與環保社會運動交互參與中，她發展出一套關於個人與社會改變的理論架構，並持續不輟帶領包括「重新連結的相關工作」等環保相關工作坊。 佩德·福連明 (Pat Fleming) 興趣包括研究、栽植、醫藥植物的寫作和諮商。許多年...(展开全部)

This book is about our history. Not the history of kings, queens, chiefs, emirs, great moguls, emperors, tsars, presidents, or dictators, but our own: the history of the men, women, and children who peopled the earth. It is a long story that began more than one hundred and fifty thousand years ago and continues today. Despite dark times, wars, and conflicts, we invented, worked...(展开全部)