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All knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling, 'infinite riches in a little room' such were the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century. This survey, now available in "PLC", traces the amazing history of cabinets of curiosities, from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as...(展开全部)

约翰·萨瑟兰（John Sutherland），生于1938年，英国学者、作家、文学教授。曾在英国、美国执教于多所大学，是伦敦大学学院荣誉退休教授。他撰写过一系列解读古典小说的著作，如《希斯克利夫是凶手吗？》（也许，是的）、《亨利五世是战犯吗？》、《简·爱能得到幸福吗？》，文章常见于《卫报》、《金融时报》。 马丁·罗森，生于1959年，英国漫画家、小说家。作品多见于《卫报》、《星期日独立报》。他抽烟；他被视为当代最尖刻的文学画报讽刺作家。

Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers - they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse" - why gamblers bet on long shots a...(展开全部)

Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers - they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse" - why gamblers bet on long shots a...(展开全部)

Medicine, health, and healing have been central to Buddhism since its origins. Long before the global popularity of mindfulness and meditation, Buddhism provided cultures around the world with conceptual tools to understand illness as well as a range of therapies and interventions for care of the sick. Today, Buddhist traditions, healers, and institutions continue to exert a ta...(展开全部)

In Medicine, Science, and Merck, the authors trace the careers of a son of Greek immigrants as he mastered three professions and ultimately became the Chief Executive Officer of America's most admired corporation - the multinational, pharmaceutical giant, Merck & Co., Inc. As the authors show, there was hope even for a wise-cracking kid living through the hard times of the 1930...(展开全部)

One of the most fascinating men of his generation, W.H.R. Rivers was a British doctor and psychiatrist as well as a leading ethnologist. Immortalized as the hero of Pat Barker's award-winning Regeneration trilogy, Rivers was the clinician who, in the First World War, cared for the poet Siegfried Sassoon and other infantry officers injured on the western front. His researches in...(展开全部)

W. H. R. 里弗斯（W. H. R. Rivers，1864—1922），英国人类学家、心理学家，现代人类学开创性的先驱人物，被认为是“集中式”民族志田野工作的创立者。他致力于研究生理心理学，1897年任英国第一间实验心理学实验室主任，并于剑桥大学讲授心理学。1898年，他参加了剑桥的托雷斯海峡考察，由此对人类学田野工作产生深厚兴趣，此后多次前往美拉尼西亚地区考察，晚期受传播论影响较大。其代表作为《托达人》《美拉尼西亚社会史》等。