From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a riveting history of New York's iconic public hospital that charts the turbulent rise of American medicine. Bellevue Hospital, on New York City's East Side, occupies a colorful and horrifying place in the public imagination: a den of mangled crime victims, vicious psychopaths, assorted derelicts, lunatics, and exotic-disease suffer...(展开全部)

David Oshinsky chronicles the history of America's oldest hospital and in so doing also charts the rise of New York to the nation's preeminent city, the path of American medicine from butchery and quackery to a professional and scientific endeavor, and the growth of a civic institution. From its origins in 1738 as an almshouse and pesthouse, Bellevue today is a revered public h...(展开全部)

Its carefully landscaped grounds -- chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with four-and five-story Tudor mansions -- could belong to a prosperous New England prep school. There are no fences, no guards, no locked gates. But McLean Hospital is a mental institution -- one of the most famous, most elite, and once most luxurious in America. McLean "alumni" include many of the ...(展开全部)

作者介绍 彼得·马伦，英国自然作家、记者和自然保护主义者，作品多达二十余部。他的其他著作包括获得自然历史发展学会颁发的撒克里奖章的《新博物学家》（The New Naturalists）、获得英伦诸岛植物学会颁发的主席奖的《英国罕见的花》（Britain’s Rare Flowers），以及柯林斯新博物学家系列当中的《野生森林》（The Wild Woods）。他还是利弗休姆研究奖学金的享有者，并两次荣获自然世界图书奖、一次荣获苏格兰圣安德鲁十字奖。现居住在威尔特郡。 译者介绍 罗心宇，毕业于中国农业大学的不正经昆虫学博士，研究一类叫“木虱”的没人听说过的昆虫。喜欢抓虫、拍花和在大自然里泡着，翻译及写作什么的，完全是靠天赋。

St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on t he western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter-the-Great, its dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly fashioned by the s...(展开全部)

This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital's social and professional transformations. Many of today's obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated.

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A ...(展开全部)

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural ...(展开全部)

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