A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss across species, including our own. Fungi are everywhere. Most are harmless; some are helpful. A few are killers. Collectively, infectious fungi are the most devastating agents of disease on earth, and a fungus that can persist in the environment without its host is here to stay. In ...(展开全部)

In this revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, Gruen considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place. The evidence discloses a preponderance of Greek rather than Roman ideas: a noteworthy readiness on the part of Roman policymakers to adjust to Hellenistic practices rather than to impose a system of their own.

The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by ...(展开全部)

大卫·奎曼，美国著名科普作家，美国国家地理杂志记者。著有《完美先生达尔文》等书。

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those report...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本博士(1942- )是欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授，意大利维罗拉大学美学教授，并于巴黎国际哲学学院教授哲学。在攻读博士后阶段，阿甘本参与了弗莱堡由马丁·海德格尔主持的研讨会，并主持了瓦尔特·本雅明意大利译本的翻译工作。阿甘本独特的对文学理论，欧陆哲学，政治思想，宗教研究以及文学和艺术的融会贯通，使他成为我们时代最具挑战性的思想家之一。他也是巴黎一些大学的客座教授，同时于美国数所大学，如UC伯克利，洛杉矶，埃尔文，圣克鲁斯和西北大学等学校任教。

The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Leonard Blusse chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities. Canton was the port of call for foreign merchants in the Qing empire. Na...(展开全部)

阿 瑟·柯 南·道 尔（Arthur Conan Doyle，1859 年 5 月 22 日—1930 年 7 月 7 日），英国杰出侦探小说家、剧作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，作品畅销全球。 他一生共创作了 56 部短篇侦探小说及 4 部中篇侦探小说，成功地塑造了侦探人物——夏洛克•福尔摩斯。代表作有《福尔摩斯探案全集》，包括“冒险史”系列、“回忆录”系列、“归来记”系列、“新探案”系列，以及《血字的研究》《恐怖谷》《巴斯克维尔猎犬》《四签名》等，他的作品对后来的侦探小说有很大的影响。除此之外，他还曾写过《失落的世界》等多部其他类型的小说，涉及科幻、悬疑、历史、爱情、戏剧、 诗歌等。

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate his unshakeable belief in the spirit world, he published "The Coming of the Fairies...(展开全部)

This volume is the upshot of Conan Doyle's high-profile championing of the authenticity of the Cottingley photographs, purporting to be of fairies; it touches on the author's belief in Spiritualism and contains much reference to the related but distinct creed of Theosophism.