By Xi Xi, part of the first generation of writers raised in Hong Kong, a wise and amiably written book of autobiographical fiction on the author’s experience with breast cancer—from diagnosis to treatment to recovery—and her passage from a life lived through the mind into a life lived through the body. In 1989, the Hong Kong cult classic writer Xi Xi was diagnosed with breast c...(展开全部)

In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts. Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of ...(展开全部)

In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts. Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of ...(展开全部)

查尔斯•洛普利博士，肿瘤学家，梅奥医学中心肿瘤中心教授，主要从事乳腺癌方面的研究。曾任梅奥诊所肿瘤中心主席。洛普利医生创作了超过350部科研著作。他的主要研究领域包括医患沟通、恶性肿瘤相关症状的控制。洛普利医生曾两次获得Susan G. Komen基金：分获the Brinker International Award 和 Komen Foundation Professor of Survivorship Award两大奖项。 林恩•哈特曼博士，肿瘤学家，梅奥医学中心肿瘤中心教授。哈特曼博士在梅奥诊所主持妇科恶性肿瘤项目的推广工作，致力于提高公众对乳腺及妇科肿瘤的科学认识并培训专业人员。她的研究获得了美国国家癌症中心、美国国防部、美国癌症协会以及 Susan G. Komen 基金的资金支持，林恩•哈特曼医生发表了超过200篇学术论文。她将继续致力...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Continues the story of Jo March which started in "Little Women". This book tells of the remarkable school that Jo and Professor Bhaer set up at Plumfield. The characters featured include the dishevelled orphan Nat, the spoiled Stuffy and the naughty Nan.

Rebus is off the case - literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - in other words, he's in the Last Chance Saloon. Rebus is assigned to an old, unsolved case, but there are those in his team who have their own secrets - and they'll stop at nothing to protec...(展开全部)

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mi...(展开全部)

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's ow...(展开全部)

The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Here's a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.