罗伊·莫克塞姆（Roy Moxham）曾在非洲的马拉维管理那里的英国茶叶种植园，在非洲生活了十三年后，他先是成为一名非洲艺术品商人，然后做了一名书籍保护者。他现在伦敦大学图书馆工作。曾著有《印度长篱障》（The Great Hedge D，India，2001）、<神行者>（The Freelander，1990）

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might ha...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and...(展开全部)

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has b...(展开全部)

迈雅·萨拉维茨（Maia Szalavitz），关注成瘾和药物依赖的美国科普作家、记者，毕业于哥伦比亚大学神经科学系。她在大学时也曾是药物依赖者，并成功戒瘾，以少有人知的个人经历接触了成瘾问题的真相。其后的二十多年来，她协助推动了美国成瘾相关法规和治疗政策的改革。 她曾与布鲁斯·佩里博士合著《为爱而生：为什么移情必不可少》《登天之梯》，独著有《不惜代价的帮助》。她长期为主流媒体撰稿，包括：时代网（TIME.com）、《纽约时报》、《纽约》、《科学美国人》、《鹦鹉螺》、《物质》、《瑞丽》、《今日心理学》等。

The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape--northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in wh...(展开全部)

西方世界的精神病学机构和康复行业将成瘾称为脑部疾病。 但在《欲望生物学》中，认知神经科学家、前瘾君子马克·刘易斯提出了令人信服的案例，证明成瘾不是一种疾病，并说明了为什么这种疾病模型已成为治愈的障碍。 刘易斯揭示成瘾是大脑在一个不合作的世界中做它应该做的事情——寻求快乐和解脱——的意外结果。 结果，大多数基于疾病模型的治疗都失败了。 刘易斯展示了如何重新调整治疗以实现持久康复。 对于任何个人或职业上与毒瘾作斗争的人来说，这都是一本具有启发性和乐观的读物。 The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive ...(展开全部)

Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver’s skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confined to an unfortunate or weak-willed few, but as a cont...(展开全部)