NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winn...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses and a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, told through the story of the deadly 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic “Crisis in the Red Zone reads like a thriller. That the story it tells is all true makes it all more terrifying.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winn...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)

When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, ...(展开全部)

斯坦利·莱恩-普尔（Stanley Lane-Poole，1854—1931） 著名东方学家、考古学家，都柏林大学教授，阿拉伯史权威学者。主要著作有《摩尔人统治下的西班牙》《土耳其人的故事》《中世纪的埃及》《萨拉丁和耶路撒冷王国的陷落》等。被誉为是一位“没有偏见的欧洲历史学家”，其作品对人们客观认识欧洲以外的历史有重要影响。

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he substantiates and defends Marxism and advocates the Marxian theory of social development. Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) was one of the leaders of Russian populism and after his emigration to Western Europe in 1880 becam...(展开全部)