A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today. Wilcox takes us from the coast of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru in search of th...(展开全部)

迈克尔·T.奥斯特霍姆（Michael T. Osterholm） 美国流行病学家、公共卫生顾问 拜登-哈里斯团队最新聘任新冠疫情特别顾问 美国明尼苏达大学董事会席位教授，公共卫生管理系首席教授，传染病研究与政策中心（CIDRAP）主任，创始人之一。他在24年来服务于明尼苏达州卫生部门、美国疾控中心；40年间对艾滋病、结核病、蚊虫病、流感、埃博拉、SARS、MERS等全球重大疫情进行研究与防治。他是美国国家医学院院士，美国卫生与公众服务部国家生物安全科学顾问委员会成员。他的两本科普著作，《活生生的恐怖》（2001年）和《致命敌人》（2017年）均为《纽约时报》榜单图书。 马克·奥尔沙克（Mark Olshaker） 美国作家、编剧 本书执笔者，曾与前FBI探员约翰·道格拉斯合著多部悬疑小说，代表作包括大卫·芬奇执导剧集《心灵猎人》（MindHunte...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 克丽丝蒂 • 威尔科克斯（Christie Wilcox）博士是夏威夷火奴鲁鲁的一位科学家兼科学作家。她的作品散见于《发现》《纽约时报》《科学美国人》《石板》《大众科学》等媒体。她的网址是：www.christiewilcox.com。 ………………………… ◎ 译者简介 阳曦，长期从事翻 译，为《环球科学》等科普杂志翻译文章。近年出版译作《宇宙的尺度：从无穷大到无穷小》《茶杯里的风暴：用日常之物揭开万物之理》《薛定谔的猫：改变物理学的50个实验》等。

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early en...(展开全部)

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its globa...(展开全部)

A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on an industry that is disrupting our lives. Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world―SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is...(展开全部)

Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious. Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the...(展开全部)

His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hilleman came close. Maurice Hilleman is the father of modern vaccines. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly deadly diseases—including mumps, rubella, and measles—nearly forgotten. Author Paul A. Offit's rich and ...(展开全部)

数千年来，结核病一直与人类紧密相连。结核病曾被诗人浪漫地描述为一种疾病，而今天，它却被视为一种贫困疾病，沿着我们为其开辟的不公正和不公平之路前行。 2019年，作家约翰·格林（John Green）在塞拉利昂拉卡政府医院遇见了一位年轻的结核病患者亨利·雷德（Henry Reider）。 约翰很快就和亨利成为了好朋友，亨利是一个双腿细长、笑容灿烂、傻乎乎的男孩。自初次访问拉卡以来，格林一直积极倡导增加治疗机会，并更广泛地认识到医疗保健不公平现象，这种现象导致这种可治愈、可预防的传染病成为致命的疾病，每年导致超过一百万人死亡。在《一切都是结核病》中，约翰讲述了亨利的故事，并穿插了结核病如何影响我们的世界的科学和社会历史，以及我们的选择如何影响结核病的未来。 Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu?manity for...(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)