' Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for the first time, here are essays and journalism from the brilliant novelist and...(展开全部)

作者简介： 玛格丽特.阿特伍德发表了四十多部著作，包括小说、诗歌和评论集。其中，《使女的故事》、《猫眼》、《别名格蕾丝》和《羚羊与秧鸡》均被列入布克奖候选名单，2000年她凭借《盲人刺客》获得布克奖。 封 底 语： 每当我下决心少写一点儿，做些更健康的事，比如冰上舞蹈----某位嘴上抹了蜜的编辑就会给我打电话，给我一个无法拒绝的提议。因此，在某种意义上，这本书只是我缺少说“不”的能力的结果。 为什么该选集命名为《好奇的追寻》？“好奇”指我惯常的精神状态----换个不好听的词就是“爱管闲事”----也指一些文章的主题使我好奇。如爱丽丝一般，我越来越好奇，而世界则越来越奇怪。换一种说法，没有引起我的好奇心的东西，我是不太会写的。尽管“好奇”一词的份量很轻，我的“好奇心”也不懒散（我希望如此）。“激情”或许是更准确的描写，不过这也许会误导某些人，令一些穿...(展开全部)

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)

During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence. ...(展开全部)

Anthropology has long shied away from examining how human beings may lead happy and fulfilling lives. This book, however, shows that the ethnographic examination of well-being defined as the optimal state for an individual, a community, and a society and the comparison of well-being within and across societies is a new and important area for anthropological inquiry. Distinctly ...(展开全部)

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)

Harvard Professor Henry Spearman - an ingenious amateur sleuth who uses economics to size up every situation - is sent by an American entrepreneur to Cambridge, England. His mission is to scout out for purchase the most famous house in economic science: Balliol Croft, the former dwelling place of Professor Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes' teacher and the font of modern eco...(展开全部)

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories, a ...(展开全部)

Picking up where Berton Roueche's "The Medical Detectives" left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as the best thrillers. In these stories a not...(展开全部)