At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day. When Death Becomes Life is a thrilling look at how science advances on a grand scale to improve human l...(展开全部)

保罗·卡拉尼什 Paul Kalanithi，美国著名神经外科医生，作家。1977年生于亚利桑那州，获得斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，后于剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位,并以优异成绩从耶鲁大学医学院毕业，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的 研究室。在就任医生期间，保罗曾因其出色的研究成果，获得美国神经外科医生协会最高奖。 2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。2015年3月，37岁的保罗告别妻子和女儿，离开人世。 何雨珈，85后生人，自由译者，文字与影像的狂热追随者，一颗平常心，一双笨拙手，烹美食，做手工，只愿不辜负文字与生活。译有《再会，老北京》、《纸牌屋》等书。

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with sta...(展开全部)

Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating read. The hero—or antihero—of Mo Yan’s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals ...(展开全部)

The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When "The Time Bind" was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute. Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling auth...(展开全部)

The Time Bind is one of this decade's most influential studies of our work/family time-dilemma. For three years at a Fortune 500 company, Arlie Russell Hochschild, the best-selling author of The Second Shift, interviewed everyone from top executives to factory hands. What she found was startling news: none of these working parents was taking the company up on chances for flex-t...(展开全部)

With his brand of keenly intelligent humor that ranges from world history to historical politics, sexual politics, mad ancient kings, and chickens with guns, Eddie Izzard has built an extraordinary fan base that transcends age, gender, and race. Writing with the same candor and insight evident in his comedy, he reflects on a childhood marked by the loss of his mother, boarding ...(展开全部)

简介：这个餐厅有求必应，而店主却是每隔一年换一个，这个餐厅的阴谋却不止一个

简介：Death is the only beacon that is always on, and no matter where you sail, you will eventually have to turn to it. Everything will pass away, and only death will live forever.（死亡是唯一永远亮着的灯塔，无论你航行到哪里，你最终都要转向它，一切都会过去，只有死亡才会永远活着。）（已完结）

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Should we accept an account according to which peop...(展开全部)