When the woman he loved was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, science writer George Johnson embarked on a journey to learn everything he could about the disease and the people who dedicate their lives to understanding and combating it. What he discovered is a revolution under way—an explosion of new ideas about what cancer really is and where it comes from. In a provocative a...(展开全部)

乔治·约翰逊： 《纽约时报》专栏作家，同时也为美国《国家地理》、《石板》、《发现》、《科学美国人》、《连线》、《大西洋月刊》等刊物撰写文章。他是艾丽西亚·帕特森研究学者，曾获得国际笔会（PEN）和美国科学促进会的多个奖项，著作两度入围皇家学会的图书奖。同时也是Bloggingheads.tv网站核心小组的共同主持人，在“发现”网站开有博客“思想之火”。目前定居在美国新墨西哥州圣菲市。

From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity...(展开全部)

From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity...(展开全部)

A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems and what we can do to break the cycle. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris was already known as a crusading physician delivering targeted care to vulnerable children. But it was Diego—a boy who had stopped growing after a sexual trauma—who galvanized her to dig deeper into the connections between toxic st...(展开全部)

●知名TED演讲人，国际知名儿科医生，童年不良经历研究领域新锐科学家。首度通过临床研究探究童年不良经历对未来身体健康的影响机制及治疗方法的儿科医生。 ●美国青少年健康中心创始人，2019年被任命为加州首任卫生局局长。哈佛大学公共卫生学硕士，加州大学戴维斯分校医学博士，美国儿科学会“韧性计划”咨询委员会成员。 ●在医学和公共卫生领域的贡献突出，荣获第21届全球知名个人成就奖亨氏人类健康贡献奖、美国金色人文主义荣誉协会的2013年度医疗人文主义奖。她的研究对21世纪的重要意义，可媲美20世纪的“微生物学之父”巴斯德和“术前消毒之父”李斯特。

One of the world's most creative mathematicians offers new ways to look at maths - focusing on questions, not answers Why is -(-1) = 1? Why do odd and even numbers alternate? What's the point of algebra? Is maths even real? From imaginary numbers to the perplexing order of operations we all had drilled into us, Eugenia Cheng - mathematician, writer and woman on a mission to rid...(展开全部)

Where do we learn math: From rules in a textbook? From logic and deduction? Not really, according to mathematician Eugenia Cheng: we learn it from human curiosity—most importantly, from asking questions. This may come as a surprise to those who think that math is about finding the one right answer, or those who were told that the “dumb” question they asked just proved they were...(展开全部)

A stirring account of the most influential battle in history For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I and II, the battle that obsessed legendary military minds. Yet no general ever matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and br...(展开全部)

A stirring account of the most influential battle in history For millennia, Carthage’s triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 B.C. has inspired reverence and awe. It was the battle that countless armies tried to imitate, most notably in World Wars I and II, the battle that obsessed legendary military minds. Yet no general ever matched Hannibal’s most unexpected, innovative, and br...(展开全部)