亨利·马什 全球知名神经外科医生 伦敦圣乔治医学院（英国最古老的公立医学院）高级顾问 英国笔会艾克理传记奖得主 皇家外科学院前研究员 亨利·马什谨守“严禁伤害”信条。行医初期，3个月大的儿子威廉罹患脑瘤。这段“魂不守舍”“极度绝望”“砸碎餐椅”“开车碾死黑猫”的经历，让马什医生明白“焦虑暴躁的患者亲属是所有医生必须背负的负担”。自此以后，他长期遵守这一信条，并言传身教实习医生。 亨利·马什拥有30多年丰富从医经验。他先在伦敦皇家自由医院研习医学。1984年，他担任皇家外科学院的研究员。1987年，马什医生受邀担任圣乔治医学院阿特金森-莫雷医院神经外科高级顾问。 两部获奖纪录片主角原型。《你的生命在他们手中》（Your Life in Their Hands）获得皇家电视学会金奖，《英国医生》(The English Surgeon)获得艾美奖最佳纪录...(展开全部)

The Instant New York Times best seller! Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frighte ning understanding of his vocation. - The New York Times Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize A Finali...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition.

With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the firmament above, to a world where angelic visitations ...(展开全部)

Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of masterpieces and recently it has taken Hollywood by storm. The lead story in the collection will soon to be a major motion picture starring Amy Adams, while another story has been optioned by Fox and is in development. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Stories of Your Life ...(展开全部)

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in mo...(展开全部)

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a new edition.