A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and ...(展开全部)

A riveting account of the astonishing experiences and discoveries made by linguist Daniel Everett while he lived with the Pirahã, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.Daniel Everett arrived among the Pirahã with his wife and three young children hoping to convert the tribe to Christianity. Everett quickly became obsessed with their language and its cultural and ...(展开全部)

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur’s only chan...(展开全部)

“A massive classic of modern anthropology . . . that reads better than most fiction” (The Guardian) and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book “Philippe Descola writes in the tradition of Tristes Tropiques . . . [with] a similar ambitious intellect and elegance of style. . . . [However], Descola diverges from the global pessimism of Tristes Tropiques and recognizes a more ambivalen...(展开全部)

潔米．凱特．凱蘭在法國外婆的諄諄教誨下，從小耳濡目染法國女人如何找尋真愛並讓愛情持續的秘密。潔米曾多次拜訪法國，並訪問了數以百計的法國女人—當然，也包括不少法國男人。除此之外，潔米文章常見於各大暢銷報章雜誌，如《全美最佳色情文學》（Best American Erotica）和《密蘇里評論》（The Missouri Review），並身兼《紐約時報》的「現代愛情」（Modern Love）專欄作家，曾出版兩性專書《做愛也做自己》（Hooking Up or Holding Out）。

A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us. Twenty-one million Americans are affected by 6,000 so-called rare and orphan diseases, many of which are primarily attributable to misspelled genes. And virtually all diseases have a significant hereditary component. Diabetes, heart disease, the common cancers, mental illness, asthma, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and mo...(展开全部)

From New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned doctor and geneticist Francis Collins, a book that will forever change how you think about your body, your health, and the future of medicine. A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study, from hundreds of laboratories around the world. It is no longer just a theoretical shift:...(展开全部)

A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us. Twenty-one million Americans are affected by 6,000 so-called rare and orphan diseases, many of which are primarily attributable to misspelled genes. And virtually all diseases have a significant hereditary component. Diabetes, heart disease, the common cancers, mental illness, asthma, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and mo...(展开全部)