南希·丽思·斯特潘（Nancy Leys Stepan），美国著名公共卫生史学者，哥伦比亚大学荣休教授，其对疟疾、天花、黄热病等传染病开展的社会学研究具有开创性意义。特别是其有关“根除”行动的研究，始终在全球公共卫生领域备受关注。另著有《优生时代：拉丁美洲的种族、性别与国家》等作品。

南希·丽思·斯特潘（Nancy Leys Stepan），美国著名公共卫生史学者，哥伦比亚大学荣休教授，其对疟疾、天花、黄热病等传染病开展的社会学研究具有开创性意义。特别是其有关“根除”行动的研究，始终在全球公共卫生领域备受关注。另著有《优生时代：拉丁美洲的种族、性别与国家》等作品。

劳里 · 加勒特（Laurie Garrett），美国著名女记者，是获得皮博迪奖（The Peabody Award）、乔治 · 伯克奖（George Polk Award）和普利策奖（Pulitzer Award）三大著名新闻奖的第一人。曾就读于加州大学，攻读公共卫生，以优异成绩毕业后先后到斯坦福 大学和哈佛大学进修。在校期间即对新闻事业产生浓厚兴趣，后来成为专业记者，在全美公共广播电台、《新闻日报》等单位就职。现为美国对外关系委员会全球卫生高级研究员。著述颇多， 除本书外， 另有《失信：全球公共卫生事业之瘫痪》《流行天下！传染病的世界》等， 并且经常为各大报刊及通讯社撰稿。文字细腻生动，颇受好评。

A critically acclaimed study documents the outbreaks of newly discovered diseases around the globe, such as HIV, Lassa, and Ebola, and explores the social and environmental deterioration that helps to keep such viruses alive. Reprint. Tour. NYT.

谢林（F. W. J. Schelling, 1775-1854），德国唯心主义哲学家，与康德、费希特、黑格尔并称德国古典哲学四大家。代表作品有《自我作为哲学的本原》《一种自然哲学的理念》《先验唯心论体系》《哲学与宗教》《论人类自由的本质及相关对象》《世界时代》《神话哲学》《启示哲学》等。 先刚，图宾根大学哲学博士，北京大学哲学系教授，博士生导师。主要研究领域：德国古典哲学、古希腊哲学、西方哲学史。

A new English translation of Schelling’s unfinished magnum opus, complete with a contextualizing introduction by the translator. A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling’s magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, S...(展开全部)

The first English translation of the first of three versions of this unfinished work by Schelling. In 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe’s most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a “failure” in which He...(展开全部)

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)

Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter, or might it require something extra, something nonphysical? According to the philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel, it’s hard to say. In The Weirdness of the World, Schwitzgebel argues that the answers to these funda...(展开全部)