数千年来，结核病一直与人类紧密相连。结核病曾被诗人浪漫地描述为一种疾病，而今天，它却被视为一种贫困疾病，沿着我们为其开辟的不公正和不公平之路前行。 2019年，作家约翰·格林（John Green）在塞拉利昂拉卡政府医院遇见了一位年轻的结核病患者亨利·雷德（Henry Reider）。 约翰很快就和亨利成为了好朋友，亨利是一个双腿细长、笑容灿烂、傻乎乎的男孩。自初次访问拉卡以来，格林一直积极倡导增加治疗机会，并更广泛地认识到医疗保健不公平现象，这种现象导致这种可治愈、可预防的传染病成为致命的疾病，每年导致超过一百万人死亡。在《一切都是结核病》中，约翰讲述了亨利的故事，并穿插了结核病如何影响我们的世界的科学和社会历史，以及我们的选择如何影响结核病的未来。 Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu?manity for...(展开全部)

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Signed edition Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walk...(展开全部)

A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its globa...(展开全部)

The phenomenal bestseller, with more than 500,000 copies sold worldwide, now with a new epilogue from the author-- The Chalice and the Blade has inspired a generation of women and men to envision a truly egalitarian society by exploring the legacy of the peaceful, goddess-worshipping cultures from our prehistoric past.

This book introduces the fast-developing field of book history. James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers will benefit from the book's investigation of th...(展开全部)

What is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, ‘knowledges in the plural’) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history. Leading cultural historian, Peter Burke, draws up...(展开全部)

No disease the world has ever known even remotely resembles the great influenza epidemic of 1918. Presumed to have begun when sick farm animals infected soldiers in Kansas, spreading and mutating into a lethal strain as troops carried it to Europe, it exploded across the world with unequaled ferocity and speed. It killed more people in twenty weeks than AIDS has killed in twen...(展开全部)

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one ki...(展开全部)