A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back together and make sense of her own. Texas-born and Harvard-educated, Dr. Perry Baird was a rising medical star in the late 1920s and 1930s. Early in his career, ahead of his time, he grew fascinated with identifying the biochemical root of manic de...(展开全部)

"How a transmittable little bacterium with a twisting propellant tail...deeply affected...mankind's perception of itself." Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Writing with rema...(展开全部)

An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him.

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric cari...(展开全部)

他是常人眼中的疯子，也是终身跋涉的圣徒。在不惑之年，他抛弃了遍地的六便士，开始寻找心中的月亮。

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric cari...(展开全部)

"This is the amazing story of a little boy, Peter, who adores his mother so much that he wants to give her the moon as a present. But the moon is so far and he is so small He climbs onto his father's shoulders, but still he is not tall enough to reach the moon. He asks his cousins for help, but still Peter cannot reach the moon... After having built a huge human pyramid, he r...(展开全部)

他是常人眼中的疯子，也是终身跋涉的圣徒。在不惑之年，他抛弃了遍地的六便士，开始寻找心中的月亮。

人类基因组计划启动至今已逾20年，其间，人类从第一次解读个人基因组信息，到为特殊病人进行个性化全基因组测序，再到大规模基因组测序以实现医学范式的转变，可谓成绩斐然。 尤安·安格斯·阿什利博士将自己扎实的理论知识和丰富的临床实践经验融汇于本书中，为我们揭示了DNA和基因组的理论，悉数人类基因组发展数十年来的重要事件和前沿进展，以及如何以“侦探”的身份抽丝剥茧，通过患者的基因组信息破解其病因、拯救其生命。 作者在书中预测，不远的将来，每个人都可以利用自己的基因组来预测并预防疾病。这就是位于科技前沿的“精准医疗”——基于对健康和疾病的基因组理解的个性化治疗。精准医疗的目的是在健康领域预防疾病、精准诊断并对疾病进行精准治疗。我们将使用基因组测序和解读技术来分析人们有患哪种疾病的风险，在疾病发生前进行预防，在疾病发生后针对性治疗。 这不仅是一本关于人类基因的科...(展开全部)