"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining auth...(展开全部)

"If you want to understand the strange workings of the human body, and the future of medicine, you must read this illuminating, engaging book." —Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Gene In 2014, James Hamblin launched a series of videos for The Atlantic called "If Our Bodies Could Talk." With it, the doctor-turned-journalist established himself as a seriously entertaining auth...(展开全部)

Sarah Brewer 剑桥大学自然科学、医学和外科博士。曾经是全科医师和性健康医师，现在专门从事健康传播工作。她写过50多本非常流行的健康自助用书，如Body Facts（人体系统）、Overcoming Arthritis（战胜关节炎）、Overcoming Diabetes（战胜糖尿病）等。Sarah当选为2002年最佳健康记者，同时她也是一位注册营养师。 朱浩波 博士，毕业于天津大学，现就职于某国家部委技术部门。图灵公司资深译者，已独立完成译作4本，100余万字。业余时间除了钻研技术问题，还喜欢研究一些医学知识。愿意借翻译本书的机会，与读者共同分享关于人体和健康的真知灼见，一起畅游美妙的人体世界。

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? Why did gas lighting cause Victorian ladies to faint? Why, for centuries, did people fear fruit? All these questions will be answered in this juicy, smelly and truly intimate history ...(展开全部)

In this book I’m going to answer every question you could possibly have about the human body, including the things your teachers and parents quickly change the subject about when you ask them. (Probably because they don’t know the answers. Idiots.)

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime ...(展开全部)

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brin...(展开全部)

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime ...(展开全部)

We are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brin...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 [英] 基娅拉·玛丽亚·佩特罗：伦敦自然历史博物馆地球科学部岩石学与火山学主导研究员。 [意] 罗伯特·斯坎多内：意大利国家地球物理和火山研究所，维苏威火山天文台助理研究员。 [英] 亚历克斯·惠特克：英国伦敦帝国理工学院科学与工程专业地球系构造学高级讲师。 【译者简介】 邓柯彤：复旦大学翻译系硕士，现任复旦大学出版社外语分社编辑，从事专著、期刊、教材、译著等出版工作。