Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeate...(展开全部)

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This 'peculiarly modern inequality' that permeate...(展开全部)

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to ...(展开全部)

G. H. Hardy (1877－1947 ) 享有世界声誉的数学大师，英国分析学派的创始人之一。数学贡献涉及解析数论、调和分析、函数论等方面。培养和指导了包括印度数学奇才拉马努金和我国数学家华罗庚在内的众多数学大家。 J. E. Littlewood（1885—1977）著名英国数学家。任剑桥大学教授多年，他也是英国分析学派的重要建立者，与G. H. Hardy长期合作取得了丰硕的成果。在数论和分析学等方面贡献很大。 G. Pólya（1887—1985）著名数学家和数学教育家。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术和科学学院院士。长期担任斯坦福大学教授。其数学研究涉及复变函数、概率论、数论、数学分析、组合数学等众多领域。他撰写的《怎样解题》、《数学的发现》、《数学与猜想》等阐述解题方法的著作有世界性影响。

This classic of the mathematical literature forms a comprehensive study of the inequalities used throughout mathematics. First published in 1934, it presents clearly and exhaustively both the statement and proof of all the standard inequalities of analysis. The authors were well known for their powers of exposition and were able here to make the subject accessible to a wide aud...(展开全部)

大卫·奎曼，美国著名科普作家，美国国家地理杂志记者。著有《完美先生达尔文》等书。

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those report...(展开全部)

The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of the...(展开全部)

作者 杰罗姆·弗兰克 Jerome Frank，1889~1957 美国现实主义法学运动“事实怀疑论”的旗帜性人物。早年求学于芝加哥大学，获文学学士和法学硕士学位。1912年毕业后先后在律师事务所以及政府部门工作，20世纪30年代年曾任教于美国现实主义法学中心之一的耶鲁大学法学院。支持“新政”并于1939~1941年担任美国联邦证券交易委员会主席，1941年被罗斯福总统任命为美国第二巡回区上诉法院法官，并在此职位上一直工作到去世。其主要著作有：《法律与现代精神》（1930），《法院实际上在做什么》（1932），《法官霍姆斯先生和非欧几里得法律思想》（1932），《如果人人都是天使》（1942），《卡多佐与上院迷思》（1948），《初审法院：美国司法的神话和现实》（1949）等。 译者 刘楠 1966年生，英国伦敦大学亚非学院法学硕士、西南政法大学法...(展开全部)