亚当·明特（Adam Minter）,出生于美国明尼苏达州一个废品经销商家庭，2002年开始进行一系列关于中国新兴的废品回收业的开创性调查报告，受到国际传媒界的认可，2004年获得斯蒂芬·巴尔写作奖。从那时起，美国国家公共广播电台、《华尔街日报》以及英国《金融时报》《卫报》等国际媒体经常邀请他采访和撰稿。2008年他受邀到伦敦皇家地理学会做了对全球废品回收贸易的评论性演讲。目前，他受雇于全球最大的财经资讯公司彭博社。

亚当·明特（Adam Minter）,出生于美国明尼苏达州一个废品经销商家庭，2002年开始进行一系列关于中国新兴的废品回收业的开创性调查报告，受到国际传媒界的认可，2004年获得斯蒂芬·巴尔写作奖。从那时起，美国国家公共广播电台、《华尔街日报》以及英国《金融时报》《卫报》等国际媒体经常邀请他采访和撰稿。2008年他受邀到伦敦皇家地理学会做了对全球废品回收贸易的评论性演讲。目前，他受雇于全球最大的财经资讯公司彭博社。

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing-- atom by atom-- both a new life-saving ...(展开全部)

Join journalist Barry Werth as he pulls back the curtain on Vertex, a start-up pharmaceutical company, and witness firsthand the intense drama being played out in the pioneering and hugely profitable field of drug research. Founded by Joshua Boger, a dynamic Harvard- and Merck-trained scientific whiz kid, Vertex is dedicated to designing-- atom by atom-- both a new life-saving ...(展开全部)

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010 A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010 A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of 2010 In this astonishing new work from one of our greatest and most entertaining story...(展开全部)

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2010 A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2010 A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Books of 2010 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Kansas City Star 100 Best Books of 2010 A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best of 2010 In this astonishing new work from one of our greatest and most entertaining story...(展开全部)

In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. While they were welcomed by writers and academics, the travelers were required to follow a pre-establish...(展开全部)

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called ...(展开全部)

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called ...(展开全部)

This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday - on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across the farthest reaches of space. This is a narrative of the Earth's long and dramatic history, as gleaned from a single pebble. It begins as the pebble-particles form amid unimaginab...(展开全部)