Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage…not the answers you’d expect to the question ‘what happens when you become a linguist?’ But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers this question and offers us a special look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, ch...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡塔林·考里科（Katalin Karikó），塞格德大学教授、宾夕法尼亚大学兼任教授。生物化学家，专攻RNA介导机制。2023年，凭借在核苷碱基修饰方面的发现，考里科与德鲁·韦斯曼共同获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 考里科于1982年获得匈牙利塞格德大学生物化学博士学位，随后在匈牙利生物研究中心进行博士后研究，1989年任职于宾夕法尼亚大学，并从1997年开始与韦斯曼合作。 因为在生物化学领域做出具有全球意义的贡献，考里科当选为美国国家医学院院士、美国国家发明家科学院院士、美国国家科学院院士、美国艺术与科学院院士、匈牙利科学院院士、德国国家科学院院士、欧洲科学院院士、法兰西科学院外籍院士，获得一百多个国际奖项和荣誉，其中包括拉斯克临床医学奖、《时代》周刊2021年度英雄、匈牙利圣斯蒂芬勋章，并获得耶鲁大学、普林斯顿大学、特拉维夫大学、香港...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the com...(展开全部)

Told through a series of poignant vignettes, Through A Life is a sweeping story of dreams, expectations, nature, and loss. Rodney spends his life looking through. Windows give way to screens as he comes of age dreaming of what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere. This powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like he always wante...(展开全部)

Told through a series of poignant vignettes, Through A Life is a sweeping story of dreams, expectations, nature, and loss. Rodney spends his life looking through. Windows give way to screens as he comes of age dreaming of what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere. This powerfully silent graphic novel follows the saga of a boy who grows up to be an astronaut, just like he always wante...(展开全部)

This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.

In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.