A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically charged frontiers. The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. It’s a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional w...(展开全部)

A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically charged frontiers. The border between Russia and China winds for 2,600 miles through rivers, swamps, and vast taiga forests. It’s a thin line of direct engagement, extraordinary contrasts, frequent tension, and occasional w...(展开全部)

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provide...(展开全部)

吉姆·艾尔—哈利利 ● 英国萨里大学物理学教授，最具影响力的量子生物学家。 ● 1989年，在英国萨里大学获得核反应理论博士学位。 ● 1992年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，开始了为期五年的研究工作，他差不多每两个月就发表一篇论文，有些论文的引用次数超过500次。 ● 从20世纪90年代末开始，研究领域转向量子生物学，“量子隧穿”是他的研究重点。1999年，他与生物学家约翰乔·麦克法登联合发表了量子生物学方面的论文。2012年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，他与约翰乔·麦克法登共同主办了量子生物学研讨会，并获得极大成功。2015年，他以量子生物学为主题做了TED演讲。 ● 2005—2007年，他参与拍摄BBC的纪录片《爱因斯坦大脑之谜》和《原子》，广受好评，他于2011年开始在BBC制作广播节目《生命科学》，每周吸引的听众数量高达2...(展开全部)

Matt Scudder returns in a tense mystery in which he remorselessly tracks downa young midwestern girl missing in the Big Apple.

A writer finds solitude and salvation tracing the lives and deaths of three of her literary lights in a haunted and lyrical travelogue from NBCC Award-winner Tezer Özlü. An unnamed writer embarks on an obsessive journey through Europe, drawn to the gravesites of her literary idols—Cesare Pavese, Italo Svevo, Franz Kafka—putting her life, her writing, and her politics in convers...(展开全部)

Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise building if their back wages are not paid. Users of a video and livestreaming app hustle for views by eating excrement or setting off firecrackers on their genitals. In these and many oth...(展开全部)

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in...(展开全部)

格洛丽亚·斯泰纳姆 Gloria Steinem，作家、演讲家、编辑和女权主义社会活动家。20世纪60年代后期和20世纪70年代妇女解放运动的代表人物，因揭露花花公子兔女郎的故事而掀起了反色情运动的风潮。在1968年，她协助建立了《纽约》杂志，同时担任政治专栏评论员。她 于1972年联合创办了《女士》杂志。2005年，斯泰纳姆联合成立了妇女媒体中心，并担任董事。代表作有《内在革命》《无耻行为和日常生活的反叛》《言语之上》《玛丽莲：诺玛·珍》和《仿佛女人重要一般》等。斯泰纳姆曾获得彭尼-密苏里新闻奖、《头版新闻》和号角奖、全国杂志奖、女性体育新闻报道奖、专业记者协会颁发的新闻终身成就奖、联合国颁发的作家协会奖、詹姆士·威尔顿·约翰逊新闻奖等。在2013年，她被巴拉克·奥巴马总统授予总统自由勋章。