On a blustery night, detectives from the Massachusetts State Police knocked on Amy Gleason's door. Gleason, along with fellow nurse Kim Hoy, had helped a patient deal with pain and suffering at the end of her life. Now the patient was dead, and the two nurses were being investigated for murder. Both believed they had done the right thing, but they had no idea what it would cost...(展开全部)

On a blustery night in January 2001, detectives from the Massachusetts State Police knocked on Amy Gleason's door. Gleason, along with fellow nurse Kim Hoy, had helped a patient deal with pain and suffering at the end of her life. Now the patient was dead, and the two nurses were being investigated for murder. Both believed they had done the right thing, but they had no idea wh...(展开全部)

Have you ever felt out of place, as though you were living someone else's life? Assistant Bean Counter #1138 has only ever known a world in which numbers reign supreme, but there's a feeling he cannot shake that, deep down, he is more than an accountant. One day, he discovers a magical, mystical place that presents new and tantalizing horizons: a bookstore. For all those who ha...(展开全部)

In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf's blood into one of Paris's most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis was framed for murder. A riveting expos of the fierce debates, deadly politics, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first transfusion experiments, Blood Work takes us from dissection rooms in palaces to the streets of Paris,...(展开全部)

On a cold day in 1667, a renegade physician named Jean Denis transfused calf's blood into one of Paris's most notorious madmen. In doing so, Denis angered not only the elite scientists who had hoped to perform the first animal-to-human transfusions themselves, but also a host of powerful conservatives who believed that the doctor was toying with forces of nature that he did not...(展开全部)

For those that have some knowledge of the philosophical arguments concerning rights, this book is a clear and well-written contribution to the continuing debate between the interest and will theories. The first third of the book is written by Kramer and split into two main sections; first, a robust defence of the Hohfeldian analytical framework and second, an equally firm propo...(展开全部)

To die, kick the bucket, to meet your Maker, dead as a doornail, get whacked, smoked, bite the dust, sleep with the fishes, go six feet under—whatever death is called, it's going to happen. In 1789 Ben Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Death remains a certainty. But how do we die? It's the enormous variety of how that enlivens final exits. ...(展开全部)

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” – The New York Times “Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” – Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he h...(展开全部)