【作者简介】 斯蒂芬·鲍恩（STEPHEN BOWN），出生于渥太华，在阿尔伯塔大学学习历史。长期以来，他一直对探索历史和航海时代感兴趣。鲍恩是多媒体产品生产者和自由撰稿人，为多本杂志撰稿，并出版《观光者和学者：自然历史黄金时代的科学旅行者》等书。 【译者简介】 潘驿炜，北京大学理学博士，研究方向为医学史、科学技术与社会，业余从事医学科普翻译，译有《病床边的陌生人：法律与生命伦理学塑造医学决策的历史》（2020）、《病患悖论：为什么“过度”医疗不利于你的健康？》（2020）、《重来也不会好过现在：成年人的哲学指南》（2019）等。 【审校人简介】 李远达，文学博士，北京大学医学人文学院讲师。研究兴趣为中国古代医学叙事与医学文化，在《中国文化研究》《明清小说研究》等刊物上发表学术论文20余篇。主持国社科基金项目一项。

<i>Scurvy</i> took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. Finding the cure for the dreaded disease ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has been largely ignored.<br /><br />Now, in this best-selling book, Stephen R. Bown shines a light on how the mystery was solved in a spellbi...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 斯蒂芬·鲍恩（STEPHEN BOWN），出生于渥太华，在阿尔伯塔大学学习历史。长期以来，他一直对探索历史和航海时代感兴趣。鲍恩是多媒体产品生产者和自由撰稿人，为多本杂志撰稿，并出版《观光者和学者：自然历史黄金时代的科学旅行者》等书。 【译者简介】 潘驿炜，北京大学理学博士，研究方向为医学史、科学技术与社会，业余从事医学科普翻译，译有《病床边的陌生人：法律与生命伦理学塑造医学决策的历史》（2020）、《病患悖论：为什么“过度”医疗不利于你的健康？》（2020）、《重来也不会好过现在：成年人的哲学指南》（2019）等。 【审校人简介】 李远达，文学博士，北京大学医学人文学院讲师。研究兴趣为中国古代医学叙事与医学文化，在《中国文化研究》《明清小说研究》等刊物上发表学术论文20余篇。主持国社科基金项目一项。

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline ... but the ‘War on Cancer’ has hardly been won. In The Cancer Code, Dr Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease – what it is, ho...(展开全部)

Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline ... but the ‘War on Cancer’ has hardly been won. In The Cancer Code, Dr Jason Fung offers a revolutionary new understanding of this invasive, often fatal disease – what it is, ho...(展开全部)

Hailed as "a remarkable achievement" (Boston Sunday Globe) and as "a triumph: simultaneously entertaining and instructive, witty and thought-provoking . . . a splendid and thoroughly engrossing book" (Los Angeles Times), Roy Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords us an opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to mank...(展开全部)

马歇尔·杰文斯是两位美国经济学家共同创作的笔名——维吉尼亚大学经济系“罗伯·泰勒讲座教授”肯尼斯·艾尔辛格（Kenneth G. Elzinga），以及三一大学（Trinity University）教授威廉·布瑞特（William Breit，1933-2011）。他们合著的系列推理小说包括《边际谋杀》（Murder at the Margin）、《致命的均衡》（The Fatal Equilibrium）、《夺命曲线》（A Deadly Indifference），以及《看不见的手》（The Mystery of the Invisible Hand）。 媒体评论 这是个引人入胜、构局严谨又充满趣味的悬疑故事，很难想象还有什么比这更愉快、更不费力的方法，可以吸收到充分的经济学知识。 ——米尔顿·弗里德曼（Milton Friedman，诺贝尔经济...(展开全部)

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, is the New York Times’s chief data scientist. He lives in New York City. Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Princeton University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives outside Princeton, New Jersey.

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just...(展开全部)

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emoti...(展开全部)