An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of ...(展开全部)

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of ...(展开全部)

This is a unique and quirky exploration of the stories and meanings behind the everyday objects that shape our lives. From combs and keys to sweets and handkerchiefs, certain objects, though seemingly mundane, can have a magical quality, and an often surprising power to arouse, absorb, disturb, or soothe. Take bags, for example. Why do most women carry handbags, while men rely ...(展开全部)

卡洛琳‧艾爾頓（Caroline Elton） 在牛津大學獲得本科學位，之後獲得賓夕法尼亞大學的研究生獎學金，並在倫敦大學學院（UCL）醫學院的學術精神病學系獲得博士學位。她是一名職業心理學家，曾和許多醫生共事。她的第一個角色是在病房、門診和手術室中觀察高級臨床醫生的教學，這是對過時的醫學教育模式提出質疑的舉措之一。後來，她被任命為英國國民健保署「職涯中心」（Careers Unit）負責人，負責支持整個倫敦的實習醫生。她還擔任擴展醫學學位課程的負責人，該課程是英國最大的「擴大參與」（widening participation）醫學學位課程。卡洛琳撰寫了許多文章探討醫生所面臨的問題以及如何提供醫生最好的支持，並經常在英國和國外會議中發表演講。 譯者簡介 林麗雪 臺灣大學政治學系畢業。曾任職國會助理、記者與編輯。喜愛大自然與有生命力的人、事、...(展开全部)

卡洛琳‧艾爾頓（Caroline Elton） 在牛津大學獲得本科學位，之後獲得賓夕法尼亞大學的研究生獎學金，並在倫敦大學學院（UCL）醫學院的學術精神病學系獲得博士學位。她是一名職業心理學家，曾和許多醫生共事。她的第一個角色是在病房、門診和手術室中觀察高級臨床醫生的教學，這是對過時的醫學教育模式提出質疑的舉措之一。後來，她被任命為英國國民健保署「職涯中心」（Careers Unit）負責人，負責支持整個倫敦的實習醫生。她還擔任擴展醫學學位課程的負責人，該課程是英國最大的「擴大參與」（widening participation）醫學學位課程。卡洛琳撰寫了許多文章探討醫生所面臨的問題以及如何提供醫生最好的支持，並經常在英國和國外會議中發表演講。 譯者簡介 林麗雪 臺灣大學政治學系畢業。曾任職國會助理、記者與編輯。喜愛大自然與有生命力的人、事、...(展开全部)

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he began in Switzerland, aged 19, with Fischli and Weiss. Here he chooses 19 of the greatest figures and presents their conversations, offering the reader intimacy with the artists and insight into their creative processes. Inspired by the great Vasari, Lives of the Artis...(展开全部)

汉斯•乌尔里希•奥布里斯特（Hans Ulrich Obrist），1968年生于瑞士苏黎世，伦敦蛇形画廊联合总监，是活跃于当代艺术界的著名策展人和批评家。奥布里斯特迄今曾参与策划和发起了150 多个展览与项目，编撰有70 多本学术著作。著有《策展之道》《关于策展的一切》《策展简史》《做》等。

For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures–the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from ...(展开全部)

For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes us on a fascinating voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures–the sanguivores. Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that blood feeders, from ...(展开全部)

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello’s son, a physics professo...(展开全部)