沙龙·莫勒姆是多伦多大学哲学博士、纽约西奈山医学院医学博士，他专攻的领域为稀有疾病、神经遗传学和生物技术，他的学术研究和医学工作主要围绕进化、遗传、生物学和医学如何革命性地改变我们理解疾病的方式。莫勒姆博士著有《性与五感》《遗传》《重启DNA》等多部科普著作，曾任《阿尔茨海默病杂志》（Journal of Alzheimer's Disease）副主编，与人合伙创办了两家生物技术公司，并获得多项专利。他的临床遗传学研究帮助发现了两种罕见的遗传特征，以及一种新型的抗菌化合物新药。 乔纳森·普林斯曾任克林顿政府的高级顾问和演讲稿撰写人，曾在科索沃战争期间负责管理北约的沟通战略。因其在改进政治广告方面的工作，美国《时尚杂志》（Esquire）在2005年将他评为美国聪明头脑之一。他致力于公共和环保事业，与美国参议院前议员约翰·爱德华兹和约翰·爱德华兹的女儿...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this groundbreaking and absorbing book, wunderkind Dr. Sharon Moalem delves back into the evolution of man to reveal hitherto unknown and astonishing ways the human body is built to survive. With this revolutionary new book, Sharon Moalem completely turns modern medicine's understanding of disease on it's head. "It is not," he argues, "that dark country to which we'...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other living thing on earth. Through a fresh and engaging examination of our evolutionary history, Dr. Moalem reveals how man...(展开全部)

Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied...(展开全部)

南茜・埃特考夫Nancy Etcoff 美国哈佛大学硕士，波士顿大学心理学博士，曾获麻省理工学院大脑及认知科学博士后奖学金。目前，她任教于哈佛大学医学院，并在马萨诸塞州综合医院任心理医生。现居住在马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇市。

In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring myths, that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, skewers the enduring myth that the pursuit of beauty...(展开全部)

-作者简介- 亨利•列斐伏尔（Henri Lefebvre，1901—1991），法国当代深具影响力的马克思主义思想家，以其开创性的日常生活批判、对城市权利和社会空间生产等概念的引介、对辩证唯物主义和异化等主题的研究及对存在主义和结构主义的批评而著称于世，代表作包括《日常生活批判》《空间的生产》等。 -译者简介- 米兰，巴黎政治大学欧洲政治和国际关系双硕士，复旦大学哲学学士，对欧洲思想史和政治文化有深入研究，译有《法国大革命思想史》《美杜莎的笑声》《占据》等。现居巴黎。

From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich comes this intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in winter.