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)

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)

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)

The second half of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new model of chronic disease-diagnosed on the basis of numerical deviations rather than symptoms and treated on a preventive basis before any overt signs of illness develop-that arose in concert with a set of safe, effective, and highly marketable prescription drugs. In Prescribing by Numbers, physician-hist...(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)

Cameron Diaz follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller, The Body Book, with a personal, practical, and authoritative guide that examines the art and science of growing older and offers concrete steps women can take to create abundant health and resilience as they age. Cameron Diaz wrote The Body Book to help educate young women about how their bodies function, empowering ...

A landmark book of popular science—a lucid, engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years and of how the increasing disparity between the jumble of adaptations in our Stone Age bodies and the modern world is fueling the paradox of greater longevity but more chronic disease. In a book that illuminates, as never before, the evolutionary story of the human...(展开全部)

In this landmark book of popular science, Daniel E. Lieberman gives us a lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. He illuminates the major transformations that contributed to key adaptations to the body: the rise of bipedalism; the shift to a non-fruit-based diet; the advent of hunting and gathering; and how cultural changes like the Agri...(展开全部)

The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Ro...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莱斯•弗莫尔（Patrick Leigh Fermor，1915—2011），爱尔兰裔，出生于一个英格兰上流社会家庭，他的父亲是知名的地质学家。弗莫尔是一位勇敢的旅行者，也被誉为是二十世纪英国最优秀的旅行作家之一。弗莫尔在结束自己的学校生涯后，于18岁那年只身出走，逃离了他所处的上流社会以及循规蹈矩的生活。他徒步穿越了欧洲，在欧洲各地游历和生活。在第二次世界大战期间，他应征入伍加入了爱尔兰卫队，在阿尔巴尼亚战斗；他还参与了英国特别行动处（SOE）突袭德占克里特岛的行动，俘虏了德军驻克里特岛的指挥官海因里希•克莱佩将军。他因此被授予了“优质服务勋章”（DSO）和大英帝国官佐勋章（OBE）。战后，他与他未来的妻子琼•蒙赛尔周游巴尔干和希腊，并定居希腊开始写作。2011年，弗莫尔与世长辞。