In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking inf...(展开全部)

In The Virus Touch Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking inf...(展开全部)

乔纳森·罗森伯格，南佛罗里达大学心理学副教授，情绪和情感实验室负责人。他的文章发表在《科学美国人》（科普杂志）《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》等知名杂志上。2013年，罗森伯格发起了走出黑暗的运动，倡导全国范围内开展有关抑郁的对话。

Narcissism—an inflated view of the self—is everywhere. Public figures say it’s what makes them stray from their wives. Parents teach it by dressing children in T-shirts that say "Princess." Teenagers and young adults hone it on Facebook, and celebrity newsmakers have elevated it to an art form. And it’s what’s making people depressed, lonely, and buried under piles of debt. J...(展开全部)

Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's why five times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years ago. It's the value that parents teach their children with song lyrics like "I am special. Look at me," t...(展开全部)

Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com’s 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly’s 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed’s 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The...(展开全部)

山姆•昆诺斯（1958— ），从事记者工作近30年，曾作为自由撰稿人在墨西哥生活了10年，在那里他完成了两本著作。2004年，他回到美国为《洛杉矶时报》工作，进行移民、贩毒、帮派等方面的调查和报道。2014年辞职，重做自由职业者，为《国家地理杂志》《纽约时报》《洛杉矶杂志》等刊物工作。 2011年开始撰写并出版“真相系列”作品。

In this volume, the renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has collected all of his fierce, passionate, and deeeply personal interventions regarding the current health emergency. Alongside and beyond accusations and exact descriptions, these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health, the mode...(展开全部)

作者 | 艾尔弗雷德·W.克罗斯比 Alfred W. Crosby 美国历史学家，得克萨斯州大学奥斯汀分校历史教授。主要从事生态环境史研究，被视为环境史研究的奠基者。被芬兰科学院颁授院士称号。著有《哥伦布大交换》《被遗忘的大流行》《生态帝国主义》《万物皆可测量》等。

Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. With suitcases kept packed, vaccinations at the ready, the EIS's little-recognized medical professionals and scientists are always on call. And when an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there to crack the case, however mysterious or deadly. Over the years they have successfully...(展开全部)