Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by The New York Times, this study examines more than 350 variables of health and nutrition with surveys from 6,500 adults in more than 2,500 counties across China and Taiwan, and conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. While revealing that proper nutrition can have a dramatic e...(展开全部)

T•柯林•坎贝尔（T.Colin Campbell） 坎贝尔博士，康奈尔大学终身教授，被誉为“世界营养学界的爱因斯坦”，四十多年来一直身处营养科学研究的最前沿。他还是最强致癌物“二恶英”的主要发现者。1982年6月，他为美国国家科学院撰写的报告——《膳食、营养与癌症》发表后，震惊了全美国。1983到1989年，在美国康奈尔大学、英国牛津大学、中国疾病预防与控制中心，以及中国医学科学院肿瘤研究所等多家中外权威机构精诚合作下，坎贝尔教授领导其团队在中国的24个省、市、自治区的69个县开展了三次关于膳食、生活方式和疾病死亡率的流行病学研究。这次有史以来规模最大的营养健康调查研究（即本书《救命饮食》），被《纽约时报》称为“世界流行病学研究的巅峰之作”，几乎不可能再重复。《救命饮食》一书便是这一调查研究的结果，其所阐述的开创性研究将为大众开创健康新纪元。 汤玛...(展开全部)

In March 1950 Senator Joseph R. McCarthy accused Owen Lattimore, a distinguished China scholar at The Johns Hopkins University, of being "the top Soviet espionage agent in the U.S." The Senate Foreign Relations Committee exonerated Lattimore four months later, but for the next two years Pat McCarran and his Senate Internal Security Committee investigated him, forcing the Justic...(展开全部)

Since its appearance in 1725, it has been used by and has directly influenced the work of many of the greatest composers. J. S. Bach held it in high esteem, Leopold Mozart trained his famous son from its pages, Haydn worked out every lesson with meticulous care, and Beethoven condensed it into an abstract for ready reference.

This bestselling textbook is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction for students with no prior knowledge of linguistics. Broad yet concise, this manageable overview of key topics draws students in, with thirty new tasks, new foreign-language examples, and an expanded and revised online study guide.

Across the humanities, a set of interrelated concepts - excess, becoming, the event - have gained purchase as analytical tools for thinking about power. Some versions of affect theory rely on Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'becoming', proposing that affect is best understood as a field of dynamic novelty. Reconsidering affect theory's relationship with life sciences, Schaefer argu...(展开全部)

The early Song dynasty (960–1278) was a time of immense intellectual fervor, as China rulers, after over a century of internecine warfare, embarked on a new course that promoted wen (literary or cultural arts) over wu (martial prowess). With the new literary based agenda came a discussion of how to constitute Song’s wen agenda, how to define wen values, what kinds of literature...(展开全部)

Over the past century, Buddhism has come to be seen as a world religion, exceeding Christianity in longevity and, according to many, philosophical wisdom. Buddhism has also increasingly been described as strongly ethical, devoted to nonviolence, and dedicated to bringing an end to human suffering. And because it places such a strong emphasis on rational analysis, Buddhism is co...(展开全部)

A year after the publication of Dicey's LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION, William Gladstone was reading it aloud in the House of Commons, citing it as authority. It remains, to this day, a starting point for the study of the English Constitution and comparative constitutional law. THE LAW OF THE CONSTITUTION elucidates the guiding principles of the modern constitution of England: the le...(展开全部)