The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the 'cost ...(展开全部)

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the 'cost ...(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)

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)

**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010** What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as custom...(展开全部)

**Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2010** What is good care? In this innovative and compelling book, Annemarie Mol argues that good care has little to do with 'patient choice' and, therefore, creating more opportunities for patient choice will not improve health care. Although it is possible to treat people who seek professional help as custom...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布坎南（James McGill Buchanan，1919— ），公共选择理论创始人之一，1986年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，著有《同意的计算》（与戈登·塔洛克合著，1958）、《民主财政论》（1967）、《成本与选择》（1969）、《自由的限度》（与罗伯特·托利森合著，1975）、《赤字中的民主》（与理查德·瓦格纳合著，1971）、《自由、市场与国家》（1985）、《宪政经济学》（与杰佛瑞·布伦南合著，1985）、《财产与自由》（1993）等。

詹姆斯·布坎南（James McGill Buchanan，1919— ），公共选择理论创始人之一，1986年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，著有《同意的计算》（与戈登·塔洛克合著，1958）、《民主财政论》（1967）、《成本与选择》（1969）、《自由的限度》（与罗伯特·托利森合著，1975）、《赤字中的民主》（与理查德·瓦格纳合著，1971）、《自由、市场与国家》（1985）、《宪政经济学》（与杰佛瑞·布伦南合著，1985）、《财产与自由》（1993）等。

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between mental and physical health. A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough--but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind reall...(展开全部)