【美】戴尔•E.布来得森（Dale E. Bredesen） 国际公认的神经系统变性疾病研究权威专家，巴克老龄化问题研究所创始人，加州大学洛杉矶分校教授，拥有30多项个人专利。 曾在诺贝尔奖获得者斯坦利·普鲁西纳教授的实验室研从事博士后研究，在加州大学旧金山分校担任神经病学首席住院医师。 1998年，创办巴克老龄化问题研究所，这是美国早期专门研究衰老和慢性疾病关系的独立研究机构。2013年，回到加州大学洛杉矶分校担任阿尔茨海默病研究中心主任。 他和他的团队研究阿尔茨海默病问题30多年，发表了200多篇研究论文，取得了诸多突破性进展，并将研究成果转化为治疗阿尔茨海默病和其他神经系统变性疾病的有效方法，为阿尔茨海默病的治疗带来了希望。

A subtle portrait of one of the world’s great concert artists, this volume offers a vivid presentation of Arrau’s unique and intensely felt beliefs about music and piano technique. In addition to conversations with Arrau, the author has included discussions with four of Arrau’s renowned musical colleagues: Philip Lorenz, Daniel Barenboim, Garrick Ohlsson, and Sir Colin Davis. T...(展开全部)

"Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert science writing, [Sandeep Jauhar] has composed a can’t-miss introduction to what has been called The Age of Alzheimer’s." ―Sanjay Gupta, author of Keep Sharp and World War C A deeply affecting memoir of a father's descent into dementia, and a revelatory inquiry into why the human brain ...(展开全部)

桑迪普·乔哈，医学博士和物理学博士、长岛犹太医学中心心脏科主治医师、霍夫斯特拉─诺斯韦医学院副教授，专攻心脏衰竭，同时也是《纽约时报》专栏作家。曾以杰出的医学人文写作荣获南亚记者协会颁发的特别荣誉奖。文章常见于《新英格兰医学期刊》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《时代》杂志等媒体及专业期刊，已出版的著作包括《实习医师：一位医师的起点》和《成为医师：一位美国医师的幻灭》。

As a research neuroscientist, Lise Eliot has made the study of the human brain her life's work. But it wasn't until she was pregnant with her first child that she became intrigued with the study of brain development. She wanted to know precisely how the baby's brain is formed, and when and how each sense, skill, and cognitive ability is developed. And just as important, she was...(展开全部)

When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers and the development of their fiction from the 1800s onwards. It includes assessme...(展开全部)

"It probably arose," he answered, "from the spontaneous combustion of the cotton. The case is rare, but it is far from unknown. Unless the cotton is perfectly dry when it is shipped, its confinement in a damp or ill-ventilated hold will sometimes cause it to ignite; and I have no doubt it is this that has brought about our misfortune."

"The Supreme Court" grew out of a unique opportunity to interview all nine sitting Supreme Court Justices plus retired Justice O'Connor for a documentary on the Supreme Court. Through Brian Lamb and Susan Swain's interviews with our country's most influential judges, the book offers portraits of the Justices that introduces readers to the closed world of the Supreme Court, and ...(展开全部)

关于编者 布莱恩•拉姆，C-SPAN电视台创立者、首席执行官和资深出镜主持人。 苏珊•斯温，C-SPAN电视台联席总裁和出镜主持人，在C-SPAN已出版的6本图书中担任主编。 马克•法卡斯，C-SPAN电视台纪录片资深制片人。 关于译者 何帆，最高人民法院法官，业余从事法政作品著译。著有《大法官说了算：美国司法观察笔记》（2010）等，译有《法官能为民主做什么》（2012）、《批评官员的尺度：〈纽约时报〉诉警察局长沙利文案》（2011）、《九人：美国最高法院风云》（2010）、《大法官是这样炼成的：哈里•布莱克门的最高法院之路》（2011）、《作为法律史学家的狄更斯》（2009）。主编有“美国最高法院大法官传记译丛”。

[美]玛乔丽•肖斯塔克，美国女人类学家。自1963年起，美国哈佛大学的人类学家理查德• 李和Irven DeVore等人对博茨瓦纳西北部Dobe地区的昆—桑人开始了一项长期的调研计划。1969年，该项计划已近尾声，结婚不久的肖斯塔克与她的研究生丈夫参加该计划的研究同往Dobe，丈夫研究母婴关系和婴幼儿身心成长，而肖斯塔克则关注妇女生活史。肖斯塔克是妮萨生活故事的访问者、记录者、转译者和整理呈现者。