【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》。

Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and marmalade just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English, but also of how w...(展开全部)

AN "ECONOMIST" BOOK OF THE YEAR "The Secret Life of Words "is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. ...(展开全部)

Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try "admiral," "lands...(展开全部)

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)

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)

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)