Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences ...Balancing ...(展开全部)

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If y...(展开全部)

扎克·邓达斯（Zach Dundas）是《波特兰月刊》（Portland Monthly ）的联合执行主编，资深记者，也是《叛逆的运动员》（The Renegade Sportsman）一书的作者。他是伦敦夏洛克·福尔摩斯社团和第欧根尼俱乐部的成员。

扎克·邓达斯（Zach Dundas）是《波特兰月刊》（Portland Monthly ）的联合执行主编，资深记者，也是《叛逆的运动员》（The Renegade Sportsman）一书的作者。他是伦敦夏洛克·福尔摩斯社团和第欧根尼俱乐部的成员。

Welcome to Blackwood Academy: a boarding school located on the fringes of the afterlife. No one knows why they end up at Blackwood; but when they enter the school's arched gates the only way out is to be chosen for the Decennial – a series of magical trials held once a decade. The chosen pupil is offered a choice: graduate and join Blackwood’s magical elite, or venture into the...(展开全部)

康豹（Paul Katz），1961年在美國洛杉磯出生，1984年耶魯大學歷史系學士，1990年美國普林斯頓大學東亞系博士。曾經在臺灣中正大學歷史研究所、“中央大學”歷史研究所擔任過副教授和教授。2002年獲聘為“中央研究院”近代史研究所副研究員，2005年獲聘為研究員。研究主要集中在近代中國宗教社會史，以跨學科的方法综合歷史文獻和田野調查，並參酌社會科學的理論。

The Robin has now been voted Britain's favourite bird – a friendly presence in thousands of gardens, year round. Its life was hardly understood when David Lack – who has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations of robins while a schoolteacher at Dartington. It was Lack who established that robins sing to defend their territory; ...(展开全部)

The Clay Sanskrit Library has recently set out to change the scene by making available well-translated dual-language (English and Sanskrit) editions of popular Sanskritic texts for the public. The Buddhist monk Ashva*ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize winner offers brilliant proof that "no living creature, not even man, has achieved in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved." From their amazingly intricate feats of architecture to their intrinsic sense of self-sacrifice, Maeterlinck takes a "bee's-eye view" of the most orderly society on Earth.

大卫·古德赛尔（David S. Goodsell） 美国加州斯克里普研究中心（The Scripps Research Institute）分子生物学系教授，当代最为著名的科学插画师之一。 他的作品最令人着迷之处是：利用X射线晶体学技术获得准确的分子结构，然后用水彩画将它们完美地展现出来，使人们获得对分子精微世界的具象认识如此感性而又具有科学的准确性。作为一名分子生物学家，古德赛尔在承袭了欧洲数世纪以来科学绘画的伟大传统的同时，利用现代尖端技术获得分子世界的准确数据，将这些新科学、新技术所揭示的自然存在一一展现在科学家和普罗大众面前。他的著作包括《The Machinery of Life》《Our Molecular Nature》《Bionanotechnology: Lesson from Nature》等。