A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity’s fate Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its globa...(展开全部)

威尔·亨特 《经济学人》《巴黎每日评论》《探索》《返祖》和《户外》等杂志的撰稿人、摄影师或有声讲述者。 目前，他是纽约大学公共知识研究所的访问学者。《地下世界：我们脚下的人类历史》是他的第一部著作。

An exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet--for fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work. Will Hunt is an urban adventurer who has explored caves and catacombs, subway systems, ghostly mines, and all varieties o...(展开全部)

威尔·亨特 《经济学人》《巴黎每日评论》《探索》《返祖》和《户外》等杂志的撰稿人、摄影师或有声讲述者。 目前，他是纽约大学公共知识研究所的访问学者。《地下世界：我们脚下的人类历史》是他的第一部著作。

数千年来，结核病一直与人类紧密相连。结核病曾被诗人浪漫地描述为一种疾病，而今天，它却被视为一种贫困疾病，沿着我们为其开辟的不公正和不公平之路前行。 2019年，作家约翰·格林（John Green）在塞拉利昂拉卡政府医院遇见了一位年轻的结核病患者亨利·雷德（Henry Reider）。 约翰很快就和亨利成为了好朋友，亨利是一个双腿细长、笑容灿烂、傻乎乎的男孩。自初次访问拉卡以来，格林一直积极倡导增加治疗机会，并更广泛地认识到医疗保健不公平现象，这种现象导致这种可治愈、可预防的传染病成为致命的疾病，每年导致超过一百万人死亡。在《一切都是结核病》中，约翰讲述了亨利的故事，并穿插了结核病如何影响我们的世界的科学和社会历史，以及我们的选择如何影响结核病的未来。 Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu?manity for...(展开全部)

John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease. Signed edition Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walk...(展开全部)

威廉•麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917—2016），知名历史学家、全球史研究奠基人、世界历史学科的“现代开创者”。芝加哥大学荣誉退休教授，曾担任美国历史学会主席、美国世界史学会主席。在全球史方面的研究卓然有成，德高望重，与斯宾格勒、汤因比齐名，被誉为“20世纪对历史进行世界性解释的巨人”，开辟了一个西方世界史学的新时代。 1963年，威廉•麦克尼尔以一部《西方的兴起：人类共同体史》一举成名，并因此获得美国国家图书奖。在长达六十余年的学术生涯中，麦克尼尔笔耕不辍，著作等身，迄今已出版30多部作品。1996年，威廉•麦克尼尔因“在欧洲文化、社会和社会科学领域里做出的杰出贡献”荣获伊拉斯谟奖。2009年，美国总统奥巴马为威廉•麦克尼尔颁授国家人文勋章，以表彰其在人文科学研究方面所做出的卓越贡献。 威廉•麦克尼尔毕生追求博大宽宏的视野...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian Patrick Manning traces how this Human System evolved from Homo sapiens’ beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization – the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today’s newly globa...(展开全部)

Humanity today functions as a gigantic, world-encompassing system. Renowned world historian, Patrick Manning traces how this human system evolved from Homo Sapiens' beginnings over 200,000 years ago right up to the present day. He focuses on three great shifts in the scale of social organization - the rise of syntactical language, of agricultural society, and today's newly glob...(展开全部)

For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until the middle of the nineteenth century, human activity here decisively shaped much of the course of world history. David Abulafia's "The Great Sea" is the first complete history of the Mediterranean from the erection of the mysteriou...(展开全部)