Welcome to the world of sexed-up medicine, where patients have been turned into customers, and clinics and waiting rooms are jammed with healthy people, lured in to have their blood pressure taken and cholesterol, smear test, bowel or breast screening done. In the world of sexed-up medicine pharmaceutical companies gloss over research they don’t like and charities often use dub...(展开全部)

埃里克•托普 ● 美国知名心脏病学家、基因组学教授、移动医疗研究者，约翰霍普金斯大学医学博士，美国医景网（Medscape）与开放存取期刊theheart.org的主编。创办了世界上第一家基因银行，协助创建了韦斯特健康研究所（West Health Institute）。 ● 他曾担任克利夫兰医学中心（Cleveland Clinic）的心血管科主任，现任加州斯克里普斯转化科学研究所（ Scripps Translational Science Institute）主任兼创新药物研究首席学术官。

Whether we're buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, applying to college, choosing a doctor, or setting up a 401(k), everyday decisions -- both big and small -- have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. As Americans, we assume that more choice means better options and...(展开全部)

In the spirit of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock , a social critique of our obsession with choice, and how it contributes to anxiety, dissatisfaction and regret. This paperback includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested readings, and more. Whether we’re buying a pair of jeans, ordering a cup of coffee, selecting a long-distance carrier, ap...(展开全部)

[英]泰伦斯·基利Terence Kealey 英国著名生物化学家。在伦敦巴特医院获得医学、外科学和生物化学等学士学位，1984年在牛津大学取得临床生物化学博士学位，并先后担任医学研究委员会培训研究员、惠康基金会临床科学高级研究员。曾任教于纽卡斯尔大学和剑桥大学，2001—2014年任白金汉大学副校长。现于卡托研究所的科学研究中心担任高级访问学者，专门研究粮食政策。

An acclaimed economic historian's provocative and counterintuitive challenge to prevailing economic wisdom argues that consumption - not more saving and investment - represents America's path to renewed prosperity. In one of the most polarised periods in our political history, politicians from both sides of the aisle have found one thing on which they can agree: consumer excess...(展开全部)

Fans have fallen in love with Liz Climo's charmingly quirky animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World of Liz Climo—a place where porcupines, anteaters, and grizzly bears all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor. Now Liz returns with a book devoted to friendship. Chapter themes include “Old Friends,” “New Friends,” “Unlikely Friends,” and “Friends wit...(展开全部)

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - i...(展开全部)

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do Americans have higher rates of teenage pregnancy than the French? What makes the Swedish thinner than the Greeks? The answer: inequality. This groundbreaking book, based on years of research, provides hard evidence to show: how almost everything - from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - i...(展开全部)