In The Poison Paradox, toxicologist John Timbrell explores the dark side of chemistry - how the chemicals that we use and that occur all around us can often be beneficial and yet under other circumstances can become poisons. By examining a variety of cases, from tragic disasters such as Bhopal and Minamata Bay, to the plant fungus which led to the Salem witch trials, and the pu...(展开全部)

Every day we are surrounded by chemicals that are potentially harmful. Some of these we take intentionally in the form of drugs; some we take unknowingly through the food we eat, and the environment around us. John Timbrell explores what makes particular chemicals harmful, what their effects are, and how we can test for them. He examines drugs such as Paracetamol and what it do...(展开全部)

伊恩•凯丽（Erin Kelly）1976年生于伦敦，毕业于沃里克大学英文专业。从事自由撰稿记者十余年，写作题材多涉及女性、健康，两性关系及生活方式等方面。曾在多家刊物上定期发表文章，如：《每日邮报》（The Daily Mail）、心理（Psychologies）、《星期日泰晤士报》（The Sunday Times），女性时尚杂志Elle、嘉丽（Marie Claire）、英国Glamour杂志、镜报（The Mirror）等。另外，凯丽通过笔名还著有十六本探讨两性关系的非虚构类作品，以及六本成人小说。

"A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of Du Maurier's "Rebecca." I wish I had written it." -Stephen King With its hip London backdrop and expert pacing, Erin Kelly's masterful debut, "The Poison Tree," delivers all the way through to its shocker of an ending. London, 1997. Karen meets exotic, flamboyant Biba and, spellbound, she moves into the crumbling mansion Biba share...(展开全部)

It is the sweltering summer of 1997, and Karen is a straight-laced, straight-A university student. When she meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex, she is soon drawn into their world -- but something terrible is about to happen, and someone's going to end up dead. Already drawing com...(展开全部)

From an incredible new voice in psychological suspense, a novel about the secrets that remain after a final bohemian summer of excess turns deadly. This taut psychological thriller begins when Karen and her nine-year- old daughter, Alice, pick up Rex from a ten-year stint in prison for murder. Flash back to the sultry summer in 1990s London when Karen, a straight-A student...(展开全部)

The fist, the definitive, the official story of Suede, covering their ten year career. This paperback edition has been fully updated to include recent events including the band's shock announcement they are to split...

In Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox, Gustav Milne explores how we can reconfigure our lifestyles and urban environments, based on an understanding of our prehistoric past, in order to bring about a richer future for mankind. We evolved as hunter-gatherers over a period of more than three million years: living off the land within small tribal societies in...(展开全部)

Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. Corrects nearly 1,000 errors and omissions in the older Haldane-Kemp translation. For first time translates and locates all quotes, provides full index.