Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Deborah Blum follows New York City's first forensic scientists to discover a fascinating Jazz Age story of chemistry and detection, poison and murder. Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York Ci...(展开全部)

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective w...(展开全部)

黛博拉•布鲁姆（Deborah Blum），麻省理工学院奈特科学新闻项目（KSJP）负责人，Undark杂志的创刊出版人。她还是美国国家科学作家协会的前主席，美国科学促进协会的会员，美国国家科学院的终身顾问。1992年，她因灵长类动物研究系列报道获得普利策奖。此外，她还为《纽约时报》《连线》《时代周刊》《发现》《卫报》和《波士顿环球报》等媒体撰稿。

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective w...(展开全部)

From the 1850s until the mid-twentieth century, a period marked by global conflicts and anxiety about dwindling resources and closing opportunities after decades of expansion, the frontier became a mirror for historically and geographically specific hopes and fears. From Asia to Europe and the Americas, countries around the world engaged with new interpretations of empire and t...(展开全部)

A literate and lucid account of the eighteenth century's great race to understand the elements—and found a modern science. Antoine Lavoisier—who lived at the zenith of the Enlightenment and died at the hands of the Revolution—was himself a revolutionary. Closely followed by the burgeoning international scientific community, he competed with the best minds of h...(展开全部)

“Fresh . . . solid . . . full of suspense and intrigue.”— Publishers Weekly Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavois...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

[美] 威廉·罗森（William Rosen，1955—2016） 资深出版人、作家，先后在麦克米伦、西蒙与舒斯特等知名出版公司做过25年编辑，同时钻研非虚构写作，著有《第三骑士》《查士丁尼的跳蚤》和《世界上蕞强大的思想》。 罗森曾患有罕见的癌症，2013年他拜访罗格斯大学时，偶然间发现《生物文摘》编辑写给微生物学家塞尔曼·瓦克斯曼教授的一封信，编辑询问教授该如何为一种新型药物命名。瓦克斯曼教授当时正在研究土壤中的细菌，通过分析世界各地上万种土壤样本，寻找独特的菌种，被《时代周刊》称为“土地伟人”。他在信中回复，应该把它叫作“抗生素”（antibiotics）。“抗生素”一词因此而生。 与这段历史的奇遇激起了威廉·罗森的兴趣，他深入探索抗生素的发现与现代药物的历史，写下了这本《抗生素的故事》。 令人遗憾的是，罗森最终因癌症于2016年4月28日去世...(展开全部)

Just as formal religion appears to dwindle to a minority interest, 'New Age' spirituality gathers increasing momentum and and baffles us with its popular appeal. What is more, it has appropriated Jung as one of its spiritual leaders.In his own trenchant style, David Tacey offers a theoretical and philosophical account of the New Age phenomenon and the archetypal imperatives tha...(展开全部)