This book addresses issues of defining and measuring the quality of life. Recent developments in the philosophical definition of well-being are discussed and linked to practical issues such as the delivery of health care, and the assessment of women's quality of life. Leading philosophers and economists have contributed to this volume to consider the problems the subject rais...(展开全部)

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

The new edition of this definitive market leader and authoritative educational reference continues to provide unmatched coverage and insightful comparisons that guide your students through the intricacies of quality management today. Built upon the strength and proven experience of well-known authors and examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige Award, this text presents the fundament...(展开全部)

Unlock the power of data with expert insights to enhance data quality, maximizing the potential of AI, and establishing a data-centric culture Key Features Gain a profound understanding of the interplay between data quality and AI Explore strategies to improve data quality with practical implementation and real-world results Acquire the skills to measure and evaluate data quality, empowering data-driven decisions Purchase of the print or Kindl

Medicine is undergoing a group of interrelated revolutions that are dramatically changing how health care will be administered. These megatrends are occurring in areas that include genomics, imaging, pharmaceuticals, the operating room, and alternative and complementary medicine. Unfortunately, those who stand to benefit the most-the general public-have been in the dark, lackin...(展开全部)

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)

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。

What is a life worth? In the wake of eugenics, new quantitative racist practices that valued life for the sake of economic futures flourished. In The Economization of Life, Michelle Murphy provocatively describes the twentieth-century rise of infrastructures of calculation and experiment aimed at governing population for the sake of national economy, pinpointing the spread of a...(展开全部)

In "The Logic of Life", Francois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.