陶尔贝托·巴雷拉·蒂斯卡(1960—) 生于委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯。80年代初毕业于委内瑞拉中心大学文学系，现在该校任教。1985年出版第一部诗集《徒劳的爱》，1990年出版第一部短篇小说集《精装本》，2001年发表第一部长篇小说《心不在焉》。创作的其他重要作品还有诗集《窗户经纪人》(1993)和《也许寒冷》(2000)，以及与记者克里斯蒂娜·马卡诺合著的查韦斯总统的传记《不穿制服的乌戈·查韦斯：一段个人的历史》(2004)。除文学创作外，他还是电视小说作家和电视剧及电影导演，西班牙语世界近十种报刊杂志的撰稿人。1996年至今，一直担任委内瑞拉《国民报》周末专栏作家。《病魔》出版于2006年，获当年西班牙阿纳格拉马出版社第二十四届埃拉尔德小说奖。

Ernesto Durán is convinced he is sick. It becomes an besession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andrérs Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Durán resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own creeping effect on Karina, Miranda´s lonely secretary, who cannot resist becoming involved. Meanwhile Dr Miranda has troubles of his own: he has diagonosed his...(展开全部)

For the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life becomes a carousel of unusual encounters, where coincidences and luck shape la vita nuova. In London our narrator is befriended by an expatriate American Buddhist and her mysterious husband. In Paris she meets Arlette, an art histo...(展开全部)

For the narrator of Motion Sickness life is an unguided tour, populated with hotels and strangers, art, books, and films. Adrift in Europe, her life becomes a carousel of unusual encounters, where coincidences and luck shape la vita nuova. In London our narrator is befriended by an expatriate American Buddhist and her mysterious husband. In Paris she meets Arlette, an art histo...(展开全部)

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional leve...(展开全部)

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional leve...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白•罗森塔尔（Elisabeth Rosenthal）博士在《纽约时报》做过22年的记者和高级撰稿人，现为专门从事医疗保健及保健政策独立报道的“恺撒保健新闻”网站的主编。她是哈佛医学院的内科学医学博士，曾经担任急诊医生。

At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organiz...(展开全部)