【作者简介】 理查德·谢泼德（Richard Shepherd） 谢泼德就读文法学校时，他的同学偷偷把一本医学教科书带到课堂传阅，这让谢泼德第一次了解到犯罪与谋杀的世界，也是他立志了解人类各种死亡形态的起点。谢泼德于1977年取得行医资格，1987年获得医学博士学位，成为一名法医病理学家。之后，他加入伦敦盖伊医院的法医部，这是当时英国最好的法医部门之一。执业以来，谢泼德参与调查国内外数千起非自然死亡案件，他的专业知识与技术使其至今拥有国际声誉。 ·· 【译者简介】 李立丰 吉林大学法学理论研究中心/法学院教授、博士生导师，法学博士，美国麦克乔治法学院法学硕士，中国犯罪学会常务理事，中国刑法学会理事，中国人民大学反腐败法治研究中心客座研究员，日本早稻田大学访问学者，日本关西学院大学法学部客员教授。

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.' Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as the nation teetered on the edge of a global pandemic. What followed was months on the wards: six weeks in an induced coma, and many more weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved Michael's life, ...(展开全部)

In the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India, specialized in depicting the vivid sensory ambience of its historic palaces, reservoirs, temples, bazaars, and durbars. As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped u...(展开全部)

This provocative book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as reasons-guided "agent" causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence will specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.

Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss...(展开全部)

Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss...(展开全部)