In his new book, "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?" economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, two schools in constant, heated disagreement in their theories of money, business cycle, government policy, and methodology.

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)

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)

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)

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a 'City on the Make.' Carl Sandburg dubbed it the 'City of Big Shoulders.' Upton Sinclair christened it the 'Jungle,' while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it the 'Second City.' At last there is a book for all of us, whatever we choose to call Chicago. In this magisterial work, historian Dominic A. Pacyga trace...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿兰•雅尼克（Allan Janik，1941— ）生于美国马萨诸塞州奇科皮，先后毕业于圣安塞姆学院、维拉诺瓦大学和布兰迪斯大学。他曾在喇沙书院和韦尔斯利学院教授哲学和思想史，现为奥地利因斯布鲁克大学布伦纳档案研究委员会的一员。另著有《提示汇编：对维特根斯坦哲学概念起源的研究》（Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Concept of Philosophy）、《隐喻的运用和滥用》（The Use and Abuse of Metaphor）、《哲学的风格、政治和未来》（Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy）等。 ··· 斯蒂芬•图尔敏（Stephen Toulmin，1922—2009）英国哲学家...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 阿兰•雅尼克（Allan Janik，1941— ）生于美国马萨诸塞州奇科皮，先后毕业于圣安塞姆学院、维拉诺瓦大学和布兰迪斯大学。他曾在喇沙书院和韦尔斯利学院教授哲学和思想史，现为奥地利因斯布鲁克大学布伦纳档案研究委员会的一员。另著有《提示汇编：对维特根斯坦哲学概念起源的研究》（Assembling Reminders: Studies in the Genesis of Wittgenstein's Concept of Philosophy）、《隐喻的运用和滥用》（The Use and Abuse of Metaphor）、《哲学的风格、政治和未来》（Style, Politics and the Future of Philosophy）等。 ··· 斯蒂芬•图尔敏（Stephen Toulmin，1922—2009）英国哲学家...(展开全部)

Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world". In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian empire, the city was at once an operetta dream world masking social and political problems and tension, as well as a center for the far-reaching explorations and innovations in musi...(展开全部)