保罗·卡拉尼什 Paul Kalanithi，美国著名神经外科医生，作家。1977年生于亚利桑那州，获得斯坦福大学英语文学及人体生物学双料学位，后于剑桥大学获得科学史与哲学研究硕士学位,并以优异成绩从耶鲁大学医学院毕业，即将获得斯坦福医学院外科教授职位并主持自己的 研究室。在就任医生期间，保罗曾因其出色的研究成果，获得美国神经外科医生协会最高奖。 2013年，即将抵达人生巅峰的保罗，忽然被诊断出患有第四期肺癌。2015年3月，37岁的保罗告别妻子和女儿，离开人世。 何雨珈，85后生人，自由译者，文字与影像的狂热追随者，一颗平常心，一双笨拙手，烹美食，做手工，只愿不辜负文字与生活。译有《再会，老北京》、《纸牌屋》等书。

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with sta...(展开全部)

The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on the White House agenda, with a new introduction by the author. When "The Time Bind" was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In the short time since, the crisis has only become more acute. Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling auth...(展开全部)

The Time Bind is one of this decade's most influential studies of our work/family time-dilemma. For three years at a Fortune 500 company, Arlie Russell Hochschild, the best-selling author of The Second Shift, interviewed everyone from top executives to factory hands. What she found was startling news: none of these working parents was taking the company up on chances for flex-t...(展开全部)

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day. When Death Becomes Life is a thrilling look at how science advances on a grand scale to improve human l...(展开全部)

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life. Over the past forty years, highl...(展开全部)

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, i...(展开全部)

With poignant insight and humour, "When the Air Hits Your Brain" chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a ...(展开全部)

本書以一個醫生的眼和心，透過細膩寫實，鮮活生動，風趣幽默的筆調，寫下尋常醫師與病人，為「生命」奮戰的不凡勇氣和毅力。這一齣齣劇目，比「急診室的春天」更撼動人心。

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published. At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be “structured” by a friend, Olga Borelli. These fragments form a dialogue between a god-like author ...(展开全部)