页数： 320 定价： 0 美元 上传日期： 2010-1-6

中文概要: 人權主義者揭開美國拘留所驚人的腐敗行徑
《真相背後的冷酷異境》

「關塔那摩」Guantanamo是什麼地方？那是位於古巴的監獄所在地。那是一所慘無人道、極盡虐待之能事、專門用來囚禁並審訊那些「九一一事件」之後，從阿富汗任意補捉犯人的監獄。
「關塔那摩」是古巴東南部的一個省，省會關塔那摩市。關塔那摩灣（西班牙語：Bahía de Guantánamo；英語：Guantanamo Bay）位於該市市區以南20公里處灣長約19公里，寬約9公里。灣中的美國海軍基地占地116平方公里，灣北有山脈屏障，是個經常風平浪靜的大海灣。由於靠近連接大西洋和加勒比海的「向風水道」，戰略位置十分重要。但在此地，罪惡卻在悄悄蔓延。
Tony Hefner在此美國最大的移民拘留所之一，目睹了無數驚人的腐敗行徑，以及他們對基本人權的侵犯。這些官員所踐踏的，都是那些他們曾宣誓要保護的人。平均每天有1100名男女以及兒童在此拘留，平均每月有1500名非法移民出入此地，這便是一個有關執法人員通過對在押人員的濫用職權，涉及性，肉體，金錢，以及毒品的故事。
現在，此地仍滯留著大批被拘的美國移民、移民狀態和國籍尚未確定、以及等待被遣送回國的人們。2009年4月22日，被拘者們開展了大規模絕食行動，抗議這些濫用職權的違法行為。 (Ruby & Chris)

英文概要: Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays the best wages for a hundred miles. The guards follow orders and keep quiet.

For six years, Tony Hefner was a security guard at the Port Isabel Service Processing Center, one of the largest immigration detention centers in America, and witnessed alarming corruption and violations of basic human rights. Officers preyed upon the very people whom they are sworn to protect. On behalf of the 1,100 men, women, and children residing there on an average day, and the 1,500 new undocumented immigrants who pass through its walls every month, this is the story of the systematic sexual, physical, financial, and drug-related abuses of detainees by guards. The Port Isabel Service Processing Center continues to hold detainees of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement whose immigration statuses or citizenship have not been officially determined or who are awaiting repatriation. On April 22, 2009, detainees there began a hunger strike, alleging violations of due process, inadequate access to medical care and legal resources, and various other abuses.

作者介绍: Tony Hefner is a human rights activist and founder of the Bearing Precious Seed Ranch ministry in southern Texas for local Hispanic children. He has appeared on Inside Edition, PBS, and many other radio and television news programs where he reported the abuses taking place at Port Isabel. Tony and his wife Barbara now live in northern Michigan, where he continues his fight with national officials for new investigations.
本書作者Tony Hefner身為人權主義者，為當地西班牙兒童創立了“Bearing Precious Seed Ranch”。他曾出現在各種電視廣播節目中，向眾人講述發生在移民拘留所的罪惡故事。

获奖情况介绍:

页数： 200 定价： 0 美元 上传日期： 2009-4-15

中文概要: 海拾兹曼兹通过她的母亲的谢绝和在一个被害状态下的死亡，有效地走完作者艰辛的旅程。海拾兹曼兹和她的兄弟作为被夹在中间的一代,为提供照顾她们的直系亲属和他们正变老的父母而奋斗。为了治好母亲的痴呆而把她送入私人疗养院，曼兹必须转移她的焦点，与此同时要处理被她的兄弟姐妹所制造的难缠的情感。平衡有诗意的语言和实际的情感。进入哀悼描述一个母亲，失去她的现实和女儿，来到只有她和她圣经的变化旅程，从自私的人变成一个“平静的，有动感节奏的语言的，有姿态的和有韵律的人。”(QH)

英文概要: Enter Mourning powerfully chronicles the author’s difficult journey through her mother’s decline and death from an insidious condition. Heather Menzies and her siblings struggle as part of the sandwich generation that provides care for both their immediate family and their aging parents. From dismissing her mother’s dementia to moving her into a nursing home, Menzies must continuously shift her focus while dealing with difficult emotions raised by her brother and sister. Balancing poetic language and practical sensibilities, Enter Mourning limns a mother losing her grip on reality and a daughter coming to grips with her own as she chronicles her transformative journey from self-interested baby boomer to a “slower, more rhythmic language of touch, gesture, and cadence.”

作者介绍:

获奖情况介绍:

页数： 384 定价： 25 美元 上传日期： 2008-12-3

中文概要: “没人比Dr. Mark Sloan将婴儿从母亲体内到呱呱坠地靠自己呼吸，这段惊奇又复杂的历程描写的更完美、更清楚了。
Sloan致力于对婴儿出生的研究，操作过数千次分娩手术，能够熟练面对分娩过程中必定出现和可能出错的各类状况。他想出了许多处理分娩时阵痛的办法，事实证明这些方法对母亲和孩子都起到一定的良好效果，支持在有限的替代品中加入氧化亚氮，此举已被包括美国在内的许多国家使用，得到妇女们的支持和认可。”
——Judith P. Rooks, CNM, author of Midwifery& Childbirth in America
“我已生育过两次，直到本书的出现，我才领悟到母亲和孩子在分娩期间产生的那种真正的奇妙感。这是一部令人惊异、体贴人心又不乏乐趣的读物！”
——Adair Lara, author of Hold Me Close, Let me Go
“这是本伟大的著作，作者将历史、生物学、社会学以及分娩医学领域中的知识融入书中，谱写一段蕴涵趣味和教育性的篇章。
心怀期待的父母们会在本书中获得有用可靠的相关信息，对于内科医生也是如此。此外，作者还记叙了许多有关医学院、培训和实践的个人故事，勾起回忆，也博得众人的欢笑。
对于初为人母和业内人士都是必不可少的作品。”
——Donald Caton, M.D.Emeritus Professor of Anesthesia, University of Florida, and author of What a Blessing She Had Chloroform
“书中，作者巧妙地把个人逸事、自然科学和奇异的历史细节结合起来，阐述一段大家都经历过的从‘子宫来到世界’的旅程，内容丰富有趣。毫无疑问，本书让你体验娱乐的同时也受益非浅，并对自己的母亲致以深深的感激！”
——Katrina Firlik, MD, author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life On the Inside

作者从突然而至临盆的紧张时刻和随即出现的分娩状况做出的详细观察，延续到记录着止痛药、分娩方法和婴儿复生的历史，无不令人惊讶感叹，从中指出人类上万年的成长史是如何缩影于新生命降临的那一天。本书由传记、叙述、科学理论和历史记载构成，围绕生物学和人类分娩的奇迹而作。把历史、生物学、文化与幽默、怜悯之心以及现实生活中的逸事相融合，并强调临床和情感方面的因素在分娩过程中是同等重要的。（ZY）

英文概要: From a detailed look at what happens in the intense moments immediately preceding and following birth, to an eye-popping history of painkillers, birthing methods and infant resuscitation, Sloan shows how millions of years of human history are encapsulated in one day - in the universal experience of childbirth and the first day of life. Part memoir, part narrative, part science and history, this audio focuses on both the biology and wonder of human birth. This title combines history, biology, and culture with humor, compassion, and real-life anecdotes and gives equal emphasis to the clinical and emotional aspects of this timeless experience.

作者介绍: Mark Sloan, M.D., has been a pediatrician and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics for more than twenty-five years. He is one of the highest-rated pediatricians (by patients and peers) in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California region. His writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He lives in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife and two teenage children, who continue to provide him with a wealth of practical pediatric experience.

获奖情况介绍: “Sloan covers a lot of ground, and it’s clear he’s read widely and done a lot of research in a variety of disciplines, from anthropology to world history… well-researched and funny… Birth Day is an excellent primer from an engaging author.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle

“Sloan, who practices in Northern California, is a graceful writer, and his narrative, like the works of Jerome Groopman, flows easily between memoir, anecdotal reporting and hard science… Anyone interested in the complex and, yes, miraculous way we all make it into this world will find lots to wonder over and ponder here.”
––The Washington Post

“California pediatrician Sloan has helped deliver more than 3,000 babies, and he marvelously captures the precarious nature of childbirth—both its joys and anxieties—while treating readers to an informal and captivating history of the medical practices surrounding birth in America.”
––Publishers’ Weekly (starred review)

“What boosts Sloan’s book above other pediatrician memoirs is his Captain Kangaroo-like humor and compassion… With its crisp and upbeat tone, Sloan’s book is good company for parents experienced and prospective alike.”
—Booklist

“No one has described the intricate timing and sequence of a baby’s miracle transition from inside its mother to breathing on its own more clearly or beautifully than Dr. Mark Sloan, who has focused on the baby during thousands of births and understands what needs to happen, and what can go wrong. Sloan covers the various approaches to pain-management during labor and their effects on both mother and child, and he supports adding nitrous oxide—safe and widely used for labor in so many other countries—to the very limited alternatives now available to women in America.”
––Judith P. Rooks, CNM, MPH, author of Midwifery & Childbirth in America

“I have given birth twice, but until this book never grasped the true wonder of what happens to mother and child during childbirth. An amazing, tender, funny book about our bigheaded species.”
––Adair Lara, author of Hold Me Close, Let me Go

“Birth Day is a wonderful book. Dr. Sloan has accomplished the impossible, combining the history, biology, sociology and medicine of childbirth into an informative, yet amusing, story. Expectant parents will find this book useful and reassuring. So will physicians. Personal stories of medical school, resident training and practice that Dr. Sloan incorporated into this narrative brought back memories and elicited many smiles. Birth Day is a ’must’ for new parents and for professionals.”
--Donald Caton, M.D.

California pediatrician Sloan has helped deliver more than 3,000 babies, and he marvelously captures the precarious nature of childbirth—both its joys and its anxieties—while treating readers to an informal and captivating history of the medical practices surrounding birth in America. Sloan shares his first bumbled attempts at delivering babies as an intern, which leads him into reflect on why doctors persist in having women lie down to give birth when standing or squatting are better physical postures for it. Sloan ranges surely and splendidly over epidurals, cesarean births, premature birth and neonatal nurseries, as well as the state of an infant’s five senses at birth. For example, he points out that the fetus not only smells the foods its mother eats, it remembers them after birth and tends to like what it remembers. Sloan counsels that women cannot prepare for labor, because events change rapidly during the process. He advises women to surround themselves with the people they love: “unlike other labor pain relievers she may choose, their benefits will last the rest of her life.”
--Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW.

页数： 512 定价： 25 英镑 上传日期： 2008-8-18

中文概要: 當代最著名的小說家與散文家George Orwell如此說過，所有動物的地位都是平等的--但有一些動物比其他的更加平等！
Colin Tudge探索全球鳥類的生活。從候鳥遷移的秘密到牠們複雜的家庭生活，牠們不同的習性和生存技能，到鳥類飛翔的秘密，此書充滿了關於鳥類如何生活的迷人描述，對牠們而言什麼是重要的，還有牠們是否真的是恐龍的後代。
飛翔的鳥兒運用星相作為導航，會製作工具的烏鴉和合作生活的企鵝，作者展現鳥類在生活與思考方面的一般的感官是如何地與我們相像，但在特殊之處又是有很大的差異。所以藉由思考鳥類的種種，試問牠們是如此不同的原因，我們便能得到啟發。
鳥類是美麗、活躍、令人好奇的--而且在我們週遭隨處可見。這本富有內涵並引人高度注目的書用鳥類的生活開拓每一個人的視野。(CL)

英文概要: All animals are equal – but some, as George Orwell said, are more equal than others, and birds, most people would surely agree, are in the very first rank. They can do almost everything that mammals can do – and more besides. By mastering flight, they have a way of living that encompasses the whole world. In Consider The Birds Colin Tudge explores the life of birds, all around the globe. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, this is a fascinating account of how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs. Featuring birds who navigate using star-maps, tool-making crows and the great co-operation of the penguins, Colin Tudge shows how birds – who are like us in the general sense but very different in the particulars – live and think. For birds have minds: they feel, they are aware, they work things out. And so, by considering the birds, asking how and why it is possible for them to be so different, we gain insight into ourselves. Birds are beautiful, lively, intriguing – and all around us. This rich and endlessly absorbing book opens up their lives to everyone.

作者介绍: When Colin Tudge was a small boy in South London he could recognize only five kinds of birds. Following a childhood spent at London Zoo and in conversation by the seaside with a bird-watching cousin, he began to perceive that ‘ordinary birds’ included pipits and wagtails, terns and kestrels, yellowhammers and robins, and a miscellany of crows, not all of which were black. So began a lifelong interest in birds and how they live. After studying zoology at Cambridge, Colin began writing about science, first as features editor at the New Scientist and then as a documentary maker for BBC radio. Now a full-time writer, he appears regularly as a public speaker in all kinds of venues, including the University of Beijiny and St Paul’s Cathedral. A Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, he was a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Philosophy at the London School of Economics for ten years. He is passionate about food and farming and is currently involved in the founding of The Landshare Trust for Enlightened Agriculture. His books include The Secret Life of Trees, The Variety of Life and So Shall We Reap.
當Colin Tudge還是個小男孩時，他在倫敦已會辨識出五種鳥。隨著在倫敦區渡過的童年時光，他開始理解「原生鳥類」包括鷚屬鳴禽、灶巢鳥、燕鷗、茶隼、金翼啄木鳥和知更鳥和許多混雜的種類，它們並不是所有都是黑色的。所以這就開啟了作者一生對鳥類及其生活的興趣。而後在劍橋就讀動物學，Colin Tudge開始寫作關於科學的題材，首先擔任New Scientist的特別主編，而後為BBC電台撰稿。
如今他是一名全職作家，定期公開演講，包括北京大學與聖保羅大教堂。他是倫敦Linnaean Society 的一員，也是倫敦經濟學院哲學中心的參訪調查成員。他對食物與農耕有熱情而現在參與為英國地區農業的土地分享信託招募資金。他的著作包括有The Secret Life of Trees(樹的秘密生活)、The Variety of Life(生活的多元化)和So Shall We Reap(我們應該如何耕種)。

获奖情况介绍: Tudge’s writing is always clear and frequently embellished with wry humour. Occasionally, it is inspired ... There are not many books that clearly explain the science behind the extravagant diversity of birds and how they live.---Richard Fortey, Sunday Telegraph

An author whose own deep relish for the extraordinary lives of birds seems only marginally less pleasurable to him than sharing that wonder with others.

Simply fizzing with ideas

Some of the conclusions are truly surprising, and it’s that sense of discovery that makes it such a pleasure to read.

页数： 320 定价： 25.95 美元 上传日期： 2008-1-8

中文概要: 在這資訊爆炸時代，對於出現的大量資訊通常只能大略瀏覽。資訊常常是多到來不及吸收，現代人早已失去了對事物的專著能力。正因為不再擁有對事物深入的專著力，使得科學工藝在各方面迅速成長的同時，現代社會卻進入了黑暗時期，文化變得扁平而淺薄。作者從許多面向來探討專著力對於社會發展的重要性以及現代人失去專著力將會面臨各種不良後果產生。
美國首屈一指的環境作家Bill Mckibben (《大自然的終點》The End of Nature,1989)着序推薦。

英文概要: Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben Reader.
We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at the Yahoo headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we tend to communicate even with our most intimate friends and family via instant messaging, email, and fleeting face-to-face moments that are rescheduled a dozen times, then punctuated when they do occur with pings and beeps and more multitasking.
Welcome to the land of distraction. Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this new world, something is amiss. And that something is--attention.
Journey with Maggie Jackson as she explores the many ways in which we are eroding our capacity for deep, sustained attention-the building block of intimacy, wisdom, and cultural progress. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its erosion, she introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, virtual lovers from the telegraph age, and roboticists building smart machines to comfort and care for us. She takes us from the nineteenth-century roots of our mobile, virtual multitasking ways into a darkening future of snippets, glimpses, skimming, McThinking, and mistrust.
Taking us beyond Blink and Faster, Jackson makes it clear that if we continue down this road of scattered attention spans and widespread societal ADD, we will be in danger of squandering and devaluing the essence of humanity, and our technological age could ultimately slip into cultural decline. But we are just as capable of igniting a renaissance of attention by strengthening our varied powers of focus and perception, the keys to judgment, memory, morality, and happiness. She describes some of the exciting new scientific research that shows how these skills can be nurtured.
Distraction is unique in being simultaneously an original exposé of the multifaceted nature of attention, an engaging and often surprising portrait of postmodern life, and a compelling roadmap for cultivating sustained focus and nurturing a more enriched and literate society. Pull over, hit the pause button, silence the ringer, and prepare to encounter our land of distraction--this may be your first, and maybe your last, chance to really fathom it.

作者介绍: Maggie Jackson (New York, NY) is an award-winning author and journalist who is a contributing columnist at The Boston Sunday Globe. A former foreign correspondent and national columnist for the Associated Press, she has been interviewed on National Public Radio and has contributed to the New York Times, Working Mother, and many other national publications. She is the author of What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age and has been interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor, on television, and on dozens of other radio shows.
Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age.
Maggie Jackson是《波士頓周日環球報》（The Boston Sunday Globe）專欄作家。替《紐約時報》(New York Times)等多家媒體撰寫文章。前一本作品為What’s Happening to Home? Balancing Work, Life and Refuge in the Information Age

获奖情况介绍: In this richly detailed and passionately argued book, Jackson (What’s Happening to Home?) warns that modern society’s inability to focus heralds an impending Dark Age—an era historically characterized by the decline of a civilization amid abundance and technological advancement. Jackson posits that “our near-religious allegiance to a constant state of motion” and addiction to multitasking are “eroding our capacity for deep, sustained, perceptive attention—the building block of intimacy, wisdom and cultural progress” and stunting society’s ability to “comprehend what’s relevant and permanent.” The author provides a lively historical survey of attention, drawing upon philosophy, the impact of scientific innovations and her own experiences to investigate the possible genetic and psychological roots of distraction. While Jackson cites modern virtual life (the social network Facebook and online interactive game Second Life), her research is largely mired in the previous century, and she draws weak parallels between romance via telegraph and online dating, and supernatural spiritualism and a newfound desire to reconnect. Despite the detours (a cultural history of the fork?), Jackson has produced a well-rounded and well-researched account of the travails facing an ADD society and how to reinvigorate a “renaissance of attention.”--Publisher’s Weekly
"This is an important book. I found it to be a harrowing documentation of our modern world’s descent into fragmentation, self alienation, and emptiness - brought on, to a large extent, by communication technologies that distract us, dislocate us, and destroy our inner lives. Others have commented on these issues, but I have never seen them gathered together and documented as completely as Maggie Jackson has done."--ALAN LIGHTMAN, MIT professor and author of the bestselling Einstein’s Dreams and National Book Award finalist The Diagnosis
NPR ’s Diane Rehm Show "Distraction and Democracy"
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/06/10.php#20324
"Shifting Careers" blog in the New York Times Business section guest blogged by Maggie Jackson. Subject: "Attention Must Be Paid." See http://shiftingcareers.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/attention-must-be-paid/ - One of the most emailed stories three days running this week.
Business Week two-page adapted article from the book this week. Videocast has been posted at Business Week online: http://feedroom.businessweek.com/index.jsp
fr_story=ae4dbb951778d0efab8a20de484ab16c78dc8e11
Story ran in June 23 issue.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_25/b4089055162244.htm
The New York Post review:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06082008/postopinion/postopbooks/distracted_114470.htm

页数： 316 定价： 28 美元 上传日期： 2007-12-3

中文概要:

英文概要: Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil excavations of the past 100 years—including the recent discovery of a remarkably intact dinosaur mummy in the Badlands of North Dakota.
Bone structure is just the beginning of our knowledge today, thanks to amazing digs like these. Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting-edge techniques of analysis, Dr. Manning takes us on a thrilling, globe-spanning tour of dinosaur mummy finds—from the first such excavation in 1908 to a baby dinosaur unearthed in 1980, from a dino with a heart in South Dakota to titanosaur embryos in Argentina. And he discusses his own groundbreaking analysis of "Dakota," discovered by Tyler Lyson.
Using state-of-the-art technology to scan and analyse this remarkable discovery, National Geographic and Dr. Manning create an incredibly lifelike portrait of Dakota. The knowledge to be gained from this exceedingly rare find, and those that came before it, will intrigue dinosaur-loving readers of all ages.

作者介绍: Dr. Phillip Manning teaches vertebrate paleontology and evolution at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. He has built an international reputation for his work on dinosaur trackways and biomechanics, with extensive field experience at Jurassic and Cretaceous sites in North and South America and the British Isles. He is recognized for his leading role in engaging the public’s interest in the wonders of science.

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页数： 0 定价： 0 美元 上传日期： 2007-10-26

中文概要: David Dosa是位老人醫學專家也是布朗大學醫學助理教授，他的貓Oscar乍看之下平凡無奇，卻有著極為特別的能力。Oscar能夠知道哪個人今天即將去世，並陪伴在臨終病人身旁，伴隨他們度過人生最後一段時間。David將Oscar成功預測25位安養所病人死亡的事蹟發表在《新英格蘭醫學期刊》上時，這篇文章引起極大迴響， Oscar頓時聲名大噪，許多人透過Yahoo, MSN等網路下在這篇文章，全球各大媒體(包括CNN、衛報等)也爭相報導這隻神奇的貓。
隨著Oscar的話題，原本被視為禁忌卻重要的老化及死亡問題得以被廣泛討論與正視。此書不僅是描述Oscar的神奇事蹟，David Dosa這位醫學專家以更深沉謙卑的心，透過觀察Osacr得到更多關於臨終與慢性病病患照護的新觀點與啟發。(VC)

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作者介绍: David Dosa, MD, MPH is a geriatrician in Providence, Rhode Island, and an assistant professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The author of ROUNDING WITH OSCAR: Lessons Learned from a Cat on Aging and Dying, David received media attention media worldwide when he discovered Oscar’s uncanny ability to predict when patients would die and wrote about it in an article for The New England Journal of Medicine. Since joining the faculty at Brown, Dr. Dosa has published in the scientific peer reviewed literature in the areas of nursing home quality improvement, delirium, end of life care, and nursing home emergency preparedness. He is also the co-author of the chapter on geriatrics medicine in Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine. ROUNDING WITH OSCAR will guide readers toward a better understanding of the complications of aging and offers readers ways to cope during this most difficult phase of life.

获奖情况介绍: 版權已售：8國（Headline/UK, House of Books/Holland, Droemer/Germany, Mondadori/Italy, Hayakawa/Japan, Bertlesmann/Poland, Ediouro/Brazil, and Matar/Israel）
《新英格蘭醫學期刊》The New England Journal of Medicine 2007/7/26 A Day in the Life of Oscar the Cat
The Guardian, 2007/7/26 The nursing home cat that ’predicts’ death
Youtube 關於 Oscar the Cat
http://tw.youtube.com/results?search_query=Oscar+the+Cat&search_type=&aq=f
東森新聞 2007/7/26 新鮮世／貓咪預知死亡為病患送終　準確預測25人大限
CNN 2007/7/30When death comes calling, so does Oscar the cat

Dr. David Dosa’s MAKING ROUNDS WITH OSCAR has sold in two new territories: in Finland to Otava and in Estonia to Olion

页数： 240 定价： 0 美元 上传日期： 2007-9-14

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英文概要: A concise, authoriative account of world history that provides an intriguing insight for the general reader into how civilisations and societies have changed over time.Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 illustrated and photographs as well as specially drawn full-page maps, the book’s coverage extends from the earliest origins of human evolution to the present day, setting the major civilisations of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe in a global context and explaining their rise to power, conquests and cultural achievements.

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获奖情况介绍: Sold: USA, CAN, UK, DEN, GER, CHI
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页数： 384 定价： 0 美元 上传日期： 2007-8-15

中文概要: “DELIZIA”是英文delicious好吃的意思，也是義大利人所發明的一種甜點(將浸泡過的餅乾加上糖漬草莓與打成泡沫狀的義大利微甜軟乳酪，堆砌而成)。
這本書告訴讀者義大利料理的歷史。義大利美食已經取代法國，成為世界頂尖精緻料理，就以Pizza舉例，歷史本來沒沒無聞的食物，直到19世紀初才出現在義大利字典上，根據史實Pizza和Pasta義大利麵條也不是由馬可波羅由東方傳至義大利。甚至Pizza歷史上被公認為粗食、噁心的食物，緣由是拿坡里當時是霍亂的病源，Pizza被懷疑是此疾病的傳播媒介。而且Pasta在當時已有千年的歷史，打破馬可波羅的傳聞。
義大利飲食融合豐富多元的文化，作者以精細的研究，帶領讀者享受義大利美食天堂。(CL)

英文概要: Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?

The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy’s historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian food is city food.

From the bustle of medieval Milan’s marketplace to the banqueting halls of Renaissance Ferrara; from street stalls in the putrid alleyways of nineteenth-century Naples to the noisy trattorie of postwar Rome: in rich slices of urban life, historian and master storyteller John Dickie shows how taste, creativity, and civic pride blended with princely arrogance, political violence, and dark intrigue to create the world’s favorite cuisine. Delizia! is much more than a history of Italian food. It is a history of Italy told through the flavors and character of its cities.

A dynamic chronicle that is full of surprises, Delizia! draws back the curtain on much that was unknown about Italian food and exposes the long-held canards. It interprets the ancient Arabic map that tells of pasta’s true origins, and shows that Marco Polo did not introduce spaghetti to the Italians, as is often thought, but did have a big influence on making pasta a part of the American diet. It seeks out the medieval recipes that reveal Italy’s long love affair with exotic spices, and introduces the great Renaissance cookery writer who plotted to murder the Pope even as he detailed the aphrodisiac qualities of his ingredients. It moves from the opulent theater of a Renaissance wedding banquet, with its gargantuan ten-course menu comprising hundreds of separate dishes, to the thin soups and bland polentas that would eventually force millions to emigrate to the New World. It shows how early pizzas were disgusting and why Mussolini championed risotto. Most important, it explains the origins and growth of the world’s greatest urban food culture.

With its delectable mix of vivid storytelling, groundbreaking research, and shrewd analysis, Delizia! is as appetizing as the dishes it describes. This passionate account of Italy’s civilization of the table will satisfy foodies, history buffs, Italophiles, travelers, students -- and anyone who loves a well-told tale.

作者介绍: John Dickie is both an academic cultural historian and an advertising copywriter and researcher for several major international companies. He is Senior Lecturer in Italian at UCL and has written articles and books on many aspects of Italian history.
John Dickie知名文化歷史學家、廣告文案編輯、演講家，多家國際公司的研究顧問。他撰寫許多關於義大利歷史的文章和書籍。
2004年出版關於黑手黨的歷史書籍，獲得推理作家協會匕首獎。
他的新作Blood Brotherhoods: The Mafiosi of Southern Italy，2010出版已經由Netherlands: Ambo Anthos; Germany: Fischer; Italy: Laterza; France: Buchet-Chastel取的版權。

获奖情况介绍: 版權已售:
UK; Hodder; US: The Free Press; Italy: Laterza; Germany: Fischer; Netherlands: Ambo Anthos

"Revelatory history of gourmet Italy from antiquity to today...Boisterous, gluttonous stories -- some verging on salacious -- are balanced by accounts of paucity in this look into Italian history and its edibles."---Publishers Weekly

"A book that is as much a feast of horrors as delights...[Dickie’s] book is hard to fault: densely researched, enlightening, and consistently moreish."---The Sunday Times (London)

"A literally mouth-watering read, which counters the misconception of "Italian" cuisine, as well as the myth that it originated among peasants."---The Herald

"A clever and provoking account of Italy’s history...informs as well as enlightens."---The Guardian

"Lots of books are written with passion about Italian food, precious few backed up with the deep historical background here presented in allegro con brio style by a clear-headed historian who rubbishes some too-persistent myths and replaces them with factual narratives no less fascinating. Dickie shows how Italian regional cuisines developed and some dishes became global icons. If we are what we eat, who wouldn’t want to be Italian?"---The Times (London)

页数： 304 定价： 25.95 美元 上传日期： 2007-7-19

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英文概要: Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, a history of the international spice trade focuses on the involvement of three important European cities--Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam--charting the growth of the spice trade in relation to the successive rise--and fall--of the three urban centers.

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