The story of the race to the North Pole is told throughmemoirs, letters, ships' logs, and diaries of Arctic explorers,documenting the motives, modes of travel, and remarkable men whoendured the extremes of physical hardship and grim competition,including Robert Peary, Richard Byrd, Fridtjof Nans

本书探讨了现代医学的现状，研究了医学，医保和它们对现代生活的影响，围绕当今的逐步上升的医学成本（包括财物的和道德的）进行了讨论，适合对道德和哲学感兴趣的人以及在医学领域工作的人。 This fascinating entry in The Big Idea series lays out the ethical implications and the costs of modern medicine. Over the course of human history, medicine has achieved incredible successes―but at what cost? This latest book in The Big Idea series explores the state of modern medicine, examining the ethics of medical and healthcare practices and the impact they have on modern life. This fascinating analysis engages with the debate surrounding the escalating costs, both financial and ethical, of medicine today. Intelligent and provocative, Is Medicine Still Good for Us? dissects common assumptions about medicine, helping the reader create their own informed opinion about its extraordinary achievements, limitations, injustices, and inev

Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the UnitedStates, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years offighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College torecent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rightsmovement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fiercecritic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from historyand engaging politically, we can make a difference in theworld.

Building on the science of nutrition that she outlined in herbestselling book, Potatoes Not Prozac , Dr. KathleenDesMaisons now presents the first complete, in-depth dietary planfor living with–and healing–sugar sensitivity. She explains exactlyhow you can free your mind and body from the tyranny of sugar andshake off the exhaustion, mental fogginess, and mood swings thatsugar dependence causes. Revealing the various ways sugar addictionaffects both men and women, and the unique methods for healing it,Dr. DesMaisons encourages you to custom-tailor her simple programto fit your lifestyle and includes information on ? How to integrate a “slow-carbs not low-carbs” strategy into yourdiet ? Why regular protein is essential and how to get it with everymeal ? What to eat when a sugar craving strikes ? How to get the nutrition you need on the run–even at fast-foodrestaurants ? How to find an exercise program you’ll enjoy ? Ten breakfasts you can prepare in a flash ? Menus and recipes for every lifestyl

The Knopf Canada Book of Healing Foods is a guide for everydayliving, and the fastest way to understand how the foods you eat canhelp to heal, and help you remain healthy. There's a healing food for almost every common health problem -from colds, stress, insomnia and high blood pressure to morecomplicated illnesses - and most are as close as your local grocer.Healing Foods is an indispensable guide to choosing the best foodsfor an active life - a bright and friendly market of knowledge thatmakes the time you spend at the dinner table an investment inspirited living. In beautiful colour, it also highlights health-giving foods andtheir nutritional and medicinal benefits. Information on buying,storing and preparing healing foods is clearly listed, and eachitem - from pineapples and chilies to almonds and apricots - islinked to delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes from around theworld. A questionnaire helps you assess your diet and general health topinpoint problem areas, while a section on

"Calm Birth is a sublime gift to all of us. It contains theblueprint for reconnecting with birth wisdom on all levels. Readingthough this book and doing the practices will transform the birthprocess and imprint a peaceful beginning on both mother and child.The positive impact of this on society can’t beoverestimated."-Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Mother-DaughterWisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause and Women’s Bodies, Women’sWisdom"Calm Birth: New Method of Conscious Childbirth successfullybridges ancient feminine healing wisdom and meditation tocontemporary birth practices…This book is a must for anyoneinterested in childbirth."- Barbara Findeisen, MFT, president ofthe Association fo Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health

Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunningmetamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one of theworld’s great metropolises—one that achieved worldwide prominencein politics, medicine, education, science, social activism,literature, commerce, and transportation. In A City So Grand, Stephen Puleo chronicles this remarkableperiod in Boston’s history. He takes readers through the ferocityof the abolitionist movement of the 1850s, the thirty-five-yearengineering and city-planning feat of the Back Bay project,Boston’s explosion in size through immigration and annexation, thedevastating Great Fire of 1872, and the glorious opening ofAmerica’s first subway station in 1897. This lively journey paintsa portrait of a half century of progress, leadership, andinfluence.

Studies show that patients who contribute to their owntreatment and recovery fare better in rehabilitation.Tailoring theconcept for those suffering from joint pain, orthopedicpsychologist Kate O'Shea draws from her patients and her owncongenital hip orblems (she has four major surgeries by the timeshe was thirteen) to describe a program for caring for theemotional and physical body while healing joint pain or aftersurgery. Conventional medical care, thouch technologicallysophisticated, often ignores the humanity of individuals--patientsare on their own once they are home. Healing Hip, Joint and KneePain offers exercises, breathing techniques, visualization andwriting suggestions for becoming aware emotionally and forenhancing awareness of the healing joint. Drawing from Rosen work,Feldenkrais, Eutony, and orthopedic psychologym O'Shea provides thereader with inviting methods to hasten healing.

几个世纪以来，人类在令人惊叹的科学和技术进步的协助下，通过天文观测对天空进行了虚拟探索。在自1957年发射Sputnik1号以来的60多年中，已有超过6000颗正在运行的卫星被发射到了地球轨道和更远的地方 有的到了太阳系*远的地方 超过540人进入过太空。 本书在时间和地理范围上史无前亻列，详细记录了太空探索的历史 从刚开始的火耀 火箭到登月，再到太空旅游的未来。大量的侧边栏聚焦于那些让我们更接近宇宙*远处的重要人物和发明。本书是概述这场全人类旅程的第1本深入的、经过充分说明的专著，里面充满了来自史密森学会、NASA档案馆和其它国际收藏品的惊人图像。 For centuries humanity has engaged in a virtual exploration of space through astronomical observation, aided by astounding scientific and technological advances. In more than sixty years since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, more than 6,000 f

Exercise your right to feel fabulous! Working with Peggy is a dream! Her ideas are terrific and therelationship she develops with you makes you feel confident aboutimprovement. Coach Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of Duke University's men'sbasketball team Nothing is more important to strength, health and vitality thanstrong core muscles. I know this from both personal andprofessional experience. Peggy Brill s exercise program iseffective for every woman, no matter what her current fitnesslevel. And because it takes only 15 minutes per day, everyone canbenefit. Christiane Northrup, author of Women s Bodies, Women sWisdom Using The Core Program, you ll give your body a head-to-toeworkout that will also tone your muscles and carve inches off yourwaist and hips. You ll look great and feel terrific. Best of all,the easy-to-do Core movements can be done no matter how old youare. It doesn t matter whether you are overweight or skinny, fitor sedent

我们应该支持素食主义吗？从 纯素食主义的演变 到 为什么今天要做素食主义？ 书中研究了现在主流的以植物为基础的饮食的演变， 纯素食主义的挑战 调查了纯素生活方式的营养和误解，设想了素食主义的未来及其对地球的影响。 An insightful look at the arguments for and against universal adoption of a vegan diet and lifestyle. As concern grows over the environmental costs and ethical implications of intensive factory farming, an increasing number of people are embracing diets and lifestyles free from animal products. Should We All Be Vegan? gives a fluid and engaging account of the evolution of veganism. Over the course of four easily digestible chapters, food writer Molly Watson reveals the truth about veganism s impact on our health, the planet, and the global economy. Chapters like The Evolution of Veganism and Why Go Vegan Today? examine the development of veganism from the earliest meat-free human

查拉图斯特拉如是说》是尼采的里里程碑式的作品，几乎包括了尼采的全部思想。这本以散文诗体写就的杰作，以震聋发聩的奇异灼见和横空出世的警世招语宣讲 超人哲学 和 权力意志 ，横扫了基督教所造成的精神奴性的方方面面，谱写了一曲自由主义的人性壮歌，在这本书里，尼采宣告 上帝死了 ，让 超人 出世，于是近代人类思想的天空有了一道光耀千年的奇异彩虹。 Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the wor

Based on a nationwide survey and confidential interviews withmore than three thousand men, bestselling author of For WomenOnly , Shaunti Feldhahn, has written a startling andunprecedented exploration of how men in the workplace tend tothink, which even the most astute women might otherwise miss. In The Male Factor, Feldhahn investigates and quantifies theprivate thoughts that men almost never publicly reveal or admit to,but that every woman will want to know. Never before has an author gotten inside the hearts and minds ofmen in the workplace—from CEOs to managers, from lawyers to factoryworkers—to get a comprehensive and confidential picture of what mencommonly think about their female colleagues, how they viewflextime and equal compensation, what their expected “rules” of theworkplace are, what managing emotion means, and how that lowcut topis perceived. Because the men in the surveys and interviews wereguaranteed anonymity, they talk in a candid and uncensored wayabout their daily interactions