本书从祝世讷先生对比中西医学的研究始，通过展现中西医学特征与差异，提出引系统科学理论的必要性，总结归纳中医学理论的基本概念元素及其相互之间的关系，从理论源头行梳理。间有老一辈科学家如钱学森等对于中医学理论研究的指导意见，全景展现系统中医学研究的经过与成果，可谓中医理念研究的尖峰之做。

该书结合我国NOSES技术领域内专家的临床实践经验，通过大量高清的手术图片及视频，来展示NOSES理论体系。同时本书注重理论联系实际，除了阐述NOSES术的临床实践，书中每个章节还对胃肠肿瘤、肝胆肿瘤以及妇科肿瘤的腹腔镜手术热、难和重问题行细致全面的剖析。

Six best-loved novels by award-winning author of ‘War Horse’, brought together in this ebook collection. A perfect introduction to Michael Morpurgo’s enthralling storytelling for new readers and a classic collection for fans. ‘Kaspar’: Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket – Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bellboy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky's things to her room, including this very special cat! ‘Born to Run’: When Patrick saves a litter of greyhound puppies from the canal, he convinces his parents to let him keep one. Patrick names his puppy Best Mate, and that’s what he becomes… Until one day Best Mate is kidnapped by a greyhound trainer. The trainer’s step-daughter loves the greyhound and renames him Bright Eyes. But what will happen when he can’t run any more? ‘The Butterfly Lion’: When Bertie is a little boy, he rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again, but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten. ‘Alone on a wide, wide sea’: When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse was shipped to Australia after WWII he lost his sister, his country and everything he knew. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie – a yacht designed to carry her to England, in search of his long-lost sister… ‘Running Wild’: For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn't just a holiday. It's an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them. Until Oona, the elephant Will is riding on the beach, begins acting strangely, shying away from the sea. That's when the tsunami comes crashing in, and Oona begins to run. But when the tsunami is gone, Oona just keeps on running. ‘Farm Boy’: The fascinating sequel to ‘War Horse’. Set on a farm in rural Devon, this is the story of Grandpa’s memories. Family secrets come to light as Michael’s wonderful writing depicts the moving relationship between grandfather and grandson.

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为了继承和弘扬名老中医学术成就和临床经验，发扬中医学在防治疾病和提高人体健康素质的良好作用，“施今墨名家研究室”决心将施先生学术成就和临床经验进行研究整理，以供学习中医者、从事中医药临床工作者以及热爱中医药事业者学习和参考。本书主要内容：一、施今墨先生生平传略；二、施今墨医案集锦；三、施今墨对药与验方；四、施今墨文稿与墨迹。全书比较全面系统地反映了“四大名医”之一施今墨先生学术思想、学术成就及临床经验。

本套书由国家中医药管理局中医师资格认证中心组织编写，为全国中医住院医师规范化培训结业考核指导用书，涉及11科目，每科目两本，即考试用书1本，口袋书1本。包括中医内科学、中医外科学、中医妇科学、中医儿科学、针灸推拿学、中医骨伤科学、中医急诊科学、中医五官科学、中医全科学、中医临床思维和卫生法规。

本套丛书由张伯礼会长、世界中联教育指导委员会担任总主编，由1本教学大纲和13本教材组成，主编会议、编写会议、审稿会、定稿会分别已于2015年3月、5月底以及2016年1月、6月在北京举行，由世界中联教指委和我社联合举办，我社具体承办，费用由天津中医药大学资助的出版费承担。按照《世界中医学本科教育标准》要求编写。编写人员由世界中联教指委和我社联合在世界范围精心遴选的来自海内外*中医药院校和机构的具有丰富教材编写经验和国际化教学经验的一线、一流*专家、学者，来自15个国家和地区的74所高等中医药院校及研究院（所），合计283人，其中境内34个机构、226人；境外40个机构，57人。英文版教材已陆续编辑加工、出版。现申报的中文版教材内容有国际化特色，强调规范性、实用性、安全性，部分内容为国内教材所缺，如洁针技术等。海外华人中医从业者众，且学习中文的外国人日众，与该套教材的英文版配套，很有必要。市场需求和前景较好。两个效益均佳。《中医内科学》由张伯礼、吴勉华、林子强主编。

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本卷收录了两个村庄的调查报告，二百户村和白寺村。两份报告均从村庄由来、自然、经济、社会、文化、治理六方面，重对村庄的传统形态行深描，兼涉其历史变迁与现状，全景式展现了相应地区乡村社会的生产、生活与组织形态，为深了解黄河区域村户社会的底色与特质提供了翔实的一手资料。两篇报告末尾均附有调查小记与调查日记，着重记录驻村期间的见闻，内容自选，没有框架束缚，灵活而真实地反映了当下乡村的状况。

《哪些神经科学新发现即将改变世界》一场改天换地的科研突破，正在悄然来临。数千年来，人类一直在试图破解自己的大脑，却因种种局限而步履维艰。现今，随着技术的飞速发展，脑科研先驱者们不仅开发出能够深度探索大脑之谜的工具与方法，而且已经取得了令人振奋的关键进展。 通过《哪些神经科学新发现即将改变世界》，你便可以一睹大脑的研究走到了多远。书中，33位杰出科学家记录了他们对历史级难题的挑战，比如绘制大脑图谱、全脑神经成像、全脑模拟等，这些技术获得了哪些全新进展？神经技术如何应用于抑郁症等疾病的治疗？大脑计划、人类大脑工程等雄心勃勃的研究项目究竟在做些什么？ 在取得惊人成果的同时，他们也陈述了自己乐观又谨慎的预想与反思，指明了我们需要跨越的困难和前进的方向。 《哪些神经科学新发现即将改变世界》是展现未来技术突破口的重要依据，也是展望21世纪人类社会和科学前景的一扇窗口。普通读者和专业人士都将从中获得面向明天的知识与领悟。

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we do and how we experience the world. And because technology plays such an active role in shaping our daily actions and decisions, it is crucial, Peter-Paul Verbeek argues, that we consider the moral dimension of technology.?Moralizing Technology offers exactly that: an in-depth study of the ethical dilemmas and moral issues surrounding the interaction of humans and technology. Drawing from Heidegger and Foucault, as well as from philosophers of technology such as Don Ihde and Bruno Latour, Peter-Paul Verbeek locates morality not just in the human users of technology but in the interaction between us and our machines. Verbeek cites concrete examples, including some from his own life, and compellingly argues for the morality of things. Rich and multifaceted, and sure to be controversial, Moralizing Technology will force us all to consider the virtue of new inventions and to rethink the rightness of the products we use every day.

With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native Americans, working-class Mexicans, elite Hispanos, and black and white newcomers all commingled and interacted in the territory in ways that had not been previously possible. But what did it mean to be white in this multiethnic milieuAnd how did ideas of sexuality and racial supremacy shape ideas of citizenry and determine who would govern the region?Coyote Nation considers these questions as it explores how New Mexicans evaluated and categorized racial identities through bodily practices. Where ethnic groups were numerous and-in the wake of miscegenation-often difficult to discern, the ways one dressed, bathed, spoke, gestured, or even stood were largely instrumental in conveying one's race. Even such practices as cutting one's hair, shopping, drinking alcohol, or embalming a deceased loved one could inextricably link a person to a very specific racial identity.A fascinating history of an extraordinarily plural and polyglot region, Coyote Nation will be of value to historians of race and ethnicity in American culture.

In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "e;wageworkers' frontier"e; and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "e;hobohemia."e; Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts and swaggered onto center stage of the new urban culture. Less obviously, perhaps, they also staked their own claims on the American polity, claims that would in fact transform the very entitlements of American citizenship.In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of hobohemia's rise and fall, and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "e;American century"e; in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. DePastino shows how hoboes-with their reputation as dangers to civilization, sexual savages, and professional idlers-became a cultural and political force, influencing the creation of welfare state measures, the promotion of mass consumption, and the suburbanization of America. Citizen Hobo's sweeping retelling of American nationhood in light of enduring struggles over "e;home"e; does more than chart the change from "e;homelessness"e; to "e;houselessness."e; In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.

When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. Thanks to clandestine instruction from a local maestro di cappella-and despite the church hierarchy's vehement opposition to all convent music-Vizzana became the star of the convent, composing works so thoroughly modern and expressive that a recent critic described them as "e;historical treasures."e; But at the very moment when Vizzana's works appeared in 1623-she would be the only Bolognese nun ever to publish her music-extraordinary troubles beset her and her fellow nuns, as episcopal authorities arrived to investigate anonymous allegations of sisterly improprieties with male members of their order.?Craig A. Monson retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Gifted singers, instrumentalists, and composers, these nuns used music not only to forge links with the community beyond convent walls, but also to challenge and circumvent ecclesiastical authority. Monson explains how the sisters of Santa Cristina-refusing to accept what the church hierarchy called God's will and what the nuns perceived as a besmirching of their honor-fought back with words and music, and when these proved futile, with bricks, roof tiles, and stones. These women defied one Bolognese archbishop after another, cardinals in Rome, and even the pope himself, until threats of excommunication and abandonment by their families brought them to their knees twenty-five years later. By then, Santa Cristina's imaginative but frail composer literally had been driven mad by the conflict.?Monson's fascinating narrative relies heavily on the words of its various protagonists, on both sides of the cloister wall, who emerge vividly as imaginative, independent-minded, and not always sympathetic figures. In restoring the musically gifted Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana to history, Monson introduces readers to the full range of captivating characters who played their parts in seventeenth-century convent life.?

The contributors wish to thank the Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, for access to their holdings of Thom Gunn’s manu*s; the Graduate Research Board and the Department of English at the University of Maryland, for material support; Thom’s brother Ander, for the use of his photograph of Thom for this volume’s cover; and Mike Kitay, for permission to print excerpts from unpublished writings and the several published poems, in their entireties, in this volume.

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it's difficult to argue for their creation and maintenance: in the face of schools needing resources, roads and sewers needing maintenance, and people suffering at the hands of others, why should cities and counties spend scarce dollars planting trees and preserving parksIn Constructed Climates, ecologist William G. Wilson demonstrates the value of urban green. Focusing specifically on the role of vegetation and trees, Wilson shows the costs and benefits reaped from urban open spaces, from cooler temperatures to better quality ground water-and why it all matters. While Constructed Climates is a work of science, it does not ignore the social component. Wilson looks at low-income areas that have poor vegetation, and shows how enhancing these areas through the planting of community gardens and trees can alleviate social ills. This book will be essential reading for environmentalists and anyone making decisions for the nature and well-being of our cities and citizens.

Imbued with character and independence, strength and articulateness, humor and conviction, abundant biblical knowledge and intense compassion, Katharina Schutz Zell (1498-1562) was an outspoken religious reformer in sixteenth-century Germany who campaigned for the right of clergy to marry and the responsibility of lay people-women as well as men-to proclaim the Gospel. As one of the first and most daring models of the pastor's wife in the Protestant Reformation, Schutz Zell demonstrated that she could be an equal partner in marriage; she was for many years a respected, if unofficial, mother of the established church of Strasbourg in an age when ecclesiastical leadership was dominated by men.Though a commoner, Schtz Zell participated actively in public life and wrote prolifically, including letters of consolation, devotional writings, biblical meditations, catechetical instructions, a sermon, and lengthy polemical exchanges with male theologians. The complete translations of her extant publications, except for her longest, are collected here in Church Mother, offering modern readers a rare opportunity to understand the important work of women in the formation of the early Protestant church.

Girls abused in London and torsos of black boys found in the Thames; African boys disappearing from school and child traffic in Africa; child sacrifice and Brazilian Pentecostal exorcism. Unrelated events are swiftly connected in an uncanny work of prestidigitation, including hitech digital images of torsos and forensic drawings of abused children. Les correspondances symboliques, Baudelaire would say, or contiguous magic, in Frazer’s more prosaic de*ion. It all could make sense, if we believe in our fears, suspicions, gossip, and prejudices. Furthermore, this incredible work of prestidigitation was engineered by two respectable institutions, known for their enlightened search of truth: the BBC and Scotland Yard. But where was the evidence that all these things were connectedThe “exorcism scandal” bewitched the media in Britain for the whole month of June, until some dissenting voices started to talk about a “racist witch hunt.” 5 By then, however, a population of hundreds of thousands of Africans, in particular Pentecostal Africans, was already under suspicion. “What if some of that was true?” some people still may ask. In fact, shortly before completing this introduction, the local London newspaper Evening Standard published a two-page report on an African church in the United Kingdom, with the title “Miracles and claims of baby-snatching,” mixing rumors of child trafficking, sorcery, syncretism, and extreme wealth. 6 That is how sorcery works: not by fully demonstrating its power, but by opening a possible doubt; one is never fully sure it is not true.