Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health for local and international health organizations. Drawing on archival material from three continents, this study investigates efforts by public health schools, philanthropic foundations, and international organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health. Lin shows how these initiatives produced an international network of public health experts who, across vario...

Authored by leading experts in the enzymology of natural product biosynthesis, this completely revised and updated edition provides a description of the types of natural products, the biosynthetic pathways that enable the production of these molecules, and an update on the discovery of novel products in the post-genomic era. Although some 500 000 – 600 000 natural products have been isolated and characterized over the past two centuries, there may be a 10-fold greater inventory awaiting im...

As humans evolved from primordial organisms they lost the capacity to make certain essential molecules. By their very absence in specific pathologies and diseases, the thirteen human vitamins were discovered and their crucial role in metabolism revealed.This textbook provides a thorough chemocentric view on the key small molecules of life, the human vitamins and their active coenzyme forms. Detailing how their unique chemistries control the interconversion and the flux of hundreds ...

Qiányán dāng rénmen xiǎngdào tāng de shíhòu, dà duōshù rén xiǎngdào de shì rèqì téngténg, huòzhě zhǐyǒu zài tiānqì bù hǎo huò tiān lěng de shíhòu cái huì hē. Tāng zībǔ yǎngshēng, bìng yīshēng zhōng duō cì huīfùle wǒ de jīnglì. Yī nián sìjì dōu kěyǐ hē tāng, érqiě tāng kěyǐ shì shàng zhǔ cài zhīqián yīdào hěn bùcuò de cài shì huò kāiwèi cài. Xiǎoshíhòu, yīdào fēngshèng de tāng pǐn shì wǒmen jiā de zhǔshí. Zhǎng dà hòu, jiārén gǔlì wǒ jiēchù xǔduō bùtóng de wénhuà hé měishí. Wǒ rènwéi tāng s...

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays pr...

Tired of working overtime as a new manager… while your team slacks off, underperforms, and depends entirely on you?You just got promoted for your outstanding individual performance—only to step into the loneliest, most frustrating workplace trap there is:You're still acting like a top employee, not a leader.90% of first-time managers fail or stagnate not because they lack effort or talent, but because they rely on outdated, generic leadership advice...

Coincided with China’s economic reform and her rapid ascendance to a great power status, the relations between Taiwan and Chinese mainland since 1979 have also seen some encouraging development. However, the rapprochement is nothing but a smooth ride. Taiwan Strait has always been full of tensions and hostility since the communist took over the mainland over sixty years ago.The periodical tensions in the cross-Strait relations have from time to time threatened to derail the peace talks bet...

Health Neuroscience is a new interdisciplinary field encompassing research from cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience, health psychology, physical and mental health, and science of behavior change. This new field addresses the longstanding gap among neuroscience, health and behavior change within the context of health promotion. Fundamentals of Health Neuroscience explores key topics and research, including basic principles, psychological and neural processes, brain and body intera...

“A harrowing portrait of sexual violence and its thunderous reverberations. Through Jenna Tang’s incisive translation, the reader is brought along a heartbreaking and unflinching journey.”—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me*Shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize*The most influential book of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement—a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, t...

Stop Aging On Purpose. Break Your Biological Clock. Master Measurable, Reversible, Generational Longevity.What if aging is NOT an unstoppable natural law?What if every wrinkle, energy crash, sleep decline, and midlife slowdown is simply a fixable physiological error—one you can reverse, reset, and permanently lock away?For decades, you've been told aging is genetic, inevitable, and irreversible. You've wasted years on random diets, extreme workouts, expensive supplem...

Comme l'écrit le sinologue Léon Vandermeersch, le ciel est un thème qui fascine les cultures les plus différentes et continue de nous hanter, en dépit de la sécularisation ou du déclin des croyances. Dans les traditions indo-européennes, c'est d'abord comme une voûte que le ciel atmosphérique est représenté alors que, dans le monde chinois, il s'agit d'un espace vide, ou plus exactement occupé seulement par un éther particulièrement subtil, identifié à l'énergie cosmique. Le ciel indo-euro...

The Neuroscience of Meditation: Understanding Individual Differences explores the individual differences in learning and practicing meditation, while also providing insights on how to learn and practice effectively. The book comprehensively covers the research in brain areas and networks that mediate the positive effects of meditation upon physical and mental health. Though it examines how people differ in how they learn and practice meditation, it underscores how underlying mechanisms dif...