卡羅歐巴尼(Carlo Urbani)是一名義大利醫生和微生物學家,他在2002–2003年SARS爆發期間,成為第一個識別和分類嚴重急性呼吸綜合症(SARS)的人,卻也因此不幸身亡。此書為緬懷歐巴尼醫師逝世二十週年,旨在透過他的朋友、同事和熟人的回憶,向年輕一代講述「SARS醫生」的故事,使他的醫學貢獻與博愛意志,能持續激勵和造福著世界各地的人們。Carlo Urbani, an Italian doctor and microbiologist, made history as the first person to identify and classify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or atypical pneumonia during its outbreak between 2002 and 2003. Tragically, he succumbed to the same disease on March 29th, 2003, while working in Bangkok. Two decades later, this book aims to recount the story of the “SARS doctor” to younger generations. Urbani’s legacy lives on through the continued efforts of his friends, colleagues, and acquaintances who have carried on his work and the protocol he established.
In the long span of human history to the twentieth century, almost all great leaders of empires and states were men, with few exceptions. One of them was Heavenly Empress Wu Zetian. She is the only female ruler in history to have replaced a powerful dynasty with her own in a major country and crowned herself emperor of China. This book is about how this daughter of a concubine, who began life in the palace as a lowly concubine of Emperor Taizong (see Heavenly Khan) at a very young age, overcame all obstacles in a man-dominated world and rose to the summit of power in medieval China.
本書是美國亞洲研究學會(Association for Asian Studies)2010年推出的一本力作,是迄今最為全面地介紹北美大學東亞圖書館、美國國會圖書館以及東亞典藏流傳及分布情況的專著,由包括加州大學柏克萊分校斯塔東亞圖書館館長周欣平在内的29位著名專家和學者,歷經數年精心研究編寫而成。它以時間為線索,勾勒了北美地區最大的25所東亞圖書館中日韓三國典籍文獻的建立、發展及特色,回顧並追蹤
Carlo Urbani was an infective disease specialist with a beaming career, one of the most experienced in the world. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize as a national president of Doctors Without Borde