大卫·刘易斯-威廉斯 （David Lewis-Williams） 约翰内斯堡威特沃特斯兰德大学岩石艺术研究所名誉教授和高级导师。 因其毕生在远古岩画艺术方面的研究而闻名于世，2015年，南非总统向其颁发金质猴面包树勋章（Order of the Baobab in Gold），以表彰其对考古学的杰出贡献。他的作品包括《破译古代思想：圣布须曼岩画之谜》（Deciphering Ancient Minds: The Mystery of San Bushmen Rock Art）、《想象上帝：宗教的认知起源和演变》（Conceiving God: The Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion）、《走进新石器时代的心灵：意识、宇宙和神的领域》（Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consc...(展开全部)

何塞•卡洛斯•索莫萨1959年生于古巴哈瓦那，1960年随全家迁往西班牙，现居马德里。他最初是一位精神科医生，自1994年起转为全职作家。2000年，他荣获西班牙最重要的文学奖项“纳达尔奖”提名。《观念的洞穴》一书于2002年出版英文版，当年即获金匕首奖，并获独立报外国小说奖提名。 索莫萨是当今西班牙文坛最顶尖的作家之一，他的作品受到全球出版商与书店的关注，已印行超过30种语言。目前他已有13部作品问世。

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)