A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience. This is the first time a history of the brain has been written in a narrative way, emp...(展开全部)

安得烈·P·威肯斯是英国中央兰开夏大学“心理学与神经科学”专业的高级讲师，主要专业领域是生物心理学和神经科学。他现在已经出版了三本书：《衰老的原因》（与哈伍德合著）；《生物心理学导论（第三版）》和《脑的历史：从石器时代的外科术到现代神经科学》。当前，他正在完成一本关于意识的书。译者待定。

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other. What will AI do? NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arri...(展开全部)

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI—a new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have ...(展开全部)

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions...Everyone wh o cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review 'A History of Religious Ideas, volume 1 will arouse the interest of all historians of western religion, since it...(展开全部)

In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant here traces the lives and ideas of those who have helped to define civilization, from its dawn to the beginning of the modern world. Four years before his death, Will Durant began work on an abbreviated version of his highly...(展开全部)

A sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition—capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just...(展开全部)

Chris Wiggins, an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, is the New York Times’s chief data scientist. He lives in New York City. Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Princeton University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He lives outside Princeton, New Jersey.

"PPPP ...To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement ...What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling skills, his ability to conjure up the personalities of the psychiatrists who shaped the discipline and the conditions under which they and their patients lived."--Ray Monk The Mail on Sunday...(展开全部)

特雷弗•威廉斯（Trevor I. Williams，1921—1996），1955—1995年任国际科学评论杂志《科学进展》主编。1967—1985年任金丹术与化学史学会主席。1972—1984年任伦敦科学博物馆咨询委员会成员。1976年因化学史方面的贡献获美国化学会德克斯特奖。著有大量科学技术史方面的书籍，包括影响深远的《牛津技术史》（http://book.douban.com/subject/1322206/），并曾入选“我们的科学遗产”目录。