In their second collaboration, biographers Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman present the story of Claude Shannon—one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century and the architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded. Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath, a brilliant tinkerer, and a digi...(展开全部)

吉米·索尼（Jimmy Soni），《纽约观察家》和《华盛顿观察家报》编辑，《赫芬顿邮报》执行编辑、演讲撰稿人，他的作品和评论发表在《石板》、《大西洋月刊》和美国有线电视新闻网等媒体上。 罗伯·古德曼（Rob Goodman），哥伦比亚大学博士，《石板》《大西洋月刊》《政客》等刊物撰稿人，他的学术作品发表在《美国政治学评论》《政治思想史》等期刊上。

Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities...(展开全部)

玛丽莲・亚隆，美国斯坦福大学克莱曼性别研究院高级研究员，法国文学教授。著有《妻子的历史》《乳房的历史》《象棋皇后的诞生》《干姐妹：女性记忆中的法国大革命》《美国人的安息之地：公墓和墓地的四百年历史》等多部作品。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译有《黑死病》《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《古典传统：希腊—罗马对西方文学的影响》等。

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life. From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature patients for most of his career. He knows that everyone thinks they want to live fore...(展开全部)

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERTY keyboard has a few dozen keys. How can Chinese—a language with tens of thousands of characters and no alphabet—be input on such a device? In The Chinese Computer, Thomas Mullaney sets out to resolve this paradox, and in doing so...(展开全部)

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature a...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 book, The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wi...(展开全部)