Riveting stories of the brain on the brink, from an acclaimed cognitive neurologist. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake. A college student cannot remember if she h...(展开全部)

莎拉·曼宁·佩斯金（Sara Manning Peskin） 宾夕法尼亚大学临床神经病学助理教授，宾夕法尼亚大学记忆中心和宾夕法尼亚大学额颞叶痴呆中心成员。哈佛大学生物化学学士，宾夕法尼亚大学细胞与分子生物学硕士和医学博士。获得托马斯·胡佩斯奖，美国神经学会主要出版物《今日神经学》编辑委员会委员。在《纽约时报》《赫芬顿邮报》《美国老年医学学会杂志》和《美国化学学会杂志》上发表过多篇关于分子与脑科学的文章，在《纽约时报》等发表多篇最受读者欢迎的文章。

莎拉·曼宁·佩斯金（Sara Manning Peskin） 宾夕法尼亚大学临床神经病学助理教授，宾夕法尼亚大学记忆中心和宾夕法尼亚大学额颞叶痴呆中心成员。哈佛大学生物化学学士，宾夕法尼亚大学细胞与分子生物学硕士和医学博士。获得托马斯·胡佩斯奖，美国神经学会主要出版物《今日神经学》编辑委员会委员。在《纽约时报》《赫芬顿邮报》《美国老年医学学会杂志》和《美国化学学会杂志》上发表过多篇关于分子与脑科学的文章，在《纽约时报》等发表多篇最受读者欢迎的文章。

Riveting stories of the brain on the brink, from an acclaimed cognitive neurologist. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are gripping accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake. A college student cannot remember if she h...(展开全部)

Inspired by DH Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski inhabited. From prostitutes to classical music, Bukowski ingeniously mixes high an...(展开全部)

With Bukowski, the votes are still coming in. There seems to be no middle ground-people seem either to love him or hate him. Tales of his own life and doings are as wild and weird as the very stories he writes. In a sense, Bukowski was a legend in his time . . . a madman, a recluse, a lover . . . tender, vicious . . . never the same . . . these are exceptional stories that come...(展开全部)

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a musical species. Oliver Sacks’s compa...(展开全部)

With poignant insight and humour, "When the Air Hits Your Brain" chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a ...(展开全部)

With poignant insight and humour, "When the Air Hits Your Brain" chronicles a man's evolution from naive and ambitious young houseman to world-class neurosurgeon. In electrifying detail, Frank Vertosick Jr describes some of the greatest challenges of his career, including a six-week-old infant with a tumour in her brain, a young man struck down in his prime by paraplegia and a ...(展开全部)