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。

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)

Now in development to be an Amazon Studios series! Simon Stålenhag’s Tales from the Loop is a wildly successful crowd-funded project that takes viewers on a surprising sci-fi journey through various country and city landscapes―from small towns in Sweden and the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia―where children explore and engage with abandoned robots, vehicles, an...(展开全部)

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)

This title is printed in full color throughout. From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as well. Galileo’s journey has three parts, each with a d...(展开全部)

作者：布雷特·斯特卡 2005年获得弗吉尼亚大学医学博士学位，2006年在纽约西奈山医学院的生物精神病学实验室完成博士后工作。曾是《医景》（Medscape，WebMD的子公司）主编，美国国家电视台（NPR）和《环球科学》杂志的定期撰稿人，并且给Wired、Slate和Popular Mechanics撰写关于大脑和基因组学、神经科学、精神病学及进化学的文章。

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning s...(展开全部)

赫尔曼·黑塞(Hesse Hermann，1877-1962)，德国文学家、诗人、评论家。出生于南德的小镇卡尔夫，曾就读墨尔布隆神学校，因神经衰弱而辍学，复学后又在高中读书一年便退学，结束他在学校的正规教育。日后以《彷徨少年时》《乡愁》《荒原狼》《流浪者之歌》《玻璃珠游戏》等作品饮誉文坛。1946年获歌德奖，同年又荣获诺贝尔文学奖，使他的世界声誉达于高峰。1962年病逝，享年85岁。黑塞的作品以真诚剖析探索内心世界和人生的真谛而广受读者喜爱。 一生追求和平与真理的黑塞，在纳粹独裁暴政时代，也是德国知识分子道德良心的象征。