Highlights the pitfalls of data analysis and emphasizes the importance of using the appropriate metrics before making key decisions.Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it.The author, an expert in envir...(展开全部)

人类大脑本应如此精妙绝伦、进化高度发达，却又如此混乱、易错且缺乏条理。在《傻傻的大脑》一书中，神经科学家迪恩·伯内特以独特的视角赞颂了人类大脑的种种缺陷，以及这些“怪癖”对我们日常生活的影响。本书研究精深，文笔生动有趣，适合所有曾疑惑大脑为何总是“破坏”自己生活、以及它究竟在做什么的人阅读。 For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all thei...(展开全部)

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordina...(展开全部)

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordina...(展开全部)

安德鲁·斯托曼 认知心理学家、西方学院副教授，主攻心理学与认知科学，并担任思维实验室主任。曾于哈佛大学及普林斯顿大学取得心理学学位。作品见于《科学美国人》《国家地理》以及《纽约客》等杂志。现居美国加利福尼亚州。 夏高娃 青年译者。译有《边缘信使》《星空故事：88站夜空漫游指南》等，其中多部译本已授出繁体版权。

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience, behavioral economic, and social psychology research, acclaimed author, former Harvard professor, and think tank founder Todd Rose reveals how so much of our thinking about each other is informed by false assumptions that drive bad decisions that make us dangerously mistrustful as a society and hopelessly unhappy as individuals. The desire t...(展开全部)

There are two myths about crime. In one, the criminal act is a selfish choice, and tough punishment the only solution. In the other, the system is at fault, and perpetrators will change only when society reforms. Both these narratives are wrong. Interweaving conversations and stories of crime with findings from the latest research, Tom Gash dispels the myths that inform our vie...(展开全部)

丹•加德纳(Dan Gardner)是一位屡获殊荣的新闻记者，现为加拿大《渥太华公民报》的资深撰稿人。他获得法律学位和历史学硕士学位。

Synopsis A collection of case studies which move from the domestic sphere to the global arena, this work includes examinations of the soundscape produced by home radios, catalogue shopping, the role of paper in the workplace, and the relation between the production and consumption of Coca-Cola in Trinidad. The diversity of the essays is mediated by their common commitment to et...(展开全部)