Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives. So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits? Better than Before answers that quest...(展开全部)

According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In "Our Lives Before the Law", Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence - one that would return feminism to relevance by c...(展开全部)

Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story of the history of our ancient ancestors and the evolution of human nature Just in the last three years a flood of new scientific findings-driven by revelations discovered in the human genome-has provided compelling new answers to...(展开全部)

Nicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times . In his groundbreaking Before the Dawn , Wade reveals humanity’s origins as never before—a journey made possible only recently by genetic science, whose incredible findings have answered such questions as: What was the first human language li...(展开全部)

A legendary editor's reckoning with the twentieth-century novel and the urgent messages it sends. “How can we live differently?” a young woman urgently demands in Virginia Woolf’s novel The Years. It is the 1930s, war and death are in the air, but her question was asked again and again in the course of a century where things changed fast and changed all the time. The century br...(展开全部)

We know fungi are important, for us as well as the environment. But how they live, and what they can do, remains mysterious and surprising. Filled with stunning photographs, The Lives of Fungi presents an inside look into their hidden and extraordinary world. The wonders of fungi are myriad: a mushroom poking up through leaf litter literally overnight, or the sensational hit of...(展开全部)

沙伦.莫勒姆 博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成 30 余种语言。 莫勒姆博士是《阿兹海默病期刊》(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)的副主编。他通过科学研究最终发现了 Siderocillin，一种全新的用来对抗对多种抗生素具有耐药性或可称为“超级病菌”的微生物的抗生素类药物，他还荣获了 19 项与生物技术和人类健康有关的发明专利，他与别人共同创办了两家生物技术公司。莫勒姆博士和他的研究项目已为《纽约时报》《新科学家》杂志、《时代》杂志以...(展开全部)

沙伦.莫勒姆 博士，获奖科学家、医生，以及《纽约时报》畅销书作者。其研究和作品通过医药学、遗传学、历史和生物学的相互融合，以一种新颖而又引人入胜的方式来解释人类的身体是如何工作的。他还是《纽约时报》畅销书《病者生存》(Survival of the Sickest)和《性之谜》 (How Sex Works)的作者。他的著作已被翻译成 30 余种语言。 莫勒姆博士是《阿兹海默病期刊》(Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)的副主编。他通过科学研究最终发现了 Siderocillin，一种全新的用来对抗对多种抗生素具有耐药性或可称为“超级病菌”的微生物的抗生素类药物，他还荣获了 19 项与生物技术和人类健康有关的发明专利，他与别人共同创办了两家生物技术公司。莫勒姆博士和他的研究项目已为《纽约时报》《新科学家》杂志、《时代》杂志以...(展开全部)

Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the most violent age ever seen. Yet as New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true: violence has been diminishing for millennia and we may be living in the most peaceful time in our species's exis...(展开全部)

A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank Slate Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism,...(展开全部)