Description A groundbreaking and timely book about how evolutionary biology can explain our black-and-white brains, and a lesson in how we can escape the pitfalls of binary thinking. Several million years ago, natural selection equipped us with binary, black-and-white brains. Though the world was arguably simpler back then, it was in many ways much more dangerous. Not coincide...(展开全部)

Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno has penned a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When Mizuno notices just before the story is about to be published that this man’s real name has crept into his manusc...(展开全部)

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinki...(展开全部)

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the most human parts of the mind. Now he offers a completely new book, providing fresh, iconoclastic ideas about the relationship between the brain and the mind. In The New Executive Brain, Goldberg paints a sweeping panorama of cutting-edge thinki...(展开全部)

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World.<br /> <br /> These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technolog...(展开全部)

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World.<br /> <br /> These are tough questions for the pushers of technology to answer. Our economic system is centered on technolog...(展开全部)

Today, as individuals and as a society, we are faced with highly complex challenges. When we don't solve them correctly they rapidly become crises. This book explains how we can use complex systems research to solve complex problems in: * healthcare * education * military conflict * ethnic violence and terrorism * international development. Highly complex problems cannot be sol...(展开全部)

Today, as individuals and as a society, we are faced with highly complex challenges. When we don't solve them correctly they rapidly become crises. This book explains how we can use complex systems research to solve complex problems in: * healthcare * education * military conflict * ethnic violence and terrorism * international development. Highly complex problems cannot be sol...(展开全部)

From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devastation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and Dvorak, Prague is steeped in a wealth of history and culture. "Prague In Black And Gold" is a first class history of this unique city, allowing us to unravel layer upon layer of startlingly symbolic sites and buildings to reveal t...(展开全部)

作者简介： 劳伦·E.奥克斯是一名生态学家、作家和教育家。她是野生动物保护协会气候适应项目的环境保护科学家，斯坦福大学地球系统科学的兼职教授。劳伦教授关于科学故事讲述技巧以及大学科学传播课程。她于2015年获得斯坦福大学埃米特环境与资源跨学科项目博士学位，2004年获得布朗大学环境研究与视觉艺术学士学位。她的森林相关研究已经被《大西洋月刊》《基督教科学箴言报》《科学美国人》《科学星期五》《赫芬顿邮报》《户外杂志》《史密森尼》和其他媒体报道过。她曾为《纽约时报》和《国家地理》的“开放探索者”撰稿，并联合制作了《红色黄金》和《阿拉斯加黄金》两部环境题材纪录片。 译者简介： 李可欣，同济大学风景园林硕士，四川德阳人。