Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black? What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common? Is it good to praise a child's intelligence? Why are baseball players so superstitious? Few things in life are more satisfying than beating a rival. We love to win and hate to lose, whether it's on th...(展开全部)

In this bold new look at human behavior journatist and Olympian Matthwe Syed reveals how competition-the most vivid primal and dramatic of human pursuits-provides vital insight into many of the most controeersial issues of our time froim biology and economics to psychology and culture to genetics and race to sports and politics. Backed by cutting-edge scientific ressarch and ca...(展开全部)

英国艺术史家，小说家，画家。1926年出生于伦敦。1946年从军队退役后进入Central School of Art和Chelsea School of Art学习。1948年至1955年以教授绘画为业，曾举办个人画展。1952年，他开始为伦敦左派杂志New Statesman撰稿，并迅速成为英国当代最有影响力的艺术批评家。此后他更有多部艺术专著问世，如《观看之道》、《看》、《另一种讲述的方式》、《毕加索的成败》等，已经是艺术批评的经典；他亦写小说，名篇G.（1972）获英国布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。 最近20年间，伯格一直生活在阿尔卑斯山脚下的一个法国小村庄中。濒临消亡的传统山区生活方式令他着迷，并反映在他的作品中。 ... 我尊崇并热爱约翰·伯格的作品。他为世间真正重要之事写作，而非随兴所至。在当代英语作家中，我奉他为翘楚；自劳伦斯以...(展开全部)

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s precocity is so familiar as to be taken for granted. In scholarship and popular culture, Mozart the Wunderkind is often seen as belonging to a category of childhood all by himself. But treating the young composer as an anomaly risks minimizing his impact. In this book, Adeline Mueller examines how Mozart shaped the social and cultural reev...(展开全部)

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on. For example, why is it that 95% of all diet attempts fail? Why do New Year's Resol...(展开全部)

A stunning new approach to how individuals can not only change their lives for the better in the workplace, but also their lives away from the office, including (but not limited to) finding ways to improve one's working relationship with others, one's overall health, outlook on life, and so on. For example, why is it that 95% of all diet attempts fail? Why do New Year's Resol...(展开全部)

沙龙·莫勒姆是多伦多大学哲学博士、纽约西奈山医学院医学博士，他专攻的领域为稀有疾病、神经遗传学和生物技术，他的学术研究和医学工作主要围绕进化、遗传、生物学和医学如何革命性地改变我们理解疾病的方式。莫勒姆博士著有《性与五感》《遗传》《重启DNA》等多部科普著作，曾任《阿尔茨海默病杂志》（Journal of Alzheimer's Disease）副主编，与人合伙创办了两家生物技术公司，并获得多项专利。他的临床遗传学研究帮助发现了两种罕见的遗传特征，以及一种新型的抗菌化合物新药。 乔纳森·普林斯曾任克林顿政府的高级顾问和演讲稿撰写人，曾在科索沃战争期间负责管理北约的沟通战略。因其在改进政治广告方面的工作，美国《时尚杂志》（Esquire）在2005年将他评为美国聪明头脑之一。他致力于公共和环保事业，与美国参议院前议员约翰·爱德华兹和约翰·爱德华兹的女儿...(展开全部)

沙龙·莫勒姆是多伦多大学哲学博士、纽约西奈山医学院医学博士，他专攻的领域为稀有疾病、神经遗传学和生物技术，他的学术研究和医学工作主要围绕进化、遗传、生物学和医学如何革命性地改变我们理解疾病的方式。莫勒姆博士著有《性与五感》《遗传》《重启DNA》等多部科普著作，曾任《阿尔茨海默病杂志》（Journal of Alzheimer's Disease）副主编，与人合伙创办了两家生物技术公司，并获得多项专利。他的临床遗传学研究帮助发现了两种罕见的遗传特征，以及一种新型的抗菌化合物新药。 乔纳森·普林斯曾任克林顿政府的高级顾问和演讲稿撰写人，曾在科索沃战争期间负责管理北约的沟通战略。因其在改进政治广告方面的工作，美国《时尚杂志》（Esquire）在2005年将他评为美国聪明头脑之一。他致力于公共和环保事业，与美国参议院前议员约翰·爱德华兹和约翰·爱德华兹的女儿...(展开全部)

In Impossibility, John D. Barrow--one of our most elegant and accomplished science writers--argues convincingly that there are limits to human discovery, that there are things that are ultimately unknowable, undoable, or unreachable. Barrow first examines the limits of the human mind: our brain evolved to meet the demands of our immediate environment, and much that lies outside...(展开全部)

Barrow, Professor of Astronomy at the University of Sussex, has written a very engaging and even playful book. He attempts to show how certain "laws" governing "Nature" help us to separate the possible from the impossible....Barrow's book enjoyable, informative, and thought provoking.