Curious about how billions of neurons make up your consciousness? How anxiety hijacks your body? Why Freud was such a weirdo? Whether AI will replace your therapist? This witty, enlightening book, written by a brilliant neuroscientist and clinical therapist duo, uncovers the stunningly-intricate universe of the human brain in fun, awe-inspiring detail. Neuroscientist Alie Caldw...(展开全部)

For 50 years, the world's most brilliant neuroscientists have struggled to understand how human brains really work. Today, says Dale Purves, the dominant research agenda may have taken us as far as it can--and neuroscientists may be approaching a paradigm shift. In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may...(展开全部)

"Middle management" is a term associated with relentless downsizing, corporate drudgery, and career dead-ends. Bashed by management gurus, dismissed by social scientists, and painted as victims by the media, middle managers seem permanently relegated to the sidelines of corporate power. But is this popular picture accurate? Are middle managers really no longer valued by today...(展开全部)

'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy "The Secret Life of Trees". I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' - "The Times", Books of the Year. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a fore...(展开全部)

hrough the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world’s top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the “smartest” kids on the planet. How Do Other Countries Create “Smarter” Kids? In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems t...(展开全部)

Bestselling author, psychologist, and world-renowned expert on dog behavior and training Dr. Stanley Coren presents the most informative, in-depth, fascinating book yet on dogs. Acclaimed for its solid scientific research and entertaining, eminently readable style, "How Dogs Think" gives you the insight that you need to understand the silly, quirky, and apparently irrational be...(展开全部)

大卫·麦考利（David Macaulay） 教育家、作家、建筑师，创作一系列充满想象力的图书，蜚声国际；曾获诸多国际大奖的殊荣，包括凯迪克金奖、波士顿环球报号角图书奖、美国建筑师协会特别奖、华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖、德国青少年文学奖及荷兰银铅笔奖，还曾两度提名国际安徒生大奖。他还是图画书大师大卫·威斯纳的老师。《时代》曾评论道：“麦考利画得比世界上任何一位钢笔墨水插画家都好。” 事实上，对于少儿读物来讲，麦考利的书显得相当奢华，书中的插图每一幅都近乎设计师的图纸，记录了各种生活中常见机械的复杂内部构造。麦考利笔下的物理世界远比真实生活里的来得更活泼，他借助演示的力量直指教育弊端，他要提醒世人比背诵更重要的是理解系统，运用方法，明白事物前后因果关系。 严谨的透视画法，则是他的又一种语言。当然麦考利画的并不只是教材，他更喜欢极端与充满想象的事物。在《万物...(展开全部)

What really makes the things around us tick? Did you know that the principle behind the zip fastener also governed the building of the pyramids? Or that the dentist's drill is a direct descendant of the first windmill? The inner workings of hundreds of machines and devices are explained in this fun, colourful and unique look at technology through time.

大卫﹒麦考利：教育家、作家、画家、建筑师。曾获得多项国际大奖，包括“凯迪克金奖”、“波士顿环球报号角书奖”、“美国建筑师协会特别奖”、“华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖”、“荷兰银铅笔奖”，还曾经两度提名“国际安徒生大奖”，并于2006年被授予“麦克阿瑟基金学者”。他曾在罗得岛设计学院授课，培养出众多著名设计师和童书作者，其中包括也曾经6次获得凯迪克大奖的绘本大师大卫﹒威斯纳。 大卫﹒麦考利简化了艰涩的生理学知识，深入浅出地画出人体运作的故事，并以工程师和建筑师的眼睛与好奇心，将身体的建筑之美呈现在读者眼前。在他眼中，人体其实是世界建筑的原型：牙齿是罗马竞技场的拱门，髋骨彷彿威尼斯的叹息桥，鼻尖则是你无须攀登的山岭。他让我们的身体以非常美丽、人性而幽默的方式与我们见面。 理查德﹒沃克：科普作家，作品九十余册。曾荣获“艾凡提斯青少年科学图书奖”等多项大奖，他拥有...(展开全部)

In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed nu...(展开全部)