作 者 〔美〕简·布罗克斯（Jane Brox） 美国作家，擅长非虚构写作，并曾在哈佛大学、鲍登学院和莱斯利大学任教。其作品曾入围美国国家书评人奖决选，并获得过新英格兰笔会奖、新英格兰图书奖、缅因州非虚构文学奖等多个奖项，本书的创作也获得了古根海姆奖学金的支持。已出版作品有Clearing Land，Five Thousand Days Like This，Silence等。 译 者 蒋怡颖 上海外国语大学高级翻译学院硕士，曾赴伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院公派留学，曾在世界知识产权组织总部翻译处工作，回国后创立文化传播公司，兼作英语笔译和口译。已出版译著《酒鬼与圣徒》《未来吃什么》等。

Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can't solve? You're not the only one. An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work. Whether it's a major project, a minor quibble or something in between, a short, sharp dose of Fergus O'Connell's si...(展开全部)

A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his...(展开全部)

“A moving, earnest, and deeply-felt exploration of a unique family in all its joys and disappointments . . . an utter delight.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had Ae-ran Kim's My Brilliant Life explores family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships, interweaving the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happines...(展开全部)

A visionary work of radical empathy. Known for immersion journalism that is more immersed than most people are willing to go, and for a prose style that is somehow both fierce and soulful, Jeff Sharlet dives deep into the darkness around us and awaiting us. This work began when his father had a heart attack; two years later, Jeff, still in his forties, had a heart attack of his...(展开全部)

亨利•威尔曼（Henry Wellman） ●世界知名发展心理学家，国际公认的儿童心智理论权威，美国认知发展协会第五任主席。 ●密歇根大学心理学教授、人类成长与发展研究中心教授，拥有自己的心理学实验室，专精于认知心理学，尤其是儿童心智理论的研究。 ●曾发表100多篇研究论文，出版3本经典著作，囊括美国心理学领域6项大奖，包括美国心理学会发展心理学导师奖、美国心理学会斯坦利•霍尔奖（G. Stanley Hall Award）、美国国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所颁发的杰出贡献奖等。

A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick "What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national and global crises we're living through." --Nouriel Roubini, author of the New York Times bestselling ...(展开全部)

侯世达（Douglas R. Hofstadter，1945— ） 计算科学家，认知科学家，哲学家。1965年毕业于斯坦福大学数学系，1975年取得俄勒冈大学物理学博士学位。1977年起在印第安纳大学计算科学系、密歇根大学心理学系等机构工作，至荣休。2009年被选为美国文理科学院院士，并成为美国哲学会会员。2010年被选为瑞典皇家学院院士。代表作有《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫》《我是个怪圈》等。 丹尼尔·丹尼特（Daniel C. Dennett，1942— ） 哲学家、认知科学家，美国文理科学院院士，塔夫茨大学讲席教授。代表作有《直觉泵和其他思考工具》《意识的解释》等。

Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

Exquisite images from award-winning National Geographic photographer Robert Clark offer a captivating perspective on the vast beauty and myriad functions of a seemingly simple thing: the bird feather. Each detailed close-up is paired with informative text about the utility and evolution of the feather it depicts, making this handsome marriage of art and science the ideal gift f...(展开全部)