What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, p...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·科赫（Christof Koch），加州理工学院的生物学和工程学教授，以及西雅图艾伦脑科学研究院的首席科学家。他是意识神经生物学研究领域的一位颇负盛名的学者，在意识科学研究中与弗朗西斯·克里克有过长达16年的紧密合作。 他是《意识探秘：意识的神经生物学研究》以及其他一些著作的作者。自2008年以来，他在Scientific American Mind中开设了一个专栏Consciousness Redux，定期撰写一些有关当代意识研究前沿的令人瞩目的文章。

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be “normal.” Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his growing attraction to some of the boys in his class, particularly the pubescent body of his friend Omi. To hide his ...(展开全部)

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is...(展开全部)

In this funny and provocative collection of behind-the-scenes tales from the life of a successful public speaker, bestselling business author Scott Berkun offers a unique insider's take on what public speakers do, how they do it, and how anyone can do it well. "Confessions of a Public Speaker" is an entertaining romp through the embarrassments and triumphs Berkun has experience...(展开全部)

EVANGELINE LOGAN WANTS a kiss. A spectacular, heart-stopping, life changing kiss. Somehow The Crimson Kiss (a romance novel she’s become obsessed with) and Four Steps to Living Your Fantasy (a self-help book she’s reading) have fused in Evangeline’s mind and sent her on a quest for a kiss. But the path to perfection is paved with many bad kisses—the smash mouth, the ear lic...(展开全部)

EVANGELINE LOGAN WANTS a kiss. A spectacular, heart-stopping, life changing kiss. Somehow The Crimson Kiss (a romance novel she’s become obsessed with) and Four Steps to Living Your Fantasy (a self-help book she’s reading) have fused in Evangeline’s mind and sent her on a quest for a kiss. But the path to perfection is paved with many bad kisses—the smash mouth, the ear lic...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After watching her parents' marriage ""implode"" over the previous months, Evangeline feels cynical about love until she finds her mother's stash of romance and self-help books. Tired of lamenting her parents' relationship, she sets out to find new adventures, and a steamy novel, A Crimson Kiss, gives her a focus: she wants to experience a...(展开全部)

Conscious experience is one of the most difficult and thorny problems in psychological science. Its study has been neglected for many years, either because it was thought to be too difficult, or because the relevant evidence was thought to be poor. Bernard Baars suggests a way to specify empirical constraints on a theory of consciousness by contrasting well-established consciou...(展开全部)

'A clear-eyed, open-minded analysis of the problems of consciousness, and a wide-ranging synthesis of a variety of approaches. For those who want to join the race to model consciousness, this is the starting line.' Daniel C. Dennett 'With this model, the author sweeps through dozens of phenomena that are well known to students of sensation, perception, learning abstraction, lan...(展开全部)