Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street—our environments are themselves products of our behavior. Under the Influence explains how to unlock the latent power of social context. It reveals how our environments encourage smoking, bullying, tax...(展开全部)

布鲁斯·马兹利什，美国麻省理工学院历史学教授，研究领域广泛，包括全球史、心理历史学、自然科学史、历史哲学，并致力于将心理学的理论运用到历史研究之中。代表作有《探寻尼克松：一项心理史学的研究》《詹姆斯和约翰·斯图亚特·穆勒：19世纪的一对父子》《不确定的科学》《第四断裂：人类和机器同步进化》等，由于卓越的学术贡献，1986年荣获“汤因比奖”。

布鲁斯·马兹利什，美国麻省理工学院历史学教授，研究领域广泛，包括全球史、心理历史学、自然科学史、历史哲学，并致力于将心理学的理论运用到历史研究之中。代表作有《探寻尼克松：一项心理史学的研究》《詹姆斯和约翰·斯图亚特·穆勒：19世纪的一对父子》《不确定的科学》《第四断裂：人类和机器同步进化》等，由于卓越的学术贡献，1986年荣获“汤因比奖”。

Hundreds of facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, the duo behind Maps. Dive below the surface and find out what happens under earth and under sea—from early submarines and deep-sea life to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels.

Hundreds of fascinating facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski, the creative duo behind the bestselling Maps. Dive below the surface, and find out what happens under the earth and under the water. From early submarines and deep-sea life, to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels - you will never look at the world in the same...(展开全部)

What do we see? We are visually conscious of colors and shapes, but are we also visually conscious of complex properties such as being John Malkovich? In this book, Susanna Siegel develops a framework for understanding the contents of visual experience, and argues that these contents involve all sorts of complex properties. Siegel starts by analyzing the notion of the contents ...(展开全部)

Stephanie Cole (Doc Martin), Benedict Cumberbatch, and Roger Allam (The Thick of It) star in the complete second series of the hit sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. Run by the forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey (an unfortunate marriage, namewise, but in Carolyn's opinion, marginally bett...(展开全部)

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary natur...(展开全部)

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)

It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine a...(展开全部)