Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

Consciousness is one of science's last great unsolved mysteries. How can the salty taste and crunchy texture of potato chips, the unmistakable smell of dogs after they have been in the rain, or the exhilarating feeling of hanging on tiny fingerholds many feet above the last secure foothold on a cliff, emerge from networks of neurons and their associated synaptic and molecular p...(展开全部)

艾伦·贾德（Alan Judd），著名小说家、传记作家，英国皇家文学学会会员。原名艾伦·埃德文·佩蒂（Alan Edwin Petty），1946年出生于英国，毕业于牛津大学。曾在英国陆军、外交部任职。著有“查尔斯·索罗古德（Charles Thoroughgood）”系列间谍小说［《英雄传奇》（A Breed of Heroes, 1981）、《遗产》（Legacy, 2001）、《罕见对手》（Uncommon Enemy, 2012）、《潜入敌营》（Inside Enemy, 2014）、《深蓝计划》（Deep Blue, 2016）、《临时特工》（The Accidental Agent, 2019）］，人物传记《英国情报之父卡明爵士》（The Quest for C, 1999），长篇小说《德皇的最后一吻》（The Kaiser’s Last...(展开全部)

A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder, Mansfield Cumming. / Sir Mansfield Cumming, the founder of the British Secret Service and the original 'C', has until now been a shadowy figure. For this authorised biography, the Secret Intelligence Service has released to Alan Judd, Cumming's volum...(展开全部)

What's Inside * How Ruby and Rails work, separately and together * Extensive Ruby language tutorial * Ruby techniques for Rails applications * Explore the Rails framework source code A new level of programming power and versatility awaits Ruby on Rails developers who master not only the conventions of Rails but the workings of the Ruby language itself. Because Rails itself and ...(展开全部)

What's Inside * How Ruby and Rails work, separately and together * Extensive Ruby language tutorial * Ruby techniques for Rails applications * Explore the Rails framework source code A new level of programming power and versatility awaits Ruby on Rails developers who master not only the conventions of Rails but the workings of the Ruby language itself. Because Rails itself and ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·格尔尼 生于1958年，拥有人类学学士学位，热爱机械的艺术家、作家和艺术教师，雨果奖、切斯利奖和世界奇幻奖得主，《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上的畅销作者。 曾为迪士尼、梦工厂、索尼影业、卢卡斯影业和暴雪娱乐等公司进行美术设计。画作曾在史密森尼国家自然历史博物馆等各大博物馆展出。 作为资深的绘画教练创作的绘画教程《色彩与光线：写实主义绘画指南》曾占据亚马逊艺术类畅销榜第1名52周之久。《恐龙国》系列作品是其very very著名的作品，被翻译为18种语言，风靡30多个国家。在美国，很多人孩提时代就像相信圣诞老人那样，对恐龙国的世界信以为真。

In this elegant, erudite but entertaining book, Paul Strathern, the award-winning novelist and expositor of complex ideas, unravels the dramatic history of chemistry through the quest for the elements.Framing this history is the life-story of the nineteenth-century Russian Scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who fell asleep at his desk and awoke after conceiving the Periodic Table in ...(展开全部)