Sir John Eccles, a distinguished scientist and Nobel Prize winner who has devoted his scientific life to the study of the mammalian brain, tells the story of how we came to be, not only as animals at the end of the hominid evolutionary line, but also as human persons possessed of reflective consciousness.

比尔·奈尔（Bill Nye） 科学家、工程师、喜剧演员兼发明家。曾在康奈尔大学师从卡尔·萨根教授，并获得机械工程专业学士学位；还曾在波音公司工作，作为工程师参与研发波音747客机；随后制作并主持了广受欢迎的电视节目《科学人比尔·奈尔》（Bill Nye the Science Guy），该节目曾获得艾美奖。他拥有理海大学、威拉姆特大学、昆尼皮亚克大学、伦斯勒理工学院、戈切尔学院和约翰－霍普金斯大学6个荣誉博士学位，并定期访问康奈尔大学。 科瑞·S. 鲍威尔（Corey S.Powell） 《美国科学家》和《探索》杂志前任主编，目前是《探索》杂志特约编辑，继续为其撰写专栏文章和博客。他还是纽约大学SHERP科学新闻计划的访问学者，以及《大众科学》《史密森尼》《鹦鹉螺》《万古》等杂志的自由撰稿人，其作品《行星的疯狂》入选《2014年美国科学和自然最佳写...(展开全部)

The New York Times best seller by the host of Bill Nye the Science Guy, with a brand new chapter for the paperback edition! "Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is...(展开全部)

"Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found."--Bill Nye Sparked by a controversial debate in Februa...(展开全部)

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women ...(展开全部)

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of classical analytic theory' and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a 'psychology of the self' as a theory in its own right - one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as the role of narc...(展开全部)

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)

Moral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it serve? Is it to be explained by environmental pressures on our ancestors a million years ago, or is it a cultural invention of more recent origin? In The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce takes up these controversial questions, finding that the evidence support...(展开全部)

Olaf Sporns is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, a member of the programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, and Head of the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington.

Over the last decade, the study of complex networks has expanded across diverse scientific fields. Increasingly, science is concerned with the structure, behavior, and evolution of complex systems ranging from cells to ecosystems. Modern network approaches are beginning to reveal fundamental principles of brain architecture and function, and in Networks of the Brain, Olaf Sporn...(展开全部)