The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's. In 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He was fifty-eight years old. Twelve years later, at age seventy, he died having lost all...(展开全部)

The moving story of an English professor studying neurology in order to understand and come to terms with her father's death from Alzheimer's. In 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He was fifty-eight years old. Twelve years later, at age seventy, he died having lost all...(展开全部)

西门·沙玛勋爵 Simon Schama，生于1945年，犹太裔英国人，英国著名历史学家、学术明星、哥伦比亚大学历史学教授、艺术史教授。他先后在剑桥大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学任教，自1993年至今在哥伦比亚大学历史系任教。他编写并主持过数十本畅销著作及纪录片。西门·沙马教 授的作品曾获众多奖项，包括：沃夫森历史奖、W.H.史密斯文学奖、全美书评人协会奖、艾美奖等重量及奖项。《犹太人的故事：寻找失落的字符（公元前1000年—公元1492年）》获得塞缪尔·约翰逊奖(Samuel Johnson Prize)，该奖项是英国针对非小说类图书设立的地位最高的一个奖项。 译者 黄福武，山东大学犹太教与跨宗教研究中心教授，山东大学出版社编审，《犹太研究》主编。黄教授的文章曾在《山东大学学报》《当代世、界社会主义问题》《文汇读书周报》《中华读书报》等发表。译作包括《犹...(展开全部)

西门·沙玛勋爵 Simon Schama，生于1945年，犹太裔英国人，英国著名历史学家、学术明星、哥伦比亚大学历史学教授、艺术史教授。他先后在剑桥大学、牛津大学、哈佛大学任教，自1993年至今在哥伦比亚大学历史系任教。他编写并主持过数十本畅销著作及纪录片。西门·沙马教 授的作品曾获众多奖项，包括：沃夫森历史奖、W.H.史密斯文学奖、全美书评人协会奖、艾美奖等重量及奖项。《犹太人的故事：寻找失落的字符（公元前1000年—公元1492年）》获得塞缪尔·约翰逊奖(Samuel Johnson Prize)，该奖项是英国针对非小说类图书设立的地位最高的一个奖项。 译者 黄福武，山东大学犹太教与跨宗教研究中心教授，山东大学出版社编审，《犹太研究》主编。黄教授的文章曾在《山东大学学报》《当代世、界社会主义问题》《文汇读书周报》《中华读书报》等发表。译作包括《犹...(展开全部)

In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction...(展开全部)

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change wha...(展开全部)

Locked in the silence and darkness of your skull, your brain fashions the rich narratives of your reality and your identity. Join renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman for a journey into the questions at the mysterious heart of our existence. What is reality? Who are “you”? How do you make decisions? Why does your brain need other people? How is technology poised to change wha...(展开全部)

Anyone who reads is bound to wonder, at least occasionally, about how those funny squiggles on a page magically turn into "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" or "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Where did this unlikely skill called reading come from? What happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of...(展开全部)

“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answe...(展开全部)

Anyone who reads is bound to wonder, at least occasionally, about how those funny squiggles on a page magically turn into "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" or "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Where did this unlikely skill called reading come from? What happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of...(展开全部)