What can a brain scan, or our reaction to a Caravaggio painting, reveal about the deep seat of guilt? How can reading Heidegger, or conducting experiments on rats, help us to cope with anxiety in the face of the world's economic crisis? Can ancient remedies fight sadness more effectively than anti-depressants? What does the neuroscience of acting tell us about how we feel empat...(展开全部)

What better feeling than opening a new book from Anthony Browne? A simple look at familiar emotions for the very young. How do you feel? Sometimes you feel happy, sometimes sad. At times you feel curious, but that may be followed by feeling . . . surprised. And of course you feel bored or lonely once in a while as well. With spare words and simple, graphic illustrations, quin...(展开全部)

An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting. --Time Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysteri...(展开全部)

Product Description The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we blink and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they re di...(展开全部)

The dean of American philosophers shares his views on methods of training students to think well. His considerations include inductive and deductive logic, interpreting facts, concrete and abstract thinking, the roles of activity, language, and observation, and many other aspects of thought training. This volume is essential reading for teachers and other education professional...(展开全部)

Product Description The first book to use the unexpected discoveries of neuroscience to help us make the best decisions. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decision-making process as either rational or emotional: we carefully deliberate, or we blink and go with our gut. But as scientists break open the mind's black box with the latest tools of neuroscience, they re di...(展开全部)

In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves - not artificially but authentically, by doing what would make sense coming from us as we really are. And, like improvisational actors, we deal with one another in dual capacities: both as characters within ...(展开全部)

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亚当•奥尔特 ★趋势观察与心理学界的新锐之星★ ☆闯荡美国心理学界的澳大利亚学霸 亚当•奥尔特是心理学界的明日之星，这位澳大利亚人在美国闯出了一片天地。他在新南威尔士大学获得了心理学学士学位并荣获大学奖章，在普林斯顿大学取得了心理学博士学位，获得了普林斯顿大学博士毕业生最高荣誉之一的夏洛特•伊丽莎白•普罗科特论文奖学金和伍德罗•威尔逊奖学金，随后，又凭借卓越的研究工作荣获了赫乐尔•恩洪新锐学者奖等诸多奖项。 ☆震惊投资界的研究员 2006年，他和心理学家丹尼•奥本海默(Danny Oppenheimer)发现，一个顺口的名字将给上市公司带来更多投资。他们将这一研究成果发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）上，立即引起了轰动，特别是在金融投资领域。 他们两人对1990—2004年间市场上近1000只股票的的表现进行了研究，发现名字顺口的股票在上市首日...(展开全部)