Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience from the world itself. Even when we just think about the world and don't look at it directly, we can't help but 'imagine' what it looks like. We think of 'seeing' as being a conscious activity - we direct our eyes, we c...(展开全部)

An absorbing study of how birds think, revealing how science is exploding the myth of our feathered friends being 'bird brained', and how recent discoveries may call for us to re-evaluate how we identify and classify intelligence in other animals. Bird Brain will start by looking at the structures and functions of the avian brain, and move on to examine different types of intel...(展开全部)

We recognize the artistry of Mona Lisa's elusive smile, but is there an underlying science? In this groundbreaking study, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explains how vision works. She tells us how great painters fool the brain: why Mona Lisa's smile seems so mysterious, Monet's "Poppy Field" appears to sway in the breeze, Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" blinks ...(展开全部)

In Vision and Art, Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone demonstrates that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. In this new expanded edition Livingstone thoroughly updates this groundbreaking study with the latest findings gathered from her research, with 32 additional pages of new text and images, including 3 brand new chapters. She ...(展开全部)

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book Searching for Bobby Fischer was made into a major motion picture. After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded...(展开全部)

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The ...(展开全部)

桑多尔•卡茨（Sandor E. Katz） 30岁那年，被测出身上有艾滋病病毒，于是开始寻找全面性的改变。随后因为从自家谷仓中挖出一口缸，索性把菜园中的卷心菜切碎放入腌渍，自此一头栽入发酵的世界中。 生于犹太家庭，在纽约长大。自学成才的发酵实验专家、食品发酵工艺复兴者、DIY食品倡导者及美食作家。基于对烹饪、营养学和园艺的兴趣开始探索发酵技术，迄今已在全美上百个食品工作室教授他的食品发酵法，被誉为“发酵的复兴主义者”。 2003年出版《自然发酵：风味、营养及现存的发酵手艺》（Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Food），因书中革命性的野生发酵观念和完整的素食发酵知识，被《新闻周刊》誉为“发酵界的经典之作”。 2012年，卡茨在原书的既有架构上，再加...(展开全部)

Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract ...(展开全部)