基思.德夫林(Keith Devlin,1947--)是斯坦福大学语言与信息研究中心行政主任和斯坦福大学数学系的顾问教授,美国科学院数学科学教育委员会委员,世界经济论坛成员,美国科学促进会成员,美国全国公共电台数学普及节目主持人.他是24本书、一张互动式CD光盘和75篇已发表的研究论文的作者，以“数学小子”而著称。其著作有：《千年难题》、《数学犹聊天》、《数学化生命》等。

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal s...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a huma...(展开全部)

史蒂芬·平克（Steven Pinker） 出生于加拿大蒙特利尔，1976年取得麦吉尔大学心理学学士学位，1979年取得哈佛大学实验心理学博士学位。 1982年—2003年，在麻省理工学院脑与认知科学系任教，并专心研究儿童的语言学习模式，并最终成为麻省理工学院认知神经学中心的掌门人。1994年，他的《语言本能》一经出版，就成为轰动一时的畅销书，并入选《美国科学家》（American Scientist）评出的20世纪100本最佳科学书籍。 2003年，被聘为哈佛大学心理学教授。2008年—2013年，被授予哈佛学院荣誉教授头衔。 2004年，当选《时代》杂志全球100位最有影响力人物。2010年—2011年，两度被《外交政策》杂志评为全球顶尖思想家。在2013年《前景》杂志“最伟大思想家”的评选中，平克名列第3。

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language...(展开全部)

Vyvyan Evans is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, at the University of Sussex. Melanie Green is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Sussex.

Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - "Independent". 'A marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its acquisition by children, its gramma...(展开全部)

[加]迈克尔·加扎尼加（Michael Gazzaniga）  当代伟大的思想家、认知神经科学之父。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校SAGE心智研究中心主任、认知神经科学研究所创始人兼主席。  揭秘左右脑分工模式，让“左脑”“右脑”成为日常用语，让脑科学进入普通人的视野。联姻生物学与心理学，开创认知神经科学领域。  著有《人类的荣耀》《 双脑记》《 谁说了算?》等经典作品。《纽约时报》赞誉：“加扎尼加之于脑科学研究，堪比斯蒂芬·霍金之于宇宙学。”

“The father of cognitive neuroscience” illuminates the past, present, and future of the mind-brain problemHow do neurons turn into minds? How does physical “stuff”―atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells―create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that...(展开全部)

A radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will. Lately, the most passionate advocates of the theory of evolution seem to present it as bad news. Scientists such as Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, and Sam Harris tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values are mere byproducts of thousands of generations o...(展开全部)