Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and his...(展开全部)

A fascinating, research-based look at the impact of social media on businesses and consumers around the world, and what's in store for the future Social Media. You've heard the term, even if you don't use the tools. But just how big has social media become? Social media has officially surpassed pornography as the top activity on the Internet. People would rather give up the...(展开全部)

Steven Johnson has been named one of the most influential people on Cyberspace by Newsweek, New York magazine, and Websight magazine. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Feed , the award-winning on-line cultural magazine. He lives in New York City.

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrep...(展开全部)

How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embod...(展开全部)

Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brené Brown offers a powerful new vision in Daring Greatly that encourages us to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly and courageously. Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable, or to dare greatly. Whether the arena is a new relationship, an impor...(展开全部)

布芮尼．布朗 (Brene Brown Ph. D.) 知名學者、暢銷書作家，是認證的社工師（LMSW），也是休士頓大學社工研究院的研究教授。她花了十二年時間研究人類心靈的脆弱、勇氣、價值感以及自卑感。研究結果被歐普拉、CNN、ABC、NBC、美國公共電視網、華盛頓郵報、紐約時報廣泛報導。 2008年，她成為休士頓酗酒與藥物防治學會的行為健康常駐學者。她的文章經常出現在《Self》雜誌、《ELLE 雜誌》、《REAL SIMPLE雜誌》、《Prevention女性健康雜誌》、《Scientific American Mind雜誌》以及美國許多報紙上。她也是美國各地廣播節目時常邀請的對象，並被《休士頓女性雜誌》指名為「2009年最具影響力的女性」之一。 布芮尼．布朗2010年在TEDxHouston的演說：「脆弱的力量」(The Power of Vu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? ...(展开全部)

大卫﹒麦考利：教育家、作家、画家、建筑师。曾获得多项国际大奖，包括“凯迪克金奖”、“波士顿环球报号角书奖”、“美国建筑师协会特别奖”、“华盛顿知识类儿童读物奖”、“荷兰银铅笔奖”，还曾经两度提名“国际安徒生大奖”，并于2006年被授予“麦克阿瑟基金学者”。他曾在罗得岛设计学院授课，培养出众多著名设计师和童书作者，其中包括也曾经6次获得凯迪克大奖的绘本大师大卫﹒威斯纳。 大卫﹒麦考利简化了艰涩的生理学知识，深入浅出地画出人体运作的故事，并以工程师和建筑师的眼睛与好奇心，将身体的建筑之美呈现在读者眼前。在他眼中，人体其实是世界建筑的原型：牙齿是罗马竞技场的拱门，髋骨彷彿威尼斯的叹息桥，鼻尖则是你无须攀登的山岭。他让我们的身体以非常美丽、人性而幽默的方式与我们见面。 理查德﹒沃克：科普作家，作品九十余册。曾荣获“艾凡提斯青少年科学图书奖”等多项大奖，他拥有...(展开全部)

In this comprehensive and entertaining resource, David Macaulay reveals the inner workings of the human body as only he could. In order to present this complicated subject in an accurate and entertaining way, he put in years of research. He sat in on anatomy classes, dissections, and even reached inside the rib cages of two cadavers to compare their spleen sizes. He observed nu...(展开全部)