How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis when we play the stock market, choose a mate, hire an employee, or assess our own abilities? In this discussion, David Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful, and often amazing, insights, it can also dangerously mislead us. Drawing on psychologica...(展开全部)

How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis? In this engaging book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful--and often amazing--insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.

汤川秀树（1907年1月23日～1981年9月8日），日本著名物理学家，毕业于京都帝国大学（现京都大学）和大阪帝国大学（现大阪大学）。历任京都帝国大学、东京帝国大学（现东京大学）教授。1948年，赴美国任哥伦比亚大学教授。1949年，因在核力的理论基础上预言了介子的存在，时任京都大学教授的汤川秀树获得当年的诺贝尔物理学奖。1955年返回日本。他从电磁理论得到启发，于1935年提出了关于核子力的“介子理论”。他也是第一个获得诺贝尔奖的日本人。

[英]罗伯特·鲍德温(Robert Baldwin)，伦敦政治经济学院法学教授，研究领域为立法学。 [英]理查德·金西(Richard Kinsey)，爱丁堡大学法学教授，爱丁堡大学犯罪学研究中心、法社会学与法哲学研究中心主任。 杨小虎，重庆大学外国语学院副教授，主要研究领域为法律语言学、话语分析。发表论文20余篇，出版译著8部，主编和参编教材辞典3部，主持和参与国家社科基金项目和省部级项目7项。 杨媚，现供职于武汉经济技术开发区投资促进服务中心，从事商务翻译、绩效管理等工作。

[英]罗伯特·鲍德温(Robert Baldwin)，伦敦政治经济学院法学教授，研究领域为立法学。 [英]理查德·金西(Richard Kinsey)，爱丁堡大学法学教授，爱丁堡大学犯罪学研究中心、法社会学与法哲学研究中心主任。 杨小虎，重庆大学外国语学院副教授，主要研究领域为法律语言学、话语分析。发表论文20余篇，出版译著8部，主编和参编教材辞典3部，主持和参与国家社科基金项目和省部级项目7项。 杨媚，现供职于武汉经济技术开发区投资促进服务中心，从事商务翻译、绩效管理等工作。

Young Gav can remember the page of a book after seeing it once, and, inexplicably, he sometimes "remembers" things that are going to happen in the future. As a loyal slave, he must keep these powers secret, but when a terrible tragedy occurs, Gav, blinded by grief, flees the only world he has ever known. And in what becomes a treacherous journey for freedom, Gav's greatest test...(展开全部)

The third book in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series--a riveting companion to "Voices" and "Gifts"--is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that speaks to the power of new beginnings and, most importantly, of hope.

One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments. Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers se...(展开全部)

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order. Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of...(展开全部)