David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing hallucination and surrealism with a sense of Americana that is as pure and simpl...(展开全部)

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。

本书繁体中文版介绍： 躁鬱症是一種很奇特的疾病，使一個人的情緒擺盪在狂躁與憂鬱的兩極之間。《躁鬱奇才：不凡創造力的背後》一書，作者藉由研究貝多芬、狄更斯、牛頓與梵谷這四位天才的一生，來了解躁鬱症在他們生命中所扮演的角色，精彩的呈現精神病理如何深深地影響他們的創造發明與生命歷程。 誠如本書作者所言，人類的心智與精神狀態是由大腦細胞的狀況與大腦的化學狀態所決定，在精神疾病治療的第三波革命的此世代，精神疾病患者並非相對於正常人的另一類族群，而是能夠經由精神藥物治療獲得改善的一般人。過去許多研究創造力的專家學者對於精神病態與創造力之間是否具有關聯這個議題相當感興趣。目前已有研究顯示，患有躁鬱症或是有其前兆的孩童在創造力的得分比一般孩童的得分顯著的高。此外，許多著名的藝術家、音樂家、作家、科學家等具有創造力的人也都被診斷出患有躁鬱症，除了本書所提的四位天才之外...(展开全部)

Now fully updated, LYNCH ON LYNCH describes the career of a cinematic genius who has continued to astonish film-goers with the lovely and life-affirming The Straight Story and the luxurious dread of the Academy Award-nominated Mulholland Drive.

In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized, first published in 2003, Sternberg reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take acc...(展开全部)

In Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity Synthesized, first published in 2003, Sternberg reviews and summarizes the best research available on human intelligence. He argues that any serious understanding of intelligence must go beyond the standard paper and pencil tests currently in use. In addition to analytical and quantitative abilities, a theory of intelligence must take acc...(展开全部)

When David Shannon was only five years old, he wrote and illustrated a story in which an unruly little boy breaks all of his mother's rules -- he jumps on the beds; he chews with his mouth open; he plays ball in the house. Any child who is tired of hearing his parents say "No " will readily identify with this boldly illustrated, comical story.

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was the most important European artist in a period of extraordinary upheaval. A participant in the French Revolution, he then witnessed the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. A revolutionary in both art and life, David took painting away from the frivolity of the Rococo towards the dramatic moral force of neoclassicism. Passionate, intense, fie...(展开全部)