Smart, hilarious, and engaging, MATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS is a delightfulre-education in math that empowers readers with a joyful appreciation and powerful understanding of how math works in our daily lives. InMATH WITH BAD DRAWINGS,Ben Orlin answers math's three big questions: Why do I need to learn this? When am I ever going to use it? Why is it so hard? The answers come in vari...(展开全部)

How can a philosophical discourse generated in Asia help us reframe and renew cinema and media theory? Cinema Illuminating Reality provides a possible way to do this by using Buddhist ideas to examine the intricate relationship between technicity and consciousness in the cinema. The resulting dialogue between Buddhism and Euro-American philosophy is the first of its kind in fil...(展开全部)

“A dizzying, dazzling debut.” —Nature “A welcome addition to the math-for-people-who-hate-math genre...All but the stubbornly innumerate will enjoy this amusing mathematical miscellany.” —Kirkus Reviews “Kit Yates is a brilliant explainer and storyteller. Perhaps most charming of all, his stories are a bit like Sherlock Holmes tales: mysteries whose solutions seem surprising an...(展开全部)

“A dizzying, dazzling debut.” —Nature “A welcome addition to the math-for-people-who-hate-math genre...All but the stubbornly innumerate will enjoy this amusing mathematical miscellany.” —Kirkus Reviews “Kit Yates is a brilliant explainer and storyteller. Perhaps most charming of all, his stories are a bit like Sherlock Holmes tales: mysteries whose solutions seem surprising an...(展开全部)

海伦·拜纳姆（Helen Bynum）与威廉姆·拜纳姆（William Bynum）对植物与园艺有着毕生的兴趣，并在萨福克建造了一座两英亩的花园。海伦·拜纳姆曾在伦敦大学学院以及惠康研究所医学历史部学习，随后在利物浦大学进行有关医学历史的讲演。现为特约讲师、编辑及作家。曾撰写Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis （2012），与威廉姆·拜纳姆共同编写Dictionary of Medical Biography（2007）以及Great Discoveries in Medicine（2011），并为Biographies of Disease 系列丛书的共同主编。威廉姆·拜纳姆毕业于耶鲁大学，获得硕士学位，于剑桥大学取得博士学位。现为皇家医师内科协会会员、伦敦大学学院医学历史荣誉教授。著作包括：Th...(展开全部)

海伦·拜纳姆（Helen Bynum）与威廉姆·拜纳姆（William Bynum）对植物与园艺有着毕生的兴趣，并在萨福克建造了一座两英亩的花园。海伦·拜纳姆曾在伦敦大学学院以及惠康研究所医学历史部学习，随后在利物浦大学进行有关医学历史的讲演。现为特约讲师、编辑及作家。曾撰写Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis （2012），与威廉姆·拜纳姆共同编写Dictionary of Medical Biography（2007）以及Great Discoveries in Medicine（2011），并为Biographies of Disease 系列丛书的共同主编。威廉姆·拜纳姆毕业于耶鲁大学，获得硕士学位，于剑桥大学取得博士学位。现为皇家医师内科协会会员、伦敦大学学院医学历史荣誉教授。著作包括：Th...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greate...(展开全部)

Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. Predictably Irrational is an intriguing, witty and utterly original look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50p aspirin do what a 5p aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greate...(展开全部)

一个全新的、颠覆我们对大脑与世界互动方式的理解的绝妙心智理论 自从我们研究人类认知以来，我们就一直相信我们的感官让我们能够直接接触世界。我们看到的就是真实存在的——或者至少人们的想法是这样的。但神经科学和心理学的新发现颠覆了这一假设。如果你的大脑不是被动地感知现实，而是主动地预测现实，会怎么样？ 广受赞誉的哲学家和认知科学家安迪·克拉克揭示了这一具有挑衅性的新理论，即大脑是一个强大的动态预测引擎，调节我们对身体和世界的体验。从平凡的经历到崇高的体验，我们所知道的现实是感官信息和期望的复杂综合。通过探索其迷人的机制以及对我们的生活、心理健康和社会的重大影响，克拉克巧妙地说明了预测性大脑如何塑造所有人类体验。慢性疼痛和精神疾病被证明与我们的潜意识预测的微妙故障有关，这为更有效、更有针对性的治疗指明了方向。在重新审视之下，我们与外部世界之间的界限消失了，表...(展开全部)