What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person’s head—to know what they’re thinking and feeling? “Mind reading” is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn’t understand what in the brain makes it possible. This ...(展开全部)

"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read u...(展开全部)

Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and t...(展开全部)

The thought of sex with a virgin is intensely arousing for many men. The average American spends more than four hours a day watching television. Abstract art can sell for millions of dollars. People slow their cars to look at gory accidents, and go to movies that make them cry. Pleasure is anything but straightforward. Our desires, attractions, and tastes take us beyond the sym...(展开全部)

蒙蒂·莱曼（Monty Lyman） 蒙蒂·莱曼博士是医生、作家以及牛津大学的研究人员。他的第一本书《皮肤的非凡生命》入围了2019年英国皇家学会科学图书奖，并被英国广播公司广播四台和《星期日泰晤士报》评为年度图书。他在英国全国性会议上发表过许多演讲，并获得了多项论文奖，包括2020年皇家医学会疼痛论文奖。现居于英国牛津。

约翰·哈蒂（John Hattie） 澳大利亚墨尔本大学墨尔本教育研究所教授兼所长，学习科学研究中心副主任。《可见的学习》和《可见的学习（教师版）》作者，《学生学业成就国际指南》（International Guide to Student Achievement）主编之一。 格雷戈里·C.R.耶茨（Gregory C. R. Yates） 南澳大学教育学院的高级讲师。《教育心理学》（Educational Psychology）杂志编委，发表了大量有关认知信息加工和社会学习理论的论文。

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows readers to discover...(展开全部)

The past few years have seen a revolution in our ability to map whole genome DNA from ancient humans. With the ancient DNA revolution, combined with rapid genome mapping of present human populations, has come remarkable insights into our past. This important new data has clarified and added to our knowledge from archaeology and anthropology, helped resolve long-existing controv...(展开全部)

大卫·赖克 ● 古人类DNA领域的世界级领跑者。哈佛医学院遗传学系教授、霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员。 ● 2015年，因为率先通过大规模测序和分析远古人类的基因组数据来揭示人类历史，被《自然》杂志评为“年度十大人物”之一。 ●荣获百万美元的“丹·大卫奖”、美国科学促进 会的“纽科姆·克利夫兰奖”、美国国家科学院的“分子生物学奖”等多项殊荣。 译者简介 叶凯雄 佐治亚大学遗传学系助理教授，研究方向为营养基因组学和人类进化生物学。之前参与审校了《我们为什么会生病》。 胡正飞 资深译者。译作有《动物武器》《哪些科学观点必须去死》等。