Helen Fisher's courageous investigations of romantic love -- its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its vital importance to human society -- are informing and transforming the way we understand ourselves. Fisher describes love as a universal human drive (stronger than the sex drive; stronger than thirst or hunger; stronger perhaps than the will to live), and her many ar...(展开全部)

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Scientific American to The New...(展开全部)

唐纳德·A·诺曼，一位享誉全球的认知心理学家。他不仅是美国西北大学计算机科学、心理学和认识知科的教授，加利福尼亚大学圣地哥分校的名誉教授，同时还是尼尔森·诺曼集团的联合创办人和灵魂人物，苹果公司先进技术组的副总裁和一家远程教育公司的管理者。他所阐明的以人为本的设坟原则已深入人心，他所写的《设计心理学》已成了设计人员的必备经典。

From Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture, and physiology. We envision them in diverse and contradictory ways, from purple friends to toothy terror...(展开全部)

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works. Debunking the great myths of the body, and systematically explaining why dieting is cou...(展开全部)

Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to...(展开全部)

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

Fascinating science blends with engaging prose in this highly entertaining exploration of how memory works-- and how to make it work better. In this extraordinary book, scientist Rebecca Rupp explains how and why memory works the way it does. What are the chemical processes that occur in the brain when we remember--and how do they account for the "absentminded" or "steel trap"...(展开全部)