Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that this sense, which constitutes the main component of flavor, is far more powerful and essen...(展开全部)

杰里米·鲍伯戈（Jeremy J. Baumberg，生于1967年），剑桥大学纳米光子中心主任，卡文迪许实验室教授，英国皇家学会会员。因其在纳米光子领域所作的贡献，获杨氏奖（2013）、拉姆福德奖章（2014）、法拉第奖章（2017）。 --------------- 译者简介： 汪婕舒，美国亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）科技人文与社会项目博士研究生，工学硕士，乔治敦大学传播、文化与科技项目硕士，曾任专利审查员和科普编辑，译有多本畅销科普书。热爱科学技术，也关心科技如何为人类创造福祉。目前研究方向为人工智能（AI）的社会影响，以及AI如何帮助人类创新。

In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they...(展开全部)

Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed...(展开全部)

People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change. Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us, defeated slavery and secured equal rights for women and minorities. Without savvy and principled politicians and citizens willing...(展开全部)

伊桑·克罗斯（Ethan Kross），实验心理学家兼神经科学家，控制大脑意识的专家，密歇根大学罗斯商学院的获奖教授。2008年，他在密歇根大学创立了“情绪与自我控制实验室”，研究内省科学，探究人们的自我对话如何影响他们的健康、表现、决策和人际关系。他把自己的工作称为“大脑的修理工”，即使用心理学和其他学科－医学、哲学、生物学和计算机科学来解决情绪和思维产生的问题。 他曾参与美国白宫的政策讨论，其开创性的研究文章曾发表于《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《纽约客》《哈佛商业评论》《经济学人》《大西洋月刊》《福布斯》《时代》等。 目前他与妻子和两个女儿住在美国。

An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying, and more productive life. “This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life—the ones you have with yourself.”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take One of the best new books of t...(展开全部)

An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how we can harness it to live a healthier, more satisfying, and more productive life. “This book is going to fundamentally change some of the most important conversations in your life—the ones you have with yourself.”—Adam Grant, bestselling author of Give and Take One of the best new books of t...(展开全部)

Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence r...(展开全部)

Most of us believe that we are an independent, coherent self--an individual inside our head who thinks, watches, wonders, dreams, and makes plans for the future. This sense of our self may seem incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that it is not what it seems--it is all an illusion. In The Self Illusion, Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges du...(展开全部)