From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovering addict, a rare page-turning work of science that draws on personal insights to reveal how drugs work, the dangerous hold they can take on the brain, and the surprising way to combat today's epidemic of addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might ha...(展开全部)

Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and...(展开全部)

For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of...(展开全部)

A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The ...(展开全部)

Never Leave Well Enough Alone was first published in 1951 at the height of Loewy's career. His company, Raymond Loewy Associates, served as design consultants to more than a hundred of the world's largest corporations, and products manufactured to their specifications sold in excess of $3 billion annually. Written and designed by Loewy, this profusely illustrated book is part a...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

段义孚是一位当代华裔地理学家，他的人本主义地理学思想在西方地理学界，以及与西方关系密切的其他地方的地理学界，产生了重大影响。他将人的种种主观情性与客观地理环境的丰富关系进行了极具智慧的阐发，吸引了众多学者的目光。自20世纪70年代以来，Yi-Fu Tuan(他的英文名字)一名，蜚声于世界人文地理论坛。

In the 25 years since its original publication, Space and Place has not only established the discipline of human geography, but it has proven influential in such diverse fields as theater, literature, anthropology, psychology, and theology. Eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan considers the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhoo...(展开全部)

吉奥乔·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）（1942～）意大利著名政治哲学家、思想家；任欧洲研究生院（EGS）巴鲁赫·德·斯宾诺莎教授、意大利维罗拉大学美学教授、巴黎国际哲学学院哲学教授，并在德国杜塞尔多夫市海涅大学以及美国多所大学任客座教授，包括加州大学伯克利分校、圣克鲁斯分校、西北大学等。重要著作有《未来共同体》（The Coming community，1993年）《牲人：主权与赤裸生命》（Homo Sacer：Sovereign Power and Bare Life，1998年）、《例外状态》（State of Exception，2005年）等。阿甘本在欧陆哲学传统和人文历史语境中，在对未来共同体的想象性建构中，展开生命、政治、文学、艺术和宗教领域的全面探讨。玄妙深奥的语言风格、融会贯通的思想体系、切实深刻的现世关注，使他成为当今最...(展开全部)

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what it means to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience ma...(展开全部)