What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are....(展开全部)

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are....(展开全部)

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a beha...(展开全部)

Robert M. Sapolsky 羅伯．薩波斯基 羅伯．薩伯斯基是位神經生物學家（研究大腦的人）加上靈長類對物學家（研究猴子和猩猩的人），從小喜歡閱讀，花長時間閱讀和想像與銀背大猩猩一起生活的樣貌。他出生於紐約布魯克林，父親是來自蘇聯的猶太移民。 1978年，薩伯斯基在哈佛大學以優異成績獲得生物人類學學位，之後前往肯尼研究野外猩猩的社會行為。之後回到紐約並在洛克菲勒大學學習，獲得了博士學位。他目前是史丹福大學生物學暨神經學教授，麥克阿瑟基金會授予研究資助，也是好幾本書的作者。著有數本非虛構作品，包括《一隻靈長類動物的回憶錄》（A Primate’s Memoir）、《睪固酮的麻煩》（The Trouble with Testosteron）和《為什麼斑馬不會得胃潰瘍？》（Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers）。他與妻子、兩個孩子...(展开全部)

From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a beha...(展开全部)

Robert M. Sapolsky 羅伯．薩波斯基 羅伯．薩伯斯基是位神經生物學家（研究大腦的人）加上靈長類對物學家（研究猴子和猩猩的人），從小喜歡閱讀，花長時間閱讀和想像與銀背大猩猩一起生活的樣貌。他出生於紐約布魯克林，父親是來自蘇聯的猶太移民。 1978年，薩伯斯基在哈佛大學以優異成績獲得生物人類學學位，之後前往肯尼研究野外猩猩的社會行為。之後回到紐約並在洛克菲勒大學學習，獲得了博士學位。他目前是史丹福大學生物學暨神經學教授，麥克阿瑟基金會授予研究資助，也是好幾本書的作者。著有數本非虛構作品，包括《一隻靈長類動物的回憶錄》（A Primate’s Memoir）、《睪固酮的麻煩》（The Trouble with Testosteron）和《為什麼斑馬不會得胃潰瘍？》（Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers）。他與妻子、兩個孩子...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Two boys. Two balloons. Each boy thinks his balloon is best. What do you think?

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)