FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on ...(展开全部)

Thompson's ( The Paper Bag Prince ) haunting picture book is both serious and witty. The deceptively simple story opens with the death of the young narrator's grandfather, a raffish sailor. Responding to the death, Titanic the parrot says, "Hello, sailor," a contrary comment that sets up the narrator's contrarily successful search for mythical Atlantis. It is all around, Grandf...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

Joy, sorrow, jealousy and awe - these and other feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Presumed to be too private for science to explain and not be essential for comprehending human rationality and understanding, they have largely been ignored. But, not by the great seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. In this book, Dr Damasio draws on ...(展开全部)

Alec Soth‘s photobook 'Looking for Love, 1996', including his photo series of the same name, looks back to the time of the beginning, the time when everything is still open and exciting, when everything gently falls into place. It‘s the phase of the beginning, that forms the basis not only of a new love, but also of each new photographic project. It‘s a book about searching, ab...(展开全部)

爱德华·O.索普（Edward O. Thorp） 加州大学尔湾分校数学系教授。之前，他是新墨西哥州立大学的数学系副教授；1959~1961年，他是麻省理工学院的C.L.E摩尔教师。1958年索普在加州大学洛杉矶分校获得数学博士学位，他的一个主要研究领域是概率－博弈理论。他是美国数学协会和爱丁堡数学协会会员。 除了数学教授的身份以外，1969年，索普与合伙人成立了可转换对冲基金，这是史上第一家量化对冲基金。应用可转债套利策略，索普在股票市场所向披靡。从1970年开始，基金连续十几年获得两位数的回报。20世纪80年代，索普又成立了专门采用统计套利策略的基金，也大获成功。1985年11月，标准普尔指数下跌20%，索普的基金增长为12%。1987年10月华尔街崩盘，而索普基金1987年总盈利高达27%。 1992年爱德华·索普开始淡出市场，但他开创了一个时...(展开全部)

罗伯特·L·莱希博士，世界备受尊敬的认知心理学家，在认知心理治疗领域享有国际盛誉的先锋作家和发言人。现任纽约美国认知治疗研究所(AICT)主任、国际认知心理治疗协会主席、美国行为和认知疗法协会会长、美国认知治疗学院主任。出版作品15部，其中包括全美畅销书《治疗焦虑》。曾被包括《纽约时报》、《福布斯》、《财富》、《商业周刊》、《今日心理学》、《华盛顿邮报》、《妇女健康》，《悦己》和《今日美国》在内的国家媒体专题报道。

In the seventeenth century, the philosopher Spinoza examined the role emotion played in human survival and culture. Yet hundreds of years and many significant scientific advances later, the neurobiological roots of joy and sorrow remain a mystery. Today, we spend countless resources doctoring our feelings with alcohol, prescription drugs, health clubs, therapy, vacation retreat...(展开全部)

Completing the trilogy that began with Descartes' Error and continued with The Feeling of What Happens, noted neuroscientist Antonio Damasio now focuses the full force of his research and wisdom on emotions. He shows how joy and sorrow are cornerstones of our survival. As he investigates the cerebral mechanisms behind emotions and feelings, Damasio argues that the internal regu...(展开全部)