Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizeable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illnes...(展开全部)

The Seat of the Soul is about the birth of a new species -- and the explosion of human perception past the five senses. It is about the values of the soul -- harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is about authentic power -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. It is about nonphysical guides and Teachers. The Seat of the Soul is written for the...(展开全部)

*A New York Times Critics' Best Book of 2018* *An Economist Best Book of 2018* *A Spectator Best Book of 2018* *A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018* An unprecedented history of the personality test conceived a century ago by a mother and her daughter--fiction writers with no formal training in psychology--and how it insinuated itself into our boardrooms, classrooms, and beyond The...(展开全部)

Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into...(展开全部)

Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools -- chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms -- for analyzing complexity and complex systems.There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into...(展开全部)

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world’s most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s. The Soul of Brutes brings together four of Ginzburg’s recent scintillating essays and lectures that testify to the diversity of ...(展开全部)

作者/[美]海因茨•R.帕格尔斯（Heinz R.Pagels） 美国著名物理学家兼科学作家。曾任洛克菲勒大学副教授、纽约科学院执行董事兼执行长。除了科学家的身份，海因茨也积极参与公共事务，关心人权议题；曾任纽约大学人文科学研究所的评议委员，试图使科学与人文不再有隔阂。海因茨的天赋在于能用简单的表达解释艰涩概念。 著作包括《宇宙密码》（The Cosmic Code）、《完美对称》（Perfect Symmetry），皆获科学界一致赞赏。《大师说科学与哲学》则将科学讨论带往更高层次，除了预言复杂性科学对人类的影响，也讨论了分道扬镳的科学与哲学如何才能重新融合。 海因茨于1998年夏天，在前往阿斯本物理中心的路上遭遇山难，英年早逝，而其留世的《大师说科学与哲学》，仍继续影响着我们的思想，成为不朽之作。 译者/牟中原 出生于台湾基隆，台湾大学化学系毕业，...(展开全部)

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and E...(展开全部)