[美] 约翰•瑞迪（John Ratey） ★哈佛大学医学院临床副教授，临床精神病医生、跨学科研究专家、畅销书作者，国际公认的神经精神医学领域专家。1997年荣获美国最佳医生。 ★发表超过60篇学术权威文章，8本书，被翻译成14种语言。与美国知名心理学医生爱德华•哈洛韦尔合著《分心不是我的错》一书，自1994年出版，该书始终被称为ADD-ADHD领域不可逾越的经典，直到今天仍是世界级别的畅销书籍。 1. 揭开运动与大脑秘密的人 运动、大脑、心理健康，这三个关键词几乎可以勾勒瑞迪教授的人生速描。20世纪70年代，约翰•瑞迪曾经居住在马拉松运动最为风靡的城市——波士顿，在这里，几乎人人都在跑步；在全民崇拜马拉松英雄Bill Roger的时代，实习医生瑞迪却遇见了另外一群特殊的人：因为受伤而被迫停止长跑的人。 "他们在停跑后，常常出现ADHD的特征：抑郁、...(展开全部)

乔治·萨顿(George Sarton，1884～1956)，出生于比利时，但是在美国成就了他的事业。正是在他手中，科学史最终成为一门正式学科。1913年他创办了著名科学史杂Isis，并担任主编长达40年。1940年他被任命为哈佛大学的科学史教授。人们认为他创造了科学史这门学科的“工具、标准以及批判的自觉性”，故誉之为“科学史之父”。萨顿生前出版了15部专著，发表了340多篇论文和札记，编辑了79份详尽的科学史重要研究文献目录。这些都是他留给后人的珍贵遗产。

The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research. Every day, we hear of relationships failing and questions of whether humans are meant to be monogamous. LOVE SENSE presents new scientific evidence that tells us that humans are meant to mate for life. Dr. Johnson explains that romantic love...(展开全部)

From Scientific American The notion that the brain and central nervous system are made of circuits that process stimuli and evoke bodily responses is a founding principle of neuroscience. And we humans believe that once we understand every neural pathway, we will be able to predict a motor response to every sensory input—from feeling the tug of a fish on a hook to catching your...(展开全部)

In this provocative book, Paul Glimcher argues that economic theory may provide an alternative to the classical Cartesian model of the brain and behavior. Glimcher argues that Cartesian dualism operates from the false premise that the reflex is able to describe behavior in the real world that animals inhabit. A mathematically rich cognitive theory, he claims, could solve the mo...(展开全部)

Anyone who reads is bound to wonder, at least occasionally, about how those funny squiggles on a page magically turn into "Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang" or "After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain." Where did this unlikely skill called reading come from? What happens in our brain when our eyes scan a line of...(展开全部)

“Wolf restores our awe of the human brain—its adaptability, its creativity, and its ability to connect with other minds through a procession of silly squiggles.” — San Francisco Chronicle How do people learn to read and write—and how has the development of these skills transformed the brain and the world itself ? Neuropsychologist and child development expert Maryann Wolf answe...(展开全部)

"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work." -Oliver Sacks, M.D. The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that we forget what an astounding feat it is. How can a few black marks on white paper evoke an entire universe of meanings? It's even more amazing when we consider that we read u...(展开全部)

In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)