A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible. It's tempting to think that science gives us a God's-eye view of reality. But we neglect the place of human experience at our peril. In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson call ...(展开全部)

Each of Pettrey's Novels Has Been a Multi-Month BestsellerFBI agent Declan Grey is in the chase of his life--but isn't sure exactly what he's chasing after. Threatened by a terrorist that "the wr

A "best of" collection of creepy tales from Eisner award winner and legendary horror master Junji Ito. This ultimate collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring an adaptation of Rampo Edogawa’s classic horror story "Human Chair" and fan favorite "The Enigma of Amigara Fault." In a deluxe presentation with special color pages and color il...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

瓦雷拉(F．J．Varela) 瓦雷拉1946年生于智利，2001年5月2819病逝于巴黎。瓦雷拉是一名生物学家、认知科学家、哲学家和佛教静心修行者。他曾任巴黎法国国家科学研究中心的研究主任、巴黎综合理工大学的认知科学和认识论教授。瓦雷拉一生的主要著作包括Principles of Biological Autonomy(1979)、Autopoiesis and Cognition：The Realization of the Living(1980)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Tree of Knowledge (1987)(与马特拉纳合著)、The Embodied Mind：Cognitive Science and Human Experience(1991)(与汤普森和罗施合著)等。瓦雷拉是认知科学中生成认知研究纲领的主要倡导者...(展开全部)

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors - argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditativ...(展开全部)

A renowned psychologist unravels the universal from the individual in human development to answer the question: what are we born with and what do we learn? In 1984, Basic published Harvard developmental psychologist Jerome Kagan's The Nature of the Child, a book that challenged many of psychology's most deeply held assumptions about human development-arguing, for example, that ...(展开全部)

Do you feel like you’re the only person at your office without an "I Voted!" sticker on Election Day? It turns out that you're far from alone – 100 million eligible U.S. voters never went to the polls in 2016. That’s about 35 million more than voted for the winning presidential candidate. In this book, Christopher Freiman explains why these 100 million need not feel guilty. Why...(展开全部)

While Charles Darwin's vision of evolution was brilliant, natural selection ignores a crucial force that helps to explain the diversity and wonder of life: symbiosis. In Darwin's Blind Spot, Frank Ryan shows how the blending of life forms through symbiosis has resulted in gigantic leaps in evolution. The dependence of many flowering plants on insects and birds for pollination i...(展开全部)