A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life. Astonishing technological advances like these are arriving in increasing numbers. Scholar and entrep...(展开全部)

A deep dive into the race to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphone—by a veteran insider of the automotive and tech worldsIn Autonomy, former GM executive and current advisor to the Google Self-Driving Car project Lawrence Burns offers a sweeping history of the race to make the ...(展开全部)

The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his son than cat and mouse with a murderer

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long...(展开全部)

Alex Davies tells the “illuminating and important narrative” (Steven Levy, author of Facebook: The Inside Story) of the quest to develop driverless cars—and the fierce competition between Google, Uber, and other companies in a race to revolutionize our lives. The self-driving car has been one of the most vaunted technological breakthroughs of recent years. But early promises th...(展开全部)

The five little monkeys and Mama are eager to get a new car. The five little monkeys clean and paint their old car until it sparkles like new. But who will buy it? Perhaps those clever monkeys can convince their cranky crocodile neighbors that what they really need is . . . yes, a car Children will love predicting how the five little monkeys will deal with each new challenge, ...(展开全部)

这是一个分心的时代。高速的互联网、各种手机应用程序、电子邮件、让人沉迷其中的游戏，无时无刻都在冲击着我们的大脑。不论你是领导者、商业人士或者是普通白领阶层，抑或是求学阶段的学生，突然之间，你会发现，在这个互联网时代，你已经很难专注于做一件重要的事了。 专注力是一种重要的心灵资产，对我们的人生起到指航引路的重大作用。但长期以来，鲜有人正式讨论这个课题，更是低估了它的作用。全球顶级的心理学大师丹尼尔•戈尔曼，追踪人类科学前沿研究20余年，致力为读者带来最新奇、最重要的发现。在《专注》一书中，他以其深耕多年的心理学研究功底，精确提炼出专注力的三种形式，即内在专注、对他人专注和外在专注。 内在专注：能帮助聆听到直觉和价值观的声音——就像史蒂夫•乔布斯所说的“内心的声音”，做出更明智的决策。 对他人专注：能帮助你捕捉到微妙的情绪信号，培育与他人更加和谐的关系，...(展开全部)

"What kind of person do I want my child to be?" There are hundreds of books that give parents advice on everything from weaning to toilet training, from discipline to nutrition. But in spite of this overwhelming amount of information, there is very little research-based advice for parents on how to raise their children to be well rounded and achieve their full potential, ...(展开全部)

A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book It is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained...(展开全部)