"Entertaining…[A] grand tour around modern cognitive science and psychology." —Wall Street Journal The brain is an absolute marvel—the seat of our consciousness, the pinnacle (so far) of evolutionary progress, and the engine of human experience. But it’s also messy, fallible, and about 50,000 years out of date. We cling to superstitions, remember faces but not names, miss thing...(展开全部)

◎ 作者简介 作者迪安·博内特（Dean Burnett）博士是一名神经科学家，供职于英国卡迪夫大学的心理医学和临床神经科学研究所。他还是一名单口喜剧演员，在《卫报》开设的科学博客——Brain Flapping（大脑夸夸其谈）——在过去的两年里已经收获了超过1,600万的阅读量，并且广受各界人士的赞誉。 ◎ 译者简介 译者朱机，神经生物学博士，科学松鼠会成员，上海科普作协会员。

◎ 作者简介 作者迪安·博内特（Dean Burnett）博士是一名神经科学家，供职于英国卡迪夫大学的心理医学和临床神经科学研究所。他还是一名单口喜剧演员，在《卫报》开设的科学博客——Brain Flapping（大脑夸夸其谈）——在过去的两年里已经收获了超过1,600万的阅读量，并且广受各界人士的赞誉。 ◎ 译者简介 译者朱机，神经生物学博士，科学松鼠会成员，上海科普作协会员。

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

Donald C. Gause 是纽约州立大学托马斯·沃森工程学院的系统科学教授。他主要从事复杂系统的设计和开发以及大型公司的改革。 Gerald M. Weinberg 是软件领域最著名的专家之一，美国计算机名人堂代表人物，Weinberg & Weinberg 顾问公司的负责人。他精力旺盛、思想活跃，从20世纪70年代开始，总共撰写了30多本书籍和数以百计的论文。在西方国家乃至全球，他拥有大量忠实的读者群，这些“追星族”阅读了温伯格的每本重要著作，甚至建设有专门的组织和网站，讨论和交流大师的重要思想。

“A fascinating introduction” (Steven Pinker) to the science of decision-making One of the leading thinkers in the computational neuroscience revolution offers a brilliant new perspective on the mind’s decision-making process. Why do we make the choices we make? How can science explain free will? If our brains are like slow computers originally programmed for survival with g...(展开全部)

人类大脑本应如此精妙绝伦、进化高度发达，却又如此混乱、易错且缺乏条理。在《傻傻的大脑》一书中，神经科学家迪恩·伯内特以独特的视角赞颂了人类大脑的种种缺陷，以及这些“怪癖”对我们日常生活的影响。本书研究精深，文笔生动有趣，适合所有曾疑惑大脑为何总是“破坏”自己生活、以及它究竟在做什么的人阅读。 For something supposedly so brilliant and evolutionarily advanced, the human brain is pretty messy, fallible and disorganised. In The Idiot Brain neuroscientist Dean Burnett celebrates the imperfections of the human brain in all thei...(展开全部)

The universal laws of business success . . . no matter whether you are selling fruit from a stand or running a Fortune 500 company. Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of the world's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sense where the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. And their companies make money consistently, year after year. How...(展开全部)

The universal laws of business success . . . no matter whether you are selling fruit from a stand or running a Fortune 500 company. Have you ever noticed that the business savvy of the world's best CEOs seems like a kind of street smarts? They sense where the opportunities are and how to take advantage of them. And their companies make money consistently, year after year. How...(展开全部)

At the heart of this astonishing novel is a true story of courage and endurance in the face of one of the most brutal civil wars the world has ever known. Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safet...(展开全部)