Why is math so hard? And why, despite this difficulty, are some people so good at it? If there’s some inborn capacity for mathematical thinkingwhich there must be, otherwise no one could do it why can’t we all do it well? Keith Devlin has answers to all these difficult questions, and in giving them shows us how mathematical ability evolved, why it’s a part of language ability, ...(展开全部)

Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a higher level of math competency, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked ...(展开全部)

For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski...(展开全部)

[美] 亚当•库哈尔斯基（Adam Kucharski） 科学家、科普作家。他出生于1986年，毕业于英国顶尖研究型大学华威大学，并在剑桥大学获得博士学位。他发表的论文课题广泛，从统计学到社会行为都有涉猎。他也是一位出色的科普作家，曾获得“威康信托基金会科学写作奖”，并持续为新锐科普杂志《鹦鹉螺》，知名媒体《BBC聚焦》《连线》，以及老牌科学期刊《科学美国人》等媒体撰稿。现居英国伦敦。

Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate Guide to How They Lived taps into our enduring interest in dinosaurs, shedding new light...(展开全部)

'It's the animal in us', we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? "Primates and Philosophers" tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, primatologist Frans de Waal argues that modern-day evolutionary biology takes far too dim a view of the natural world, empha...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Celebrated primatologist de Waal expands on his earlier work in Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals to argue that human traits of fairness, reciprocity and altruism develop through natural selection. Based on his 2004 Tanner Lectures at Princeton, this book argues that our morality grows out of the social instincts we ...(展开全部)

弗朗斯·德瓦尔是荷兰著名的心理学家、动物学家和生态学家，美国艾默里大学灵长类动物行为学教授。 1993年，他当选为荷兰皇家艺术与科学院院士，之后，又相继人选美国国家科学院院士及美国艺术与科学院院士。2007年他被美国《时代》周刊选为当今世界具有巨大影响的百位世界文化名人，以及目前在世的全球最伟大的十几个科学家之一。他的主要著作还有：《类人猿与寿司大师》、《灵长类动物如何谋求和平》以及《人类的猿性》等。

[英]尼基·海斯 尼基·海斯博士，心理学作家、顾问和教育家，英国心理学会会员，特许心理学家。曾在布拉德福德大学、利兹大学和哈德斯菲尔德大学讲授心理学，善于将心理学理论灵活应用于日常生活，著有20多本畅销书及教材。

How Humans Evolved has long been the #1 text for helping students understand the most exciting research in biological anthropology. In the Ninth Edition, new contributing author Kevin Langergraber makes the discipline’s newest frontier—ancient and contemporary DNA research—accessible and relevant to students. Further new coverage of important recent fossil discoveries, modern h...(展开全部)