As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on ...(展开全部)

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madness—only to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal and explains its unforgettable lessons about the brain and mind. In January 2015, Barbara Lipska—a leading expert on ...(展开全部)

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain wer...(展开全部)

山姆•基恩：美国新锐科学作家，《纽约时报》《新科学家》专栏作家，著有畅销书《消失的汤匙》。2005年取得美国科学促进会院士，2009年获美国科学作家协会优秀青年作家奖励。

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities....(展开全部)

弗里茨·B.西蒙，医学博士，大学教授，主修医学和社会学，精神科医生及精神分析师，系统式家庭治疗师及组织顾问。海德堡系统式治疗研究所的创始人之一。撰写了约210篇专业论文以及21部专著，被翻译成10语言，其中主要有：《自我意识的形成过程》（1984），《家庭治疗的语言》（1984），《生活的系统》（1988），《造成差异的差异》（1988），《我的精神病、我的自行车和我》（1990），《“极端的”市场经济》（1992），《健康的另一面》（1995），《不学习的艺术》（1997），《循环提问》（1999），《致命的冲突》（2001），《家族企业的家庭》（2002），《我们一起犯傻!?》（2004），《数代的家族企业》（2005），《系统论及构成主义导论》（2006），《系统式组织论导论》（2007）。 于雪梅，德国柏林工业大学教育学博士及博士后，洪堡学者...(展开全部)

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-le...(展开全部)

The personal memoir of a manic depressive and an authority on the subject describes the onset of the illness during her teenage years and her determined journey through the realm of available treatments. Reprint. 125,000 first printing. NYT.

Damaged Goods is an original Doctor Who novel, released by Virgin Publishing in their New Adventures range of Doctor Who books. It is the second and to date last piece of full-length prose fiction to have been published by the television scriptwriter Russell T. Davies, who later became the chief writer and executive producer of the Doctor Who television series when it was reviv...(展开全部)

Traversing visible and invisible realms, A Time of Lost Gods attends to profound rereadings of politics, religion, and madness in the cosmic accounts of spirit mediumship. Drawing on research across a temple, a psychiatric unit, and the home altars of spirit mediums in a rural county of China’s Central Plain, it asks: What ghostly forms emerge after the death of Mao and the so-...(展开全部)