For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Re...(展开全部)

For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too. The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of infants and young children. Scientists used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Re...(展开全部)

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, ...(展开全部)

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·彭尼贝克 (James W. Pennebaker) 得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校心理学系主任。主要研究领域有：身体症状的心理学，表达性书写的力量如何帮助人们应对生活中的剧变，最近则是人们在日常生活中使用的词汇如何透露了他们的人格和心理状态。 他著有《书写的疗愈力量》《语言风格的秘密：语言如何透露人们的情感、性格和社会关系》等多部著作，已被翻译为多国语言。

詹姆斯·彭尼贝克 (James W. Pennebaker) 得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校心理学系主任。主要研究领域有：身体症状的心理学，表达性书写的力量如何帮助人们应对生活中的剧变，最近则是人们在日常生活中使用的词汇如何透露了他们的人格和心理状态。 他著有《书写的疗愈力量》《语言风格的秘密：语言如何透露人们的情感、性格和社会关系》等多部著作，已被翻译为多国语言。

our cells are talking about you. Right now, both your inner and outer worlds are abuzz with chatter among living cells of every possible kind—from those in your body and brain to those in the environment around you. From electrical alerts to chemical codes, the greatest secret of modern biology, hiding in plain sight, is that all of life's activity boils down to one thing: conv...(展开全部)

哈里•G. 法兰克福（Harry G. Frankfurt）是最近三十多年来英语世界最有影响的哲学家之一，普林斯顿大学哲学系退休教授。他的主要研究领域包括道德哲学、心智与行动哲学以及17世纪理性主义特别是笛卡尔哲学。凭借On Bullshit（《论扯淡》，中译本，2008），法兰克福成为亚马逊十大畅销作家之一。其著作还包括On Truth(2006), Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right(2006), The Reasons of Love(2004), Necessity, Volition, and Love(1999), The Importance of What We Care about(1988, 2005), Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, The...(展开全部)

This volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the nature of action, the constitution of the self, and the theory of personal ideals. By focusing on the distinctive nature of human fr...(展开全部)