2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Citi...(展开全部)

乔纳森·罗斯（JONATHAN F. P. ROSE），耶鲁大学心理学与哲学学士、宾夕法尼亚大学环境与区域规划硕士，美国建筑师协会荣誉院士。1989年创立了以自己名字命名的不动产开发公司，并长期担任白宫城市事务办公室顾问。著作《什么造就了城市》荣获2017年美国专业与学术杰出出版奖。

David Hume (1711–1776) is perhaps best known for his ideas about cause and effect and his criticisms of religion, but he is rarely thought of as a philosopher with practical wisdom to offer. Yet Hume’s philosophy is grounded in an honest assessment of nature—human nature in particular. The Great Guide is an engaging and eye-opening account of how Hume’s thought should serve as ...(展开全部)

In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress. It was a syndrome identical to a human condition but one that veterinarians c...(展开全部)

Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in b...(展开全部)

迈克尔•普鸣（Michael Puett）：哈佛大学东亚语言与文化系中国历史方向教授、宗教研究委员会主席。他为本科生开设的中国伦理与政治课是哈佛大学最受欢迎的课程之一。他因在本科生教育中的出色表现获得哈佛大学教授职位。 克里斯蒂娜•格罗斯-洛（Christine Gross-Loh）：作家和自由撰稿人，哈佛大学东亚历史专业博士，其作品见于包括《华尔街日报》《大西洋月刊》《赫芬顿邮报》在内的众多出版物。

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—perfect nutritional harmony. From wild baboons to gooey slime molds, most every living organism instinctually knows how to balance their diets, except modern-day humans. When and why did we lose this ability, and how ...(展开全部)

In AD 70, after a war which had flared sporadically for 4 years, 3 Roman legions under the future Emperors Vespasian and his son Titus, surrounded, laid siege to, and eventually devastated the city of Jerusalem, destroying completely the magnificent Temple which had been built by Herod only 80 years earlier. What brought about this extraordinary conflict, with its extraordinary...(展开全部)

One of the world's leading neuroscientists explores how best to understand the human condition by examining the biological, psychological, and highly social nature of our species within the social context of our lives. What happened along the evolutionary trail that made humans so unique? In his widely accessible style, Michael Gazzaniga looks to a broad range of studies to pin...(展开全部)

"X and the City", a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in a city of a given size? How can mathematics be used to maximize traffic flow through tunnels? Can you predict wh...(展开全部)