罗彼得·C.惠布罗（Peter C. Whybrow） 出生于英格兰，英国著名精神科医生，皇家精神病学院的创始成员和研究员，英国医学研究委员会科学工作者。曾任教于达特茅斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚大学，目前担任加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学与人类行为研究院主任，David Geffen医学院精神病及行为科学系主任，美国精神病协会会员，美国前沿科学协会会员，主要研究兴趣在于精神病学和神经科学对人类行为的影响。著有畅销书《美国狂热》（American Mania: When More Is Not Enough），该书获得2006年美国精神分析发展协会授予的Gradiva奖。

Book Description Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions. It was banned for obscenity in 1928....(展开全部)

An exploration of the nature of our mind, from the inside out, by a leading neurobiologist. Over the last twenty years, there has been growing attention in the Western world to mindfulness—paying attention to life in the present moment. Here, Daniel J. Siegel investigates the phenomenon of mindfulness as it impacts our daily lives, offering readers insight into personal r...(展开全部)

HIGHLIGHT The perfect introduction to Ruby, completely updated for Ruby 1.9. DESCRIPTION The Well-Grounded Rubyist takes the reader from interested novice to proficient practitioner. It's a beautifully written tutorial that begins with the basic steps to get the reader's first Ruby program up and running and goes on to explore sophisticated topics like callable objects, r...(展开全部)

From medieval manuscript to Japanese prints, from Steinlen's splendid drawings to 17th century prints, the author introduces the reader to the hundreds of books and manuscripts (belonging to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris) in which the lovely feline is represented. The cat has been the main character of many tales, but also the inhabitant of the most diverse book...(展开全部)

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Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design ...(展开全部)

In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks: UL LIHow do we "read" other people? LI LIWhat is the neurochemistry behind love and sex? LI LIWha...(展开全部)

For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of...(展开全部)