凯利·麦格尼格尔教授（Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.）是斯坦福大学备受赞誉的心理学家，也是医学健康促进项目的健康教育家。她为专业人士和普通大众开设的心理学课程，包括“意志力科学”（The Science of Willpower）和“在压力下好好生活”（Living Well with Stress），都是斯坦福大学继续教育学院历史上最受欢迎的课程。她还为《今日心理学》（Psychology Today）杂志网站开设了“意志力科学”博客。她目前居住在加利福尼亚州的帕洛阿尔托市。

Based on their workshops and counseling experience, psychologists Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen offer a probing, sensitive, and at times humorous look at a problem that affects everyone: students and scientists, secretaries and executives, homemakers and salespeople. Procrastination identifies the reasons we put off tasks—fears of failure, success, control, separation, and a...(展开全部)

杰里米·鲍伯戈（Jeremy J. Baumberg，生于1967年），剑桥大学纳米光子中心主任，卡文迪许实验室教授，英国皇家学会会员。因其在纳米光子领域所作的贡献，获杨氏奖（2013）、拉姆福德奖章（2014）、法拉第奖章（2017）。 --------------- 译者简介： 汪婕舒，美国亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）科技人文与社会项目博士研究生，工学硕士，乔治敦大学传播、文化与科技项目硕士，曾任专利审查员和科普编辑，译有多本畅销科普书。热爱科学技术，也关心科技如何为人类创造福祉。目前研究方向为人工智能（AI）的社会影响，以及AI如何帮助人类创新。

Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, and illusions. But cognitive scientist and rational optimist Steven Pinker argues that this cannot be the whole picture. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we're so smart: how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed...(展开全部)

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates— not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough re...(展开全部)

Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has...(展开全部)

In this compelling dialogue, two of the world’s most influential thinkers reflect on the value of equality and debate what citizens and governments should do to narrow the gaps that separate us. Ranging across economics, philosophy, history, and current affairs, Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel consider how far we have come in achieving greater equality. At the same time, they...(展开全部)

理查德·V. 里夫斯，布鲁金斯学会高级研究员。评论文章常见于《纽约时报》《卫报》《国家事务》《大西洋月刊》《华尔街日报》等重要媒体，在英国和美国的社会公共政策领域具有广泛影响力。著有《约翰·斯图尔特·密尔:维多利亚时代的激进分子》《梦想囤积者：美国中产阶级上层导致社会不平等的根源与出路》《拯救霍雷肖·阿尔杰：平等、机会与美国梦》。2017年，被《政客》杂志评选为美国五十位顶级思想家之一。

Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding–and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational–cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and i...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite book of al...(展开全部)