Minds, Brains, Computers serves as both an historical and interdisciplinary introduction to the foundations of cognitive science.

菲利普·罗斯（Philip Roth，1933-2018） 美国代表性作家。 1960年、1996年，罗斯分别凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》和《萨巴斯剧院》两度将美国国家图书奖揽入囊中。1997年，罗斯凭借《美国牧歌》摘得普利策文学奖。1998年，罗斯在白宫受颁美国国家艺术勋章。2002年，他又获得美国艺术文学院颁发的最高荣誉——虚构类作品金奖，该奖的往届获奖者有约翰•多斯•帕索斯、威廉•福克纳、索尔•贝娄等著名作家。罗斯的《反美阴谋》被誉为“2003-2004年度以美国为主题的优秀历史小说”，这部小说于2005年荣获美国历史学家协会奖和W.H.史密斯文学奖年度最佳图书。罗斯也因此成为W.H.史密斯文学奖设立四十六年以来首位两度获奖的作家。此外，他还获得美国书评人协会奖两次，笔会/福克纳奖三次。 2005年，罗斯成为第三位由美国文库为其出版权威版作品全集...(展开全部)

The story of human evolution has fascinated us like no other: we seem to have an insatiable curiosity about who we are and where we have come from. Yet studying the "stones and bones" skirts around what is perhaps the realest, and most relatable, story of human evolution - the social and cognitive changes that gave rise to modern humans. In Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behav...(展开全部)

苏珊•菲斯克(Susan T. Fiske) 1978年获哈佛大学社会心理学博士学位，现为美国普林斯顿大学“尤金•希金斯”心理学教授、心理学与公共事务教授，美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。曾当选心理科学协会（APS）主席、人格与社会心理学会（SPSP）主席、行为与脑科学联合会主席。现为《心理学年鉴》（Annual Review of Psychology）的主编以及国际顶级期刊《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）的编委。 荣获美国心理学协会（APA）的心理学杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理科学协会的威廉•詹姆士奖、社会与人格心理学会的唐纳德•坎贝尔奖以及古根海姆学者奖等众多重量级奖项。 谢利•泰勒(Shelley E. Taylor) 1972年获耶鲁大学社会心理学博士学位，曾先后在耶鲁大学和哈佛大学任教，现为美国加州大学洛杉矶分校心理学杰出教授，美国国...(展开全部)

For 50 years, the world's most brilliant neuroscientists have struggled to understand how human brains really work. Today, says Dale Purves, the dominant research agenda may have taken us as far as it can--and neuroscientists may be approaching a paradigm shift. In this highly personal book, Purves reveals how we got to this point and offers his notion of where neuroscience may...(展开全部)

A trailblazing philosopher’s exploration of the latest brain science—and its ethical and practical implications. What happens when we accept that everything we feel and think stems not from an immaterial spirit but from electrical and chemical activity in our brains? In this thought-provoking narrative—drawn from professional expertise as well as personal life experiences—trail...(展开全部)

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses maplike structures to build a model of the world-not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows Hawkins to answer important qu...(展开全部)

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions fr...(展开全部)

What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern ...(展开全部)

西蒙·詹姆斯（Simon James ），英国知名图画书作家。大学主修平面设计，做过14 份不同的工作，包括警察、农夫，以及美术老师等。詹姆斯的插画，线条自由轻巧，用色朴拙淡雅。明朗的水彩搭配余味十足的故事，散发出柔美耀眼的光芒。善于将人与人之间或是人与自然环境的互动关系融入儿童故事中。代表作包括《赏鸟人》、 dear greenpeace，以及 leon and bob。而这本《小步走路》内容虽然平实，但意涵丰厚，相信可以激发孩子的自信心与勇气。