在线阅读本书 When Bobby Jones goes to retrieve his wayward golf ball at the bottom of a cliff, he little expects that he will find a dying man there. With his last breath the man gasps, “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” Looking for a handkerchief in the man’s pocket Bobby pulls out a photograph of an attractive young woman. Intrigued by the question and the photograph Bobby and his v...(展开全部)

Curious about how billions of neurons make up your consciousness? How anxiety hijacks your body? Why Freud was such a weirdo? Whether AI will replace your therapist? This witty, enlightening book, written by a brilliant neuroscientist and clinical therapist duo, uncovers the stunningly-intricate universe of the human brain in fun, awe-inspiring detail. Neuroscientist Alie Caldw...(展开全部)

Walker Evans, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalog to its current major retrospective, is a rock-solid work providing biographical, historical, and visual accounts of the artist's life and work. Hambourg, an assistant curator in the museum's Department of Photography, edited this big book with the straightforward approach that Evans employed in his art. Careful reproduction...(展开全部)

"Middle management" is a term associated with relentless downsizing, corporate drudgery, and career dead-ends. Bashed by management gurus, dismissed by social scientists, and painted as victims by the media, middle managers seem permanently relegated to the sidelines of corporate power. But is this popular picture accurate? Are middle managers really no longer valued by today...(展开全部)

From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a political rumor, we say it went viral. But how does virality actually work? In The Rules of Contagion, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explores topics including gun violence, online manipul...(展开全部)

'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy "The Secret Life of Trees". I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' - "The Times", Books of the Year. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a fore...(展开全部)

亚当·库哈尔斯基（Adam Kucharski），伦敦卫生与热带医学院传染病流行病学系副教授，致力于使用数学模型研究传染病和社会行为的传播。 他曾参与过对西非埃博拉病毒、南美寨卡病毒等疫情的流行病学研究，研究结果被BBC、《华盛顿邮报》等世界著名媒体广泛报道。在2020年的新型冠状病毒疫情期间，库哈尔斯基的团队是全球流行病学领域最活跃的研究团队之一，目前已在《柳叶刀》《自然–医学》等世界顶级医学期刊发表多篇论文。此外，他还为英国政府制定疫情防控政策提供专家建议。 除了从事科学研究外，库哈尔斯基还积极参与科学传播，在《金融时报》《卫报》《科学美国人》《新科学家》等媒体发表了大量文章，介绍模型方法在各个领域的应用，题材涉及博弈论、人工智能以及社交媒体上的信息传播等。他还是TED的资深演讲者，并获得过惠康基金会“科学写作奖”和英国科学协会“罗莎琳德·富兰克...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 An insider's guide to finding the right person for the right job every time Great People Decisions is an expert's guide to helping managers and human resources professionals improve their competence and success at finding, assessing, attracting, and integrating great people, whether through external hiring or internal promotion. Anyone can fill a position; the real...(展开全部)

Stop Holding Yourself Back—It’s Time to Go Ask! The strongest relationships, top sales groups, and most successful organizations have one thing in common: people who have the courage to ask outrageously. This doesn’t mean being obnoxious or taking advantage of people.