Thonik’s founders Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven decided to celebrate 25 years of existence with a book. But in stead of making a fairly obvious retrospect they aimed for something more substantial – true to form. Why We Design is an exploration of the eleven personal reasons why Nikki and Thomas do what they do, set against a quarter of a decade in which not only the ...(展开全部)

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Scientific American to The New...(展开全部)

Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown that attractive things really do work better, as Donald Norman amply demonstrates in this fascinating book, which has garnered acclaim everywhere from Scientific American to The New...(展开全部)

唐纳德·A·诺曼，一位享誉全球的认知心理学家。他不仅是美国西北大学计算机科学、心理学和认识知科的教授，加利福尼亚大学圣地哥分校的名誉教授，同时还是尼尔森·诺曼集团的联合创办人和灵魂人物，苹果公司先进技术组的副总裁和一家远程教育公司的管理者。他所阐明的以人为本的设坟原则已深入人心，他所写的《设计心理学》已成了设计人员的必备经典。

Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to...(展开全部)

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works. Debunking the great myths of the body, and systematically explaining why dieting is cou...(展开全部)

Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to...(展开全部)

"In the post-9/11 struggle for a sane global vision, this antihatred manifesto could not be more timely."--O: The Oprah Magazine~In this acclaimed volume, Pulitzer-Prize nominated science writer Rush

罗恩·穆尔，英国建筑评论家，毕业于剑桥大学，曾短暂从事建筑业，后转投新闻界，担任建筑杂志《蓝图》（Blueprint）的编辑，同时为《旗帜晚报》、《卫报》、《观察家报》等媒体撰稿，并于2002—2008年期间担任英国建筑基金会主任。

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires; hope, power, money, sex, the idea of home. In Why We Build Rowan Moore explores the making of buildings from conception to inhabitation and reveals the paradoxical power of architecture: it looks fixed and solid, but is always changing in response to the lives around it. Moving across the globe and through history, through wor...(展开全部)