"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson "An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan The knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of childhood must be when each of us fir...(展开全部)

Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. In this book, the first of its kind written by a scientific expert,...(展开全部)

蒙蒂·莱曼（Monty Lyman） 蒙蒂·莱曼博士是医生、作家以及牛津大学的研究人员。他的第一本书《皮肤的非凡生命》入围了2019年英国皇家学会科学图书奖，并被英国广播公司广播四台和《星期日泰晤士报》评为年度图书。他在英国全国性会议上发表过许多演讲，并获得了多项论文奖，包括2020年皇家医学会疼痛论文奖。现居于英国牛津。

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence “Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation is not causation." This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pe...(展开全部)

朱迪亚·珀尓（Judea Pearl） 现加州大学洛杉矶分校计算机科学教授，“贝叶斯网络”之父，2011年因创立因果推理演算法获得图灵奖，同时也是美国国家科学院院士，IEEE 智能系统名人堂第一批10位入选者之一。目前已出版3本关于因果关系科学的经典著作，分别为《启发法》(1984)、《智能系统中的概率推理》(1988) 和《因果论：模型、论证、推理》(2009)。他还获得过多项顶级科学荣誉，包括认知科学领域的鲁梅哈特奖、物理学及技术领域的富兰克林奖章以及科学哲学领域的拉卡托斯奖。 达纳·麦肯齐（Dana Mackenzie） 普林斯顿大学数学博士，自由科学记者，知名科普作家，著有《无言的宇宙》等作品，其学术论文多次收录于《科学》《新科学家》《科学美国》《探索》等重量级期刊。

Nesse and Williams have written a lively discourse on the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the dilemmas of modern medicine. Nesse, a physician and an associate professor of psychiatry, and Williams, a professor of ecology and evolution, provide a primer on Darwin's theory of natural selection. They explain that the functional design of organisms-e.g., ou...(展开全部)

Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny—and why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what’s happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically thin...(展开全部)

Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture. Why We Buy is based on hard data gleaned from thousands of hours of field research -- in ...(展开全部)