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)

当今，已经没有什么事儿会比吃什么喝什么还让美国人焦虑的问题了。鸡蛋是最好的蛋白质吗，或者是胆固醇炸弹吗？红酒对我的心脏有益还是对我的肝脏有害？农药、添加剂和食物生产过程会杀死我吗？在这里，食物历史学家哈维·莱文斯坦(Harvey Levenstein) 给出了很少见和受欢迎的建议：不必担心！ 在本书中，莱文斯坦揭露了产生和利用这些忧虑的人和利益方如何导致相当一部分美国人在陈述自己选择食品时的恐惧已经压倒了快乐。他讲述了一些卓越科学家曾警告人们食物含有致命细菌和毒物的故事，以及他们的继承者如何指责在食品加工的过程中剥夺了哪些重要的维生素和矿物质。这些人包括诺贝尔奖获得者梅契尼科夫(Eli Metchnikoff)，他认为酸奶将杀死在人们肠子里威胁生命的细菌，而使人活到140岁。埃尔默·科勒姆(Elmer McCollum)是维生素的发现者，他警告说如何...(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)

Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals. Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What can we learn from biomedical research with m...(展开全部)

Combining the intellect of Malcolm Gladwell with the irreverent humor of Mary Roach and the paradigm-shifting analysis of Jared Diamond, a leading social scientist offers an unprecedented look inside our complex and often paradoxical relationships with animals, in "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat". Does living with a pet really make people happier and healthier? What ca...(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)

[英]布鲁斯·胡德（Bruce Hood） 英国布里斯托大学认知发展中心主任。曾任教牛津大学、剑桥大学和哈佛大学。有200年历史的“英国皇家科学院圣诞演讲”的明星专家。著有《超感觉》（Supersense）和《自我的本质》（The Self Illusion）。

Hailed as the “patron saint of farmers’ markets” by the Guardian and called one of the “great food activists” by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view “real food.” A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and why, Real Food is a thoroughly researched rebuttal to dietary fads and a clarion call for the retu...(展开全部)

In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, Why We Run shows Heinrich's signature blend of biology, anthropology, ps...(展开全部)