这是一个分心的时代。高速的互联网、各种手机应用程序、电子邮件、让人沉迷其中的游戏，无时无刻都在冲击着我们的大脑。不论你是领导者、商业人士或者是普通白领阶层，抑或是求学阶段的学生，突然之间，你会发现，在这个互联网时代，你已经很难专注于做一件重要的事了。 专注力是一种重要的心灵资产，对我们的人生起到指航引路的重大作用。但长期以来，鲜有人正式讨论这个课题，更是低估了它的作用。全球顶级的心理学大师丹尼尔•戈尔曼，追踪人类科学前沿研究20余年，致力为读者带来最新奇、最重要的发现。在《专注》一书中，他以其深耕多年的心理学研究功底，精确提炼出专注力的三种形式，即内在专注、对他人专注和外在专注。 内在专注：能帮助聆听到直觉和价值观的声音——就像史蒂夫•乔布斯所说的“内心的声音”，做出更明智的决策。 对他人专注：能帮助你捕捉到微妙的情绪信号，培育与他人更加和谐的关系，...(展开全部)

In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention. Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long...(展开全部)

The Hidden Mathematics of Sport takes a novel and intriguing look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Discover the best tactics for taking a penalty, the pros and cons of being a consistent golfer, the surprising link between boxing and figure skating, the unusual location of England's earliest 'football' game (in a parish church), and the formula for a...(展开全部)

Eight-time national chess champion and international martial arts champion Josh Waitzkin lays out his battle-tested principles of learning and performance to give readers the same tools for excellence and success--in whatever field they pursue--that have propelled Waitzkin himself to the top of his game.

In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavour, this vision perpetuated a hidden yet persistent agenda: the delusion that human nature and society could be fit...(展开全部)

Pollen is ubiquitous: In childhood we all learn a little about plant reproduction and the role of the bee, but few of us are aware of the astonishing diversity of the structure of pollen grains, although these tiny, extraordinary forms have fascinated the scientifically curious since the seventeenth century. These grains are enclosed beyond the accessible beauty of the flower u...(展开全部)

玛德琳·哈利（Madeline Harley），博士，植物学家，在2005年退休之前，是英国皇家植物园花粉研究部门主管。她的研究工作主要关注在有花植物进化和亲缘关系领域中花粉特征的物种特异性，并已得到国际上的公认。作为作者或共同作者出版及发表80多篇（部）论文和著作。她在众多国际会议上展示了自己的工作。哈利博士是林奈学会会员，并且是英国皇家植物园的荣誉研究员。 罗布·克塞勒（Rob Kesseler）：视觉艺术家，伦敦艺术大学艺术、设计和科学领域的教授，在职业生涯里，他常常将植物作为汲取灵感的源泉。2001年，他被邱园任命为NESTA研究员，从那时起，他开始同显微镜下的植物材料打交道。他还是林奈学会和皇家艺术学会的研究员，以及葡萄牙古尔本基安科学研究所 2010年生物多样性成员。他的作品曾在英国、欧洲大陆和北美的博物馆和美术馆展出，包括维多利亚和艾伯...(展开全部)

""The most ravishing biology lessons we've ever seen."-- Chicago Tribune" The publication of the first edition of "Pollen" broke new ground by melding art and science in a beautiful yet authoritative examination of the design and function of pollen. This new edition contains 20 additional, equally spectacular, photographs published here for the first time. The book also contain...(展开全部)

In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war raging in Europe. In these pages, Capa recounts his terrifying journey t...(展开全部)

A computer beats the reigning human champion of Go, a game harder than chess. Another is composing classical music. Labs are creating life-forms from synthetic DNA. A doctor designs an artificial trachea, uses a 3D printer to produce it, and implants it and saves a child's life.