Bibi

Anshel Pfeffer

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The Gates of Europe

Serhii Plokhy

评分 9.1分

This definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country.” (Wall Street Journal) As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its ter

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

评分 8.9分

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—eve

A PhD Is Not Enough!

Peter J. Feibelman

评分 8.6分

A Ph. D. Is Not Enough! is required reading for anyone thinking of applying to graduate school or entering the science job market. Focusing on critical survival skills, it offers sound advice on sel

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

评分 9.2分

Americans call the Second World War The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizensand kept killing them during and after the wa

The Art Spirit

Robert Henri

评分 9.8分

Code: version 2.0

Lawrence Lessig

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There's a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the government's (or anyone else's) . 'Code', first published in 2000, argues that this belief

Emotional Design

Don Norman

评分 8.3分

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

Letters to a Young Lawyer

Alan M. Dershowitz, 艾伦·德肖维茨

评分 8.7分

With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Alan Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession. A

Our Final Hour

Martin Rees

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From world-renowned astrophysicist Sir Martin Rees, a timely, brisk, and alarming look at the way today's technology could spell the end of tomorrow. Bolstered by unassailable science and delivere

The Way We Think

Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner

评分 8.9分

In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition -- the functions in which the human mind most close

Linked

Albert-László Barabási

评分 8.4分

A Universe Of Consciousness

Gerald Edelman, Giulio Tononi, [美国] 杰拉尔德·M. 埃德尔曼

评分 8.8分

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist and a leading brain researcher show how the brain creates conscious experience In A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald Edelman builds on the radical ideas he introduced

Trauma and Recovery

Judith Herman

评分 9.7分

When Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery was first published five years ago, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman's now classic volume has changed the way we th

Gay New York

George Chauncey

评分 8.9分

Through the diaries of gay men and other primary materials, the author demonstrates that gay society thrived in the open in pre-World War II New York long before the current prominence of homosexualit

Mindstorms

Seymour A. Papert

评分 8.8分

A history of freedom in Western culture traces the evolution of this cherished idea from ancient times to the modern day. Reprint. National Book Award winner. NYT.

Advice to a Young Scientist

P. B. Medawar

评分 8.9分

Advice to a young scientist by Peter Medawar (Basic Books). The titan of 20th century molecular medicine gives well-meaning and funny (in the British sense) advice on (from the chapter headings): How

The Interpretation of Cultures

Clifford Geertz

评分 9.3分

Classic essays by one of the most original and stimulating anthropologists of his generation on what culture is, what role it plays in social life, and how it ought to be properly studied.

You've Been Played

Adrian Hon

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Hidden Games

Moshe Hoffman, Erez Yoeli

评分 8.3分

We like to think of ourselves as rational. This idea is the foundation for classical economic analysis of human behavior, including the awesome achievements of game theory. But as behavioral economics

Flashes of Creation

Paul Halpern

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A Thousand Brains

Jeff Hawkins

评分 8.3分

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses

Rigor Mortis

Richard Harris

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Heyday

Ben Wilson

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HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war. The global economy exp

The Master Algorithm

Pedro Domingos

评分 8.0分

A thought-provoking and wide-ranging exploration of machine learning and the race to build computer intelligences as flexible as our own In the world's top research labs and universities, the race is

A Mad Catastrophe

Geoffrey Wawro

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The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying arr

How to Create the Perfect Wife

Wendy Moore

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A Conflict of Visions

Thomas Sowell

评分 9.2分

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the t

Emotional Design

Donald A. Norman

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The Drama of the Gifted Child

Alice Miller

评分 8.4分

As charming performers who skillfully reflect their parents expectations, far too many children grow into adults driven to greater and greater achievements by an underlying sense of worthlessness. Nev