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We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains……続きを見る

Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer t……続きを見る

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were ra……続きを見る

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Ri……続きを見る

We have all experienced a 'gut reaction' or acted 'on a hunch' – we've used our intuition. Until recently, science didn't have a good explanation for how intuition works. In fact, some scientists di……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how today's brain scanning techniques were developed, told by one of the field's pioneers It is now possible to witness human brain activity while we are talking, reading, or……続きを見る

**The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire and have stood on the moon, and yet every one of us is fundamentally ignorant, irrational and prone to making simple mistakes e……続きを見る

Walden (first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundi……続きを見る

THE TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF 2024 GUARDIAN BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2024 ECONOMIST BEST BOOKS OF 2024 FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2024 From one of the world's great science writers, a book that explo……続きを見る

世界上最聰明的科學家都曾被考倒的經典難題 英國知名物理學家教你輕鬆破解 從經典的愛因斯坦相對論，到最新的量子力學 9大悖論帶你用最有趣的方式，一次搞懂最偉大的科學發現 ‧如果你搭乘時空機回到過去殺死了你的……続きを見る

Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath ……続きを見る

The Principia is "justly regarded as one of the most important works in the history of science". The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, often referred to as simply the Principia, is a wo……続きを見る

《21世紀的21堂課》全新修訂改版！ 在一個資訊滿滿卻多半無用的世界上， 清楚易懂的見解，就成了一種力量。 ーー 哈拉瑞 在《人類大歷史》，哈拉瑞展現了他「後見之明」的洞識，深刻闡述了人類簡史； 在《人類大命……続きを見る

How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and women As countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought d……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: § I. -- La théorie physique considérée comme explication. La première tache question que nous rencontrions est celle-ci : quel est l'objet d'une théorie physique ? A cette question, on a fa……続きを見る

The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimesーwith or without “brain training.” Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a ……続きを見る

A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will ……続きを見る

A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts? **The instant Sunday Times bestseller** Rejecting the futile modern obsessi……続きを見る

“Engineering” has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores th……続きを見る

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘If you want to write a novel or a script, read this book’ Sunday Times ’The best book on the craft of storytelling I’ve ever read’ Matt Haig ‘Rarely has a book engrossed me ……続きを見る

失去所愛之人，我們的大腦如何適應與修復？ 「這本書適合任何經歷失去或想了解喪親之痛的人。」 ──喬治．博南諾（George Bonanno），《終結創傷》（The End of Trauma）作者 ★Amazon書評4.5顆星，各大媒體絕讚推薦……続きを見る

This book is a combination of an explanatory dictionary and a thesaurus - it provides unique vocabulary clarification not only when studying science in English, but also when reading professional te……続きを見る

Why you should worry less about AI and more about what makes us human We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creati……続きを見る

A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our timeーbrain and mental illnesses Brain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translati……続きを見る

'Fascinating, absorbing and educative' A. C. Grayling 'Highly original and beautifully written' Dominic Lawson A compelling insight into how our imagination works, based on the latest scientific res……続きを見る

Living organisms are astonishingly complex. And the more we know about them - their biochemistry, their anatomy, their behaviour - the more astonishing are the detailed adaptations that we discover.……続きを見る

★《紐約時報》暢銷榜 TOP 1 ★ ★ 銷售突破１００萬冊 ★ ★週年１０倍強勢回歸 ★ 廣受歡迎的xkcd網站作者蘭徳爾．門羅的熱銷名著《如果這樣，會怎樣？》， 出版歷時10年，銷售突破100萬冊！書中充滿各種奇思怪想的問……続きを見る

This revised and up-dated second edition provides a current insight into how the fundamental principles of the chemistry of colour are applied in dyes and pigments. The text has been expanded and re……続きを見る

Do you ever feel like your brain is running on dial-up in a fiber-optic world? In his 20s, Dave Asprey did too. He battled debilitating brain fog and chronic fatigue syndrome, frustrated by his brok……続きを見る

"Mastering Discrete Mathematics" is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the fundamental concepts, techniques, and applications of dis……続きを見る