当独立、自助的生活不能再维持时，我们该怎么办？在生命临近终点的时刻，我们该和医生谈些什么？应该如何优雅地跨越生命的终点？对于这些问题，大多数人缺少清晰的观念，而只是把命运交由医学、技术和陌生人来掌控。影响世界的医生阿图•葛文德结合其多年的外科医生经验与流畅的文笔，讲述了一个个伤感而发人深省的故事，对在21世纪变老意味着什么进行了清醒、深入的探索。本书富有洞见、感人至深，并为我们提供了实用的路线图，告诉我们为了使生命最后的岁月有意义，我们可以做什么、应该做什么。
作者选择了常人往往不愿面对的话题——衰老与死亡，梳理了美国社会养老的方方面面和发展历程，以及医学界对末期病人的不当处置。书中不只讲述了死亡和医药的局限，也揭示了如何自主、快乐、拥有尊严地活到生命的终点。书中对“善终服务”“辅助生活”“生前预嘱”等一系列作者推崇的理念，都穿插在故事中作出了详尽的说明，相信会给老龄化日益加剧的中国社会以启迪。
众多专家、媒体推荐。创新工场CEO李开复：作为一名医生，阿图•葛文德关注的是医疗的局限以及人的尊严。作为凡人，我们都将面对人生的终点，《最好的告别》给我们重要的启示。《新知》杂志主编苗炜：希望大家有机会能看看阿图•葛文德医生的著作，他能帮助我们更好地理解医学，知道医学的局限和可能。畅销书作家马尔科姆•格拉德威尔：这是阿图•葛文德最有力，也最感人的一本书。《自然》杂志：难得读到这样一本发人深省的书。
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亚马逊年度好书、《纽约时报》畅销书。
人终有一死，如何向死而生。“全球十大思想家”、美国著名外科医生划时代之作。
奥巴马、李开复、余华、刘瑜、苗炜力荐。
湛庐文化出品。

In Thermoinfocomplexity (TIC), a probability based new theory of evolution of complex adaptive system and origin of life, A New Theory: Origin of Life and Evolution of Complex Adaptive Systems, the author presents a compelling case that we are at the evolutionary phase of a transition from individualistic, competitive societies, to an altruistic, cooperative, global community. The evolutionary theory detailed in TIC is scale-free and goes beyond any book written on the theory of evolution to date. It looks at the evolution of life and all complex adaptive systems through the multifaceted lenses of thermodynamic, information and complexity theories.

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs.
In Natural-Born Cyborgs , Clark argues that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence. Technology as simple as writing on a sketchpad, as familiar as Google or a cellular phone, and as potentially revolutionary as mind-extending neural implants--all exploit our brains' astonishingly plastic nature. Our minds are primed to seek out and incorporate non-biological resources, so that we actually think and feel through our best technologies. Drawing on his expertise in cognitive science, Clark demonstrates that our sense of self and of physical presence can be expanded to a remarkable extent, placing the long-existing telephone and the emerging technology of telepresence on the same continuum. He explores ways in which we have adapted our lives to make use of technology (the measurement of time, for example, has wrought enormous changes in human existence), as well as ways in
which increasingly fluid technologies can adapt to individual users during normal use. Bio-technological unions, Clark argues, are evolving with a speed never seen before in history. As we enter an age of wearable computers, sensory augmentation, wireless devices, intelligent environments, thought-controlled prosthetics, and rapid-fire information search and retrieval, the line between the user and her tools grows thinner day by day. "This double whammy of plastic brains and increasingly responsive and well-fitted tools creates an unprecedented opportunity for ever-closer kinds of human-machine merger," he writes, arguing that such a merger is entirely natural.
A stunning new look at the human brain and the human self, Natural Born Cyborgs reveals how our technology is indeed inseparable from who we are and how we think.

You have heard about how a musician loses herself in her music, how a painter becomes one with the process of painting. In work, sport, conversation or hobby, you have experienced, yourself, the suspension of time, the freedom of complete absorption in activity. This is "flow," an experience that is at once demanding and rewarding--an experience that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates is one of the most enjoyable and valuable experiences a person can have. The exhaustive case studies, controlled experiments and innumerable references to historical figures, philosophers and scientists through the ages prove Csikszentmihalyi's point that flow is a singularly productive and desirable state. But the implications for its application to society are what make the book revolutionary.

Shape Up is for product development teams who struggle to shape, build, and ship. Written by the innovators behind Basecamp—one of the biggest and longest-running software as a service apps—the book gives teams language and specific techniques to address the risks and unknowns at each stage of the product development process. Full of eye-opening insights, Shape Up will help you break free of "best practices" that aren't really working, think deeper about the right problems, and start shipping meaningful projects your team can celebrate.
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