本书是迄今为止第一部最为完整的中西交通史著作。该书共分四大篇章，详尽地论述了史前至近代包括南洋区域在内的中西交往史迹及历史过程，阐明民族、宗教、文化、交通、政治和贸易等诸般关系，尤以明清之际中西文化交流为主。

A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the Far East to the New World, Collingham explains how Africans taught Americans how to grow rice, how the East India Company turned opium into tea, and how Americans became the best-fed people in the world. In The Taste of Empire, Collingham masterfully shows that only by examining the history of Great Britain's global food system, from sixteenth-century Newfoundland fisheries to our present-day eating habits, can we fully understand our capitalist economy and its role in making our modern diets.
Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4
"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book...demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea-it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change...Marvelously wide-ranging and readable."
-Financial Times (UK)
"[Collingham] is exploring largely virgin territory. For centuries historical studies focused on political and social narratives. Until recently economics did not receive anything like its proper attention. Collingham seeks to redress the...omission...A wholly pleasing book."
-Sunday Times (UK)
"Revelatory...Collingham's book ranges widely to show how 'Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world.' An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."
-The Times (UK)
"This is a wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire."
--Max Hastings, Sunday Times (UK)
"An original and thought-provoking book and for all the shocking accounts of the consequences of British appetites, a highly entertaining one."
--The Times (UK)
"Lizzie Collingham's fascinating new book, The Taste of Empire, demonstrates that a cup of tea is never just a cup of tea--it is a history of trade, exchange, land-grab, agricultural innovation and economic change.... This is a marvelously wide-ranging and readable book, stuffed with engaging details and startling connections."
--Financial Times
"This ingeniously constructed history shows that what we think of as personal appetites have largely been constructed by the machinations of empire. The Taste of Empire uses vivid snapshots of meals to tell the story of how Britain's quest for food drove its imperial ambitions. Collingham takes the reader on a powerful journey ranging from the sugary tea of Great Britain to the rum punch of Boston. Like Sidney Mintz or Margaret Visser, Collingham is a historian whose writing about food informs larger stories about human existence: about conflict and culture, about economics and politics. I was dazzled by Collingham's writing and her book also left me very hungry."
--Bee Wilson, author of First Bite
"The Taste of Empire has a hidden history: the menu, and how it changed the world. Lizzie Collingham has uncovered an epic that runs from domestic comedy to horror to the startling shifts that brought rice to America, maize to Africa, and tea to India. She makes it absorbing and utterly readable, mixing the huge economic story with exact and fascinating glimpses into past lives. You'll never see a biscuit tin the same way once you know how they were used in the Zulu Wars."--Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World
"Beyond gold and glory, an insatiable lust for foreign foods drove the juggernaut of British imperialism. So shows Lizzie Collingham in this rich economic history, drawing on annals military, mercantile and domestic to reveal the complex routes along with the fruits of the colonial fields and fisheries were shunted into Britain's dining rooms."
--Nature

Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers, called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills', and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

中世纪时，居住在西欧的人普遍认为，自己生活在一个基督教的大同世界里。然而，在仅仅一个多世纪的时间里，它烟消云散，取而代之的是新诞生的地理实体“欧洲”。
1517年，马丁·路德向罗马天主教会宣战，教义冲突取代了共同信仰。人们发现了新世界，也重新发现了欧洲。
1648年之后，统一基督教世界的理念瓦解，欧洲成了一张可以显示裂痕的地图，一种划分政治、经济和社会碎片的方式。在失序与重建中，近代欧洲渐渐成形。

★内容简介：
本书是约翰•鲍尔比依恋理论系列的第一卷。本书详细探讨了母婴关系的本质，从对本能行为的讨论开始，结合许多其他研究者的文献，列举了很多非人类哺乳动物母亲和幼崽的依恋关系，进而推及人类的依恋模型。研究表明，婴儿与抚养者（主要是母亲）的依恋关系对其一生的情感发展具有十分重要的影 响，为人父母者应充分了解如何与孩子建立安全的依恋关系，帮助孩子形成健康的人格，进而拥有幸福的人生。
★编辑推荐：
鲍尔比提出的依恋理论被心理学界公认为20世纪亲子关系领域具有革命性的成就。
依恋关系的质量决定孩子一生的发展，值得父母详加研读。
帮助为人父母者理解孩子的情感与行为发展。
★名人推荐：
约翰•鲍尔比的依恋研究关注母婴分离对儿童造成的影响，希望这套书的出版能够让中国的父母重视儿童的早期养育，也期待这套书中的理念能够推动中国研究，能向大众普及相关的科学育儿的理念，增加大家对婴儿以及对母婴关系的理解。
——易春丽
北京大学心理与认知科学院讲师
阅读鲍尔比的系列书籍能帮助我们重新认识并重视父母和孩子在一起的意义，虽然分离在这个快速的社会里显得稀松平常。
——施琪嘉
武汉心理卫生研究所所长 德中心理治疗研究院主席

Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-Body Problem was first published in 1958. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This is Volume II of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, a series published in cooperation with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota. The series editors are Herbert Feigl and Grover Maxwell, who are also co-editors, with Michael Scriven, of this volume.
The ten papers by eleven authors which make up the content of this volume are the result of collaborative research of the Center in philosophical and methodological problems of science in general and psychology in particular. The contributors are Paul Oppenheim, Hilary Putnam, Carl G. Hempel, Michael Scriven, Arthur Pap, Wilfrid Sellars,
H. Gavin Alexander, P.F. Strawson, Karl Zener, Herbert Feigl, and Paul E. Meehl. In addition, an extensive discussion of "Internationality and the Mental" by Wilfrid Sellars and Roderick Chisholm is presented in an appendix.
In a review of this volume the journal Psychiatric Quarterly commented: "These essays will not prove easy for the layman to read, but he can hardly fail to find his effort rewarded if he is persistent. For the professional behavioral scientist increased awareness and caution—in his use of scientific language, and thinking about scientific theory—should result."
One of the papers in this volume, "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'" by Herbert Feigl, has been published by the University of Minnesota Press with further discussion by Dr. Feigl as a separate book, The "Mental" and the "Physical": The Essay and a Postscript.

What are time and space made of?
Where does matter come from?
And what exactly is reality?
Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed over the last few dozen centuries.
In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers readers a deeper understanding of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. His evocative explanations invite us to imagine, beyond our ever-changing idea of reality, a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

通过“地中海史诗三部曲”（《1453》《海洋帝国》《财富之城》），《纽约时报》畅销书作家罗杰•克劳利确立了自己的地位：他是我们这一代研究欧洲伟大航海帝国的卓越历史学家，也是十字军东征之后东西方冲突领域的专家。在《征服者》中，克劳利讲述了葡萄牙崛起的史诗故事。由于莫大的勇气和它的探险家们高超的航海技能——这种战术优势在当时是任何一个国家都无法比拟的——这个贫穷的小国在一个世纪里主宰了海上霸权。葡萄牙发现通往印度的新航道、对抗穆斯林统治者的帝国主义征服战争和对香料贸易的垄断，将永久性地扰乱地中海，并建立第一个全球经济体。
克劳利依赖书信与目击者证词来叙述蕞尔小国葡萄牙飞速而惊心动魄的崛起。《征服者》展现了葡萄牙帝国全副的光辉灿烂和凶狠残酷，将雄心勃勃而狂热奋进的阿维斯王朝的人物们描摹得栩栩如生。“幸运的”曼努埃尔一世国王、“完美君王”若昂二世、四处劫掠的总督阿方索•德•阿尔布开克和探险家瓦斯科•达伽马这些人物玩弄着他们个人的野心和帝国的公共目标，为了追寻全球的财富，往往要蒙受惨重损失。葡萄牙崛起的故事的另一个核心是，它努力要消灭伊斯兰文化，在印度洋建立一个基督教帝国。为了寻找神话中的基督教君主祭司王约翰，葡萄牙探险家深入非洲腹地；他们还残酷无情地攻打印度的港口城市，力图垄断贸易。
绕过非洲之角去往印度的航道的发现，是航海史上的伟大突破，但也预示着世界秩序被彻底打乱。在随后一个世纪里，没有一个欧洲帝国比葡萄牙更野心勃勃，没有一位君主比葡萄牙列王更掠夺成性。在这过程中，他们创建了第一个远程的航海帝国，释放出了如今塑造我们世界的全球化力量。在克劳利笔下，葡萄牙帝国的完整故事及其野心造成的人道代价，终于得到了讲述。
绝妙……克劳利的解读既精到又公正。
——《基督教箴言报》
栩栩如生地讲述了葡萄牙探险家的生活……对喜欢航海故事的人来说，再好不过。
——《出版商周刊》
在扣人心弦的叙述中，克劳利记载了葡萄牙从一个“穷困、边缘的”国家崛起成为欧洲强国的可怕、凶残的历史，葡萄牙与西班牙和威尼斯竞争，争夺香料贸易。
——《科克斯书评》
克劳利之前著作的读者对这个关于海战、陆战和海难的刺激故事一定不会失望。克劳利很好地为葡萄牙的重要性做了辩护，它建立了第一个全球帝国。
——《每日电讯报》
快节奏的、可读性极强的叙述史，涉及迪亚士和达伽马的航行、阿尔梅达和阿尔布开克的战役与征服……克劳利对事件的详细还原建立在对编年史家如巴罗斯和科雷亚的作品的细读之上，他们的作品是用骑士编年史的传统来写的。
——《今日历史》
在他之前的关于十五六世纪基督徒和奥斯曼帝国争夺地中海的研究里，克劳利已经表现出一种罕见的才华，即将令人手不释卷的叙述与细致到位的学术研究结合起来，同时还能将人性与地缘政治平衡。在本书里，这种才华表现得淋漓尽致。他讲述的故事惊心动魄，但并不是每一位历史学家都能把这个故事讲得这么精彩。
——迈克尔•普罗杰，《金融时报》

本书获誉
《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书（Bestselling book of Sunday Times ）
英国亚马逊·英国海军全史畅销书（The bestselling complete history of the British Navy）
Wilson enviably combines a gift for rattling narrative with the lucid expositions of shifting laws, ideas and arguments.
-Boyd Tonkin, THE INDEPENDENT
威尔逊的笔力令人艳羡，他能笔调迅捷地穿梭于权威论述、观念和论据，既引人入胜又纲举目张。
——博伊德•托金，《独立报》
Empire of the Deep by Ben Wilson is an engaging history of the British navy from King Alfred to the Thames pageant at last year's Diamond Jubilee.
-CHOICE MAGAZINE
本•威尔逊的《深蓝帝国》书写了从阿尔弗雷德国王到伊丽莎白女王登基60周年庆典之间引人入胜的故事。
——《选择杂志》
Wonderfully stirring. The tale Wilson has to tell is so exciting, and the bravura with which he recounts it is so infectious, that his case becomes irresistible.
-David McKie, THE GUARDIAN
文气激荡，摄人心魄。此书所述之史激情满溢，威尔逊讲史感染力十足，他的著作有一股无可阻挡的魅力。
——大卫•麦凯，《卫报》
Wilson has a flair amounting almost to genius.
-Hilary Spurling, THE OBSERVER
威尔逊有着天才般卓绝的洞察力。
——希拉里•斯伯林，《观察家报》
Wilson’s ability to tackle great issues…with such assurance and perception suggests that he is a rising star.
- Max Hastings, SUNDAY TIMES
威尔逊讲述大事件的能力……既严谨信实又精辟洞达，他是冉冉上升的新星。
——马克斯•黑斯廷斯，《星期日泰晤士报》
长久以来，英国只是处于欧洲边缘的三流海洋国家，其岛屿四周的海面上全无法纪可言，各种灾厄接踵而至。然而，就是这样一个毫不起眼的岛国，在其发展的过程中，屡次战胜来自四面八方的海上威胁。特拉法尔加海战之后，英国稳坐海洋霸主之位，成为统治世界海洋的强大贸易帝国。最终，它在20世纪丧失这一霸权，其海洋帝国的史诗画上了句点。
《深蓝帝国》讲述了从阿尔弗雷德大帝到伊丽莎白女王登基60周年庆典之间的英国海军全史，同时，它也是一部英国文化史和帝国史。

《华尔街周刊》2015年最佳图书
《经济学人》2015年最佳图书
《纽约时报书评》2015年100本好书之一
《纽约时报》畅销书
《柯克斯评论》2015年最佳图书
美国国家书评奖决选图书
全球售出多国版权，已被翻译为日语、韩语、法语、德语等23种语言，出版3年来英国、美 国亚马逊古罗马史分类长期排名第一，刘津瑜教授撰写万字长序导读
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 世界最著名古典学者之一集50多年工作成果写成的打破传统叙述的罗马通史
☆ 吸收考古学、钱币学、铭文学等多个研究领域最新研究，语言幽默生动，全方位、多层面、多角度审视罗马历史与生活
◎ 内容简介
作为一个经历了王制、共和制、帝制三种政体并持续存在超过千年的国家，古罗马的历史始终吸引着世人的思考和研究。
本书是一位世界一流古典学家凝聚了50多年的工作成果写成的一部全新的罗马史。作者选取罗马的政治枢纽“罗马元老院与人民”（SPQR）为切入点，巧妙而深刻地以公元前63年西塞罗对垒喀提林的事件开篇，充满热情地向读者讲述了罗马的故事。书中不仅探讨了罗马如何从意大利中部一个无足轻重的小村落成长为疆域横跨三大洲的帝国，还揭示了罗马人是如何看待自己和自己取得的成就的。作者始终同时从外部视角和内部视角描述罗马历史的各个阶段。同时，书中还渗透着强烈的现实关怀，在作者讨论罗马的军事扩张、民主、移民、宗教冲突、社会流动、公民权和剥削等问题时，我们时时都会看到今日世界的影子，从而明白古罗马对我们为何仍然是重要的。
全书框架宏大，却充满了生动的细节，虽然大量采用了考古学、钱币学、铭文学的最新成果，却基本不使用专业术语。作者以平实而幽默的笔触讲了许多故事的“另一面”，挑战了传统观点，为读者呈现了一个虽然仍有许多未解之谜却生动迷人的罗马。
◎ 媒体推荐
情节紧凑，令人振奋，心思敏锐，大胆持疑。
—— 布莱恩·阿普尔亚德，《星期日泰晤士报》
非常吸引人……非常愉快的阅读感受，同时兼具学术性。
—— 娜塔莉·海恩斯，《观察者报》
在为罗马为何能够如此惊人地扩张这个问题提供连贯的答案的同时，使一部600 多页讨论这样的话题的书始终充满能量是非常雄心勃勃的。 比尔德获得了极大的成功……书中充满见解，始终让人愉悦……比尔德专注于细节，再加上她极为出色的幽默感，这使《罗马元老院与人民》从始至终都吸引着读者。
——《星期日泰晤士报》
极富开创性……令人振奋……革命性的全新古代史写法。
—— 托马斯·霍奇金森，《观察者报》
这本书是一处宝藏，既是一本迷人的读物，也是一本很好的参考书，对于那个对今天的我们仍有很大指导意义的古代世界，澄清了我们由于懒惰而产生的误解。
——《先驱报》
在《罗马元老院与人民》这部美妙的简史中，比尔德以一种轻快而无比清晰的笔触解开了这座城市取得成功的秘密，无可媲美。
—— 费迪南德·芒特，《纽约时报书评》
一部杰出的新编年史……比尔德是一位步履稳健的向导，带领读者穿过那些晦涩难解的材料，换了别人，这本书可能就会变得单调乏味。在处理罗马城早期的历史时，她把事实从神话中筛分了出来，通过说明罗马人自己如何为了短期的政治目的而编造出传奇性的开端，她使学术讨论变得生动活泼，并且拓展了讨论的深度……通俗历史写作的典范，引人入胜但并不刻意简化，同时具有宏大的框架和私密的细节，使过往的历史栩栩如生。
——《经济学人》
比尔德完成的工作，确切来说，是很少有普及类作者敢于尝试的，是很多大学教授无法胜任的。她传达了在思索那些注定模糊不清的文本和事件时的兴奋感，在这个过程中，她让我们习以为常的观点变得可疑。她这部权威的新罗马史《罗马元老院与人民》也不例外。比尔德向我们揭示，古罗马人与许多个世纪后与权力、公民权、帝国和身份这些问题斗争的人息息相关。
—— 艾米丽·威尔逊，《大西洋月刊》
◎ 名人推荐
比尔德准确而清晰地讲述了这个故事，充满激情，不使用专业术语……《罗马元老院与人民》讲了一个令人毛骨悚然的成功者的故事，但是用美妙的天赋讲出来的。
—— 格雷格‧伍尔夫，伦敦大学高级研究院古典研究所主任
虽然比尔德自己说《罗马元老院与人民》是她经过50年的训练和研究的成果，但她并不炫耀学问。当她带领我们穿过罗马人民曾经留下印记的妓院、酒肆和陋巷时，我们首先能够感受到她自己乐在其中。
—— 詹姆斯‧罗姆，巴德学院古典学教授
在比尔德结束她的故事时，她不仅探索了古代时期、共和时期和帝国时期的罗马，以及它最终掌控了的东部和西部省份……她轻松而熟练地运用了考古学、钱币学和文献学的成果，还使用了大量刻在石头上或写在纸草上的书面文献。
—— G. W. 鲍尔索克，希腊、罗马、近东历史和文化研究权威
不是所有的罗马史学家都能如比尔德一样叙事如此生动风趣、层次丰富，将复杂的问题以极易接受的方式传达给读者。更不是所有的罗马史学家都能将社会各个层面有效地编织到叙述中。我们面前这部著作的作者是一位难以简单归类的作者，这部著作本身也迥异于目前数量众多的通史性罗马史著作。
—— 刘津瑜，德堡大学古典学教授

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying perception and action, proposing a broad distinction within the brain between two kinds of vision: conscious perception and unconscious 'online' vision. It argues that each kind of vision can occur quasi-independently of the other, and is separately handled by a quite different processing system. In the 11 years since publication, the book has provoked considerable interest and debate - throughout both cognitive neuroscience and philosophy, while the field has continued to flourish and develop. For this new edition, the text from the original edition has been left untouched, standing as a coherent statement of the authors' position. However, a very substantial epilogue has been added to the book in which Milner and Goodale review some of the key developments that support or challenge the views that were put forward in the first edition. The new chapter summarizes developments in various relevant areas of psychology, neuroscience and behaviour. It notably supplements the main text by updating the reader on the contributions that have emerged from the use of functional neuroimaging, which was in its infancy when the first edition was written. Neuroimaging, and functional MRI in particular, has revolutionized the field over the past 11 years by allowing investigators to plot in detail the patterns of activity within the visual brains of behaving and perceiving humans. The authors show how its use now allows scientists to test and confirm their proposals, based as they then were largely on evidence accrued from primate neuroscience in conjunction with studies of neurological patients.

本书试图从帝国之中，尤其是大英帝国在19世纪上半叶重塑帝国宪法并通过其构建世界秩序的无序式努力中探寻国际法的起源。为我们呈现了世界历史中的一个重要时期，当时，维系全球秩序的是帝国法，而非国际法。这段影响深远的历史将改变我们今天对于大英帝国遗产及国际法之含义的理解。

International law burst on the scene as a new field in the late nineteenth century. Where did it come from? Rage for Order finds the origins of international law in empires—especially in the British Empire’s sprawling efforts to refashion the imperial constitution and use it to order the world in the early part of that century.
Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford uncover the lost history of Britain’s global empire of law in colonial conflicts and bureaucratic dispatches rather than legal treatises and case law. Tracing constitutional politics around the world, Rage for Order shows that attempts to refashion the British imperial constitution touched on all the controversial issues of the day, from slavery to revolution. Scandals in turbulent colonies targeted petty despots and augmented the power of the Crown to intervene in the administration of justice. Campaigns to police piracy and slave trading linked British interests to the stability of politically fragmented regions. Dull bureaucrats dominated legal reform, but they did not act in isolation. Indigenous peoples, slaves, convicts, merchants, and sailors all scrambled to play a part in reordering the empire and the world beyond it. Yet, through it all, legal reform focused on promoting order, not advancing human rights or charting liberalism.
Rage for Order maps a formative phase in world history when imperial, not international, law anchored visions of global order. This sweeping story changes the way we think about the legacy of the British Empire and the meaning of international law today.

"A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts . . . Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs".--Kirkus Reviews.

《马赫：物理学家和哲学家》是美国科学哲学界对马赫的一部研究纪念文集，是美国著名的“波士顿科学哲学研究丛书”中的一种。本文集由美国科学哲学学会前主席R.S.科恩主编。文集中主要篇目有：前言；恩斯特·马赫：作为教师和思想家的生活；马赫对感觉分析的贡献；马赫对气体动力学的贡献；马赫对激波的求知欲；马赫和当代物理学；马赫：物理学、知觉和科学哲学；马赫、爱因斯坦和实在论的探索；马赫原理和爱因斯坦的引力理论；马赫的科学哲学对我们时代的重要性；马赫和科学统一；马赫和经验论者的科学概念；马赫的生物学的知识论等。

Whether you need to ask for a raise at work, request a better hotel room while you’re on holiday, or even debate with your stubborn teenager at home, you can learn effective and powerful negotiation skills to help you get the best deal every time. In this fully revised and updated fourth edition of the worldwide success Everything is Negotiable , expert negotiator Gavin Kennedy walks you through all the techniques and tricks you need to get the best deal in any situation. With chapters on such subjects as making your offer count, dealing with intimidation and getting it in writing, as well as self-assessment tests to help chart your progress, Everything is Negotiable is a one-stop shop for anyone who wants to improve their negotiation skills. Superbly practical and insightful, this essential guide will make sure you come out top in any negotiation.

When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga, comprising The Man of Property, In Chancery and To Let is here produced by Wordsworth for the first time in a single volume. Initially, the narrative centres on Soames Forsyte - a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife Irene. A pillar of the late Victorian upper middle class, materially wealthy, his appears to be a golden existence endowed with all the necessary possessions for a 'Man of Property', but beneath this very proper exterior lies a core of unhappiness and brutal relationships. The marriage of Soames and Irene disintegrates in bitter recrimination, creating a feud within the family that will have far-reaching consequences.

A breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain
How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before.
In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries.
A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.