Us 電子書籍 [COMPUTERS ＆ SCIENCE]
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 Nature's Nether Regions What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodiversity, and Ourselves【電子書籍】[ Menno Schilthuizen ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A tour of evolution’s most inventiveーand essentialーcreations: animal genitalia＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Forget opposable thumbs and canine teeth: the largest anatomical differences between humans and chimps are found below the belt. In ＜em＞Nature’s Nether Regions＜/em＞, ecologist and evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen invites readers to discover the wondrous diversity of animalian reproductive organs. Schilthuizen packs this delightful read with astonishing scientific insights while maintaining an absorbing narrative style reminiscent of Mary Roach and Jerry Coyne. With illustrations throughout and vivid field anecdotesーamong them laser surgery on a fruit fly’s privates and a snail orgyー＜em＞Nature’s Nether Regions＜/em＞ is a celebration of life in all shapes and sizes.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 759円 |
 The Disordered Mind What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves【電子書籍】[ Eric R. Kandel ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A Nobel Prize?winning neuroscientist’s probing investigation of what brain disorders can tell us about human nature＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eric R. Kandel, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his foundational research into memory storage in the brain, is one of the pioneers of modern brain science. His work continues to shape our understanding of how learning and memory work and to break down age-old barriers between the sciences and the arts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In his seminal new book, ＜em＞The Disordered Mind＜/em＞, Kandel draws on a lifetime of pathbreaking research and the work of many other leading neuroscientists to take us on an unusual tour of the brain. He confronts one of the most difficult questions we face: How does our mind, our individual sense of self, emerge from the physical matter of the brain? The brain’s 86 billion neurons communicate with one another through very precise connections. But sometimes those connections are disrupted. The brain processes that give rise to our mind can become disordered, resulting in diseases such as autism, depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. While these disruptions bring great suffering, they can also reveal the mysteries of how the brain produces our most fundamental experiences and capabilitiesーthe very nature of what it means to be human. Studies of autism illuminate the neurological foundations of our social instincts; research into depression offers important insights on emotions and the integrity of the self; and paradigm-shifting work on addiction has led to a new understanding of the relationship between pleasure and willpower.＜/p＞ ＜p＞By studying disruptions to typical brain functioning and exploring their potential treatments, we will deepen our understanding of thought, feeling, behavior, memory, and creativity. Only then can we grapple with the big question of how billions of neurons generate consciousness itself.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,733円 |
 Food Intelligence The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us【電子書籍】[ Julia Belluz ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞**“＜em＞Food Intelligence＜/em＞ dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to read this book." ーSanjay Gupta, MD, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN and host of ＜em＞Chasing Life＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The essential guide for understanding what you’re eating, and the forces that are driving you to eat it.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nutrition isn’t rocket science; it’s harder.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There are new diet fads, bold claims about superfoods and articles promising the secrets to lasting weight-loss and longevity. The more ‘expert’ advice we hear about diet, the less clarity we have about what to eat.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Food Intelligence,＜/em＞ award-winning health journalist, Julia Belluz, and internationally renowned nutrition and metabolism scientist, Kevin Hall, cut through the myths about nutrition to deliver a comprehensive book on food, diet, metabolism and healthy eating.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Breaking food down into its constituent parts, ＜em＞Food Intelligence＜/em＞ reveals:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞The real science behind how protein, fat, carbs and vitamins impact our bodies＜/li＞ ＜li＞The wonders of metabolism＜/li＞ ＜li＞The latest ‘theories’ about blood sugar trackers and ultra-processed foods＜/li＞ ＜li＞How our food environment shapes our eating behaviors and the food choices we make every day＜/li＞ ＜li＞How diseases like obesity and type 2 diabetes are not a result of a failure of will power; they are consequences of food systems working as designed＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞Humane and deeply reported, this journey into the science of what we eat will equip you with the food intelligence you need to better understand what’s on your dinner plate, how it got there, and why you eat it.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,434円 |
 5th Grade US History Textbook: Colonial America - Birth of A Nation Fifth Grade Books US Colonial Period【電子書籍】[ Baby Professor ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞The birth of a nation is always riddled with complexities, wars, and victories. All those names, dates and other details may prove to be difficult for a 5th grade to process. But with these interactive educational books, information is more easily and effectively absorbed. Let the pictures in this book tell the story. Order a copy now!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 552円 |
 The Burnt Out Society: Why So Many of Us are Unhappy and How We Can Make a Change【電子書籍】[ Adam Staten ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞So many people are unhappy. Levels of mental ill-health have been rising inexorably for the last few decades and our response to this so far has been the widespread use of medication, the pouring of resources into psychological treatments, and the establishment of resilience programmes in our schools and workplaces. Why are we now so unhappy when life is easier and safer than it has ever been? Why do so many of us now need treatment to stop us sinking into depression? Why are we now having to teach our children to be resilient enough to survive in the social environment we have created for them?＜br /＞ The Burnt Out Society explains why our current approach is misguided and how we could better direct our energy and resources in order to make ourselves happier.＜br /＞ Drawing on evidence from medicine, psychology, sociology and evolutionary biology this book explains why high levels of mental ill-health are an inevitable result of the way we have chosen to live. People our unhappy because we have created a society that exposes them to continual stress resulting in psychological burnout.＜br /＞ In the workplace we recognise the dangers of burnout and we try to address it by seeking out and tackling the causes of workplace stress. But in real life we are in the habit of patching people up and throwing them back into the environment that caused them so much distress in the first place. This book describes a different approach. The society in which we live has become toxic, we should no longer simply be trying to survive it, we should be seeking to improve it.＜br /＞ The coronavirus pandemic has given us an opportunity to reset. This book suggests the direction of travel we should take.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 103円 |
 Engineering Management for the Rest of Us【電子書籍】[ Sarah Drasner ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the best Engineer they possibly could be... and then they were promoted.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It can be very tough for those of us who didn't go into Engineering with the distinct concept that we would become managers, but still want to do our best to support our teams.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I wrote this book because there's so much no one told me about management that I wished I would have known. There's a lot to be purposeful about that many of us learn on the job, and worse: learn on people. This book provides some organization for collaborating with networks of people, working together towards a common purpose.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There seem to be millions of articles and "how to"s on programming and only a handful of resources on Engineering Management- why? It's very tough to talk about something that involves people processes. People are non-deterministic. Working relationships are nuanced, communication is linked with individual values, motivations, power dynamics, and skills. People also have a range of experiences and emotions that are not consistent day-to-day.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hopefully, in the happiest, most productive sense.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's imperative that we as managers learn as much as we can and work on ourselves, so that our teams may enjoy a healthy working life and strong relationships. It's not just important, it's crucial that we iterate on our own skills as managers so that we can properly support everyone around us: individuals, peers, leadership, and the business.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I'm sharing what I've learned- not so that you follow my concepts exactly, but rather so that you can be thoughtful about your own leadership and needs. The book goes from the macro to the micro- with topics ranging everywhere from "feedback" to "scoping down PRs".＜/p＞ ＜p＞Though the book is meant to address people in management, individual contributors are welcome to read the book as well- perhaps you need to manage up and need some tools to help guide the conversation, perhaps you just want a peek at other concerns within the business- everyone is invited to the conversation.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,383円 |
 Everyday Calculus Discovering the Hidden Math All around Us【電子書籍】[ Oscar E. Fernandez ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A fun look at calculus in our everyday lives＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Calculus. For some of us, the word conjures up memories of ten-pound textbooks and visions of tedious abstract equations. And yet, in reality, calculus is fun and accessible, and surrounds us everywhere we go. In ＜em＞Everyday Calculus＜/em＞, Oscar Fernandez demonstrates that calculus can be used to explore practically any aspect of our lives, including the most effective number of hours to sleep and the fastest route to get to work. He also shows that calculus can be both usefulーdetermining which seat at the theater leads to the best viewing experience, for instanceーand fascinatingーexploring topics such as time travel and the age of the universe. Throughout, Fernandez presents straightforward concepts, and no prior mathematical knowledge is required. For advanced math fans, the mathematical derivations are included in the appendixes. The book features a new preface that alerts readers to new interactive online content, including demonstrations linked to specific figures in the book as well as an online supplement. Whether you're new to mathematics or already a curious math enthusiast, ＜em＞Everyday Calculus＜/em＞ will convince even die-hard skeptics to view this area of math in a whole new way.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,729円 |
 What Makes Us Smart The Computational Logic of Human Cognition【電子書籍】[ Samuel J. Gershman ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞How a computational framework can account for the successes and failures of human cognition＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Yet, we routinely commit errors that reveal the failures of our thought processes. ＜em＞What Makes Us Smart＜/em＞ makes sense of this paradox by arguing that our cognitive errors are not haphazard. Rather, they are the inevitable consequences of a brain optimized for efficient inference and decision making within the constraints of time, energy, and memoryーin other words, data and resource limitations. Framing human intelligence in terms of these constraints, Samuel Gershman shows how a deeper computational logic underpins the “stupid” errors of human cognition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Embarking on a journey across psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and economics, Gershman presents unifying principles that govern human intelligence. First, inductive bias: any system that makes inferences based on limited data must constrain its hypotheses in some way before observing data. Second, approximation bias: any system that makes inferences and decisions with limited resources must make approximations. Applying these principles to a range of computational errors made by humans, Gershman demonstrates that intelligent systems designed to meet these constraints yield characteristically human errors.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Examining how humans make intelligent and maladaptive decisions, ＜em＞What Makes Us Smart＜/em＞ delves into the successes and failures of cognition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 5,080円 |
 A Blueprint For Achieving Net-Zero CO2 Emissions The Difficult Road for the US to Achieve Net-Zero CO2 Emissions by 2050【電子書籍】[ Robert Prince ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞The author proposes a "workable" pathway for the US to achieve net zero CO2 emissions from the transportation and electrical power sectors of the US by 2050. The intent is to describe in straightforward terms what it will take to achieve such a goal. Providing basic background information on the measures necessary to transition from a fossil-fuel-based power source to one based on renewables will provide the reader insight to the enormity of this goal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The author attempts to outline the major hurdles facing the US in reducing CO2 emissions. Hurdles to achieving this goal are clearly presented to allow readers to put into perspective what this transition entails and the significant obstacles that must be overcome to achieve net zero. The book highlights the difficulty of this task and clearly states that achieving net zero for the US by 2050 is highly unlikely.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The author then applies the same logic on a limited scale to describe the difficulty of achieving net-zero CO2 emissions on a worldwide basis. Applying the same logic used for the US analysis with regard to the retirement of coal-fired and natural gas-fired electrical generation capacity demonstrates the difficult path the world faces regarding climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions. The book concludes with a bleak scenario of what the world faces with regard to climate change.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,383円 |
 Fooled by the Winners How Survivor Bias Deceives Us【電子書籍】[ David Lockwood ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞Fooled by the Winners＜/em＞ will change the way you think about the stock market, health care, global warming, diets, lotteries, restaurants, and your siblings. It will reshape your perspective of the past and give you a clearer view of the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fooled by the Winners＜/em＞ is a book about survivor bias, the cognitive error of focusing on the winners, the successes, and the living. But in many instances, we can learn more from those who have lost, failed, or died.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After reading this book, you will understand how survivor bias is often used to deceive us. You will learn how to stop paying for financial services that promise more than they deliver, for health care that doesn’t make us healthier, for diets that don’t make us slimmer, and for advice books that don’t offer good advice. You will also come away with a different view of our past, including our perilous evolutionary journey and how history has often been written by the winners. You will come to understand how we are fooled by the winners in warfare, such as in the deployment of nuclear weapons and the most famous example of survivor biasーthe missing Allied bombers of WWII.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Previous studies of survivor bias have been inaccessible to most, housed in formula-laden statistical journals. But you won’t find any math or technical jargon here. David Lockwood, a former member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, applies the concept of survivor bias to specific, real-world examplesーminus the equations.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through compelling analysis and the real-life stories, this book demonstrates the deceptive influence of survivor bias in our daily lives and on our thinking.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,301円 |
 Free Agents How Evolution Gave Us Free Will【電子書籍】[ Kevin Mitchell ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞An evolutionary case for the existence of free will＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agencyーor free willーis an illusion. In ＜em＞Free Agents＜/em＞, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important implicationsーfor how we understand decision making, for how our individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An astonishing journey of discovery, ＜em＞Free Agents＜/em＞ offers a new framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth history, life evolved the power to choose, and why it matters.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,598円 |
 The Age of Diagnosis How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker【電子書籍】[ Suzanne O'Sullivan ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞From a neurologist and the award-winning author of ＜em＞The Sleeping Beauties＜/em＞, a meticulous and compassionate exploration of how our culture of medical diagnosis can harm, rather than help, patients.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞We live in an age of diagnosis. Conditions like ADHD and autism are on the rapid rise, while new categories like long Covid are being created. Medical terms are increasingly used to describe ordinary human experiences, and the advance of sophisticated genetic sequencing techniques means that even the healthiest of us may soon be screened for potential abnormalities. More people are labeled "sick" than ever beforeーbut are these diagnoses improving their lives?＜/p＞ ＜p＞With scientific authority and compassionate storytelling, neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan argues that our obsession with diagnosis is harming more than helping. It is natural when we are suffering to want a clear label, understanding, and, of course, treatment. But our current approach to diagnosis too often pathologizes difference, increases our anxiety, and changes our experience of our bodies for the worse.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through the moving stories of real people, O'Sullivan compares the impact of a medical label to the pain of not knowing. She explains the way the boundaries of a diagnosis can blur over time. Most importantly, she calls for us to find new and better vocabularies for suffering and to find ways to support people without medicalizing them.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,587円 |
 Adaptable How Your Unique Body Really Works and Why Our Biology Unites Us【電子書籍】[ Herman Pontzer PhD ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A new understanding of how our bodies work, how to keep them healthy, and how our biological diversity unites us rather than divides us＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞How does the body workーand why does it seem to work so differently for each of us? Why do we grow tall or short, obese or slim? Why do some of us stay healthy despite our bad habits while others who do all the right things fall ill? When we look around the planet, why do people vary in skin color, facial features, stature, body proportions, and disease risk?＜br /＞ The answer is both simple and powerful: We’re different because we’re adaptable. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies were fine-tuned to our local environments. Adaptability is at the heart of being human and the engine of our diversity ? our species’ original superpower. As an evolutionary anthropologist working with human populations around the globe, Herman Pontzer has conducted research that embraces our incredible diversity, documenting the connections among lifestyle, landscape, local adaptations, and health.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Adaptable＜/em＞ takes us on a tour of the human body. In each chapter, we learn how our bodies navigate an uncertain world: how we grow and mature; how our brains develop and learn; how our hearts, lungs, and digestive systems deliver oxygen and nutrients; how we manage toxins, temperature, and water balance; how we move and reproduce; how our immune system keeps invaders at bay; and how we age and decline. Along the way, we learn how to take care of our remarkable bodies, and that the universe of healthy lifestyles is vast (we don’t need the latest fad diet or cleanse!). Crucially, we come to see how understanding our bodies helps us make sense of the big issues we face today, from vaccines to heart disease, IQ to athletic excellence, diets and obesity to sex and gender, and what we can do to live longer and healthier.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,587円 |
 Escape from Model Land How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It【電子書籍】[ Erica Thompson ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether we are worried about the spread of COVID-19 or making a corporate budget, we depend on mathematical models to help us understand the world around us every day. But models aren’t a mirror of reality. In fact, they are fantasies, where everything works out perfectly, every time. And relying on them too heavily can hurt us.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Escape from Model Land,＜/em＞ statistician Erica Thompson illuminates the hidden dangers of models. She demonstrates how models reflect the biases, perspectives, and expectations of their creators. Thompson shows us why understanding the limits of models is vital to using them well. A deeper meditation on the role of mathematics, this is an essential book for helping us avoid either confusing the map with the territory or throwing away the map completely, instead pointing to more nuanced ways to ＜em＞Escape from Model Land＜/em＞.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,475円 |
 The Glass Cage How Our Computers Are Changing Us【電子書籍】[ Nicholas Carr ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, ＜em＞The Glass Cage＜/em＞ will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The Glass Cage＜/em＞, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and digitized medicine, as he explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. Even as they bring ease to our lives, these programs are stealing something essential from us.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing on psychological and neurological studies that underscore how tightly people’s happiness and satisfaction are tied to performing hard work in the real world, Carr reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From nineteenth-century textile mills to the cockpits of modern jets, from the frozen hunting grounds of Inuit tribes to the sterile landscapes of GPS maps, ＜em＞The Glass Cage＜/em＞ explores the impact of automation from a deeply human perspective, examining the personal as well as the economic consequences of our growing dependence on computers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With a characteristic blend of history and philosophy, poetry and science, Carr takes us on a journey from the work and early theory of Adam Smith and Alfred North Whitehead to the latest research into human attention, memory, and happiness, culminating in a moving meditation on how we can use technology to expand the human experience.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,097円 |
 If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All【電子書籍】[ Eliezer Yudkowsky ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞**INSTANT ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BESTSELLER | ＜em＞The New Yorker＜/em＞'s Best Books of 2025 | A 2025 ＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞ Editors' Choice Pick＜/p＞ ＜p＞The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinctionーbut it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"May prove to be the most important book of our time.”ーTim Urban, ＜em＞Wait But Why＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 2023, hundreds of AI luminaries signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence poses a serious risk of human extinction. Since then, the AI race has only intensified. Companies and countries are rushing to build machines that will be smarter than any person. And the world is devastatingly unprepared for what would come next.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For decades, two signatories of that letterーEliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soaresーhave studied how smarter-than-human intelligences will think, behave, and pursue their objectives. Their research says that sufficiently smart AIs will develop goals of their own that put them in conflict with usーand that if it comes to conflict, an artificial superintelligence would crush us. The contest wouldn’t even be close.＜/p＞ ＜p＞How could a machine superintelligence wipe out our entire species? Why would it want to? Would it want anything at all? In this urgent book, Yudkowsky and Soares walk through the theory and the evidence, present one possible extinction scenario, and explain what it would take for humanity to survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The world is racing to build something truly new under the sun. And if anyone builds it, everyone dies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read.”ーYishan Wong, Former CEO of Reddit＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,954円 |
 Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers A US Perspective【電子書籍】[ Marc C. Sanchez ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offers a succinct overview of key topics and core concepts for food scientists, quality managers, and others who need to understand the regulation of food in the U.S. This second edition includes critical updates on the Food Safety Modernization Act-- the first change to the food safety laws in over 70 years. The seven foundational rules, finalized in 2015, are discussed in detail. The new edition also includes other regulatory updates such as the new Nutrition Fact Panel, changes to the definition of fiber, and the FDA’s attempt to regulate the widely used “healthy” claim. These timely updates, along with the core concepts of the first edition, make the volume an essential and practical tool for regulatory professionals.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 7,292円 |
 Different What Apes Can Teach Us About Gender【電子書籍】[ Frans de Waal ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞A ground-breaking look at gender and sex from the world's leading primatologist and ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ARE WE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW SMART ANIMALS ARE?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'＜strong＞Brilliant and fascinating＜/strong＞... brings a scientific, compassionate and balanced approach to some of the hottest controversies about sex and gender' ＜strong＞Yuval Noah Harari＜/strong＞, author of ＜em＞Sapiens＜/em＞, ＜em＞Homo Deus＜/em＞ and ＜em＞21 Lessons for the 21st Century＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞How different are the sexes? Is gender uniquely human? Where does gender identity originate?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing on decades of observing our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal explores what we know of biological sex differences and of the role of culture and socialization.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From maternal and paternal behaviour to sexual orientation, gender identity, and the limitations of the gender binary, de Waal analyses our shared evolutionary history with the apes, considering what is similar and what sets us apart. Male and female networking groups, sexual signals, the existence of gender non-conforming individuals, and maternal bonds are observed in primate societies, but humans stand apart in the development of nuclear families, the prevalence of sexual violence, and joint parental care.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With expert insight and engaging storytelling, de Waal not only sets right gendered biases in the scientific community, but delivers a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the behavioural norms and the many remarkable potentials of the human species.＜/p＞ ＜p＞'A breath of fresh air...＜strong＞Fascinating, nuanced and very timely＜/strong＞' ＜strong＞Rutger Bregman＜/strong＞, author of ＜em＞Humankind＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Utopia for Realists＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,064円 |
 The World Without Us【電子書籍】[ Alan Weisman ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞The World Without Us,＜/em＞ Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why some of our earliest buildings might be the last architecture left; and how plastic, bronze sculpture, radio waves, and some man-made molecules may be our most lasting gifts to the universe.＜br /＞ ＜em＞The World Without Us＜/em＞ reveals how, just days after humans disappear, floods in New York's subways would start eroding the city's foundations, and how, as the world's cities crumble, asphalt jungles would give way to real ones. It describes the distinct ways that organic and chemically treated farms would revert to wild, how billions more birds would flourish, and how cockroaches in unheated cities would perish without us. Drawing on the expertise of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists, astrophysicists, religious leaders from rabbis to the Dali Lama, and paleontologists---who describe a prehuman world inhabited by megafauna like giant sloths that stood taller than mammoths---Weisman illustrates what the planet might be like today, if not for us.＜br /＞ From places already devoid of humans (a last fragment of primeval European forest; the Korean DMZ; Chernobyl), Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing. As he shows which human devastations are indelible, and which examples of our highest art and culture would endure longest, Weisman's narrative ultimately drives toward a radical but persuasive solution that needn't depend on our demise. It is narrative nonfiction at its finest, and in posing an irresistible concept with both gravity and a highly readable touch, it looks deeply at our effects on the planet in a way that no other book has.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,915円 |
 Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us【電子書籍】[ Eugene Spafford ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞175+ Cybersecurity Misconceptions and the Myth-Busting Skills You Need to Correct Them＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elected into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cybersecurity is fraught with hidden and unsuspected dangers and difficulties. Despite our best intentions, there are common and avoidable mistakes that arise from folk wisdom, faulty assumptions about the world, and our own human biases. Cybersecurity implementations, investigations, and research all suffer as a result. Many of the bad practices sound logical, especially to people new to the field of cybersecurity, and that means they get adopted and repeated despite not being correct. For instance, why isn't the user the weakest link?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞＜strong＞Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions: Avoiding the Hazards and Pitfalls that Derail Us＜/strong＞＜/em＞, three cybersecurity pioneers don't just deliver the first comprehensive collection of falsehoods that derail security from the frontlines to the boardroom; they offer expert practical advice for avoiding or overcoming each myth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whatever your cybersecurity role or experience, Eugene H. Spafford, Leigh Metcalf, and Josiah Dykstra will help you surface hidden dangers, prevent avoidable errors, eliminate faulty assumptions, and resist deeply human cognitive biases that compromise prevention, investigation, and research. Throughout the book, you'll find examples drawn from actual cybersecurity events, detailed techniques for recognizing and overcoming security fallacies, and recommended mitigations for building more secure products and businesses.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Read over 175 common misconceptions held by users, leaders, and cybersecurity professionals, along with tips for how to avoid them.＜/li＞ ＜li＞Learn the pros and cons of analogies, misconceptions about security tools, and pitfalls of faulty assumptions. What really is the weakest link? When aren't "best practices" best?＜/li＞ ＜li＞Discover how others understand cybersecurity and improve the effectiveness of cybersecurity decisions as a user, a developer, a researcher, or a leader.＜/li＞ ＜li＞Get a high-level exposure to why statistics and figures may mislead as well as enlighten.＜/li＞ ＜li＞Develop skills to identify new myths as they emerge, strategies to avoid future pitfalls, and techniques to help mitigate them.＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"You are made to feel as if you would never fall for this and somehow this makes each case all the more memorable. . . . Read the book, laugh at the right places, and put your learning to work. You won't regret it."＜/em＞＜br /＞ --From the Foreword by ＜strong＞Vint Cerf＜/strong＞, Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 5,950円 |
 In Covid's Wake How Our Politics Failed Us【電子書籍】[ Stephen Macedo ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜em＞＜em＞Featured on the ＜em＞New York Times' The Daily podcast and＜/em＞ CNN＜/em＞'s Fareed Zakaria GPS＜/em＞＜br /＞ What our failures during the pandemic cost us, and why we must do better**＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world’s populationー3.9 billion peopleーwere living under quarantine. People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed for months or even years. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this eye-opening book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Were the voices of reasonable dissent treated fairly? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options? And, aside from vaccines, did the policies adopted work as intended?＜/p＞ ＜p＞With ＜em＞In Covid’s Wake＜/em＞, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensiveーand candidーpolitical assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan’s lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Hard choices were obscured by slogans like “follow the science.” Benefits and harms were distributed unfairly. The policies adopted largely benefited the laptop class and left so-called essential workers unprotected; extended school closures hit the least-privileged families the hardest. Science became politicized and dissent was driven to the margins. In the next crisis, Macedo and Lee warn, we must not forget the deepest values of liberal democracy: tolerance and open-mindedness, respect for evidence and its limits, a willingness to entertain uncertainty, and a commitment to telling the whole truth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 3,901円 |
 The Sounds of Life How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants【電子書籍】[ Karen Bakker ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature’s sounds＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At once meditative and scientific, ＜em＞The Sounds of Life＜/em＞ shares fascinating and surprising stories of nonhuman sound, interweaving insights from technological innovation and traditional knowledge. We meet scientists using sound to protect and regenerate endangered species from the Great Barrier Reef to the Arctic and the Amazon. We discover the shocking impacts of noise pollution on both animals and plants. We learn how artificial intelligence can decode nonhuman sounds, and meet the researchers building dictionaries in East African Elephant and Sperm Whalish. At the frontiers of innovation, we explore digitally mediated dialogues with bats and honeybees. Technology often distracts us from nature, but what if it could reconnect us instead?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Sounds of Life＜/em＞ offers hope for environmental conservation and affirms humanity’s relationship with nature in the digital age. After learning about the unsuspected wonders of nature’s sounds, we will never see walks outdoors in the same way again.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,859円 |
 Birds and Us A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation【電子書籍】[ Tim Birkhead ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞Award-winning writer and ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy, from the ibises mummified by Ancient Egyptians and Renaissance experiments on the woodpecker to the Victorian obsessions with egg collecting and our present fight to save endangered species.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientist, this rich and fascinating book is the culmination of a lifetime's research and unforgettably shows how birds shaped us, and how we have shaped them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Thought-provoking at every turn, this inspiring, shocking, wonder-filled exploration of our relationship with birds' Isabella Tree, author of ＜em＞Wilding＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A fascinating book about the close and often surprising relationship between birds and people' Stephen Moss＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 2,382円 |
 An Immense World How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us【電子書籍】[ Ed Yong ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BESTSELLER ? A “thrilling” (＜em＞The New York Times＜/em＞), “dazzling” (＜em＞The Wall Street Journal＜/em＞) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize?winning science journalist Ed Yong＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”ー＜em＞Oprah Daily＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ＜em＞The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Time, People, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Reader’s Digest,＜/em＞ Chicago Public Library, ＜em＞Outside, Publishers Weekly, BookPage＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ＜em＞Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Economist, Smithsonian Magazine＜/em＞, ＜em＞Prospect＜/em＞ (UK), ＜em＞Globe & Mail, Esquire, Mental Floss, Marginalian, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞KIRKUS REVIEWS＜/em＞ BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞An Immense World,＜/em＞ Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, ＜em＞An Immense World＜/em＞ takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL ? FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE ? FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD ? LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 341円 |
 Numbers Don't Lie 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World【電子書籍】[ Vaclav Smil ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞**"Vaclav Smil is my favorite author… ＜em＞Numbers Don't Lie＜/em＞ takes everything that makes his writing great and boils it down into an easy-to-read format. I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning."ーBill Gates, ＜em＞GatesNotes＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the author of ＜em＞How the World Really Works＜/em＞, an essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our worldーexploring a wide range of topics including energy, the environment, technology, transportation, and food production.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Vaclav Smil's mission is to make facts matter. An environmental scientist, policy analyst, and a hugely prolific author, he is Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. In ＜em＞Numbers Don't Lie＜/em＞, Smil answers questions such as: What's worse for the environmentーyour car or your phone? How much do the world's cows weigh (and what does it matter)? And what makes people happy?＜/p＞ ＜p＞From data about our societies and populations, through measures of the fuels and foods that energize them, to the impact of transportation and inventions of our modern worldーand how all of this affects the planet itselfーin ＜em＞Numbers Don't Lie＜/em＞, Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge conventional thinking. Packed with fascinating information and memorable examples, ＜em＞Numbers Don't Lie＜/em＞ reveals how the US is leading a rising worldwide trend in chicken consumption, that vaccination yields the best return on investment, and why electric cars aren't as great as we think (yet). Urgent and essential, with a mix of science, history, and witーall in bite-sized chapters on a broad range of topicsー＜em＞Numbers Don't Lie＜/em＞ inspires readers to interrogate what they take to be true.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,370円 |
 食慾科學的祕密，蛋白質知道：從動物攝食偏好破解人類飲食的密碼，一場横跨三十年的營養實驗 Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating【電子書籍】 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞營養，是影響動物行為的關鍵，＜/p＞ ＜p＞而營養中最重要的，是蛋白質！＜/p＞ ＜p＞《新科學人》（New Scientist）年度好書＜/p＞ ＜p＞從蝗蟲、?螂、果蠅、小鼠到紅毛猩猩的攝食選擇，＜/p＞ ＜p＞?露蛋白質對人類飲食?史的巨大影響。＜/p＞ ＜p＞科學家三十年研究結果，?對顛覆大?對飲食科學的認知！＜/p＞ ＜p＞「所有研究營養領域的專業人士都該?讀本書。」──亞馬遜讀者五星評論＜/p＞ ＜p＞怪奇事物所所長、阿簡老師（阿簡生物筆記部落格格主）、?貞祥（國立清華大學分子與細胞生物研究所助理教授）、楊正澤（國立中興大學昆蟲學系教授）、鄭國威（泛科學知識長）、蕭旭峰（國立臺灣大學昆蟲學系教授兼主任）◎一致推薦（按姓氏筆畫序）＜/p＞ ＜p＞「營養」與「食慾」有關係?？關係大了！＜/p＞ ＜p＞動物的食慾演化成能?對應特定的營養素，引導?們去吃維生必需的食物。＜/p＞ ＜p＞但這究竟是如何?到的？人類是否也有這種能力？＜/p＞ ＜p＞如果答案是肯定的，為何人類似乎更傾向於選擇??食物？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?蝗蟲為什麼要遵守「跟著旁邊的蝗蟲一起移動」這個原則？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?大部分時候吃植物的摩門蟋蟀為什麼會貪婪大嚼同類屍體，甚至造成集體自殺？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?把黏菌團塊放到含有不同蛋白質與?水化合物比例的培養皿裡，它們竟然能自行「選擇」出適當食物？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?只能在蛛網中被動等待獵物的蜘蛛如何讓自身攝取的營養維持平衡？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?紅毛猩猩如何因應森林中果實?量不穩的飲食環境？這跟人類的肥胖模式有何異曲同工之妙？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?吃太多蛋白質的代價為何是早死？＜/p＞ ＜p＞?在人類兩百萬年的?史中，我們累積脂肪到這種空前程度的原因究竟是什麼？＜/p＞ ＜p＞人們經常有個誤會，以為食慾是一種單一的強大力量，驅使我們進食到飽足為止。但事實上，如果要混吃各種食物達到均衡飲食，光靠一種食慾是不?的，因此動物需要針對不同所需的營養成分而有「個別」食慾，而個別的食慾會彼此互動，藉此達到營養均衡。問題是：多種食慾的力量能?滿足某種生物的營養需求，會不會其實是例外，而非普世的規則？是否有?種食慾?營養素最為優先？兩位作者花費三十多年研究這個主題，並在本書提出理論，?明大部分的動物都能透過食慾系統選擇特定比例的營養素，並以豐富多樣的物種研究為例，?明他們的「蛋白質槓桿理論」如何在生物飲食中建立規則。他們的科學之旅把讀者帶到世界各地，從南非開普敦山麓、亞利桑那州的沙漠，婆羅洲的沼澤森林，再到雪梨最先進的生物研究中心。這場史詩般的科學冒險最終形成了一個統一的營養理論，解釋了全球當今的代謝與肥胖相關疾病比例為何節節升高。本書是關於「食慾」機制的真相，兩位作者以科學家對生態系統運作的熱情探究為出發點，輔以大膽假?與多種實驗，帶給讀者嶄新視角──不僅?露不同物種的共同飲食規則，也探討人類在遠離自身的生物特性之後，付出了什麼樣的巨大代價。＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,554円 |
 數據、?言與真相：Google資料分析師用大數據?露人們的真面目 Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are【電子書籍】[ 賽斯?史蒂芬斯ー大衛徳維茲 ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞?誠品書店當月選書＜/p＞ ＜p＞?亞馬遜非文學類當月選書＜/p＞ ＜p＞?亞馬遜 2017 年年度最佳商管書＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《財星》雜誌當月最佳商業書籍＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《紐約時報》暢銷書＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《經濟學人》《紐約郵報》《圖書館期刊》等多家媒體推薦＜/p＞ ＜p＞★大數據下的真實人性！＜/p＞ ＜p＞★結合《精準預測》的大量資訊分析、《異數》的敘事風格，以及《蘋果橘子經濟學》的機智風趣。＜/p＞ ＜p＞★Google前資料分析師描寫大數據最令人信服、深具挑釁，甚至令人捧腹大笑的一本書！＜/p＞ ＜p＞人們?報在回家途中喝了多少酒，＜/p＞ ＜p＞?稱自己多常上健身房和新鞋子買多少錢，＜/p＞ ＜p＞就連沒看過的書也?自己有看過。＜/p＞ ＜p＞沒生病卻打電話請病假，?再聯絡卻不再聯絡。＜/p＞ ＜p＞人們?事情跟?無關，但其實就跟?有關。＜/p＞ ＜p＞明明不愛?，卻騙??愛?。＜/p＞ ＜p＞心情不好時卻?自己很開心，＜/p＞ ＜p＞明明喜歡男人，卻?自己喜歡女人。＜/p＞ ＜p＞人們對朋友??、對老???、對子女??、對父母??、＜/p＞ ＜p＞對醫生??、對老公??、對老婆??，也對自己??。＜/p＞ ＜p＞作者證明大數據提供一種前所未有的方式，＜/p＞ ＜p＞讓我們窺探人們的?心世界，＜/p＞ ＜p＞因為人們透過鍵盤才會在無意中私密地坦承千奇百怪的事情。＜/p＞ ＜p＞歐巴馬當選表示美國的種族?視緩解了？錯！＜/p＞ ＜p＞黒人球員進入職業運動殿堂是貧困孩子奮發向上的勵志故事？大部分不是！＜/p＞ ＜p＞挑選賽馬最重要的參考依據是血統？不！＜/p＞ ＜p＞父母對待兒子和女兒的態度不一樣?？不一樣！＜/p＞ ＜p＞佛洛伊徳?夢境中的事物都有性意涵，這是對的?？很可能不對！＜/p＞ ＜p＞回答問卷、民意調?、接受採訪、臉書貼文──我們都有可能??；＜/p＞ ＜p＞但是?的搜尋行為可不會??！＜/p＞ ＜p＞大數據，呈現我們?個人、?秒鐘無意識的反射！＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 無論是嚴肅或日常的議題，如今我們已有途徑能解答不久之前因種種原因（例如缺乏數據，或單純不敢提問）還未能解答的問題。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 四年前，作者還是哈佛經濟系博士班學生，正努力找尋論文題目。有天早上，他發現 Google 基本上已為所有研究者備好所需的資料，也就是?，Google 是全球人類興趣資料庫的集中地，這些資料簡直就是任何對人類行為感興趣的人夢寐以求的：從我們?個人?天的網路搜尋中找到行為模式。然而，這些資料早已存在好些時日，卻從未有任何報章雜誌對其有過深刻的報導與研究。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 作者深入研究 Google、推特（Twitter）、臉書（Facebook）、警察局紀?、電影票收據、維基百科、色情網站、棒球球員個人成績表，和?想像不到的數位與傳統資料來源之後，發現這些資料來源有個共通的特點：他們提供的是大數據，亦即我們?個人?秒鐘無意識的反射，而非根據民意調?而來的一小部分民?的意見樣本。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 網路上的新數據，也就是數十億人在 Google、社群媒體、約會網站，甚至色情網站留下的數位足跡，最後會?穿事實真相。這些不僅是新類型的數據，更有些是「誠實」的數據，在匿名機制下，彷彿四下無人時，人們才會吐露自己最真實的想法，以及真正想問的??問題。這類數據就像數位版的「誠實豆沙包」，讓人們表達出自己的無性婚姻、個人精神健康問題、不安全感、受虐，以及對黒人或穆斯林的憎惡。透過分析這座數字金礦，我們現在可以了解人們真正在想什麼，真正想要什麼，以及真正做了什麼。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 作者在本書中展示，要從數據中獲得寶貴資訊，最關鍵的一點是：?必須問對問題。而大數據有四大關鍵力量可以協助：＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ?大數據能讓?將數據切割分解，讓?見微知著及獲得具體的見解。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ?新的資料來源通常包括新類型的變數，比現存變數更能?助我們了解複雜關係，並充分利用。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ?新的數位資訊能提供我們生活的真實樣貌，而非我們希望自己呈現給外人的形象。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ?大數據易於與實驗結合，使我們能測試因果關係，而非僅是相關性。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 進入網路新時代的這幾十年以來，我們在健康、道徳、勞動市場、商業、恐怖主義、性別，以及種族等議題上有長足的認識。我們的數位足跡已把整個世界變成一個實驗室，本書將呈現出這場數位革命如何為我們?個人打開找尋隱藏真理的大門，一窺人們的?心世界，提出大數據時代真正的洞見。＜/p＞ ＜p＞ 本書以極具?發性的觀點解讀大數據，並以各式各樣有趣的案例忠實呈現網路世界與當代社會的現況，讓我們得以重新認識自己與這個世界。＜/p＞ ＜p＞專業人士推薦＜/p＞ ＜p＞?苗博雅（《阿苗帶風向》主持人）、馮勃翰（台大經濟系副教授）專文推薦＜/p＞ ＜p＞?張鐵志（文化與社會趨勢觀察家）誠實推薦＜/p＞ ＜p＞專業人士推薦語＜/p＞ ＜p＞?哈佛大學榮譽退休校長?諾頓講座教授勞倫斯?桑默斯（Lawrence Summers）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「《蘋果橘子經濟學》（Freakonomics）和《魔球》（Moneyball）都要靠邊站了。這本精彩傑作是?明大數據結合聰明才智如何撼動世界的最佳示範。?讀這本好書，會讓?以嶄新的方式看待生活。」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《人性中的良善天使》作者史蒂芬?平克（Steven Pinker）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「研究思維的一種嶄新方式，史蒂芬斯ー大衛徳維茲的發現一次又一次地顛覆我對自己國家和同胞先入為主的看法……這本書真是太令人著迷了。」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《蘋果橘子經濟學》合著者史蒂芬?李維特（Steven Levitt）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「針對大數據?露人們日常生活真相做出?頂聰明又機鋒處處的探索。史蒂芬斯ー大衛徳維茲是我見過最會善用數據?故事的高手。」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《我們是誰？大數據下的人類行為觀察》作者克里斯汀?魯徳（Christian Rudder）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「對於我們生活的數據進行振奮人心又引人入勝的審視……大數據會徹底推翻?對人們的既定印象，真相會讓?畏縮、暗自竊笑並搖頭嘆息。」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?《注意力商人》（The Attention Merchants）作者?修銘（Tim Wu）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「《數據、?言與真相》仰頼大數據迅速拆穿我們自以為文明的假象。一本讓人既著迷又震驚，時而駭人聽聞的傑作。最棒的是，讓真相一覽無遺。」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?史丹佛大學經濟學教授拉吉?切提（Raj Chetty）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「《蘋果橘子經濟學》的増強版，這本書顯示大數據如何能針對重要有趣的問題，提供我們驚人的新答案。史蒂芬斯ー大衛徳維茲以機智俐落的方式提供數據分析，為構成社會科學的大數據提供精闢出色的介紹。 」＜/p＞ ＜p＞?拉扎徳投資銀行（Lazard）董事總經理?前國會預算?公室主任彼得?奧薩格（Peter Orszag）：＜/p＞ ＜p＞「傑作！！！作者妙筆生花敘述透過大數據進行的一場寓教於樂之旅。這場旅程剛好為人類行為本身提出一個重要的新觀點。如果?想了解我們居住的世界正在發生什麼事，甚至是了解?的友人究竟怎麼回事，?就該從頭到尾看完這本書。」＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,434円 |
 The Official US Army Combat Medic Manual & Trainer's Guide Complete & Unabridged - 500+ pages - Reflowable Ebook - MOS 68W Current Edition - STP 8-68W13-SM-TG【電子書籍】[ US Army ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞DO NO HARM - DO KNOW HARM＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Reflowable ebook edition＜/strong＞: NOT a fixed-layout / print replica.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Created and trusted by U.S. forces＜/strong＞ to ＜strong＞educate Combat Medic Specialists＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞save lives from traumatic injury under the most adverse emergency conditions＜/strong＞.＜/li＞ ＜li＞＜strong＞Current edition - complete & unabridged＜/strong＞; MOS 68W - STP 8-68W13-SM-TG (Health Care Specialists Skill Levels 1, 2, and 3).＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞The ＜strong＞Combat Medic＜/strong＞ is one of the U.S. Army's ＜strong＞most enduring and treasured figures＜/strong＞, responsible for ＜strong＞saving countless thousands of lives＜/strong＞ in action across the globe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This ＜strong＞giant medical reference book＜/strong＞ - over 500 pages - covers everything the aspiring ＜strong＞Combat Medic Specialist＜/strong＞ (MOS 68W), conscientious solider, or other interested party needs to know about ＜strong＞saving lives on the battlefield＜/strong＞ or in any other ＜strong＞emergency, conflict, or humanitarian situation＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Not only that, it is also a ＜strong＞training guide＜/strong＞ that will show you how to ＜strong＞rapidly educate＜/strong＞ others to become competent field medics.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is ＜strong＞no mere first aid guide＜/strong＞ or first-responder course. It is a ＜strong＞large, comprehensive, no-nonsense manual＜/strong＞ that will enable you to ＜strong＞preserve life and ease discomfort＜/strong＞ when there is ＜strong＞no-one else on whom to call＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written by the ＜strong＞most demanding of experts＜/strong＞, with the benefit of ＜strong＞decades of hard-won experience＜/strong＞ in war-zones around the world, this book is ＜strong＞an investment in your future, and the future of those around you＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a ＜strong＞reflowable＜/strong＞ ebook, ＜strong＞not a low-quality fixed-layout edition＜/strong＞. Reflowable books ＜strong＞adapt to your device and your settings＜/strong＞ for a ＜strong＞superior reading experience＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Search for 'CARLILE MILITARY LIBRARY' to find more TOP-FLIGHT, SQUARED-AWAY publications for your professional bookshelf!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Published in the U.S.A. by CARLILE MEDIA.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Information purposes only.＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,172円 |
 眼見為憑：從眼睛到大腦，從感知到思考，探索「看見」的奧祕 We Know It When We See It: What the Neurobiology of Vision Tells Us About How We Think【電子書籍】[ 理?．馬斯蘭 ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞＜strong＞我們為何能輕易在人群中認出家人或朋友的面孔？＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞如此理所當然的行為，其運作機制卻是科學界的重大奧祕之一！＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞從視覺到人工智慧，?開人腦與電腦的「看見」之謎＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞幾乎大腦所有的行為，都與視覺息息相關，當我們了解視覺形成的原理，不僅能?明白「看見」代表的意義，更能一窺大腦運作的堂奧。哈佛大學神經科學教授理?．馬斯蘭藉由解析眼睛的?在組成與行為，解答了關於大腦處理資訊的關鍵問題：即人類如何感知、學習和記憶資訊。＜/p＞ ＜p＞視覺神經細胞是高度特化、細緻而多元的神經細胞，一條視神經中約包含百萬根神經纖維，也因此「視覺的形成機制」一直是科學界亟欲解開的謎題。《眼見為憑：從眼睛到大腦，從感知到思考，探索「看見」的奧祕》分為三部分，理?．馬斯蘭帶領讀者從第一部「視覺的開始」出發，解?光線進入視網膜時發生的各項細節、介紹視網膜與視神經上功能不同的細胞及其機制；第二部分進一?闡述這些神經細胞如何各司其職接收訊息，並將其轉化為知覺的複雜神經網絡，讓我們對日常生活中幾乎不會意識到的「看見」，有了全新的認識，更將?容擴及電腦，闡述其如何藉由機器學習發展人工智慧；第三部分則嘗試討論知覺與思想，當電腦學會「看」，是否表示它有了自己的思想？電腦真能取代人腦?？或者還需要發展更多技巧？都在本書中有獨到的解析。＜/p＞ ＜p＞理?．馬斯蘭以風趣生動的口吻講述看似枯燥的理論機制，並廣納各種觀點；行文之間更不時點綴以合作過的傑出學者，以及在漫長研究過程中發生的大小事。透過深入淺出的筆觸，讓那些在實驗室裡度過的晨昏躍然紙上，帶領讀者一同參與這?偉大的解謎之旅。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞好評推薦＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞阿任叔叔（科普圖文作家）＜br /＞ 曹玉?（臺大醫院北護分院主治醫師）＜br /＞ ?貞祥（清華大學生命科學系助理教授）＜br /＞ 楊斯?（年度暢銷書《人生路引》作者）＜br /＞ 蔡依橙（13萬人追蹤「蔡依橙的?讀筆記」板主）＜br /＞ 鄭國威（泛科知識公司知識長）＜br /＞ 蘇上豪（金鼎奬作家、博仁綜合醫院心臟血管外科主任）＜br /＞ ーー共同推薦（依姓名筆劃排序）＜/p＞ ＜p＞透過雙眼，我們能看見世界的繽紛；而透過本書，我們才能真正窺見人類視覺的奧祕。ーー阿任叔叔（科普圖文作家）＜/p＞ ＜p＞?的視覺不是?的視覺，要看到我們以為是真實的世界，腦部其實要進行諸多複雜的加工和運算，我們天生就帶著有色眼鏡感知世界。這個腦神經網絡詮釋和建構世界的過程，我們目前也僅知曉其中的冰山一角，但和過去相比，我們在科學上的認識卻是突飛猛進的。理?．馬斯蘭在這本可讀性很高的書中，提供了許多關於神經知覺的第一手研究和發現，讓我們用心看到更廣闊的世界！ーー?貞祥（清華大學生命科學系助理教授）＜/p＞ ＜p＞理?．馬斯蘭的著作《眼見為憑》，以活?又不失專業的風格，??道出眼睛如何成像再透過大腦認知的過程，除了有視覺神經的基礎知識，亦包含許多科學家發現這些秘密的?史故事，不僅適合想輕鬆了解醫療科普知識的讀者，更提供想深入了解其中知識的好奇寶寶。＜br /＞ 人工智慧可以取代視覺成像與認知的神奇過程?？本書提供一些想法，需要?親自來探索──在此推薦可以一讀的好書。ーー蘇上豪（金鼎奬作家、博仁綜合醫院心臟血管外科主任）＜/p＞ ＜p＞我們是如何從人群中認出一張臉的？馬斯蘭從這個問題開始，告訴我們人類如何看見、思考與記憶。他一??構築出腦部的面貌：由神經網絡構成的廣袤動態聯盟。驚人的是，這幅面貌和人工智慧非常相似，並且讓人知道腦部的適應能力、創造力和恢復能力從何而來。ーー蘇珊．貝瑞（Susan R. Barry），美國霍利約克山學院（Mount Holyoke College）神經科學與行為學資深教授＜/p＞ ＜p＞交織科學?容與科學故事的傑作，讓人想一口氣讀完。只有在這個領域中的資深科學家才能?完成如此充滿智慧、見解又容易?讀的著作。ーー大衛．伊格爾曼（David Eagleman），史丹佛大學神經科學家，《紐約時報》暢銷書作者＜/p＞ ＜p＞了解神經知覺的必讀之書，文字清晰流暢，人人可?。馬斯蘭告訴我們腦中用以體驗世界的硬體（細胞與迴路）與軟體（邏輯與計算）運作方式。對知覺、機器學習或是腦部運作有興趣的人都應該來讀這本書。ーー安徳魯．胡伯曼（Andrew D. Hubeman），史丹佛大學醫學院神經生物學與眼科教授＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞作者簡介＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞理?．馬斯蘭（Richard Masland, 1942-2019）＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞哈佛醫學院科甘傑出眼科學教授（David Glendenning Cogan Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology）與神經科學教授。曾擔任世上最大視覺研究機構麻州眼耳醫院（Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary）研究主任多年。二十多年來擔任哈佛醫學園神經科學課程的主要教師，並因此得到兩座教師獎。他是美國科學促進會（AAAS）成員、前霍華徳．休斯醫學研究所（Howard Hughes Medical Institute）研究員，以及普洛克特獎章（Proctor Medal）與愛爾康研究獎（Alcon Research Award）等諸多獎項的得主。他為視網膜的神經網路與逆轉失明的研究帶來了開創性的貢獻。＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞譯者簡介＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞トウ子衿＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞國立陽明大學微生物及免疫學研究所碩士。專職生命科學、食物以及醫學範疇的科普翻譯，曾獲得第九屆?大猷科普翻譯獎佳作，雜誌譯稿散見於《科學人》與《國家地理》，近期的翻譯書籍有《藻的祕密》、《群的征服》與《毒特物種》等。＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 1,385円 |
 Crosscurrents US Relations with Nationalist China, 1943-1960【電子書籍】[ Martin B. Gold ] 楽天Kobo電子書籍ストア | ＜p＞Locked in a common fight against Imperial Japan, the United States and Nationalist China became allies, but significant fissures in their relationship soon developed. Neither ally would accommodate each other’s core interests in strategies necessary to win the war. This disconnect continued after Japan’s surrender, as the United States pressed Chinese Nationalists and Communists to join a coalition government that neither wanted. During the civil war, the United States supported the Nationalists, but never to the degree they thought mattered. After the Communist triumph, America served its national security and anti-Communism, by helping the Nationalists defend Taiwan, but hedged against assisting Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland. Twice in the 1950’s tensions in the Taiwan Strait nearly expanded into nuclear conflict.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。 | 5,099円 |