尼可拉斯•克里斯多夫和雪莉•邓恩在担任《纽约时报》驻北京特派员期间获得普利策新闻奖，他们也是第一对共同获得普利策奖的夫妇，随后克里斯多夫先生又于2009年因《纽约时报》的报道再获普利策奖，他曾担任过《纽约时报》驻香港、北京、东京的分社社长及副主编，现为《纽约时报》专栏评论家。 尼可拉斯•克里斯多夫和雪莉•邓恩共同创作了四部畅销书，其中包括《纽约时报》重磅畅销书《天空的另一半》，《走的人多了，就有了路》是二人继《天空的另一半》后又一人文佳作，广受媒体和读者好评。

Acknowledgments While I have taken a number of years to synthesize the ideas in this book，they would never have gotten between two covers without the help of friends and associates．Among the fast to be acknowledged are my colleagues，past and present， at The Nailsbia Group who daily monitor events in every coro ner of this society，especially my close associate and friend Jef...(展开全部)

Many probability books are written by mathematicians and have the built in bias that the reader is assumed to be a mathematician coming to the material for its beauty. This textbook is geared towards beginning graduate students from a variety of disciplines whose primary focus is not necessarily mathematics for its own sake. Instead, A Probability Path is designed for those req...(展开全部)

Many probability books are written by mathematicians and have the built in bias that the reader is assumed to be a mathematician coming to the material for its beauty. This textbook is geared towards beginning graduate students from a variety of disciplines whose primary focus is not necessarily mathematics for its own sake. Instead, A Probability Path is designed for those req...(展开全部)

A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it b...(展开全部)

[加]查尔斯·蒙哥马利（Charles Montgomery）：一名屡获殊荣的记者。他也因作品《鲨神》（The Shark God，加拿大版名为《最后的异人》 [The Last Heathen]），获 2005 年查尔斯·泰勒非小说类文学奖。他创建的“幸福都市”项目（Happy City)已运行了10年有余，致力于研究和探索城市规划及设计与居民的健康、幸福感、人际关系的影响，并提供相关的咨询和设计。

穆罕默德•尤努斯(Muhammad Yunus)，孟加拉国银行家，被誉为“微型金融之父”，创办了世界上第一个为底层人提供金融服务，帮助他们创业的格莱珉银行。同时也是格莱珉中国的创始人。 至今，格莱珉银行在孟加拉国的81400个村庄中建立了2568个支行，服务893万金融界难以接触者。格莱珉银行还款率99%，成为了金融界的奇迹。同时，格莱珉独特的“五人小组、中心会议、社区议题”等模式，能有效扩展底层妇女的社会网络，培育社会资本，通过利用金融工具，让他们经济上更有力量。2006年，“为表彰他们从社会底层推动经济和社会发展的努力”，他与格莱珉银行共同获得诺贝尔和平奖。 2012年3月，《财富》杂志将尤努斯教授评为当代12个最伟大的企业家之一。1983年，尤努斯教授创建了格莱珉银行，为金融界不可接触者提供小额信贷，帮助他们建立自己的小企业，深刻地改变了孟加拉...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·费西金（Joseph Fishkin），得克萨斯大学法学院助理教授，从事就业和投票权等领域中的机会平等和反歧视法律的研究与教学。他拥有牛津大学政治学博士学位和耶鲁大学法律博士学位。徐曦白，牛津大学比较政治学博士研究生，从事公民社会、国家与社会关系等方面的研究。