Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas (1925–1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling juxtapositions. Warburg’s allusive atlas sought to illuminate the pains of his final years, after he had suffered a breakdown and been institutionalized. It continues to influence contemporary...(展开全部)

“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.” - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.” - Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Zero to One presents at once an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new way of thinking about innovation: it starts by learning to ask the questions that lead you to find value in unexpected places.

“This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.” - Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.” - Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still unchart...(展开全部)

If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows how we can find singular ways to create those new things. Thiel begins with the contrarian premise that we live in an age of tech...(展开全部)

彼得•蒂尔（Peter Thiel） 被誉为硅谷的天使，投资界的思想家。1998年创办PayPal并担任CEO，2002年将PayPal以15亿美元出售给eBay，把电子商务带向新纪元。2004年做了首笔在Facebook的外部投资，并担任董事。同年成立软件公司Palantir，服务于国防安全与全球金融领域的数据分析。蒂尔联合创办了Founders Fund基金，为LinkedIn、SpaceX、Yelp等十几家出色的科技新创公司提供早期资金，其中多家公司由PayPal的同事负责营运，这些人在硅谷有“PayPal黑帮”之称。他成立了蒂尔奖学金（Thiel Fellowship）鼓励年轻人在校园之外学习和创业。他还成立了蒂尔基金（Thiel Foundation），推动科技进步和对未来的长远思考。 布莱克•马斯特斯 （Blake Masters） 20...(展开全部)

给莉莉的信”由三十封给外孙女莉莉的信组成。 从追问人是谁， 人所由何来， 人的种族国家等问题开始， 接着探讨人的爱和友谊， 人类的暴力和恐惧， 知识和信仰， 权力和秩序， 自我与他人， 生与死， 身心关系等基本问题。 文字生动浅白。 麦克法兰没有把人类作为“万物的灵长， 宇宙的精华”一味赞颂。 而是认为“人类是悖论的化身， 是矛盾的集成”。 作者写到： 人类真是莫名奇妙啊。 他们明明只是动物， 却自以为是别具一格。 他们拿不定主意， 到底该看重自己的精神还是肉体。他们也不能决定， 到底应该看重自己的感官还是思想。 他们自视不朽， 而终于要死亡。 他们聪明绝顶， 然而这份智慧只不过把他们引向愚行和无礼取闹。 他们自称是真理的唯一判官， 却在谎言中度日。 他们不乏仁爱之心， 却不惜光阴彼此仇恨， 互相损害。 他们有能力创造伟大的艺术， 却把世界弄得丑陋而...(展开全部)

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. ...(展开全部)

安德鲁·克雷格（Andrew Craig） 英国伦敦金融城20余年工作经验，曾就职于瑞银欧债部、股票部，法国农业信贷银行，专业生物技术投资银行等。在其金融职业生涯中，曾参与巴宝莉、易捷航空等数十家知名公司的IPO。 2011年创立个人理财网站，此后经常受邀在《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《镜报》（The Mirror）、《财经周刊》（MoneyWeek）等发表评论，也多次接受彭博社等专业媒体及电视台的专访。