Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.

查尔斯·塞弗（Charles Seife） 毕业于耶鲁大学，科学记者，《科学美国人》《经济学人》《连线》杂志撰稿人。著有四本专著，包括《数字是靠不住的》《瓶中的太阳》《零》等，曾荣获国际笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰奖非小说类奖项，被《纽约时报》列入推荐书目名单。现定居美国纽约，为纽约大学新闻学专业教授。

查尔斯·塞弗（Charles Seife） 毕业于耶鲁大学，科学记者，《科学美国人》《经济学人》《连线》杂志撰稿人。著有四本专著，包括《数字是靠不住的》《瓶中的太阳》《零》等，曾荣获国际笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰奖非小说类奖项，被《纽约时报》列入推荐书目名单。现定居美国纽约，为纽约大学新闻学专业教授。

A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological apocalypse. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demo...(展开全部)

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)

Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may even bring about the extinction of our species. Yet behind these anxieties lies an older, much deeper fear about the power that climate exerts over us. The Empire of Climate traces the history of this idea and its pervasive ...(展开全部)

‘Arnold-Forster belongs to that valuable non-jargon-spouting breed of academic who is capable of explaining complex ideas in simple language.’ – The Times In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from its first identification i...(展开全部)

Communication plays a vital and unique role in society-often blamed for problems when it breaks down and at the same time heralded as a panacea for human relations. A sweeping history of communication, Speaking Into the Air illuminates our expectations of communication as both historically specific and a fundamental knot in Western thought.