提姆·希金斯(Tim Higgins)，《华尔街日报》科技与汽车专栏记者，多次登上CNBC、福克斯商业与CNN国际频道的节目。他的作品曾获得“美国商业编辑与作家协会”所颁发的多个奖项。

Inside the outrageous, come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley. To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his ...(展开全部)

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine - wit...(展开全部)

保罗·萨宾（Paul Sabin） 耶鲁大学历史系教授，主要讲授美国在环境与能源、政治与法律方面的历史。进入耶鲁之前，曾任非营利组织环境领导项目的创办执行总监。著有《较量：乐观的经济学与悲观的生态学》和《原油政治：加利福尼亚原油市场》。

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine - wit...(展开全部)

Power Play is the riveting inside story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest cars. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley, and his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. However, when Tesla was founded in the 2000s, Tesla would undergo a hellish fifteen years, beset by rivals, pressured by inve...(展开全部)

For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski...(展开全部)

[美] 亚当•库哈尔斯基（Adam Kucharski） 科学家、科普作家。他出生于1986年，毕业于英国顶尖研究型大学华威大学，并在剑桥大学获得博士学位。他发表的论文课题广泛，从统计学到社会行为都有涉猎。他也是一位出色的科普作家，曾获得“威康信托基金会科学写作奖”，并持续为新锐科普杂志《鹦鹉螺》，知名媒体《BBC聚焦》《连线》，以及老牌科学期刊《科学美国人》等媒体撰稿。现居英国伦敦。

This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-rang...(展开全部)

作者简介 [美]詹姆斯·F. 英格利希，美国文化理论家、文学社会学和数据驱动人文研究方法的领军人物。他目前是宾夕法尼亚大学教授、普莱斯数字人文研究所创始人和主任，曾担任欧洲文化节顾问委员会委员 (2009一2011)、美国国家图书奖小说类评委会主席（2016）等，主要研究领域为文化社会学与经济学、文学研究学科史，及当代英国小说、电影和电视。他正在撰写的《以数计美》(Beauty by the Numbers)研究了当代文学、艺术领域的评级和排名体系。 译者简介 芮小河 西安外国语大学欧美文学研究中心教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为当代英语文学、文化研究和文艺理论等。 党争胜 西安外国语大学教授，博士生导师，主要研究领域为文学翻译理论和翻译批评研究。