A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provokin...(展开全部)

Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today? Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agend...(展开全部)

A fascinating, epic exploration of who gets to record the world's history--from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns--and how their biases influence our understanding about the past. There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as "objective" history? In this lively and thought-provokin...(展开全部)

Who writes the past? And how do the biases of storytellers - whether Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Simon Schama - influence our ideas about history today? Epic, authoritative and entertaining, Making History delves into the lives of those who have charted human history - professional historians, witnesses, novelists, journalists and propagandists - to discover the agend...(展开全部)

The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human...(展开全部)

The alternative to the well-told narrative of human civilisation is the compelling story of wanderers, of tribes who lived beyond imperial borders, and who created their own kingdoms and empires: Scythian, Xiongnu and Persian, Hun and Arab, Mongul, Mughal, Ottoman and others. Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people i...(展开全部)

彼得·戴曼迪斯（Peter Diamandis）  全球商业太空探索的领军人，共创立了十几家商业太空探索公司，已将8位顾客送上了国际空间站。  X大奖创始人。戴曼迪斯创立了X大奖基金会，用X大奖的形式鼓励私人太空探索。此后，为了激励人们的创新活动，X大奖基金会在环保、汽车、健康等领域陆续设立了X大奖。  奇点大学执行主席。戴曼迪斯和库兹韦尔提出：要聚集世界上最聪明的大脑，让他们学习最前沿的未来科学，去解决世界上最宏大的问题。因此，两人共同创立了奇点大学（Singularity University），致力于培养面向未来的、有“全球性”和“指数型”思维方式的人才。 斯蒂芬·科特勒（Steven Kotler）  流动基因组计划创始人之一、总裁，作家及优秀记者。

Imagine 6.8 billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and non-polluting and ubiquitous energy. Since the dawn of humanity there has always been a privileged, prosperous few living in stark contrast to the majority struggling with disease, starvation and poverty. At first glance it seems that we'll never ...(展开全部)

Imagine 6.8 billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and non-polluting and ubiquitous energy. Since the dawn of humanity there has always been a privileged, prosperous few living in stark contrast to the majority struggling with disease, starvation and poverty. At first glance it seems that we'll never ...(展开全部)

彼得·戴曼迪斯（Peter Diamandis）  全球商业太空探索的领军人，共创立了十几家商业太空探索公司，已将8位顾客送上了国际空间站。  X大奖创始人。戴曼迪斯创立了X大奖基金会，用X大奖的形式鼓励私人太空探索。此后，为了激励人们的创新活动，X大奖基金会在环保、汽车、健康等领域陆续设立了X大奖。  奇点大学执行主席。戴曼迪斯和库兹韦尔提出：要聚集世界上最聪明的大脑，让他们学习最前沿的未来科学，去解决世界上最宏大的问题。因此，两人共同创立了奇点大学（Singularity University），致力于培养面向未来的、有“全球性”和“指数型”思维方式的人才。 斯蒂芬·科特勒（Steven Kotler）  流动基因组计划创始人之一、总裁，作家及优秀记者。