布赖恩·奥尔迪斯（Brian Aldiss），1925年出生于英格兰诺福克郡。他在牛津从事书商工作时发表了他的第一部小说《亮泉日记》（1955）。作为世界科幻小说创作领域最重要的作家和批评家之一，奥尔迪斯不仅发表了多种诗歌作品和批评著述，而且创作了四十多部长篇小说，三百多个短篇小说，获得过所有重要的科幻小说奖项。

布赖恩·奥尔迪斯（Brian Aldiss），1925年出生于英格兰诺福克郡。他在牛津从事书商工作时发表了他的第一部小说《亮泉日记》（1955）。作为世界科幻小说创作领域最重要的作家和批评家之一，奥尔迪斯不仅发表了多种诗歌作品和批评著述，而且创作了四十多部长篇小说，三百多个短篇小说，获得过所有重要的科幻小说奖项。

Ten billion days - that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights - that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days a...(展开全部)

Ten billion days--that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights--that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel into the future to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth. Named the greatest Japanese science fiction novel of all time, Ten Billion Days and...(展开全部)

Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing w...(展开全部)

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion , Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping furth...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier），英国著名经济学家，牛津大学经济学和公共政策教授，前世界银行发展研究部门主任，英国政府顾问，曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖、克林纳国际书卷奖、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖、埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖等。著有《最底层的十亿人》《战争、枪炮与选票》《资本主义的未来》《贪婪已死》等。2010年和2011年被《外交政策》杂志评为“全球百大思想家”。

A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation. As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of popul...(展开全部)