Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that...(展开全部)

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Based on the author's seminal article in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism. In this incisive work, the renowned political scientist explains how "civilizations" have replaced nations and ideologies as the driving for...(展开全部)

Synopsis In this text, the author argues that as people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion, the West will find itself more and more at odds with non-western civilizations that reject its ideals of democracy, human rights, liberty, the rule of law, and the separation of the church and state. Picturing a future of accelerated conflict and increasingly "de-...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔舒亚•B.弗里曼是一位杰出的历史教授，在纽约城市大学皇后学院和研究生中心。他的早期著作包括《美利坚帝国》（American Empire）和《纽约工人阶级》（Working-Class New York）等。他住在纽约市。 . . 【译者简介】 李珂，1997年生，本科毕业于河南大学，现为白俄罗斯国立大学历史系在读研究生，民族学人类学方向。 研究问题：俄苏的车臣问题、晚期莫卧儿帝国。豆瓣主页kekede1997

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills." Many factories that o...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乔舒亚•B.弗里曼是一位杰出的历史教授，在纽约城市大学皇后学院和研究生中心。他的早期著作包括《美利坚帝国》（American Empire）和《纽约工人阶级》（Working-Class New York）等。他住在纽约市。 . . 【译者简介】 李珂，1997年生，本科毕业于河南大学，现为白俄罗斯国立大学历史系在读研究生，民族学人类学方向。 研究问题：俄苏的车臣问题、晚期莫卧儿帝国。豆瓣主页kekede1997

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills." Many factories that o...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientifi...(展开全部)