Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. A recipient of fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Whiting Foundation, he lives in Colorado.

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. A million animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment wildlife populations into inbred clusters, disrupt ...(展开全部)

As machines become capable of doing most of the work people have performed for centuries, we are headed for a massive social reorganization. Nanotech is at the point where it’s possible to unleash invisible robots and new materials into the world that permanently alter life on Earth. With genetic engineering, we have taken evolution into our own hands, creating new species of p...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Product Description In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected co...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Product Description In this age of hypercompetition, the Internet constitutes a powerful tool for inventing radical new business models that will leave your rivals scrambling. But as brain scientist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Stibel explains in Wired for Thought, you have to understand its true nature. The Internet is more than just a series of interconnected co...(展开全部)

艾比·史密斯·拉姆齐（Abby Smith Rumsey）历史学家、作家，曾在哈佛大学学习俄罗斯学，现为美国弗吉尼亚大学学术交流研究所所长。她长期参与美国国会图书馆的国家战略项目“国家数字信息基础设施建设和保护”，帮助各类图书馆、档案馆收藏有价值的数字信息。她致力于研究数字时代的记忆、信息存储、图书馆的角色变化，以及新的信息技术如何影响我们对历史和时间的看法。

塞德里克•迪朗（Cédric Durand），法国知名经济学家，在巴黎第十三大学和巴黎高等商学院教授经济学和发展理论。他秉承马克思主义和法法国调节学派的政治经济学的传统，撰写了多篇关于欧元危机、金融化与全球化关系以及后苏联转型的文章。他的文章被国内外知名学术期刊和媒体广泛引用。他还是《激进在线》期刊的编委会成员。著有《技术封建主义》。

praise for a fine line "A breath of turbo-charged fresh air that doesn't regurgitate the ego-maniac CEO's selective memory or an outside expert's misinterpretations. Hartmut explains innovation through the lens of design, and it's about time we gained his valuable perspective." --Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist, Apple and co-founder of Alltop.com "At Flextronics, we fell...(展开全部)

praise for a fine line "A breath of turbo-charged fresh air that doesn't regurgitate the ego-maniac CEO's selective memory or an outside expert's misinterpretations. Hartmut explains innovation through the lens of design, and it's about time we gained his valuable perspective." --Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist, Apple and co-founder of Alltop.com "At Flextronics, we fell...(展开全部)

'Destined to be a classic' Nouriel RoubiniA hopeful and empowering vision for how to reconnect with each other and heal our divides.'Fascinating' Sathnam Sanghera, The Times'A hopeful book that couldn't be more important or timely' Philippa Perry 'Timely and important' Charlie Brooker Even before a global pandemic introduced us to terms like social distancing, loneliness was al...(展开全部)