From the author of the New York Times bestseller Mind Wide Open comes a groundbreaking assessment of popular culture as it's never been considered before: through the lens of intelligence. The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television ...(展开全部)

Forget everything you've read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, intelligent, and convincing endorsement of today's mass entertainment, national bestselling author Steven Johnson argues that the pop culture we soak in every day-from The Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons -has been growing more and more sophi...(展开全部)

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a ...(展开全部)

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a ...(展开全部)

My name is Marcello Von Cauliflower Boneaparte Jackson and everything is mine. Marcello is kind, clever and very loyal. Unfortunately, there is one problem. He believes that absolutely everything is his. A slipper? It s his. Pork chops from his owner, Leo s dinner plate? It is absolutely his. An entire park? Oh that s his, too. Marcello (and his list of things that he owns) is ...(展开全部)

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New...(展开全部)

Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz’s first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was named #1 Fiction Book of the Year” by Time magazine and spent more than 100 weeks on the New...(展开全部)

F. S. 迈克尔斯 出生于加拿大，2011年因本书对公共议题做出批判性的分析，而荣获2011年NCTE乔治·奥威尔奖。 迈克尔斯形容自己是个“深入钻研的通识性作家”。她利用广泛的研究，在各个学科之间建立了惊人的联系，寻找出乎意料的模式，挖掘看不见却深深影响我们世界运作的社会结构。她的研究与写作得到加拿大社会科学和人文研究理事会的支持。 - 黄煜文，台湾大学历史学硕士，专职译者。代表译作有《阅读蒙田，是为了生活》《伊斯坦布尔三城记》《巴黎城记：现代性之都的诞生》等

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how peo...(展开全部)