THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endles...(展开全部)

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free ...(展开全部)

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike ? either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a c...(展开全部)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rathe...(展开全部)

马特·里德利 （Matt Ridley） 英国记者，科学家，商界人士，英国上议院议员，著名的科普作家，因为其在科学、环境学与经济学领域的著作而闻名。 早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学莫德林学院，主修动物学，并因对雉鸡的繁育系统研究而获得博士学位。 1983年博士毕业后，加入了《经济学人》杂志，担任科学编辑，后担任驻华盛顿记者，成为《每日电讯》专栏作家，并成为The Best American Science Writing 2002年度的嘉宾编辑。 从1994年到2007年因家族原因进入金融行业。 在金融危机后，他在2010年到2013年为《华尔街日报》撰写专栏，并从2013年至今为《时代》杂志撰写科学、环境与经济学专栏。 他的著作已入围六大文学奖项，其中包括《洛杉矶时报》图书奖与美国国家科学院颁发的最佳科学图书奖。 他还是纽卡斯尔英国国际生命中心的创始...(展开全部)

Why does Procter & Gamble repeatedly call on enthusiastic amateurs to solve scientific and technical challenges? How can companies as diverse as iStockphoto and Threadless employ just a handful of people, yet generate millions of dollars in revenue every year? "Crowdsourcing" is how the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the responsibility o...(展开全部)

On these inspirational CD's, Louise L. Hay expands on her philosophy of 'Loving the self' and shows you how to overcome emotional barriers through learning to listen to, and trust your inner voice, loving the child within, letting your true feelings out, releasing your fears about getting older, allowing yourself to receive prosperity as well as expressing your creativity.