How Amazon has changed literature As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in li...(展开全部)

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at...(展开全部)

布拉德·斯通（Brad Stone）是《彭博商业周刊》的资深作家，在过去的几年中，斯通曾为《商业周刊》撰写了十余篇封面报导，像苹果、谷歌、亚马逊、脸谱、雅虎、推特、好事多和中国的百度等企业。后来加盟了《纽约时报》，在旧金山分社报导了硅谷的情况。在此之前，斯通曾是知名杂志《新闻周刊》的一位记者。斯通还为以前的纪实小说《机器发烧友》撰写过文章，《旧金山纪事报》曾把它评为2003年最佳图书。

We used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the library or the encyclopedia shelf in search of answers. We just open our browsers, type in a few keywords and wait for the information to come to us. Now firmly established as a pioneering work of modern philosop...(展开全部)

作者简介 迈克尔·帕特里克·林奇 美国著名哲学教授，康涅狄格大学人文学院院长，曾获得该学院优秀研究奖。他专注于真理、民主、公共话语和技术伦理的研究，是《纽约时报》哲学专栏的长期撰稿人，其作品也获得《纽约客》《华盛顿邮报》《连线》等媒体的广泛认可。 作者是美国哲学教授，康涅狄格大学人文学院院长，长期专注于真理、公共话语和技术伦理的研究，是《纽约时报》哲学专栏的长期撰稿人。

The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-s...(展开全部)

Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-s...(展开全部)