An insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessible language and personal anecdotes, industry insider Marijam Did engages both novices and...(展开全部)

電玩歸電玩，政治歸政治！只要夠好玩，有什麼不可以？ 結果就是厭女思維、微交易斂財、剝削式開發生產充斥…… 電玩能改變世界，問題是，改成誰喜歡的模樣？ 金獎電玩工作室產業評論家 Marijam Did直擊電玩產業的反思之作 電玩，人類最後一塊不受政治染指的淨土，長久以來都被視為抽離現實、讓人自由自在揮灑創意、想像力與超能力的廣大處女地。然而，這份「電玩歸電玩，政治歸政治」的想像，究竟離真實有多少距離？ 一如文學寫作、影視劇場、音樂展演與藝術創作，電玩遊戲並非存在於真空之中，中立且不帶偏見。事實上，電玩一樣能反映創作者或出資公司的理念或偏見。從電玩的生產與製作，到實際遊玩內容如何選擇呈現，再到上市後的社群行銷操作，幾乎可以說無處不受現實政治影響。 電玩劇情植入了哪些政治訊息、該替哪種理念廣告或背書？電玩是否「過度男性中心」？電玩設計師與出資方的關係是否對...(展开全部)

From one of the founding executives of Fed Ex comes the first full inside story of how Fed Ex came to be one of the world's most successful, innovative, and admired companies. Frock reveals the details of how the company was conceived, launched, and kept afloat despite incredible obstacles.

Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster. In How to Talk about Videogames, leading critic Ian Bogost explores this par...(展开全部)

安德鲁·克雷格（Andrew Craig） 英国伦敦金融城20余年工作经验，曾就职于瑞银欧债部、股票部，法国农业信贷银行，专业生物技术投资银行等。在其金融职业生涯中，曾参与巴宝莉、易捷航空等数十家知名公司的IPO。 2011年创立个人理财网站，此后经常受邀在《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《镜报》（The Mirror）、《财经周刊》（MoneyWeek）等发表评论，也多次接受彭博社等专业媒体及电视台的专访。

"The Evolutionary World" presents a new argument for evolution's broader importance. Adaptation plays a role not only in the development of new species but the development of human civilization, and by understanding how evolutionary theory has played out in areas such as our economic system, our preparation for catastrophes, and even the development of communities, we can learn...(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

In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China’s competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bi...(展开全部)

'Masterful . . . [Thompson] illuminates both the fascinating coders and the bewildering technological forces that are transforming the world in which we live.' - David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Uber's cars flocking the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of computer code. Coders ...(展开全部)