Based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor. If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others. In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai--a professor at Harvard...(展开全部)

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really be true? Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories - we see them in the papers, on social media, and we hear them used in everyday conversation - and yet we doubt them more than ever. But numbers - in the right hands - have ...(展开全部)

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted? Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations ar...(展开全部)

An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade. In order to succeed—even survive—in our data-ba...(展开全部)

MEET YOUR GOALS--ON TIME AND ON BUDGET. How do you rein in the scope of your project when you've got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention? Whether you're managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball），科学作家，英国皇家化学会会员、欧盟委员会合成生物学专家团成员、BBC“科学的故事”栏目出品人，曾任《自然》期刊编辑20余年，著有《化学元素发现史》《明亮的泥土：颜料发明史》《如何制造一个人》等20多部科普作品，还为“牛津通识读本”系列撰写了《分子》和《元素》。作品曾获2003年英国技术史学会年度图书奖和2007年英国科学史学会年度科普图书奖。 【译者简介】 王乔琦，南京大学天文学学士，编辑，从事科普工作。译著有《发现天王星》《万物发明指南》《量子力学的真相》等。

科学图书奖得主菲利普·鲍尔（Philip Ball）对生物学提出了前沿的新观点，建议修正我们对生命的概念。生物学正在经历一场平静而深刻的变革。关于生命如何运作的标准图景有几个方面已被揭露为不完整、误导或错误的。 在《生命如何运作》一书中，菲利普·鲍尔探索了新的生物学，揭示了生命远比我们想象的要丰富、巧妙得多。这些知识带来了新的可能性。如今，我们可以重新设计和重组生命系统、组织和生物体。 例如，我们可以对细胞进行重新编程，使其执行新的任务，并生长成自然界中从未见过的结构。一些研究人员认为，我们后将能够再生肢体和器官，甚至可能创造出进化论从未想象过的新生命形式。《生命如何运作》融合了新的研究成果和见解，是对生命本质这一新领域的一次多方面探索，这一领域将重塑我们对生命的认识。 A cutting-edge new vision of biology tha...(展开全部)

Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works—the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more—have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Lif...(展开全部)

"Presented with extraordinary lucidity, cogency and panache...Powerful and gripping...To have read [the book] is to have consulted a first draft of the structural plan of the human psyche...a glittering tour de force" - "Spectator". "Why do memories fade? Why do we lose our tempers? Why do fools fall in love? Pinker's objective in this erudite account is to explore the nature a...(展开全部)