洛伦佐·费尔拉蒙蒂，南非比勒陀利亚大学副教授，在区域一体化和治理研究领域获得欧盟“让·莫内讲座教授”荣誉称号，治理创新研究中心主管。他还是德国海德堡大学社会投资中心和柏林赫尔梯行政学院的高级研究员、联合国大学副研究员。费尔拉蒙蒂著有多部有关发展政策、全球和区域治理、替代性经济和社会进步指标的书籍，包括《GDP究竟是个什么玩意儿：GDP的历史及其背后的政治利益》（Zed Books，2013年）。

Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? By what ...(展开全部)

洛伦佐·费尔拉蒙蒂，南非比勒陀利亚大学副教授，在区域一体化和治理研究领域获得欧盟“让·莫内讲座教授”荣誉称号，治理创新研究中心主管。他还是德国海德堡大学社会投资中心和柏林赫尔梯行政学院的高级研究员、联合国大学副研究员。费尔拉蒙蒂著有多部有关发展政策、全球和区域治理、替代性经济和社会进步指标的书籍，包括《GDP究竟是个什么玩意儿：GDP的历史及其背后的政治利益》（Zed Books，2013年）。

Numbers dominate global politics and as a result our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? By what ...(展开全部)

In this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie provides a complete guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in argument. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical - but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are g...(展开全部)

In this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie provides a complete guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. He identifies with devastating examples all the most common fallacies popularly used in argument. We all like to think of ourselves as clear-headed and logical - but all readers will find in this book fallacies of which they themselves are g...(展开全部)

WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU'LL WIN THE LOTTERY? How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World? Who decides that “standardized tests” are fair? Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps? What does it mean, statistically, to be an “Average Joe”? NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Sup...(展开全部)

WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU'LL WIN THE LOTTERY? How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World? Who decides that “standardized tests” are fair? Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps? What does it mean, statistically, to be an “Average Joe”? NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Sup...(展开全部)

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)

“There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criti...(展开全部)