Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way i...(展开全部)

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way i...(展开全部)

Long before the age of "Big Data" or the rise of today's "self-quantifiers," American capitalism embraced "risk"--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way i...(展开全部)

朱迪丝•弗兰德斯（Judith Flanders），英国犹太人，目前定居于伦敦。曾在伦敦多家出版社担任编辑工作，现为白金汉大学高级研究员，研究兴趣为英国维多利亚时代。处女作《姐妹圈》（2001）出版后大受好评，并被《卫报》提名为当年的最佳处女作奖；《维多利亚时代的住宅》（2003）出版后成为畅销书，入围当年英国年度最佳历史图书奖短名单；《谋杀的发明》（2011）入围当犯罪作家协会非虚构作品短刃奖。她还著有《消费激情》（2006）、《维多利亚之城》（2013）、《圣诞节传奇》（2017）、《能言万物：字母表顺序的奇妙历史》（2020），以及系列小说四部。

朱迪丝•弗兰德斯（Judith Flanders），英国犹太人，目前定居于伦敦。曾在伦敦多家出版社担任编辑工作，现为白金汉大学高级研究员，研究兴趣为英国维多利亚时代。处女作《姐妹圈》（2001）出版后大受好评，并被《卫报》提名为当年的最佳处女作奖；《维多利亚时代的住宅》（2003）出版后成为畅销书，入围当年英国年度最佳历史图书奖短名单；《谋杀的发明》（2011）入围当犯罪作家协会非虚构作品短刃奖。她还著有《消费激情》（2006）、《维多利亚之城》（2013）、《圣诞节传奇》（2017）、《能言万物：字母表顺序的奇妙历史》（2020），以及系列小说四部。

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to ...(展开全部)

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to ...(展开全部)

This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won--for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the Western world arose from its offer of a better, more secure way of life. "Compelling reading" (Library Journal) that is sure to "gene...(展开全部)