What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up--and remake the world for the better. How to Change the World tells the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals--many in the Unite...(展开全部)

How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the inter...(展开全部)

Economist.com, January 22, 2008 A fascinating book Financial Times, January 24, 2008 There is no doubting the validity of the message... businesses [must] learn from these unreasonable people

在自卡尔•马克思的《共产主义宣言》出版以来的一个半世纪中，这个负载马克思名字的学说在平等和正义的名义下为数百万人所接受却又戏剧性地，随着共产主义在西方世界的衰落而失去了它的魅力。然而，就在自由市场在被看作是灾难性的对管制的退避的核爆中走向极限的时候，对资本主义最严格、最有说服力的敌人的重新评价，前所未有地及时。 埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆提供了一种迷人的、充满洞见的对马克思主义的总体回顾。他探索了马克思主义的多种影响来源——从对贵格会运动到马基雅维利——以及马克思主义在法国大革命和德国哲学中的源流。他对马克思主义思想家即核心文本——从恩格斯的《工人阶级的境况》到葛兰西的《狱中笔记》到《共产主义宣言》本身——进行了考察，并对过去三十年来马克思主义的时运的惊人反转进行了分析。通过出色、深刻、充满能量且内容广泛的工作，《如何改变世界》毫无疑问地向我们展示了这点：卡...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

"The reader gains an insightful view of the author's personal journey and the processes involved when setting up a social enterprise. Its distinctive style makes it useful for readers who are looking for a thorough account of setting up a not-for-profit organisation or social enterprise". ("Phoenix", Jan 2012).

MICHAEL POLLAN is the author of seven books, including Cooked: The Natural History of Transformation, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred m...(展开全部)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rathe...(展开全部)

马特·里德利 （Matt Ridley） 英国记者，科学家，商界人士，英国上议院议员，著名的科普作家，因为其在科学、环境学与经济学领域的著作而闻名。 早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学莫德林学院，主修动物学，并因对雉鸡的繁育系统研究而获得博士学位。 1983年博士毕业后，加入了《经济学人》杂志，担任科学编辑，后担任驻华盛顿记者，成为《每日电讯》专栏作家，并成为The Best American Science Writing 2002年度的嘉宾编辑。 从1994年到2007年因家族原因进入金融行业。 在金融危机后，他在2010年到2013年为《华尔街日报》撰写专栏，并从2013年至今为《时代》杂志撰写科学、环境与经济学专栏。 他的著作已入围六大文学奖项，其中包括《洛杉矶时报》图书奖与美国国家科学院颁发的最佳科学图书奖。 他还是纽卡斯尔英国国际生命中心的创始...(展开全部)

罗伯特•休斯（Robert Hughes，1938－2012） 澳大利亚人，当代著名艺术评论家、作家、历史学家。他曾任美国《时代》周刊的首席艺术评论员，并为该刊撰写艺术评论长达三十年之久。在当代艺术运动不被认可的岁月里，他化身成为了传统主义的鞭笞者和一名艺术斗士。曾著有《绝对批评》、《致命的海滩》等。 译者简介 欧阳昱，男，1955年出生于湖北。作家、诗人、翻译家。