The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge―decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost back...(展开全部)

A revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analyt...(展开全部)

玛丽莲・亚隆，美国斯坦福大学克莱曼性别研究院高级研究员，法国文学教授。著有《妻子的历史》《乳房的历史》《象棋皇后的诞生》《干姐妹：女性记忆中的法国大革命》《美国人的安息之地：公墓和墓地的四百年历史》等多部作品。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译有《黑死病》《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《古典传统：希腊—罗马对西方文学的影响》等。

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

21世纪以来，主要资本主义国家经济增长日益疲软，不平等不断加剧，政治动荡愈演愈烈，我们该如何去认识这些变化？经济从实体资本向无形资本转型，企业融资、城市发展、科学研究、政府决策又该如何去适应这种转变？ Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy 一书认为，过去20年的经济弊病根源在于：以实体资本为依托的经济转型不完全，以及无形投资的增长放缓。 本书的两位作者，来自帝国理工学院商学院的 Jonathan Haskel 与皇家统计学会的首席执行官 Stian Westlake，结合自己在金融和经济决策前沿的经验，为上述问题提出了富有洞见的看法。为如何为企业融资、改善城市、资助更多科学和研究、改革货币政策，以及重塑知识产权规则提供了清晰的路线图。这一解决方案或许能够为我们辩证思考当前世界...(展开全部)

In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than an...(展开全部)

威廉·埃金顿(William Egginton)，美国约翰·霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)人文学院教授。其学术著作包括《世界怎样变成了一个舞台》(How the World Became a Stage)、《关于真相的剧场》(The Theater of Truth)和《哲学家的欲望》(The Philosopher's Desire)等。

威廉·埃金顿(William Egginton)，美国约翰·霍普金斯大学(Johns Hopkins University)人文学院教授。其学术著作包括《世界怎样变成了一个舞台》(How the World Became a Stage)、《关于真相的剧场》(The Theater of Truth)和《哲学家的欲望》(The Philosopher's Desire)等。