Inventing Our Selves proposes a radical new approach to the analysis of our current regime of the self, and the values of autonomy, identity, individuality, liberty and choice that animate it. It argues that psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and other "psy" disciplines have played a key role in "inventing our selves," changing the ways in which human beings understand and ...(展开全部)

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are....(展开全部)

What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are....(展开全部)

What we value, like, endorse, want, and prefer changes over the course of our lives, sometimes as a result of decisions we make--such as when we choose to become a parent or move to a new country--and sometimes as a result of forces beyond our control--such as when our political views change as we grow older. This poses a problem for any theory of how we ought to make decisions...(展开全部)

克里斯汀．魯德Christian Rudder 克里斯汀．魯德是交友網站OkCupid的共同創辦人暨總裁，也是人氣部落格OkTrends的作者。1998年畢業於哈佛大學數學系，曾擔任SparkNotes創意總監，上過國家廣播公司（NBC）的《日線》（Dateline）及美國國家公共廣播電台（NPR）的《面面俱到》（All Things Considere）等節目，作品也得到《紐約時報》、《紐約客》等等媒體熱烈討論。目前他與妻女住在布魯克林。 譯者簡介 林俊宏 師範大學翻譯研究所碩士。 喜好電影、音樂、閱讀、閒晃， 覺得把話講清楚比什麼都重要。 譯有《大數據》、《英語的祕密家譜》、《建築為何重要》、 《大科學》、《群的智慧》、《天空的女兒》等書。 現就讀於師大譯研所博士班。

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to...(展开全部)

In the wake of expanding commercial voyages, many people in early modern Europe became curious about the plants and minerals around them and began to compile catalogues of them. Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports - whether medieval spices...(展开全部)

INVENTING THE MIDDLE AGES The Lives, Works, and Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century In this ground-breaking work, Norman Cantor explains how our current notion of the Middle Ages-with its vivid images of wars, tournaments, plagues, saints and kings, knights and ladies-was born in the twentieth century. The medieval world was not simply excavated through ...(展开全部)