Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us... Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock ...(展开全部)

Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us . . . Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Bro...(展开全部)

Chaos. Fury. Destruction. The Great Change is upon us... Some say that to change the world you must first burn it down. Now that belief will be tested in the crucible of revolution: the Breakers and Burners have seized the levers of power, the smoke of riots has replaced the smog of industry, and all must submit to the wisdom of crowds. With nothing left to lose, Citizen Brock ...(展开全部)

【内容简介】 重大决策听谁的?依赖长官或专家，可能会付出高昂代价!专家不敌大家，一言堂不如群言堂!. 我们应该停止对精英的追捧，应当向整个整体(当然也包含那些精英分子)寻求答案和帮助。事实上，很多时候我们都在骑驴找驴。 企图雇用聪明人不会让你误入歧途，但是一心想着雇用最聪明的人却会让你步入深渊。.. 最聪明的群体应该是由那些彼此能够保持独立，并持有各种各样观点的人组成的。独立性并不意味着合理或者公正，你的道理可以是伤风又鼻塞——半通半不通，你的决策也可以是杀猪捅屁股——有点瞎糊弄，但只要你是独立的，群体就会更聪明。 从别人的行为中为你自己的行动找到一些启发是一条通向成功的捷径。...

【内容简介】 重大决策听谁的?依赖长官或专家，可能会付出高昂代价!专家不敌大家，一言堂不如群言堂!. 我们应该停止对精英的追捧，应当向整个整体(当然也包含那些精英分子)寻求答案和帮助。事实上，很多时候我们都在骑驴找驴。 企图雇用聪明人不会让你误入歧途，但是一心想着雇用最聪明的人却会让你步入深渊。.. 最聪明的群体应该是由那些彼此能够保持独立，并持有各种各样观点的人组成的。独立性并不意味着合理或者公正，你的道理可以是伤风又鼻塞——半通半不通，你的决策也可以是杀猪捅屁股——有点瞎糊弄，但只要你是独立的，群体就会更聪明。 从别人的行为中为你自己的行动找到一些启发是一条通向成功的捷径。...

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined...(展开全部)

1. "Lower than the Angels" (evolution of man from ape to 400,000 years ago) 2. "The Harvest of the Seasons" (agriculture and the first settlements) 3. "The Grain in the Stone" (tools, early human migration) 4. "The Hidden Structure" (fire, metals and alchemy) 5. "Music of the Spheres" (the language of numbers) 6. "The Starry Messenger" (Galileo's universe) 7. "The Majestic Cloc...(展开全部)

Dr. Bronowski's classic history of humankind. Dr. Jacob Bronowski's groundbreaking book The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through its understanding of science. First published in 1973, it is considered one of the first works of "popular science", illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his ...(展开全部)

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife Amy to the wilderness. Together they face lives of joy and sorrow as they struggle against the environment.