A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, and technological innovation Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, g...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg has traced the consecutive line of composers from Claudio Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however, great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors...(展开全部)

Today we are on the verge of discoveries that should soon reveal the deepest secrets of the universe. In Alpha & Omega, Charles Seife takes us to the front lines of the cosmological revolution to synthesize the discoveries of scientists at observatories and laboratories around the world who are actually peering into both the cradle of the universe and its grave. The cast of cha...(展开全部)

默文·金（Mervyn King），英国经济学家，英国央行前行长。默文·金从1991年起历任英国央行首席经济学家、副行长，并于2003～2013年任英国央行行长，现为美国纽约大学经济学与法学教授、英国伦敦政治经济学院经济学教授。默文·金于2013年被英国女王封为终身贵族，2014年被授予嘉德勋位。

The Right and the Good, a classic of twentieth-century philosophy by the great scholar Sir David Ross, is now presented in a new edition. Ross's book, originally published in 1930, is the pinnacle of ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The central concern of the book is with righ...(展开全部)

Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, i...(展开全部)

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompanying twenty-first-century experiences of paranoia and literary...(展开全部)

The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before ...(展开全部)

An acclaimed economic historian's provocative and counterintuitive challenge to prevailing economic wisdom argues that consumption - not more saving and investment - represents America's path to renewed prosperity. In one of the most polarised periods in our political history, politicians from both sides of the aisle have found one thing on which they can agree: consumer excess...(展开全部)