"The rousing story of the last gasp of human agency and how today's best and brightest minds are endeavoring to put an end to it." It used to be that to diagnose an illness, interpret legal documents, analyze foreign policy, or write a newspaper article you needed a human being with specific skills--and maybe an advanced degree or two. These days, high-level tasks are increasi...(展开全部)

Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It's not that unusual. For example, we can understand the concept of gravity without solving a single equation....(展开全部)

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)

桑德拉•纳薇蒂（Sandra Navidi） 世界经济论坛年会主讲人 顶层金融圈的亲历者与最犀利的观察者 桑德拉毕业于科隆大学法学院，后于美国福特汉姆大学取得银行、企业、金融法律硕士学位。她先后就职于德勤公司和鲁比尼研究院，与著名经济学家“末日博士”鲁比尼共事多年。 桑德拉是国际金融圈风云变幻的亲历者，与金融圈顶层人物交往甚密、互动频繁。她以深厚的专业功底为诸如索罗斯、杰米•戴蒙、拉里•芬克、施瓦茨曼等“超级枢纽”提供建议，深得他们的信任和尊重。 每年1月，桑德拉都会受邀参加达沃斯论坛年会，在会上做主题演讲，接受国际各大媒体采访，其听众不乏诺贝尔奖获得者、国际政要、政策制定者与顶级投资家。

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments―and why we can’t see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a “dictatorship.” Yet that number almost certainly would be higher if we recognized employers for what they are―private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives. Many employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and ...(展开全部)

One in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are--private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, yet many of us are governed far more--and far more obtrusiv...(展开全部)

Small World is a biting and very funny satire in which Martin Parr observes global tourism and the tourist's search for authentic cultures that are themselves destroyed in that search.

Veteran rivals for an exclusive academic chair (recently endowed with $100,000 a year) do scholarly battle with each other in what the Washington Post Book World called a "delectable comedy of bad manners . . . infused with a rare creative exuberance". From the author of the award-winning Changing Places.