From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour ofthe new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enou...(展开全部)

An illuminating road map—founded on groundbreaking scientific research—pointing the way to a better, happier life From a distinguished economist and leading figure in the new field of happiness studies comes this revolutionary work addressing the elusive concept of happiness and how we can have more of it. Based on sophisticated, cutting-edge scientific research, H...(展开全部)

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years...(展开全部)

快樂是什麼？ 有錢會讓你更快樂嗎？ 一門新興科學的誕生，打破快樂是捉摸不定的哲學概念，而是一個融合經濟學與現代心理學的新科學。 財富與快樂之間有何關係？經濟學能提供解釋嗎？ 如果把快樂定義為：擁有健康、富裕、文明的生活，那麼，世界上最快樂的人一定非西方人莫屬。但是研究指出，雖然收入增加了兩倍以上，西方人卻沒有比五十年前更快樂。到底發生了什麼事？ 《快樂經濟學》直指這個核心矛盾背後的真相。理查．萊亞德點出影響快樂的「七大因素」：家庭關係、財務狀況、工作、社群和朋友、健康、個人自由，以及個人價值觀，並揭示我們花了太多氣力在與別人比較，而使自己不快樂。萊亞德認為，快樂無疑是社會唯一理性的目標，他還問道：如果我們真的想要過得更快樂，就社會整體與個人內在生活而言，我們應該採取什麼不同的做法？我們是否能團結起來，追求共同的利益？他的答案會讓你覺得耳目一新，且深入...(展开全部)

A "dynamic" ( Los Angeles Times ) new understanding of one of life's key questions-from the New York Times bestselling author. This sweeping study of the history of innovation breaks out the seven patterns of innovation like "the slow hunch" and "serendipity." It debunks the myth of the lone genius and presents the real-world dynamics and context that enable innovation. Jo...(展开全部)

What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are, writes David Bornstein, the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up--and remake the world for the better. How to Change the World tells the fascinating stories of these remarkable individuals--many in the Unite...(展开全部)

Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions. Recent scientific advances have led to dramatic reassessment of our understanding of the world around us, and made a significant impact on our lifestyle. In this book, leading international experts, including Nobel prize winners, explore the front...(展开全部)

Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions. Recent scientific advances have led to dramatic reassessment of our understanding of the world around us, and made a significant impact on our lifestyle. In this book, leading international experts, including Nobel prize winners, explore the front...(展开全部)

These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and wou...(展开全部)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome returns with a fascinating, brilliant argument for evolution that definitively dispels a dangerous, widespread myth: that we can command and control our world. The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless fascination human beings have for design rathe...(展开全部)