亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

亚当·卢瑟福 英国遗传学家、科普作家，伦敦大学学院遗传学博士，BBC科学节目主持人。曾在權威学术杂志《自然》工作十余年，并长期为《卫报》等媒体撰稿。 卢瑟福致力于科学普及，参与制作并主持《细胞》《基因密码》《末日之战》等电影的科学顾问。 代表作有《万物灵长》《我们人类的基因》。

Review "By explaining how inventions both exotic and mundane transformed society, Ramirez's ingenious survey illuminates the effect of science in a manner accessible to a wide readership." --- Publishers Weekly Endorsements "Technology and inventions are changing our lives, but we less often appreciate how they are literally changing us―the ways that we talk, see, and think. In...(展开全部)

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to ...(展开全部)

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to ...(展开全部)

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new concept. When in 1900 Dorothy assured the citizens of Oz that 'There is no place like home', she was expressing a view that was a cul...(展开全部)

Who are we and what do we do as agents living together? In We, Together, Hans Bernhard Schmid argues, first, that our living together is a joint activity. Joint activities involve shared intentions, and shared intentions have plural intentional subjects. We are, thus, the plural subjects of our shared intentions in the same way as we are the singular subjects of our individual ...(展开全部)

迈克尔·派伊（Michael Pye），历史学家、小说家、记者，英国报纸的政治和文化专栏作家。他著有十几本书，其中有几本是他的得意之作，如The MovieBrats、The King Over the Water、Maximum City、The Drowning Room，还有被改编成电影的同名小说《机动杀人》（Taking Lives）。 宋非，自由译者，译有《佩拉宫的午夜：现代伊斯坦布尔的诞生》《无情的革命：资本主义的历史》。

Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'An utterly beguiling journey into the dark ages of the north sea. A complete revelation . . . Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of t...(展开全部)

朱迪丝•弗兰德斯（Judith Flanders），英国犹太人，目前定居于伦敦。曾在伦敦多家出版社担任编辑工作，现为白金汉大学高级研究员，研究兴趣为英国维多利亚时代。处女作《姐妹圈》（2001）出版后大受好评，并被《卫报》提名为当年的最佳处女作奖；《维多利亚时代的住宅》（2003）出版后成为畅销书，入围当年英国年度最佳历史图书奖短名单；《谋杀的发明》（2011）入围当犯罪作家协会非虚构作品短刃奖。她还著有《消费激情》（2006）、《维多利亚之城》（2013）、《圣诞节传奇》（2017）、《能言万物：字母表顺序的奇妙历史》（2020），以及系列小说四部。