We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None o...(展开全部)

For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-nee...(展开全部)

Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture's continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists' discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging from contemporary art to cultural theory. Produced with renowned specialists within t...(展开全部)

These thirteen essays explore a crucial historical question that has been notoriously hard to pin down: To what extent, and by what means, does a society's technology determine its political, social, economic, and cultural forms?Karl Marx launched the modern debate on determinism with his provocative remark that "the hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-m...(展开全部)

Unabridged on mp3 audio disk. How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squ...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which twenty-first-century writers and artists pict...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet—as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme—is increasingly the conceptual and political dimension in which twenty-first-century writers and artists pict...(展开全部)

埃德蒙德·西尔斯·摩根（1916-2013），美国著名历史学家，主要研究美国早期历史。生前是耶鲁大学教授，在耶鲁执教31年，一生从事美国殖民史及相关英国史的研究。 摩根一生著述颇丰，获奖无数，包括美国历史学家协会颁发的历史写作终身成就奖巴顿奖，普利策终身成就奖，以及美国艺术与文学学院颁发的终身成就金奖。主要著作有《可见圣徒：一个清教观念的历史》、《罗杰·威廉斯：国家与教会》、《逃离英格兰：约翰·温思罗普传》、《美国奴隶，美国自由》等。 译者，张瑞华，南京师范大学外国语学院教授，主要从事美国文明与英美文学研究。出版专著《清教与美国——美国精神的寻根之旅》、《菲利普·拉夫》（纽约知识分子论丛）、《美国通史》，参与编写《美国文明读本》等，发表学术论文二十余篇。

埃德蒙德·西尔斯·摩根（1916-2013），美国著名历史学家，主要研究美国早期历史。生前是耶鲁大学教授，在耶鲁执教31年，一生从事美国殖民史及相关英国史的研究。 摩根一生著述颇丰，获奖无数，包括美国历史学家协会颁发的历史写作终身成就奖巴顿奖，普利策终身成就奖，以及美国艺术与文学学院颁发的终身成就金奖。主要著作有《可见圣徒：一个清教观念的历史》、《罗杰·威廉斯：国家与教会》、《逃离英格兰：约翰·温思罗普传》、《美国奴隶，美国自由》等。 译者，张瑞华，南京师范大学外国语学院教授，主要从事美国文明与英美文学研究。出版专著《清教与美国——美国精神的寻根之旅》、《菲利普·拉夫》（纽约知识分子论丛）、《美国通史》，参与编写《美国文明读本》等，发表学术论文二十余篇。

著者： 卡尔·贝内迪克特·弗雷（Carl Benedikt Frey），牛津马丁花旗会士，牛津新经济思维研究所高级研究员。在牛津大学马丁学院主持有关工作之前景的项目。他是一位知名的经济学家和经济史学家，同时担任二十国集团、经合组织、联合国、欧盟以及多家大企业的顾问。 著作也散见于《金融时报》《科学人》《华尔街日报》等著名媒体。他于2013年作为联合作者发表的“就业之前景：计算机化对工作的影响程度”得到了4000多次学术引用，其所用的研究方法被巴拉克·奥巴马的经济顾问委员会、英格兰银行以及世界银行采用。 译者： 贺笑，自由译者，本科毕业于湖南师范大学外国语学院，研究生毕业于北京大学软件与微电子学院。