A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values. Schools claim to foster it, businesses say they thrive on it, and countless cities say it’s what makes them unique. But the idea that there is such a thing as “creativity”—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent...(展开全部)

Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a cen...(展开全部)

TheodoreRoszak

There is no product on the planet that enjoys the devotion of a Macintosh computer. Apple's machines have legions of loyal, sometimes demented fans. The Cult of Mac surveys the devoted following that has grown up around Macintosh computers. Like fans of a football team or a rock group, Macintosh fanatics have their own subculture, with clearly defined obsessions, rites, and pas...(展开全部)

Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most ...(展开全部)

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。

Following the extraordinary success of The Meaning of Human Existence, Edward O. Wilson offers a philosophically probing work on the origins of human creativity. “Creativity is the unique and defining trait of our species; and its ultimate goal, self-understanding,” begins Edward O. Wilson’s sweeping examination of the humanities and its relationship to the sciences. By studyin...(展开全部)

●进化生物学家，殿堂级科学巨星，有“社会生物学之父”“当代达尔文”之称，提出了生物多样性、知识大融通等概念，创立了岛屿生物地理学、社会生物学等学科。 ●累计获得过100多项国际大奖，其中包括美国国家科学奖、“生态诺贝尔奖”克拉福德奖等。被《时代周刊》评为“对当代美国影响最大的25位美国人”之一。 ●哈佛大学荣誉教授，哈佛大学昆虫馆荣誉馆长，截止目前出版了20余部权威著作，代表作有《社会生物学》《半个地球》《人类存在的意义》等，两度问鼎普利策奖。