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)

马特·里德利 （Matt Ridley） 英国记者，科学家，商界人士，英国上议院议员，著名的科普作家，因为其在科学、环境学与经济学领域的著作而闻名。 早年就读于伊顿公学与牛津大学莫德林学院，主修动物学，并因对雉鸡的繁育系统研究而获得博士学位。 1983年博士毕业后，加入了《经济学人》杂志，担任科学编辑，后担任驻华盛顿记者，成为《每日电讯》专栏作家，并成为The Best American Science Writing 2002年度的嘉宾编辑。 从1994年到2007年因家族原因进入金融行业。 在金融危机后，他在2010年到2013年为《华尔街日报》撰写专栏，并从2013年至今为《时代》杂志撰写科学、环境与经济学专栏。 他的著作已入围六大文学奖项，其中包括《洛杉矶时报》图书奖与美国国家科学院颁发的最佳科学图书奖。 他还是纽卡斯尔英国国际生命中心的创始...(展开全部)

What is this mysterious activity we call entrepreneurship? Does success require special traits and skills or just luck? Can large companies follow their example? What role does venture capital play? In a field dominated by anecdote and folklore, this landmark study integrates more than ten years of intensive research and modern theories of business and economics. The result is ...(展开全部)

Few would deny the crucial role that entrepreneurs play in our increasingly global economy-but exactly what is this vital, yet loosely defined business force we call the entrepreneurial spirit? This landmark study is the first to examine analytically the nature of the opportunities that entrepreneurs pursue, the problems they face, the traits they require, and the social and ec...(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)

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endles...(展开全部)

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free ...(展开全部)

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike ? either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a c...(展开全部)

How did nonliving atoms evolve into modern people? Find out in this engaging illustrated exploration of how nothing became everything. The science of evolution is a topic of utmost importance, especially as the focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education continues to increase. Fortunately, important doesn’t have to mean boring. From explaining how scientist...(展开全部)

查尔斯•科克尔（Charles S. Cockell），英国爱丁堡大学天体生物学教授，英国天体生物学中心主任。多年来，他致力于对恶劣条件下的生命特征、外星生物的宜居性，以及太空探索和移居等课题的研究。他曾在美国国家航空航天局和英国南极观测站工作，对北极和南极以及其他恶劣天气环境下的生命特征都有研究，发表过300多篇论文和多部著作。