金耀基，香港中文大学副校长，香港中文大学社会学系讲座教授，曾任香港中文大学新亚书院院长。著有《中国社会与文化》、《中国政治与文化》、《剑桥语丝》、《海德堡语丝》、《大学之理念》。

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞弗（Charles Seife） 毕业于耶鲁大学，科学记者，《科学美国人》《经济学人》《连线》杂志撰稿人。著有四本专著，包括《数字是靠不住的》《瓶中的太阳》《零》等，曾荣获国际笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰奖非小说类奖项，被《纽约时报》列入推荐书目名单。现定居美国纽约，为纽约大学新闻学专业教授。

查尔斯·塞弗（Charles Seife） 毕业于耶鲁大学，科学记者，《科学美国人》《经济学人》《连线》杂志撰稿人。著有四本专著，包括《数字是靠不住的》《瓶中的太阳》《零》等，曾荣获国际笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰奖非小说类奖项，被《纽约时报》列入推荐书目名单。现定居美国纽约，为纽约大学新闻学专业教授。

A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological apocalypse. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demo...(展开全部)