After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor mark...(展开全部)

Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? Even in this age of cloning and synthetic biology, the remarkable truth remains: nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, which provide...(展开全部)

吉姆·艾尔—哈利利 ● 英国萨里大学物理学教授，最具影响力的量子生物学家。 ● 1989年，在英国萨里大学获得核反应理论博士学位。 ● 1992年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，开始了为期五年的研究工作，他差不多每两个月就发表一篇论文，有些论文的引用次数超过500次。 ● 从20世纪90年代末开始，研究领域转向量子生物学，“量子隧穿”是他的研究重点。1999年，他与生物学家约翰乔·麦克法登联合发表了量子生物学方面的论文。2012年，在英国工程和自然科学委员会的资助下，他与约翰乔·麦克法登共同主办了量子生物学研讨会，并获得极大成功。2015年，他以量子生物学为主题做了TED演讲。 ● 2005—2007年，他参与拍摄BBC的纪录片《爱因斯坦大脑之谜》和《原子》，广受好评，他于2011年开始在BBC制作广播节目《生命科学》，每周吸引的听众数量高达2...(展开全部)

Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped eac...(展开全部)

'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret po...(展开全部)

'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret po...(展开全部)

Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped eac...(展开全部)

[ 美 ] 阿米尔·侯赛因（Amir Husain） 一位屡获殊荣的发明家、计算机科学家和企业家，IBM的沃森认知计算平台顾问。 • 作为发明家，他拥有22项美国发明专利以及40多项申请中的专利。 • 作为计算机科学家，他曾多次参加西南偏南大会（SXSW）以及其他涉及国防、网络安全 、计算机科学、能源和环境等话题的会议。 • 作为企业家，他创办了SparkCognition公司并担任CEO，该公司致力于通过人工智能平台帮助企业和政府更好地应对不断进化的威胁。《纽约时报》《福布斯》《快公司》《连线》等主流媒体曾多次专题报道侯赛因及其团队的故事。

What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, w...(展开全部)

The setting of this extraordinary novel is an old farmhouse in Portugal - a house far enough from the Atlantic not to hear the breaking waves during a storm but near enough for the walls to be corroded by the salt in the air. With most members of her large family having left the hardship of life in this landscape of sand and stone for jobs in faraway places, a young woman strug...(展开全部)