Why flawed logic puts us all at risk, and how critical thinking can save the world. It may seem a big claim, but knowing how to think clearly and critically has literally helped save the world. In September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union's early warning system showed five US missiles heading towards the country. Stanislaw Petrov knew his duty: he was to i...(展开全部)

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

From Buffett to Bono, how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists--the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give--it's like business. Largely trained ...(展开全部)

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

◎著者 ［美］马西娅・比约内鲁德（Marcia Bjornerud）是劳伦斯大学的地球科学和环境学教授。她是一名构造地质学家，重点研究地震物理和造山运动。著有《阅读岩石：地球的自传》（Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth）、《地质词典》（Geopedia）和《向岩石求教：发现岩石的微妙智慧》（Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks）。《垂向时间》获2019年美国出版商协会大众科学与数学类的专业与学术卓越奖。 ◎译者 林葳，博士毕业于北京大学地球与空间科学学院。向往自然，目前从事地质学与地理学科普教育。

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is some...(展开全部)

Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal reveals how we can harness the power of games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness. More than 174 million Americans are gamers, and the average young person in the United States will spend ten thousand hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal, the reason for thi...(展开全部)

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.There could be no better guide than Lisa Ra...(展开全部)

Trees provide shelter, medicine and food. They are part of our imaginations, folklore, ecosystems and our lives. Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a world expert on trees, has woven together ecology, myth, horticulture, spirituality and science to show how their future is ours. From hedgerows that contain an entire chain of life to trees that can breathe, heal, nurture and even communic...(展开全部)