If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways unimaginable today. But this vast future is at risk. With the advent of nuclear weapons, humanity entered a new age, where we face existential catastrophes - those from which we could never come back. Si...(展开全部)

威廉·C.伯格（William C. Burger）是美国芝加哥自然博物馆植物馆馆长，也是备受赞誉的《花：它们如何改变了世界》《完美的星球，智慧的物种》的作者，几十年来一直致力于生物多样性重组与保护等研究，尤其擅长用通俗的语言讲深刻的原理，帮助非生物学专业的读者更好地理解生物世界的运行规律。

米希尔·A.德赛（Mihir A.Desai） 现任教于哈佛商学院与哈佛法学院，主要教授金融、税法和创业等课程，同时还为哈佛在线教学的HBX平台开发在线金融课程。其在企业金融、国际金融和税收政策方面拥有扎实的专业素养，曾数次受邀至美国国会参加听证会，在全球多家大型企业和组织担任咨询顾问。

A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomes―good and bad―are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term ...(展开全部)

L. Nandi Theunissen develops a non-Kantian account of the value of human beings. Against the Kantian tradition, in which humanity is absolutely valuable and unlike the value of anything else, Theunissen outlines a relational proposal according to which our value is continuous with the value of other valuable things. She takes the Socratic starting point that good is affecting, ...(展开全部)

An innovative framework to understanding risk management The Rules of Risk takes the reader from the present to the future of risk management. Combining a novel approach to risk management with the tools of mathematics, finance, computer science, and an understanding of capital markets, authors Dembo and Freeman present their framework of a new risk paradigm that peers into the...(展开全部)

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

In 2003, a Home Office report stated that 68 British children have been abducted that year by a stranger. With 11.4 million children under 16 living in the UK, that works out to a risk of one in 167,647. 158 people in Britain have died from the human variation of mad cow disease yet 12,000 Britons are killed each year by flu and related complications. In the tradition of Malcol...(展开全部)

For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The Idea of the Brain, scientist and historian Matthew Cobb traces how our conception of the brain has evolved over the centuries. Although it might seem to be a story of...(展开全部)

A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery. For thousands of years, thinkers and scientists have tried to understand what the brain does. Yet, despite the astonishing discoveries of science, we still have only the vaguest idea of how the brain works. In The ...(展开全部)