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)

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)

【作者简介】 弗雷德•斯皮尔（Fred Spier）,国际大历史协会创始人之一，曾任该协会主席，大历史学派理论重要的贡献者，荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学高级讲师（Senior Lecturer）。最初研习生物化学，后转向文化人类学和社会史，全身心投入到大历史研究和普及事业中。1994年至2016年在阿姆斯特丹大学组织并教授大历史课程；2003年至2013年在埃因霍温理工大学开办大历史系列讲座；2009年至2018年在阿姆斯特丹大学学院开办大历史课程。斯皮尔进行了广泛的学术研究，包括植物的遗传操作、秘鲁的宗教，政治和生态。已出版《秘鲁的宗教制度》（Religious Regimes in Peru）、《大历史的结构：从大爆炸到今天》（The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today）、《大历史...(展开全部)

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that pla...(展开全部)

Big History and the Future of Humanity presents an original theoretical approach that makes “big history” – the placing of the human past within the history of life, the Earth, and the Universe -- accessible to general readers while revealing insights into what the future may hold for humanity. Provides an accessible and original overview of the entire sweep of history that pla...(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。

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。

Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, Alan Greenspa...(展开全部)

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。

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。