From the New York Times bestselling author and MSNBC and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their p...(展开全部)

It is 1922 and Dr. Alan Twist, an authority in the occult sciences and the paranormal, has been invited by the lord of Cranston Manor in a remote corner of Cornwall to investigate a series of hauntings. His journey is interrupted by the shrill cries of a young woman. Everyone in the region believes that it is cursed by a siren, who emits Banshee calls. If they are heard by two ...(展开全部)

拓宽眼界与思想深度的时尚之书。一个人的眼界就是他的全世界。 全球生活方式引领者KINFOLK创始人内森·威廉斯，花费四年，走访全球超过 90 位影响世界的创意总监，只为回答一个问题：创意总监们是如何拓展他们的眼界的？ 本书集合时尚、内容出版和娱乐界的创意人士，包括汤姆·布朗、山本耀司、VOGUE主编格蕾丝·柯丁顿、YSL总监斯特凡诺、Holiday杂志总监杜兰德、英国皇家芭蕾舞团编舞麦格雷戈、好莱坞电影场景设计克里斯·莫兰、黑人音乐人海因斯、为LADY GAGA和碧昂丝担任过创意总监的托德·图索……将隐于幕后的创意人群引至台前，介绍他们擅长的领域、工作方式、思考维度、爱好与习惯等，从各方面展示影响世界的创意者们的所见、所思与所想。 “我的作品总会为我发声。” “作为创意人士，你不可能把自己的开关关掉。周围事物会自然而然地激发着你。” “我是一个服装设...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the w...(展开全部)

Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David ...(展开全部)

Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history's favour. Some presidents needed...(展开全部)

Over the years that followed-and to this day-the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history's favour. Some presidents needed...(展开全部)

This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our c...(展开全部)

Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites—intellectuals, businessmen, and students—who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline...(展开全部)

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundatio...(展开全部)