作者简介： 菲利普•鲍尔（Philip Ball），英国著名科学与科普作家，英国皇家化学学会会士。拥有牛津大学化学专业学士学位和布里斯托大学物理学博士学位。曾在世界科学期刊《自然》杂志担任编辑超过20年，目前仍是《自然》的顾问编辑。已出版十余部脍炙人口的科普读物，2005年获得世界著名科普图书奖项“安万特科学图书奖”。代表作有《预知社会：群体行为的内在法则》《明亮的泥土：颜料发明史》《分子》《好奇心：科学何以执念万物》等。曾在中国高校做过访问学者，多次来中国进行学术交流，对中国的历史和文化十分着迷。 译者简介 张慧哲，资深译者，译有《螺旋楼梯》《两万五千英里的爱情》等多部作品。

Cubed reveals the unexplored yet surprising story of the places where most of the world's work—our work—gets done. From "Bartleby the Scrivener" to The Office, from the steno pool to the open-plan cubicle farm, Cubed is a fascinating, often funny, and sometimes disturbing anatomy of the white-collar world and how it came to be the way it is—and what it might become.

The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through food—and how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the R...(展开全部)

Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge, Michael McKeon narrates its pre-history along with that of its essential component, domesticity. T...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their conte...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humd...(展开全部)

Truly deserving of the accolade a modern classic, Donna Tartt’s novel is a remarkable achievement—both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their conte...(展开全部)

▼作者简介 尼基尔‧萨瓦尔 Nikil Saval 印度裔美国人，作家、编辑、新闻工作者，现居费城。 2004年毕业于哥伦比亚大学，自2004年起，他开始研究办公室的起源，曾在美国《n+1》杂志上发表了《办公室的诞生》一文。萨瓦尔目前是《n+1》杂志的编辑，他的文章也常刊于《纽约时报》《伦敦书评》《牛津美国》《洛杉矶时报》《赫芬顿邮报》《新政治家》等媒体。 他从事过劳工相关研究，并在UNITE HERE劳工组织当过志愿工作者。 ▼译者简介 吕宇珺 译者，从事翻译工作多年，非洲联盟委员会前主席祖马女士访华时，担任随同中英交传；自由撰稿人，曾为《环球》《看历史》等媒体撰写文章。

经济杀手，是指那些拿着高薪的顶尖专业人士，他们从世界各国攫取了数以千亿计的金钱。这些钱，通过世界银行，美国国际开发署以及其他国外的援助机构，装入到美国各大集团公司的金库和少数控制全球自然资源的显赫家族的口袋中。经济杀手用尽各种高明手段：伪造财政报告、操纵选举、贿赂、敲诈，色诱乃至谋杀。他们玩的是美国“帝国霸权”时代一开始就有的“老把戏”，在经济全球化的时代，其规模空前庞大，令人恐怖。 我清楚这一切！因为我曾经就是一名经济杀手！ ——约翰•珀金斯