By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. Despite millennia of observation, mankind still had no understanding of the forces behind the wea...(展开全部)

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

The dazzling new masterwork from the prophet of silicon valley. Jaron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in whi...(展开全部)

罗伯特·索耶是加拿大最有影响力的科幻作家。1960年出生于渥太华。曾获雨果奖、星云奖、曙光奖等诸多奖项。本书是其第6部小说，获得1995年星云奖。 至今已出版17部长篇科幻小说，屡获雨果奖、星云奖等多种科幻奖项，被誉为加拿大科幻教长。索耶的科幻小说涉及多种主题，从电脑狂魔、恐龙复活、时间旅行，到平行时空、太空侦探，想像奇伟，异彩纷呈。索耶的代表作除本书外，还包括《计算中的上帝》、《终极实验》、《星丛》、《原始人类》和《混血》等。

After a ten-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are not publishing a major statement in the form of three works which will, in their words, "lay the basis for an entirely new approach to architecture, building, and planning, which will, we hope, replace existing ideas and practices entirely." The three books are The T...(展开全部)

布鲁斯·布尔诺·德·梅斯奎塔（Bruce Bueno De Mesquita） 密歇根大学政治学博士，纽约大学政治学教授，最善于通过博弈论模型对世界政治动向和国家政策走向作出准确预测。斯坦福大学胡佛研究所资深研究员，美国国防部和中央情报局资深顾问。准确率高达90%的预言家。他的博弈论模型既可以用于政治问 题的预测，也可以用于竞选CEO或者购买汽车。畅销书《独裁者手册》作者，全世界最具影响力的100位思想家之一。

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have been employed by everyone from the...(展开全部)

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a master of game theory, which is a fancy label for a simple idea: People compete, and they always do what they think is in their own best interest. Bueno de Mesquita uses game theory and its insights into human behavior to predict and even engineer political, financial, and personal events. His forecasts, which have been employed by everyone from the...(展开全部)

布鲁斯·布尔诺·德·梅斯奎塔（Bruce Bueno De Mesquita） 密歇根大学政治学博士，纽约大学政治学教授，最善于通过博弈论模型对世界政治动向和国家政策走向作出准确预测。斯坦福大学胡佛研究所资深研究员，美国国防部和中央情报局资深顾问。准确率高达90%的预言家。他的博弈论模型既可以用于政治问 题的预测，也可以用于竞选CEO或者购买汽车。畅销书《独裁者手册》作者，全世界最具影响力的100位思想家之一。