The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay te...(展开全部)

The world is working exactly as designed. The combustion engine which is destroying our planet’s atmosphere and rapidly making it inhospitable is working exactly as we designed it. Guns, which lead to so much death, work exactly as they’re designed to work. And every time we “improve” their design, they get better at killing. Facebook’s privacy settings, which have outed gay te...(展开全部)

Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the curb, but right where they belong: beside words. It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. They tell us how we're doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an ele...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work. The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the ...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothend...(展开全部)

A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness 'A monstrous and brilliant book' - Philip Pullman When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Groth...(展开全部)

本书精选世界各国最具影响力的平面设计师最新代表作品，堪称是全球设计的华丽盛宴。

本书精选世界各国最具影响力的平面设计师最新代表作品，堪称是全球设计的华丽盛宴。

阿克巴•艾哈迈德大使是英国剑桥大学性别研究中心的客座教授，也是剑大耶稣学院的访问学者。同时也是华盛顿特区美国大学伊斯兰研究所伊本•赫勒敦研究方面的讲席教授，布鲁金斯学会非本土资深研究员，安纳波利斯的美国 海军学院的客座教师，是该学院中东与伊斯兰研究方面的首席杰出教授。曾在普林斯顿、哈佛和剑桥等大学任教，被BBC（英国广播公司）誉为“当代伊斯兰研究方面的世界顶级权威”。 曾向很多美国机构和组织就伊斯兰和对外政策提供咨询和建议。定期接受美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）， 美国国家公共电台（NPR）， 英国广播公司（BBC）， 福克斯（Fox）和半岛电视台（ Al-Jazeera）的采访， 多次参加美国著名电视节目主持人欧普拉的谈话节目，“每日秀”节目和尼克国际儿童频道的节目。曾经担任巴基斯坦驻英国和爱尔兰大使。 著有十多部获奖作品，包括《发现伊斯兰》（BBC...(展开全部)