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)

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。

【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。

【作者简介】 劳拉·贝茨（Laura Bates），英国女性主义作家、活动家，《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书作家，“日常性别歧视项目”创始人，该项目收集了超过20万份关于性别不平等的证词。她的代表作有《厌女国度》《隐秘的角落》等。 劳拉与欧洲委员会和联合国等密切合作，致力于解决性别不平等问题，并因其对性别平等事业的贡献，被授予大英帝国勋章，还被《星期日泰晤士报》等刊物评为年度女性。 【译者简介】 蒋怡，毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的事物》《致命尖端》等。