BILL NYE holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, and worked as an engineer at Boeing before creating and hosting his Emmy award-winning PBS/Discovery Channel show. He holds six Honorary Doctorate degrees.

约翰·伍德在享有盛誉的凯洛格商学院攻取MBA后，曾在金融业工作数年，并于1991年进入微软工作。由于工作努力、行动果敢，他迅速成长起来，先后得到了在澳大利亚及中国地区令人艳羡的海外任职机会。在任职微软中国市场开发总监时期，伍德决意改变自己的生活航向，转而为贫困的孩子送去能使其受益终生的教育大礼，以帮助他们打破宿命的循环。 在2000年，他创建了“阅读空间”，一个非营利性慈善组织，旨在提高尼泊尔、印度、斯里兰卡、柬埔寨、老挝、越南和非洲等一些地区的文教水平。伍德与“阅读空间”基金会的目标是：到2020年，开办20000间图书馆，使该组织遍及非洲、南美洲，甚至是全世界。 除环游世界筹集资金和访问“阅读空间”资助的社区之外，他都居住在旧金山。

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking...(展开全部)

《离开微软 改变世界:一名微软高管的意外人生》记录了伍德如何努力为自己的管理天分和商业才情开辟出一条意义非凡的新路。对于每一位取得过卓越成就却不知该如何回馈社会的人而言，伍德的经历无疑是一个生动感人而又引人入胜的故事。他告诉了人们怎样将从微软这样知名的企业中所学的知识用于解决世界上最棘手的难题之一：基础教育的缺失。本着这样的理念，作者最终放弃在微软的大好前程，成为全心投入为亚洲第三世界国家儿童提供教育机会的慈善基金会创办人。 伍德发现自己最大的热情、成功以及值得他一生为之奋斗的事业：既不在于就读商学院之时，也不在于他20世纪90年代领导微软亚洲区事务时，而是在于他对灵魂进行探求的一次喜玛拉雅之旅中。一边是让自己忙忙碌碌的事业，一边是对做些具有永恒而重大意义的事情的渴望，这其中的取舍让伍德深感流困顿。在感到工作压力之余，他踏上了前往尼泊尔的旅程。因为他...(展开全部)

John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work--not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s--but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal ...(展开全部)

MICHAEL POLLAN is the author of seven books, including Cooked: The Natural History of Transformation, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred m...(展开全部)

在自卡尔•马克思的《共产主义宣言》出版以来的一个半世纪中，这个负载马克思名字的学说在平等和正义的名义下为数百万人所接受却又戏剧性地，随着共产主义在西方世界的衰落而失去了它的魅力。然而，就在自由市场在被看作是灾难性的对管制的退避的核爆中走向极限的时候，对资本主义最严格、最有说服力的敌人的重新评价，前所未有地及时。 埃里克•霍布斯鲍姆提供了一种迷人的、充满洞见的对马克思主义的总体回顾。他探索了马克思主义的多种影响来源——从对贵格会运动到马基雅维利——以及马克思主义在法国大革命和德国哲学中的源流。他对马克思主义思想家即核心文本——从恩格斯的《工人阶级的境况》到葛兰西的《狱中笔记》到《共产主义宣言》本身——进行了考察，并对过去三十年来马克思主义的时运的惊人反转进行了分析。通过出色、深刻、充满能量且内容广泛的工作，《如何改变世界》毫无疑问地向我们展示了这点：卡...(展开全部)

Alfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific d...(展开全部)