Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way-and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk ab...(展开全部)

In this lyrical and moving novel, Philip K. Dick tells a story of toxic love and compassionate robots. When Louis Rosen's electronic organ company builds a pitch-perfect robotic replica of Abraham Lincoln, they are pulled into the orbit of a shady businessman, who is looking to use Lincoln for his own profit. Meanwhile, Rosen seeks Lincoln's advice as he woos a woman incapable ...(展开全部)

Philip K Dick's visionary forerunner to the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' that became the film Bladerunner, tells the story of Louis Rosen and his love for the daughter of his business partner and the truth about where his life-like androids might end up! Making an animatronic replica of Abraham Lincoln has never been easier. Finding someone to buy it is the ha...(展开全部)

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions–and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes–in our own lives or the groups we lead at work–why are the changes are so frequently short–lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality? ...(展开全部)

From Buffett to Bono, how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world.For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists--the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give--it's like business. Largely trained ...(展开全部)

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

[美]马修·比索普，《经济学人》杂志的商业评论作者。 [美]迈克尔·格林，政府机构与非政府组织间的沟通专家。

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)