Like most of us living in the West I have have pondered this question from time to time. Why did the west come out in front, and will it last? Should we all start learning Chinese? And was it inevitable - were Westerners more open-minded, or harder working, or were we just super-lucky to have had the industrial revolution? Or was it simply the work of exceptional people such as...(展开全部)

Why does the West rule? In this magnum opus, eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing on 50,000 years of history, archeology, and the methods of social science, to make sense of when, how, and why the paths of development differed in the East and West — and what this portends for the 21st century. There are two broad schools of thought on...(展开全部)

[美]伊恩•莫里斯：全球著名历史学家，斯坦福大学历史学和古典文学教授。已出版12部著作。现在居住于美国加利福尼亚州。

尼尔斯·艾崔奇（Niles Eldredge），美国最重要的演化学家之一，生物演化“点断平衡”理论之父，同时，他还是可与《自私的基因》作者道金斯比肩的演化学家和科普作家。在超过45年的时间里，艾崔奇凭借扎实的研究和精彩的著作极大地扩展了公众对生物演化的想象与认知。他至今出版过20多部科普著作，并发表过200多篇文章。2000年，由他撰写的《平衡中的生命》（Life in the Balance）被美国《出版人周刊》誉为史上最好的生物科普著作之一。 20世纪70年代，艾崔奇与好友史蒂芬·古尔德（Stephen Gould）共同开创了生物演化的“点断平衡”理论,这一理论是演化学界的里程碑，不仅对达尔文的进化论形成了重要的补充，也成为了与“自私的基因”理论并驾齐驱的流行演化学说。

"This book is a splendidly illustrated and thoughtfully constructed account of one of the greatest ideas ever conceived by the human mind -- evolution. Eldredge has cleverly combined our knowledge of living organisms with instructive insights into the fossil record to convincingly argue that evolution is, indeed, the grand unifying idea of biology." -- Donald C. Johanson, Found...(展开全部)

Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, around the start of the new millennium, history took a dramatic turn. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline compared to the global periphery it had previously colonized. This is not the first time we have seen such a rise and fall: the ...(展开全部)

Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzy...(展开全部)

From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the science of modern life These days, whenever anything spreads, whether it's a YouTube fad or a political rumor, we say it went viral. But how does virality actually work? In The Rules of Contagion, epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explores topics including gun violence, online manipul...(展开全部)

亚当·库哈尔斯基（Adam Kucharski），伦敦卫生与热带医学院传染病流行病学系副教授，致力于使用数学模型研究传染病和社会行为的传播。 他曾参与过对西非埃博拉病毒、南美寨卡病毒等疫情的流行病学研究，研究结果被BBC、《华盛顿邮报》等世界著名媒体广泛报道。在2020年的新型冠状病毒疫情期间，库哈尔斯基的团队是全球流行病学领域最活跃的研究团队之一，目前已在《柳叶刀》《自然–医学》等世界顶级医学期刊发表多篇论文。此外，他还为英国政府制定疫情防控政策提供专家建议。 除了从事科学研究外，库哈尔斯基还积极参与科学传播，在《金融时报》《卫报》《科学美国人》《新科学家》等媒体发表了大量文章，介绍模型方法在各个领域的应用，题材涉及博弈论、人工智能以及社交媒体上的信息传播等。他还是TED的资深演讲者，并获得过惠康基金会“科学写作奖”和英国科学协会“罗莎琳德·富兰克...(展开全部)

多尔·戈尔德，1953年生，以色列著名政治家、学者。曾任以色列内塔尼亚胡政府和沙龙政府高级顾问兼政府发言人，前以色列驻联合国大使，现任著名智库耶路撒冷公共事务中心（Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs）主席。有《伊朗核危机》、《仇恨王国》、《美国在中东的军事战略》、《作为美国非北约盟国的以色列》等诸多著述，影晌很大。本书是国内首次引进的由以色列著名政治家就耶路撒冷问题进行专门阐述的专著。 王育伟，江苏高淳人，2008年毕业于上海外国语大学，获硕士学位。现为上海外国语大学高级翻译学院翻译教学专业博士生。已出版的合译作品有：《迷雾之子3：永世英雄》、《朱自清散文》、《任正非传》。 关媛，2003年毕业于太原理工大学英语专业，2013年毕业于中国石油大学（北京）翻译硕士。现任中以学术交流促进协会翻译及以色列研究项目协调人；...(展开全部)