Selected by Business Week as one of the 10 best business books of the year, this text is "a major contribution to the debate about the causes and consequences of inequality in America."--The New York Times Book Review.

"If you want to understand the future before it happens, you'll love this book. If you want to change the future before it happens to you, this book is required reading." -Reed Hundt, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission "There is no simpler or clearer statement of the radical change that digital technologies will bring, nor any book that better prepares one for thinking about the next steps." -LawrenceLessig, Stanford Law School and Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace "Blown to Bits will blow you away. In highly accessible and always fun prose, it explores all the nooks and crannies of the digital universe, exploring not only how this exploding space works but also what it means." -Debora Spar, President of Barnard College, Author of Ruling the Waves and The Baby Business "This is a wonderful book-probably the best since Hal Varian and Carl Schultz wrote Digital Rules. The authors are engineers, not economists. The result is a long, friendly talk with the genie, out of the lamp, and willing to help you avoid making the traditional mistake with that all-important third wish." -David Warsh, Author of Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations "Blown to Bits is one of the clearest expositions I've seen of the social and political issues arising from the Internet. Its remarkably clear explanations of how the Net actually works lets the hot air out of some seemingly endless debates. You've made explaining this stuff look easy. Congratulations!" -David Weinberger, Coauthor of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Author of Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. "Blown to Bits is a timely, important, and very readable take on how information is produced and consumed today, and more important, on the approaching sea change in the way that we as a society deal with the consequences." -Craig Silverstein, Director of Technology, Google, Inc. "This book gives an overview of the kinds of issues confronting society as we become increasingly dependent on the Internet and the World Wide Web. Every informed citizen should read this book and then form their own opinion on these and related issues. And after reading this book you will rethink how (and even whether) you use the Web to form your opinions..." -James S. Miller, Senior Director for Technology Policy and Strategy, Microsoft Corporation "Most writing about the digital world comes from techies writing about technical matter for other techies or from pundits whose turn of phrase greatly exceeds their technical knowledge. In Blown to Bits, experts in computer science address authoritatively the practical issues in which we all have keen interest." -Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Author of Multiple Intelligences and Changing Minds "Regardless of your experience with computers, Blown to Bits provides a uniquely entertaining and informative perspective from the computing industry's greatest minds. A fascinating, insightful and entertaining book that helps you understand computers and their impact on the world in a whole new way. This is a rare book that explains the impact of the digital explosion in a way that everyone can understand and, at the same time, challenges experts to think in new ways." -Anne Margulies, Assistant Secretary for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts "Blown to Bits is fun and fundamental. What a pleasure to see real teachers offering such excellent framework for students in a digital age to explore and understand their digital environment, code and law, starting with the insight of Claude Shannon. I look forward to you teaching in an open online school." -Professor Charles Nesson, Harvard Law School, Founder, Berkman Center for Internet and Society "To many of us, computers and the Internet are magic. We make stuff, send stuff, receive stuff, and buy stuff. It's all pointing, clicking, copying, and pasting. But it's all mysterious. This book explains in clear and comprehensive terms how all this gear on my desk works and why we should pay close attention to these revolutionary changes in our lives. It's a brilliant and necessary work for consumers, citizens, and students of all ages." -Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia and author of Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity "The world has turned into the proverbial elephant and we the blind men. The old and the young among us risk being controlled by, rather than in control of, events and technologies. Blown to Bits is a remarkable and essential Rosetta Stone for beginning to figure out how all of the pieces of the new world we have just begun to enter-law, technology, culture, information-are going to fit together. Will life explode with new possibilities, or contract under pressure of new horrors? The precipice is both exhilarating and frightening. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, together, have ably managed to describe the elephant. Readers of this compact book describing the beginning stages of a vast human adventure will be one jump ahead, for they will have a framework on which to hang new pieces that will continue to appear with remarkable speed. To say that this is a 'must read' sounds trite, but, this time, it's absolutely true." -Harvey Silverglate, criminal defense and civil liberties lawyer and writer Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can't escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to-the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration, entertainment, and democratic participation. But the same engineering marvels are shattering centuries-old assumptions about privacy, identity, free expression, and personal control as more and more details of our lives are captured as digital data. Can you control who sees all that personal information about you? Can email be truly confidential, when nothing seems to be private? Shouldn't the Internet be censored the way radio and TV are? Is it really a federal crime to download music? When you use Google or Yahoo! to search for something, how do they decide which sites to show you? Do you still have free speech in the digital world? Do you have a voice in shaping government or corporate policies about any of this? Blown to Bits offers provocative answers to these questions and tells intriguing real-life stories. This book is a wake-up call to the human consequences of the digital explosion. Preface xiii Chapter 1: Digital Explosion: Why Is It Happening, and What Is at Stake? 1 Chapter 2: Naked in the Sunlight: Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned 19 Chapter 3: Ghosts in the Machine: Secrets and Surprises of Electronic Documents 73 Chapter 4: Needles in the Haystack: Google and Other Brokers in the Bits Bazaar 109 Chapter 5: Secret Bits: How Codes Became Unbreakable 161 Chapter 6: Balance Toppled: Who Owns the Bits? 195 Chapter 7: You Can't Say That on the Internet: Guarding the Frontiers of Digital Expression 229 Chapter 8: Bits in the Air: Old Metaphors, New Technologies, and Free Speech 259 Conclusion: After the Explosion 295 Appendix: The Internet as System and Spirit 301 Endnotes 317 Index 347

L'espace lisse, ou Nomos : sa différence avec l'espace strié.
- Ce qui remplit l'espace lisse : le corps, sa différence avec l'organisme. - Ce qui se distribue dans cet espace : rhizome, meutes et multiplicités. - Ce qui se passe : les devenirs et les intensités. - Les coordonnées tracées : territoires, terre et déterritorialisations, Cosmos. - Les signes correspondants, le langage et la musique (Les ritournelles). - Agencement des espaces-temps : machine de guerre et appareil d'Etat.
Chaque thème est censé constituer un " plateau ", c'est-à-dire une région continue d'intensités. Le raccordement des régions se fait à la fois de proche en proche et à distance, suivant les lignes de rhizome, qui concernent les éléments de l'art, de la science et de la politique.

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today. What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.

In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the “nature of man.” But the dawning “age of the crisis of man,” as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. In this ambitious intellectual and literary history, Greif recovers this lost line of thought to show how it influenced society, politics, and culture before, during, and long after World War II.
During the 1930s and 1940s, fears of the barbarization of humanity energized New York intellectuals, Chicago protoconservatives, European Jewish émigrés, and native-born bohemians to seek “re-enlightenment,” a new philosophical account of human nature and history. After the war this effort diffused, leading to a rebirth of modern human rights and a new power for the literary arts.
Critics’ predictions of a “death of the novel” challenged writers to invest bloodless questions of human nature with flesh and detail. Hemingway, Faulkner, and Richard Wright wrote flawed novels of abstract man. Succeeding them, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Flannery O’Connor, and Thomas Pynchon constituted a new guard who tested philosophical questions against social realities—race, religious faith, and the rise of technology—that kept difference and diversity alive.
By the 1960s, the idea of “universal man” gave way to moral antihumanism, as new sensibilities and social movements transformed what had come before. Greif’s reframing of a foundational debate takes us beyond old antagonisms into a new future, and gives a prehistory to the fractures of our own era.

Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, that is, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, the question becomes one of how people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our world. A revolution is occurring in how statisticians, philosophers, and computer scientists answer this question. These fields have ushered in new insights about causal models by thinking about how to represent causal structure mathematically, in a framework that uses graphs and probability theory to develop what are called 'causal Bayesian networks'. The framework starts with the idea that the purpose of causal structure is to understand and predict the effects of intervention: how does intervening on one thing affect other things? This question is not merely about probability (or logic), but about action. The framework offers a new understanding of mind: thought is about the effects of intervention, so cognition is thereby intimately tied to actions that take place either in the actual physical world or in imagination, in counterfactual worlds. In this book, Steven Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to the key mathematical ideas in the framework, presenting them in a non-technical way, by focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, and why it is so central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but also about the world as it could be. Sloman also reviews the role of causality, causal models, and intervention in the basic human cognitive functions: decision making, reasoning, judgement, categorization, inductive inference, language, and learning. In short, this book offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms - in terms of action and manipulation.

"Individuals who live in groups hold common beliefs which define their reality, not only as persons, but also as group members. This reality becomes especially important when group members become aware that they share beliefs and are convinced that these beliefs characterize them as a group. In this case common beliefs become group beliefs." With this statement, Dr. Bar-Tal begins his far-reaching analysis of beliefs as a group phenomenon. Group beliefs are shown to have important behavioral, cognitive, and affective implications for group members and the group as a whole. They may contribute to the behavioral direction a group takes, coordinate group activities, determine the intensity and involvement of group members, and influence the way group members affect the leaders. This book introduces and articulates the implications of a new concept of group beliefs, shedding new light on the structure and processes of groups, focusing on such phenomena as group formation, subgrouping, splits, mergence and group disintegration. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, this integrative conception opens new avenues to the study and understanding of group behavior.

为什么印度的整体社会发展缓慢，而软件出口却独领风骚？为什么美国的IT公司不断裁人，同时又引进外国雇员？作者基于在印度、澳大利亚和马来西亚长达两年的人类学实地调查写作此书，指出其中关键在于IT产业中的“猎身”体系。它是指一个以印度为中心的全球化劳动力配置和管理体系。

Mario Bunge, author of the monumental Treatise on Basic Philosophy, is widely renowned as a philosopher of science. In this new and ambitious work he shifts his attention to the social sciences and the social technologies. He considers a number of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, law, history, and management science.Bunge contends that social science research has fallen prey to a postmodern fascination with irrationalism and relativism. He urges social scientists to re-examine the philosophy and the methodology at the base of their discipline. Bunge calls for objective and relevant fact-finding, rigorous theorizing, and empirical testing, as well as morally sensitive and socially responsible policy design.

"Rereading America "remains the most widely adopted book of its kind because of its unique approach to the issue of cultural diversity. Unlike other multicultural composition readers that settle for representing the plurality of American voices and cultures, "Rereading America "encourages students to grapple with the real differences in perspectives that arise in our complex society. Selections model writing from a wide variety of disciplines and genres, and each chapter features a selection that explores how the media sells the myth in question. With extensive editorial apparatus that puts readings from the mainstream into conversation with readings from the margins, "Rereading America "provokes students to explore the foundations and contradictions of our dominant cultural myths.

中文书名：《计算机时代的爱情》
英文书名：Love in the Time of Algorithms
作 者：Dan Slater
代理公司：ANA
出版时间：2013年1月
代理地区：中国大陆、台湾
类 型：大众社科
版权已授：西班牙、英国、德国
本书从《大西洋月刊》（The Atlantic）摘录发行，引起巨大反响。
“网上约会”始于1965年的哈佛，从那以后网上约会产业为着全美三分之一，大约8千万的单身人士服务。这个现象原来被当做寂寞和绝望的归宿，但如今却被人们所接受。
丹·斯莱特（Dan Slater）为我们讲述了网上约会是如何推动一轮新的性革命。这要归功于网络的高效性，那些情投意合的伴侣不再仅属于小型的群体。高效性和控制性改变了人们对私人生活可能性的看法，也让我们重新感受稳定性和承诺。
斯莱特在他的书中将历史、心理学以及对网站建设者及使用者的采访结合起来，把读者带进了这个令人称奇产业的幕后世界。相亲网站利用的正是人们对爱的渴求和向往。但是您想不想知道这些网站的建设者对搭建这个虚拟世界的利润、有限性和欲望的本质是如何看待的呢？以及他们如何理解人们的线下情缘？
媒体评价：
“本书从哈佛有趣但别扭的网上约会开始，逐渐走向专业，到今天在迈阿密的时髦派对，斯莱特专业并娴熟地带领我们经历了我们这个时代最大的求爱变革（与之前六七十年代简·奥斯汀似的恋爱方式相比）。作者以独到的探究手法显示了科技也许重新塑造了人类存在最重要的一面：爱情。”
----万妮莎·格里奥迪亚斯（VANESSA GRIGORIADIS），《纽约杂志》（New York Magazine）编辑
“五种关系中的一种如今始于电脑屏幕前。但是我们是如何到达这里的？丹·斯莱特（Dan Slater）带我们窥探了这些相亲主管们的独特思维，这些人建立了这个产业，与此同时这些人的生活因为相亲革命而发生永久性的改变。作为这些管理者的其中一位，我想我知道这个故事。但是斯莱特带着幽默和新鲜的视角将改变你对数字世界里爱情的看法。”
----山姆·亚甘（SAM YAGAN），OkCupid创建者及执行总裁
“这是一本详细介绍了计算机科学和创业者努力解决人们生活中最长期存在的挑战之一：找到合适的人生伴侣的优秀读物。书里既没有诋毁也没有赞扬网上相亲这种作为，斯莱特的清楚地表明寻找伴侣的方式如今已经永久性地改变了，无论你喜不喜欢，我们可能无法回头。”
----蒂姆·吴（TIM WU），《信息帝国的兴衰》（The Master Switch）作者
“《计算机时代的爱情》（Love in the Time of Algorithms）贯穿了整个网上相亲的世界，非常精彩。本书充满了人们如何习惯（或者不习惯）网络爱情的轶事，但是与此同时斯莱特同样提出了一个大问题：科学能够预测爱情吗？以及相亲网站上那一摞摞的相亲对象对于未来的人类关系又意味着什么？”
----本瑟尼·麦克林（BETHANY McLEAN），《最聪明的人》（The Smartest Guys in the Room）作者
“同如今大量充斥在数字世界的其他商品一样，爱情也开始蜂拥而来。但是，正如斯莱特娴熟又风趣地向我们指出，把爱情拿到算术法则当中去改变的将不仅是我们最终跟谁走在了一起，更是我们如何看待伴侣、关系、人类意志甚至命运。”
----道格拉斯·洛西科夫（DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF），《生命公司》（Life Inc.）及《当今震惊》（Present Shock）作者
“网络会为我们带来网上相亲以及使科技在我们的爱情生活中蔓延吗？！这本书对我们所在的这个科技-爱情的世界进行艺术性的检验，丹·斯莱特（Dan Slater）为我们打开视野，介绍了永久改变我们行为以及渴望的方式。”
----杰西卡·马萨（JESSICA MASSA）及瑞贝卡·魏根特（REBECCA WIEGAND），“The Gaggle & WTF Is Up With My Love Life?!”共同创立者
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