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We Have No Idea 豆瓣
作者: Jorge Cham / Daniel Whiteson Riverhead Books 2017 - 5
PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to spelunk through the enormous gaps in our cosmological knowledge, armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science.
In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what a lot of smart people are doing to figure out the answers (or at least ask the right questions). While they're at it, they helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, they invite us to see the universe as a vast expanse of mostly uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.
This entertaining illustrated science primer is the perfect book for anyone who's curious about all the big questions physicists are still trying to answer.
2019年12月11日 已读
看的时候不断发出“wow,wow,居然是这样”的惊叹,看完后感觉: 我是谁,我在哪,我TM刚刚看了啥?
宇宙 物理 科普 英文原版
Educated 豆瓣
8.7 (86 个评分) 作者: Tara Westover Random House 2018 - 2
Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one’s closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one’s life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
2019年2月17日 已读
Tara的父母就算是在中国也够格在”父母皆祸害”组里占有一席之地,不让子女去公立学校,不信政府不信医生相信世界末日自己是天选之人,雪上加霜的是家里还有个暴力倾向严重的哥哥。囧之女神讲过意识到父母是混蛋是件挺痛苦的事情(大意),具体到Tara身上,她的前十七年生命牢牢和父母绑在一起,基本上没同学没朋友,父母兄姐构成全部世界,和家庭的联系紧密度远超普通人,然而从她开始”to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind”, 就注定要和家庭或主动或被动的割裂,一直到结尾我觉得Tara还没完全从割裂痛苦中出来。
人文社科 传记 成长 英文原版
Bad Blood 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.7 (57 个评分) 作者: John Carreyrou Knopf 2018 - 5
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.
A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.
2019年1月12日 已读
Elizabeth给投资人讲的故事美好的不像真的,bad blood从月亮背面讲的故事糟糕的不像真的。一个管理混乱并无核心技术谎话连篇连创始人声音都是装出来的公司竟然在硅谷生存了十几年,估值一度高达九十亿刀,多个如雷贯耳的名字为其背书,即使骗局被揭穿,即使和亲孙子决裂,大佬也要站在Elizabeth这边,种种不可思议之处简单归于Elizabeth的奇特魅力总让人觉得拼图少了一块……这种骗子公司在硅谷/中关村还有很多,只是没有Theranos这么幸运/倒霉的吹爆……
互联网 创业 商业 美国 英文原版
Where'd You Go, Bernadette 豆瓣 Goodreads Goodreads
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
6.4 (5 个评分) 作者: Maria Semple Little, Brown and Company 2012 - 8
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle--and people in general--has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, secret correspondence--creating a compulsively readable and touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
2018年12月30日 已读
又是本宣发很厉害的书,有个 gone girl 的开头和奇妙的爱解决一切的结尾,我不得不怀疑作者最后那句“Dad will continue making the world a better place at Microsoft ”饱含了多少恶意……
女性 小说 悬疑 英文原版
Shoe Dog 豆瓣
8.5 (6 个评分) 作者: Phil Knight Scribner 2016 - 4
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike’s annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultra of all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business—a business that would be dynamic, different.
Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream—along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything.
2017年2月10日 已读
有趣且诚实:Luck plays a big role. Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination ave invaluable, but luck may decide the outcome. 不知道我是不是唯一一个关注Fujimoto, Phil从Onitsuka收买的间谍, 在东窗事发后下场如何的人...
人物传记 传记 商业 英文原版
Gone with the Wind 豆瓣
9.7 (12 个评分) 作者: Margaret Mitchell Warner Books 1993 - 8
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Sometimes only remembered for the epic motion picture and "Frankly ... I don't give a damn," Gone with the Wind was initially a compelling and entertaining novel. It was the sweeping story of tangled passions and the rare courage of a group of people in Atlanta during the time of Civil War that brought those cinematic scenes to life. The reason the movie became so popular was the strength of its characters--Scarlett O'Hara, Rhett Butler, and Ashley Wilkes--all created here by the deft hand of Margaret Mitchell, in this, her first novel.
2016年3月30日 已读
少女时代的最爱,看原版也算圆了个梦。对比中学看外研社版不到三页就跪了,这些年我增长的岁数到底没全长在鹿鹿身上。
爱情 美国 英文原版