![【中商原版】高堡奇人[英文原版]The Man in the High Castle](http://img3m1.ddimg.cn/63/23/1296089451-1_l.jpg)
Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Nowas a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long timeperspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in andout of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: * How dowe make long-term thinking automatic and common instead ofdifficult and rare? * Discipline in thought allows freedom. Oneneeds the space and reliability to predict continuity to have theconfidence not to be afraid of revolutions * Taking the time tothink of the future is more essential now than ever, as cultureaccelerates beyond its ability to be measured * Probable things arevastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities.Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is notallowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines thechronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionaryphilosophical inquiry.
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spendtwenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studyingnatural selection. They recognize each individual bird on theisland, when there are four hundred at the time of the author'svisit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed abouttwenty generations of finches -- continuously. Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin'sfinches and come up with a new understanding of life itself.
