21 Wavs to Be Smarter in 2011

摘要

Coming to Broadway this spring, Tom Stoppard's 1993 masterwork cuts deftly between the realms of 19th-century teen Thomasina Coverly and present-day scholar Hannah Jarvis, who studies hermits. Romanticism, determinism, entropy, mathematical biology, and Newtonian geography figure heavily. Two books, Gideon Rachman's Zero-Sum Future and Ian Morris's Why the West Rules- for Now, offer sharp perspective on the world's trends and macro movements. Rach-man foresees a major economic and political struggle between the U.S. and China while Europe flounders. And Morris explains how the West dominated for so long.