Fifty years ago parents still asked boys if they wanted to grow up to be president, and asked it not jokingly but seriously. Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons co...
Andrew Reynolds, acheerful fellow in his early 30s, pilots Sydneyferryboats for a living. I spent the whole morning shuttling back and forth acrossthe harbor. After our third run Andrew shut down the...
文士们通过书写来管理伟大的帝国，他们关于记录和检索信息的知识对管理复杂的社会是必不可少的。Scribes administered great empires by writing, their knowledge of recording and retrieving information essenti...