“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A vibrant portrait of the “original affluent society”-the Bushmen of southern Africa-by the anth...(展开全部)

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely tradi...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·苏兹曼（James Suzman） 苏格兰圣安德鲁斯大学人类学学士，爱丁堡大学社会人类学博士。自1996年起，他便开始在博茨瓦纳和纳米比亚的卡拉哈里沙漠，与每个主要的布须曼族群共同生活和工作。苏兹曼在卡拉哈里当地更广为人知的名字是“昆塔”（/Kunta），这是他的昆族( !Kung）名字。直到今天，布须曼人仍对苏兹曼保留着深刻的记忆。 2001—2004年，苏兹曼获剑桥大学非洲研究斯穆兹联邦奖学金（Smuts Commonwealth Fellowship）。2007年，加入戴比尔斯集团公司（De Beers Group of Companies），担任全球公共事务主管。 自2013年以来，苏兹曼一直在持续研究卡拉哈里的相关问题，并于英国剑桥大学创立了人类学智库“人类”(Anthropos）。

“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND and HOMO DEUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW WASHINGTON POST'S 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION IN 2017 AN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2017 A vibrant port...(展开全部)

Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Gary Saul Morson and Mo...(展开全部)

加里·索尔·莫森（Gary Saul Morson） 美国西北大学Lawrence B. Dumas艺术与人文教授，斯拉夫语言文学教授。他的主要著作包括《叙述与自由》《我们时代的安娜·卡列尼娜》《他人之见：从引述到文化》。 莫顿·夏皮罗（Morton Schapiro） 美国西北大学校长，经济学教授。他的主要著作有《学生助学博弈》。 莫森和夏皮罗还是《美好的未来？：2030年的美国与世界》的主编。 译者简介 郑磊，南开大学经济学博士，行为经济学、金融市场和创新理论研究者，曾出版多部中文专著和英、法、日、德文金融与经济译著。 龚荻涵，法学硕士，战地翻译、工程师，译有《现代证券分析》等作品。 徐慧琳，东北财经大学博士研究生，研究方向为公司金融，已出版多部译作。

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johanssons The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, u...(展开全部)

Counterintuitive insights about building successful relationships-based on research into human-computer interaction. The driver was insistent: "A woman should not be giving directions." Despite the customer service rep's reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn't actually a woman-just a computer with a female voice-the driver (and many others like him) refused t...(展开全部)