This book provides a fresh perspective on the familiar belief that memory policies are successful in building peaceful societies. Whether in a stable democracy or in the wake of a violent political conflict, this book argues that memory policies are unhelpful in preventing hate, genocide, and mass crimes. Since the 1990s, transmitting the memory of violent pasts has been utilis...(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)

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)

贾雷德•戴蒙德现任加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授，美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士、美国哲学学会会员。戴蒙德曾以畅销书《枪炮、病菌与钢铁》荣获1998年普利策奖，他的另一部代表作《第三种黑猩猩》曾获英国科普图书奖。此外，戴蒙德的学术研究也使他获奖无数，包括美国国家科学奖、美国地理学会伯尔奖等。他在《发现》、《自然》和《地理》等杂志上发表过200多篇论文。戴蒙德也是全球唯一两度荣获英国科普图书奖

“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)

“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)

Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and propaganda is being put before us from unknown sources by unknown authors.

Much has been written on the Theory of History by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and readable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History; the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider. And consider we certainly should in an era when so much bad history and propaganda is being put before us from unknown sources by unknown authors.

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)