In our capitalist market society, we have come to accept that the way to get ahead is through strong will, grit, and naked ambition. This belief has served us well: it has contributed to making our affluent societies affluent. But does the premise still hold? As Krzysztof Pelc argues in Beyond Self-Interest, this default assumption no longer captures reality. There is a limit t...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhr...(展开全部)

Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lil...(展开全部)

Soon to be an HBO series, book three in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) In the third book in the Neapolitan quartet, Elena and Lil...(展开全部)

From dogs to gods, the science of understanding mysterious minds—including your own. Nothing seems more real than the minds of other people. When you consider what your boss is thinking or whether your spouse is happy, you are admitting them into the "mind club." It’s easy to assume other humans can think and feel, but what about a cow, a computer, a corporation? What kinds of ...(展开全部)

[加]克莱格•泰勒（Craig Taylor） 知名作家、编剧与编辑。著有《关于不列颠的100万件好玩的事》《回到阿肯菲尔德：一个英国村庄的21世纪图景》，两部作品均被改编成舞台剧。 现居伦敦。

Today humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding–and also appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that developed vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, medical quackery, and conspiracy theorizing? Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply irrational–cavemen out of time saddled with biases, fallacies, and i...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In our uncertain age, which can so often feel so dark and disturbing, Steven Pinker has distinguished himself as a voice of positivity.” – New York Times Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it help us understand why there is so much irrationality in the world? Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates’s "new favorite book of al...(展开全部)

[加]克莱格•泰勒（Craig Taylor） “口述史大师”、知名作家、编剧与编辑。著有《关于不列颠的100万件好玩的事》《回到阿肯菲尔德：一个英国村庄的21世纪图景》，两部作品均被改编成舞台剧。

[加]克莱格•泰勒（Craig Taylor） 知名作家、编剧与编辑。著有《关于不列颠的100万件好玩的事》《回到阿肯菲尔德：一个英国村庄的21世纪图景》，两部作品均被改编成舞台剧。 现居伦敦。