"Born to Be Good" demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are nasty, brutish and short - we are in fact born to be good. Dacher Keltner investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why we have evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies. By combining stor...(展开全部)

"Born to Be Good" demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are 'nasty, brutish and short' - we are in fact born to be good. Dacher Keltner investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why we have evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of cooperative societies. By combining st...(展开全部)

西蒙·巴恩斯（Simon Barnes） 《泰晤士报》屡获殊荣的首席体育记者，周末版生态环境与野生动物专栏作者。小说家、自然写作者、马术师。出版有《聆听：与一只鸟相遇的最好方式》《运动的意义》等多部畅销作品。《星期日电讯报》评价他：“巴恩斯是一种独一无二的声音，总想挑战传统观念，寻求更为深层的意义。”

Look out of the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. Congratulations. You are now a bad birdwatcher. Anyone who has ever gazed up at the sky or stared out of the window knows something about birds. In this funny, inspiring, eye-opening book, Simon Barnes paints a riveting picture of how bird-watching has framed his life and can help us all to a better understanding of our place on th...(展开全部)

In How to Have a Good Day, economist and former McKinsey partner Caroline Webb shows readers how to use recent findings from behavioral economics, psychology, and neuroscience to transform our approach to everyday working life. Advances in these behavioral sciences are giving us ever better understanding of how our brains work, why we make the choices we do, and what it takes ...(展开全部)

Reading the book, I had no trouble understanding how negative visualization could be an effective antidote against "hedonic adaptation." By imagining ourselves to be homeless, for instance, we can reset our desire for a more luxurious home and once again appreciate the roof over our head that we started taking for granted shortly after moving in.

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing. As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and ...(展开全部)

威廉·德雷谢维奇（William Deresiewicz)，毕业于哥伦比亚大学，在耶鲁大学担任过10年英文教授，在哥伦比亚大学担任过5年研究生导师。他的文章《精英教育的劣势》（The Disadvantage of an Elite Education）在网络上点击率超过100万次。除了经常应邀在各个大学发表演讲之外，他还是一名颇有影响力的文学评论家，其文章经常出现在《纽约时报》、《大西洋月刊》、《国家》、《新共和》上。 策划人 & 译者 简介 林杰，16岁赴美留学，获得康奈大学工程学学位和哥伦比亚大学教育硕士学位。为了坚持追随自己的热爱，投身教育事业，曾担任康奈尔大学校友面世招生官，并在美国两所百年寄宿高中从事招生录取、教学及管理工作，同时担任击剑教练。林老师目前从事中美教育交流工作，专注中美留学和国际学校的办学。

A groundbreaking manifesto for people searching for the kind of insight on leading, thinking, and living that elite schools should be—but aren’t—providing. As a professor at Yale, Bill Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation’s brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively, and ...(展开全部)

Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She's against racism. She's a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she's having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband's been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their loc...(展开全部)