How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honorsfor distinguished research, teaching, and wr...(展开全部)

In this moving autobiography, social psychologist Elliot Aronson recounts the story of how a shy, seemingly ordinary boy from the slum town of Revere, Massachusetts beat the odds, overcoming his impoverished background to become one of the world's most eminent social scientists. All his life, Aronson has bridged the longstanding divide between scientists and humanists - those w...(展开全部)

How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honors -- for distinguished research, teaching, an...(展开全部)

How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honors -- for distinguished research, teaching, an...(展开全部)

In this moving autobiography, social psychologist Elliot Aronson recounts the story of how a shy, seemingly ordinary boy from the slum town of Revere, Massachusetts beat the odds, overcoming his impoverished background to become one of the world's most eminent social scientists. All his life, Aronson has bridged the longstanding divide between scientists and humanists - those w...(展开全部)

How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honorsfor distinguished research, teaching, and wr...(展开全部)

The most influential theory of distributive equality to have emerged since John Rawls' justice as fairness is luck egalitarianism, which aims to neutralize the distributive effects of luck. The standard form, brute-luck egalitarianism, advanced by Richard Arneson, G. A. Cohen, and Ronald Dworkin, allows the unequal consequences of option luck (the results of deliberate gambles)...(展开全部)

Probability has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians for hundreds of years. Although the mathematics of probability is, for most applications, clear and uncontroversial, the interpretation of probability statements continues to be fraught with controversy and confusion. What does it mean to say that the probability of some event X occurring is 31%? In the 20t...(展开全部)

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Com...(展开全部)

ある夏の日、水泳部ホープの九条(くじょう)は上級生の水村(みずむら)に一目惚れをする。近づいたつもりでも水村は水のようにとらえどころがなくもどかしさは募るばかり。一方、水村は、実家の映画館が立ち退きを迫られる中、誰よりも早く泳ぐ九条の姿に希望を見出していた――。胸の痛みが心地いい。極上のセンシティブ・ラブ、ついに単行本化。