In this spirited and irreverent critique of Darwin’s long hold over our imagination, a distinguished philosopher of science makes the case that, in culture as well as nature, not only the fittest survive: the world is full of the “good enough” that persist too. Why is the genome of a salamander forty times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million...(展开全部)

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage m...(展开全部)

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage m...(展开全部)

The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance--he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage m...(展开全部)

For most people, mathematics is an abstraction with little connection to the "real" universe. But profiled here are mathematicians who have discovered relatively simple yet exceedingly powerful patterns that yield insight into aspects of natural and human behavior.

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

罗伯特•达尔（Robert A. Dahl，1915—2014），耶鲁大学政治学杰出荣休教授，曾任美国政治学会主席，著有《民主及其批评者》《多元主义民主的困境：自治与控制》《多头政体：参与与反对》《谁统治：一个美国城市中的民主与权力》等。 牟硕，法学博士，现为天津师范大学马克思主义学院副教授，主要研究方向为民主理论。

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, dam...(展开全部)

We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, dam...(展开全部)