给莉莉的信”由三十封给外孙女莉莉的信组成。 从追问人是谁， 人所由何来， 人的种族国家等问题开始， 接着探讨人的爱和友谊， 人类的暴力和恐惧， 知识和信仰， 权力和秩序， 自我与他人， 生与死， 身心关系等基本问题。 文字生动浅白。 麦克法兰没有把人类作为“万物的灵长， 宇宙的精华”一味赞颂。 而是认为“人类是悖论的化身， 是矛盾的集成”。 作者写到： 人类真是莫名奇妙啊。 他们明明只是动物， 却自以为是别具一格。 他们拿不定主意， 到底该看重自己的精神还是肉体。他们也不能决定， 到底应该看重自己的感官还是思想。 他们自视不朽， 而终于要死亡。 他们聪明绝顶， 然而这份智慧只不过把他们引向愚行和无礼取闹。 他们自称是真理的唯一判官， 却在谎言中度日。 他们不乏仁爱之心， 却不惜光阴彼此仇恨， 互相损害。 他们有能力创造伟大的艺术， 却把世界弄得丑陋而...(展开全部)

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers his granddaughter's questions about how the world works, how it got to be as it is, what it could be, and where she fits in. ...(展开全部)

Socialist political education made simple Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin building a more equal and democratic society? These are the questions that are answered in Confronting ...(展开全部)

安德鲁·克雷格（Andrew Craig） 英国伦敦金融城20余年工作经验，曾就职于瑞银欧债部、股票部，法国农业信贷银行，专业生物技术投资银行等。在其金融职业生涯中，曾参与巴宝莉、易捷航空等数十家知名公司的IPO。 2011年创立个人理财网站，此后经常受邀在《星期日邮报》（The Mail on Sunday）、《镜报》（The Mirror）、《财经周刊》（MoneyWeek）等发表评论，也多次接受彭博社等专业媒体及电视台的专访。

Praise for Alpha Beta "This book comes at the perfect moment as we rediscover the importance in early reading of cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to tell it." Times Educational Supplement "A richly absorbing exploration, from B.C. to PCs, of the evolution of the most fundamental characters...(展开全部)

Praise for Alpha Beta "This book comes at the perfect moment as we rediscover the importance in early reading of cracking the alphabetic code. The story of how that code came into being is a fascinating one, and Man is the ideal writer to tell it." Times Educational Supplement "A richly absorbing exploration, from B.C. to PCs, of the evolution of the most fundamental characters...(展开全部)

The "world of letters" has always seemed a matter more of metaphor than of global reality. Rejecting facile talk of globalization, with its suggestion of a happy literary "melting pot," Pascale Casanova exposes an emerging regime of inequality in the world of letters, where minor languages and literatures are subject to the invisible but implacable violence of their dominant co...(展开全部)