Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compe...(展开全部)

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they make mistakes? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compe...(展开全部)

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelli...(展开全部)

"Engaging...Teases out the cause and effect of seven cognition] traps with witty stories of famous blunders...to teach the basis of good judgment. L ike all good historians he's hoping we can avoid making the same mistake twice."--"O, The Oprah Magazine "For anyone whose best-laid plans have been foiled by faulty thinking, "Blunder "reveals how understanding seven simple traps...(展开全部)

We all make bad decisions. It's part of being human. The resulting mistakes can be valuable, the story goes, because we learn from them. But do we? Historian Zachary Shore says no, not always, and he has a long list of examples to prove his point.From colonialism to globalization, from gender wars to civil wars, or any circumstance for which our best solutions backfire, Shore d...(展开全部)

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德•霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who have become trapped in the endless cycle of dieting. Why We Eat (Too Much), combines case studies from his practice and the new science of metabolism to illuminate how our appetite really works. Debunking the great myths of the body, and systematically explaining why dieting is cou...(展开全部)

Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to...(展开全部)