Nihilism is not an affliction to be overcome, but a vector of intellectual discovery which philosophy should try to push to its ultimate conclusion. Rather than trying to safeguard the experience of meaning-construed as the defining feature of human existence-from the incursions of science, philosophy should strive to demystify it and deploy its considerable speculative resourc...(展开全部)

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book re...(展开全部)

Not since World War II has Japan faced a crisis like the one before it now. An apparently endless recession has weakened the foundations of the traditional family and severed the bond between Japan's corporations and employees. Unruly children turn classrooms into battlefields. Ultranationalist pride and xenophobia are celebrated in best-selling comic books and championed by...(展开全部)

The groundbreaking mix CD that accompanies this book features Nam Jun Paik, the Dada Movement, John Cage, Sonic Youth, and many other examples of avant-garde music. Most of the CD's content comes from the archives of Sub Rosa, a legendary record label that has been the benchmark for archival sounds since the beginnings of electronic music. (For a complete list of audio credits,...(展开全部)

Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. The three long essays that constitute this book re...(展开全部)

In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With its twofold agenda, the volume emerges as a multi-layered dialogue between researcher and researched, participant and observe...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. Almost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon, an internet pioneer quietly changing the way we shop online, in his bestseller The Everyth...(展开全部)

彼得 T.李森（Peter T. Leeson ），美国著名经济学家，乔治梅森大学经济学教授，《公共选择》期刊北美区编辑。于2001年在希尔斯代尔学院获得经济学学士学位；于2005年在乔治梅森大学获得经济学博士学位；2003—2004年，哈佛大学政治经济学与政府学访问学者；2005年，成为伦敦经济学院F.A.哈耶克研究员；被列为“世界八大*尖青年经济学家”；英国皇家艺术学会研究员。已出版中文作品《海盗经济学》。李森以将理性选择理论扩展至不同寻常的领域而出名。

彼得 T.李森（Peter T. Leeson ），美国著名经济学家，乔治梅森大学经济学教授，《公共选择》期刊北美区编辑。于2001年在希尔斯代尔学院获得经济学学士学位；于2005年在乔治梅森大学获得经济学博士学位；2003—2004年，哈佛大学政治经济学与政府学访问学者；2005年，成为伦敦经济学院F.A.哈耶克研究员；被列为“世界八大*尖青年经济学家”；英国皇家艺术学会研究员。已出版中文作品《海盗经济学》。李森以将理性选择理论扩展至不同寻常的领域而出名。

From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces th...(展开全部)