约瑟夫·E·斯蒂格利茨（Joseph E. Stiglitz），美国哥伦比亚大学教授，哥伦比亚大学全球思想委员会主席。他曾担任克林顿政府的经济顾问委员会主席，世界银行的首席经济学家和高级副总裁。2001年获得诺贝尔经济学奖。 热拉尔·罗兰（Gérard Roland），加州大学伯克利分校政治经济学教授，转轨国家研究领域的首席研究员，英国政治经济研究中心研究员和项目负责人。他不仅对私有化研究做出了重要的贡献，而且在转轨国家的政治经济，企业重组，财政改革和转轨国家的宏观经济方面，其观点也被广为引证。

This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while eigh...(展开全部)

Sages from Cicero to Oprah have told us that forgiveness requires us to let go of negative emotions and that it has a unique power to heal our wounds. In Failures of Forgiveness, Myisha Cherry argues that these beliefs couldn’t be more wrong—and that the ways we think about and use forgiveness, personally and as a society, can often do more harm than good. She presents a new an...(展开全部)

Famous Fables of Economics critiques some of our most cherished stories of market failure.

In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. Watson asked the man if he knew why he'd been called in. The man said he assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, 'Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons'. In "Billion-Dollar Lessons", Paul Carroll and Chunka ...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the text of two of Schrodinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the text of two of Schrodinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive...(展开全部)

"Gothic & Lolita" charts the current trend of Gothic street fashion that has swept Japan over the last decade. Influenced by Western fashion trends from the mid 1980s, young teenagers, predominately adolescent girls, congregate in the urban centres of Harajuku, Akihabara and a number of underground clubs in and around Tokyo, dressed head-to-toe in gothic costumes and late-Victo...(展开全部)

Originally published over twenty-five years ago, "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" still feels fresh today. And the subject of these stories - how small and seemingly meaningless decisions and actions by individuals often lead to significant unintended consequences for a large group - is more important than ever. In one famous example, Thomas C. Schelling shows that a slight-but...(展开全部)

Responsibility and Judgment gathers together unpublished writings from the last decade of Arendt’s life, where she addresses fundamental questions and concerns about the nature of evil and the making of moral choices. At the heart of the book is a profound ethical investigation, “Some Questions of Moral Philosophy,” in which Arendt confronts the inadequacy of traditional moral ...(展开全部)