This book is a crucial contribution to the debate about the meaning and purpose of leisure at the end of modernity. Karl Spracklen uses Jurgen Habermas's work on the tension of rationalities to situate leisure and critical studies of leisure as meaningful and valuable in the twenty-first century. In particular, Spracklen uses Habermas' concerns between free, communicative disco...(展开全部)

Money, even if it doesn't buy happiness directly, controls most people's lives. I refuse to believe that money is the source of your problems. In fact, I believe that solving your problems is the source of meaningful money. If happiness—or enjoyment—is the combination of progress being made and contribution to something greater than yourself, and both are accomplished by solvin...(展开全部)

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog’s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here? Surprised to find himself reborn as a rambunctious golden-haired puppy after a tragically short life as a stray mutt,...(展开全部)

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned le...(展开全部)

How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned le...(展开全部)

玛莎·芬尼莫尔，现为乔治·华盛顿大学政治与国际事务学院教授、著有《国际社会中的国家利益》，与迈克尔·巴尼特合著《为世界定规则--全球政治中的国际组织》。

Winner of the 2004 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award (American Political Science Association) Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its me...(展开全部)