Spite angers and enrages us, but it also keeps us honest. In this provocative account, a psychologist examines how petty vengeance explains human thriving. Spite seems utterly useless. You don't gain anything by hurting yourself just so you can hurt someone else. So why hasn't evolution weeded out all the spiteful people? As psychologist Simon McCarthy-Jones argues, spite seems...(展开全部)

彼得·汤森（Peter Townsend）, 英国萨塞克斯大学工程实验物理学荣誉退休教授，马德里自治大学荣誉博士，曾因乳腺癌检测技术方面的成果入围欧盟笛卡儿研究奖。汤森的研究兴趣涵盖了发光学、光电子学、辐射剂量学、纳米科学等15个领域，曾在8个国家的学术界、工业界和国家实验室工作，发表过530余篇论文。

唐纳德·斯伯特（Donald Spoto），美国著名传记作家，曾撰写劳伦斯·奥利弗、玛丽莲·梦露、格蕾丝·凯利、杰奎琳·肯尼迪等诸多名流的传记，也曾执笔英国王室家族史。

In this book, one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, but i...(展开全部)

In this book, one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, but i...(展开全部)

Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons. How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for his murdered father in the objects he left behind―an archeology of affections. Investigating and retracing his family’s trajectory through the streets of the city of Porto Alegre and the morass...(展开全部)

彼得·汤森（Peter Townsend）, 英国萨塞克斯大学工程实验物理学荣誉退休教授，马德里自治大学荣誉博士，曾因乳腺癌检测技术方面的成果入围欧盟笛卡儿研究奖。汤森的研究兴趣涵盖了发光学、光电子学、辐射剂量学、纳米科学等15个领域，曾在8个国家的学术界、工业界和国家实验室工作，发表过530余篇论文。

托德·卡什丹 Todd Kashdan ● 乔治梅森大学社交焦虑与性格优势实验室主任、心理学教授、临床心理学家，美国空军、世界银行、荷美尔、通用磨坊、天联广告公司、盖普和渣打银行等各类组织机构与国际企业的商业顾问。 ● 十多年来，卡什丹教授一直将研究核心集中在如何培养和维持生活的幸福与意义，如何应对压力与焦虑，如何保持正念，建立社会关系和进行自我调节等方面，目的在于运用更先进的科学帮助人们在生活和商业中达到更佳状态。 罗伯特· 比斯瓦斯 - 迪纳 Robert Biswas-Diener ● 美国波特兰州立大学讲师，《幸福研究》与《积极心理学》编辑委员会委员，知名积极心理学家埃德·迪纳之子，被誉为“积极心理学领域的印第安纳·琼斯”，曾与其父亲合著《改变人生的快乐实验》。 ● 罗伯特研究快乐的足迹几乎遍及全世界。为了将快乐科学中的创新用于实践，帮助弱势...(展开全部)

The classic, Edgar Award-winning biography, published to celebrate the centenary of Hitchcock's birth with a new introduction by the author. This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds, and more than forty other films. While setting forth every stage of Hitchcock's long life an...(展开全部)

A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationality It’s a story we can’t stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks invented reason. Later, the Enlightenment enshrined rationality as the supreme value. Discovering that reason is the defining ...(展开全部)