From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Islamic militant group). His book, which lays bare the flaws in current thinking on everything from American political influen...(展开全部)

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less...(展开全部)

大卫·格雷伯（David Graeber） 美国著名人类学家、社会学家，“占领华尔街”主要参与者，先后任耶鲁大学副教授、伦敦政治经济学院教授，师承人类学家马歇尔·萨林斯。出版有《债：5000年债务史》，受到《21世纪资本论》作者托马斯·皮凯蒂的高度赞誉。

大卫·格雷伯（David Graeber） 美国著名人类学家、社会学家，“占领华尔街”主要参与者，先后任耶鲁大学副教授、伦敦政治经济学院教授，师承人类学家马歇尔·萨林斯。出版有《债：5000年债务史》，受到《21世纪资本论》作者托马斯·皮凯蒂的高度赞誉。

克里斯·克利尔菲尔德（Chris Clearfield），在哈佛大学学习物理和生物，长期从事衍生品交易，他还是持有执照的商用飞机飞行员。克里斯为《卫报》《福布斯》《哈佛肯尼迪学院书评》写了许多有关复杂性和失败的文章。 安德拉什·蒂尔克斯克（András Tilcsik），是多伦多大学罗特曼管理学院主持战略、组织和社会研究讲座，他被认为是世界前 40 的 40 岁以下的商业教授。联合国评价他在组织失败方面的课程为商业学院中有关灾难风险管理的最佳课程。

The inner workings of the human brain may be a great mystery, but the mind's true purpose has been verified time and time again: your brain is secretly conspiring against you to make you crazy. How else can we account for the needless fears, dramas, tizzies, and rages that affect us on a minute-by-minute basis? "The User's Guide to the Human Mind" attempts to explain the seemin...(展开全部)

Dr. Yair Apter is a clinical social worker with years of experience. His work with rehabilitating violent men began during the third year of his degree, when he took a professional development position at a prison. Despite his apprehension, Dr. Apter discovered meaning and complexities in his work, learning to understand, help, and sometimes even empathize with his patients. Th...(展开全部)

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates— not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough re...(展开全部)

Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has...(展开全部)

The Other End of the Leash shares a revolutionary, new perspective on our relationship with dogs, focusing on our behavior in comparison with that of dogs. An applied animal behaviorist and dog trainer with more than twenty years experience, Dr. Patricia McConnell looks at humans as just another interesting species, and muses about why we behave the way we do around our dogs...(展开全部)