迈克尔•布斯（Michael Booth），一个相距北欧五国有着最近地理与心理距离，又全然不失客观的观察者。如果你有足够好奇与耐心，一路忍耐这个英国人的诸多挑剔、泛滥幽默，他将如实诚恳地为你讲述一个远比想象更为接近真实的北欧。布斯已出版四本非虚构类著作：Just As Well I’m Leaving，获《爱尔兰时报》主笔提名；Eat, Pray, Eat，获2012年度英国旅行类出版物奖提名；Sacré Cordon Bleu上榜BBC Radio 4读书栏目; Sushi and Beyond获2010年度美食佳作奖，并被拍成纪录片。现与妻子和孩子生活在丹麦。

A WITTY, INFORMATIVE, AND POPULAR TRAVELOGUE ABOUT THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THEY MAY NOT BE AS HAPPY OR AS PERFECT AS WE ASSUME Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he leaves hi...(展开全部)

The whole world wants to learn the secrets of Nordic exceptionalism: why are the Danes the happie st people in the world, despite having the highest taxes? If the Finns really have the best education system, how come they still think all Swedish men are gay? Are the Icelanders really feral? How are the Norwegians spending their fantastical oil wealth? And why do all of them hat...(展开全部)

保罗·多兰（Paul Dolan） 伦敦政治经济学院行为科学教授，心理与行为科学系主任。 曾在普林斯顿大学做访问学者，与丹尼尔·卡尼曼密切合作。 美国国家科学院测量国民幸福感小组研究员。 英国国家统计局国家幸福咨询论坛成员。 英国政府首席学术顾问。 国际知名的幸福、行为和公共政策专家。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly pos...(展开全部)

Joseph Campbell, the worlds foremost authority on mythology,and Bill Moyers, one of most distinguished journalists, offer a brilliant combination of wisdom and wit. Joseph Campbell explains to Bill Moyers in a six part series for television interview,how myths are our ties to the past, and how they help us understand ourselves and our world. Topics from modern marriage to virgi...(展开全部)

The author of the bestselling Hero With a Thousand Faces touches on subjects ranging from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, in an intriguing and entertaining attempt to explain our world.

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly pos...(展开全部)

In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that i...(展开全部)