In this provocative reassessment of C. G. Jung's thought, Richard Noll boldly argues that such ideas as the "collective unconscious" and the theory of the archetypes come as much from late nineteenth-century occultism, neo-paganism, and social Darwinian teachings as they do from natural science. Noll sees the break with Sigmund Freud in 1912 not as a split within the psychoanal...(展开全部)

These days our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the race to keep up, everything suffers - our work, diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. We are in such a hurry that anyone or anything that slows us down becomes the enemy. Carl Honore uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed by proving that slower is often better. The Slow movement is not a...(展开全部)

TheodoreRoszak

A history of how, in the mid-twentieth century, we came to believe in the concept of creativity. Creativity is one of American society’s signature values. Schools claim to foster it, businesses say they thrive on it, and countless cities say it’s what makes them unique. But the idea that there is such a thing as “creativity”—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent...(展开全部)

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to t...(展开全部)

乔尔‧莫基尔（Joel Mokyr），西北大学罗伯特?H.斯托茨人文科学教授和经济学与历史学教授，特拉维夫大学埃坦?柏格拉斯经济学院教授，曾任美国经济史协会会长。他的研究获得诸多奖项，是美国经济学联合会杰出会士奖、荷兰皇家科学院的海尼根历史学奖和国际巴尔扎恩经济史奖得主。 他已出版了《开明经济》（The Enlightened Economy）和《雅典娜的礼物》（The Gifts of Athena）等多本著作。