From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

【作者简介】 理查德·谢泼德（Richard Shepherd） 谢泼德就读文法学校时，他的同学偷偷把一本医学教科书带到课堂传阅，这让谢泼德第一次了解到犯罪与谋杀的世界，也是他立志了解人类各种死亡形态的起点。谢泼德于1977年取得行医资格，1987年获得医学博士学位，成为一名法医病理学家。之后，他加入伦敦盖伊医院的法医部，这是当时英国最好的法医部门之一。执业以来，谢泼德参与调查国内外数千起非自然死亡案件，他的专业知识与技术使其至今拥有国际声誉。 ·· 【译者简介】 李立丰 吉林大学法学理论研究中心/法学院教授、博士生导师，法学博士，美国麦克乔治法学院法学硕士，中国犯罪学会常务理事，中国刑法学会理事，中国人民大学反腐败法治研究中心客座研究员，日本早稻田大学访问学者，日本关西学院大学法学部客员教授。

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

The teacher probes the Western problems of conformity and loss of personal values while offering a fresh approach to self-understanding and the meaning of personal freedom and mature love.

This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions that range from Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to modern architecture and art. Other topics include the Golden Section, geometrical shapes on the plane, geometrical shapes in space, crystal lattices, and many other fascinating subjects. Includes 80 plates and 64 figures.

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)

普里德里格·奇乔瓦茨基（Predrag Cicovacki），1960 年生于南斯拉夫贝尔格莱德（现属塞尔维亚），现任圣十字学院（美国伍斯特市）名誉教授和英国剑桥大学高级研究员。 撰有专著13部，主编图书12部。文章及专著以多种语言公开发表，并以多语种翻译传播，包括英文、塞尔维亚文、德文、俄文、西班牙文、斯洛文尼亚文、马其顿文、中文、日文。近期主要著作有《向上凝视的伦理》（The Ethic of the Upward Gaze: Essays Inspired by Immanuel Kant and Nicolai Hartmann , 2024）、《上帝、人与托尔斯泰》（God, Man, and Tolstoy , 2022）和《生命的意义》（The Meaning of Life. A Quick Immersion, 2021）。

If you can find a better bang for the buck than Wicked, please let me know. I picked up Wicked, knowing nothing except that its subject matter was the Wicked Witch of the West, to be drawn immediately into Maguire's splendidly imagined world of sentient animals, multiple societies, and unique physical laws. Wicked is an enthralling, great read, hugely entertaining. On top of al...(展开全部)