罗伯特•莱恩（Robert E. Lane），美国政治学家和政治心理学家，英国科学院院士，美国科学促进协会会员。曾任国际政治心理学学会、美国政治学协会和政策研究学会主席。于耶鲁大学执教近50年，就职期间曾两度任政治系主任。罗伯特所著图书已被翻译成7国语言在全世界出售。此外，为表彰其在政治心理学领域做出的卓越贡献，自1994年起，美国政治学协会设立罗伯特•莱恩奖，颁给每年的最佳政治心理学图书作者。莱恩本人的这本《幸福的流失》于2001年获此奖。

Why in prosperous market democracies today do so many people regard themselves as unhappy? Robert Lane draws on extensive research in many fields to show that the main sources of well-being in advanced economies are friendships and a good family life; income has little to do with happiness once a person rises above the poverty level. Lane urges us to alter priorities and emphas...(展开全部)

罗伯特•莱恩（Robert E. Lane），美国政治学家和政治心理学家，英国科学院院士，美国科学促进协会会员。曾任国际政治心理学学会、美国政治学协会和政策研究学会主席。于耶鲁大学执教近50年，就职期间曾两度任政治系主任。罗伯特所著图书已被翻译成7国语言在全世界出售。此外，为表彰其在政治心理学领域做出的卓越贡献，自1994年起，美国政治学协会设立罗伯特•莱恩奖，颁给每年的最佳政治心理学图书作者。莱恩本人的这本《幸福的流失》于2001年获此奖。

Why in prosperous market democracies today do so many people regard themselves as unhappy? Robert Lane draws on extensive research in many fields to show that the main sources of well-being in advanced economies are friendships and a good family life; income has little to do with happiness once a person rises above the poverty level. Lane urges us to alter priorities and emphas...(展开全部)

Châtelet’s book is raw, sharp, and unchained to the point where we are eventually dragged through a towering spiral of argument that slashes wildly at the emergent ‘realism’ of the late postmodern consensus. — Liam Gillick, e-flux Châtelet saw clearly the dangers of a taste for ideas such as chaos and emergence, and anticipates the buzz around big data, crowdsourcing, thought-l...(展开全部)

Châtelet’s book is raw, sharp, and unchained to the point where we are eventually dragged through a towering spiral of argument that slashes wildly at the emergent ‘realism’ of the late postmodern consensus. — Liam Gillick, e-flux Châtelet saw clearly the dangers of a taste for ideas such as chaos and emergence, and anticipates the buzz around big data, crowdsourcing, thought-l...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's...(展开全部)

The recent, highly sucessful publication of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam, has attracted new attention to the subject of civil society. While markets and democracies arise in formerly Communist states, the established liberal democracies of Western Europe, North America, and East Asia grow increasingly dissatisfied with the insti...(展开全部)

In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the world. The book is packed with many intriguing revelations. The contributors note...(展开全部)

"The Promise of Happiness" is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy', 'I'm happy if you're happy'. Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by t...(展开全部)