Counterintuitive insights about building successful relationships-based on research into human-computer interaction. The driver was insistent: "A woman should not be giving directions." Despite the customer service rep's reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn't actually a woman-just a computer with a female voice-the driver (and many others like him) refused t...(展开全部)

Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely tradi...(展开全部)

Nearly everyone sw ears—whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in relief seconds after they fall a...(展开全部)

Insightful, surprising and with ground-breaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our internet searches, with a foreword by bestselling author Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters – and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets – about sexless marriages, mental health pr...(展开全部)

“Insightful and well-written . . . [Suzman chronicles] how much humankind can still learn from the disappearing way of life of the most marginalized communities on earth.” -Yuval Noah Harari, author of SAPIENS and HOMO DEUS An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book A vibrant portrait of the “original affluent society”-the Bushmen of southern Africa-by the anth...(展开全部)

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。

Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Gary Saul Morson and Mo...(展开全部)

加里·索尔·莫森（Gary Saul Morson） 美国西北大学Lawrence B. Dumas艺术与人文教授，斯拉夫语言文学教授。他的主要著作包括《叙述与自由》《我们时代的安娜·卡列尼娜》《他人之见：从引述到文化》。 莫顿·夏皮罗（Morton Schapiro） 美国西北大学校长，经济学教授。他的主要著作有《学生助学博弈》。 莫森和夏皮罗还是《美好的未来？：2030年的美国与世界》的主编。 译者简介 郑磊，南开大学经济学博士，行为经济学、金融市场和创新理论研究者，曾出版多部中文专著和英、法、日、德文金融与经济译著。 龚荻涵，法学硕士，战地翻译、工程师，译有《现代证券分析》等作品。 徐慧琳，东北财经大学博士研究生，研究方向为公司金融，已出版多部译作。

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)