Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way.

In Passionate Work, Renyi Hong theorizes the notion of being “passionate about your work” as an affective project that encourages people to endure economically trying situations like unemployment, job change, repetitive and menial labor, and freelancing. Not simply a subject of aspiration, passion has been deployed as means to build resilience and mend disappointments with our ...(展开全部)

'Fascinating...In essence, the number and quality of our friendships may have a bigger influence on our happiness, health and mortality risk than anything else in life save for giving up smoking' Guardian, Book of the Day Friends matter to us, and they matter more than we think. The single most surprising fact to emerge out of the medical literature over the last decade or so h...(展开全部)

Value investing is not just a system for success in the market. It is also an intellectual toolkit for achieving a deeper understanding of the world. In The Joys of Compounding, the value investor Gautam Baid builds a holistic approach to value investing and philosophy from his wide-ranging reading, combining practical approaches, self-cultivation, and business wisdom. Distilli...(展开全部)

Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Frien...(展开全部)

In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to ch...(展开全部)

In Between Friends, Amos Oz returns to the kibbutz of the late 1950s, the time and place where his writing began. These eight interconnected stories, set in the fictitious Kibbutz Yekhat, draw masterly profiles of idealistic men and women enduring personal hardships in the shadow of one of the greatest collective dreams of the twentieth century. A devoted father who fails to ch...(展开全部)

作者简介： 丽莎·希尔（Lisa Hill），澳大利亚阿德雷德大学政治系的教授，学术兴趣主要集中于政治理论、思想史、选举法、澳大利亚政治以及女性与政治等主题之上，主要作品有《激情社会：亚当·弗格森的社会、政治和道德思想》《政治腐败的思想史》等。 译者简介 张江伟，浙江外国语学院马克思主义学院讲师，主要研究方向为苏格兰启蒙运动。

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins） 牛津大学教授，英国皇家科学院院士，有“达尔文的斗犬”之称的进化生物学家，“无神论四骑士”之一，“第三种文化”推动者。今天仍然活跃在文坛的杰出“非虚构类”作家，创作了《自私的基因》《基因之河》《道金斯传》等多部畅销作品。

理查德·道金斯（Richard Dawkins） 牛津大学教授，英国皇家科学院院士，有“达尔文的斗犬”之称的进化生物学家，“无神论四骑士”之一，“第三种文化”推动者。今天仍然活跃在文坛的杰出“非虚构类”作家，创作了《自私的基因》《基因之河》《道金斯传》等多部畅销作品。