The inner workings of the human brain may be a great mystery, but the mind's true purpose has been verified time and time again: your brain is secretly conspiring against you to make you crazy. How else can we account for the needless fears, dramas, tizzies, and rages that affect us on a minute-by-minute basis? "The User's Guide to the Human Mind" attempts to explain the seemin...(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。

What is the boy crisis? It's a crisis of education. Worldwide, boys are 50 percent less likely than girls to meet basic proficiency in reading, math, and science. It's a crisis of mental health. ADHD is on the rise. And as boys become young men, their suicide rates go from equal to girls to six times that of young women. It's a crisis of fathering. Boys are growing up with less...(展开全部)

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes. In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates— not fats and not simply excess calories—has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. The result of thorough re...(展开全部)

Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, Gary Taubes revisits the urgent question of what’s making us fat—and how we can change. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century—none more damaging or misguided than the “calories-in, calories-out” model of why we get fat—and the good science that has...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Former foreign editor of Time, Ramo pushes the reader into uncomfortable yet exhilarating places with controversial ways of thinking about global challenges (e.g., studying why Hezbollah is the most efficiently run Islamic militant group). His book, which lays bare the flaws in current thinking on everything from American political influen...(展开全部)

From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces th...(展开全部)

● 医生、记者兼作家。耶鲁大学及加州大学旧金山医学院的双料高材生。33岁成为加州大学锡安山医院最年轻有为的神经科主任。 ● 擅长把尖端神经科学、实验数据和趣闻轶事相结合，提出极具挑战性、开创性的观点。 ● 常常受邀为《纽约时报》《旧金山纪事报》和《沙龙网络杂志》撰写文章，还经常被邀请做有关大脑、思维、神经科学与科学哲学方面的演讲。著有《人类思维中最致命的错误》以及三本深受评论界好评的小说。目前居住在旧金山湾区。

During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine , Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them ...(展开全部)

大卫·格雷伯（David Graeber） 美国著名人类学家、社会学家，“占领华尔街”主要参与者，先后任耶鲁大学副教授、伦敦政治经济学院教授，师承人类学家马歇尔·萨林斯。出版有《债：5000年债务史》，受到《21世纪资本论》作者托马斯·皮凯蒂的高度赞誉。