Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated -- and nearly everything in-between -- our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Stanley and Lehman begin...(展开全部)

Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated -- and nearly everything in-between -- our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, Stanley and Lehman begin...(展开全部)

A great contemporary German philosopher attacks the explosive problem of political myth in our day. In this final work Ernst Cassirer shows how the irrational forces symbolized by myth and manipulation by the state constantly threaten to destroy the independent mind of civilized man. "A brilliant survey of some of the major texts in the history of political theory." --Kenneth B...(展开全部)

布赖恩·卡普兰，1997年毕业于普林斯顿大学，获经济学博士学位。现为美国乔治·梅森大学经济系教授，卡托研究所兼职研究员。他所在的乔治梅森大学的公共选择研究因布凯南获得诺贝尔经济奖而成为这一领域的重要阵地。他的主要研究领域包括公共经济学、公共选择、心理学与经济学、家庭经济学等，曾在《美国经济评论》、《经济学杂志》、《公共选择》、《法律与经济学杂志》、《社会科学季刊》等学术期刊发表文章。本书是他的第一部学术专著，也是他的成名作。本书于2007年在普林斯顿大学出版社出版后，被英国《金融时报》评为“2007年度最佳图书（政治类）”，并获2008年独立出版社图书奖银奖。卡普兰本人也因为这本书而在美国声名鹊起，在本书出版之后不久便晋升为教授，而那时他还不到40岁。

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biase...(展开全部)

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biase...(展开全部)

布赖恩·卡普兰，1997年毕业于普林斯顿大学，获经济学博士学位。现为美国乔治·梅森大学经济系教授，卡托研究所兼职研究员。他所在的乔治梅森大学的公共选择研究因布凯南获得诺贝尔经济奖而成为这一领域的重要阵地。他的主要研究领域包括公共经济学、公共选择、心理学与经济学、家庭经济学等，曾在《美国经济评论》、《经济学杂志》、《公共选择》、《法律与经济学杂志》、《社会科学季刊》等学术期刊发表文章。本书是他的第一部学术专著，也是他的成名作。本书于2007年在普林斯顿大学出版社出版后，被英国《金融时报》评为“2007年度最佳图书（政治类）”，并获2008年独立出版社图书奖银奖。卡普兰本人也因为这本书而在美国声名鹊起，在本书出版之后不久便晋升为教授，而那时他还不到40岁。

沃伦•法雷尔（Warren Farrell）是美国性别研究的知名人物。约翰逊总统曾称他为“杰出的青年教育家”。曾被金融时报选为100名教育领袖之一。2011年世界精神中心将其选为“世界精神领袖”。他的已在50个国家出版，翻译成15种语言。他从20世纪60年代开始研究社会性别。他的《为什么男人应该是这个样子？》（Why Men Are the Way They Are）获得了美国国家图书奖，被《纽约时报》称为“关于爱、性与亲密关系”的最重要的书。

One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly pos...(展开全部)

In The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse is hopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion of moral inescapability, or practical authority, which, upon investigation, cannot be reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame, in that it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that i...(展开全部)