《新注释本福尔摩斯探案全集(套装全3册)》内容简介：福尔摩斯探案全集Ⅰ：二十四篇福尔摩斯探案原典——加上超过一千条注释，不论是初读者还是资深粉丝都将为之倾倒。就算歇洛克•福尔摩斯不是文学史上最伟大的侦探，那么他也毫无疑问地堪称史上最受爱戴的侦探。他借助观察和推理出色地解决了那些最不可思议、最耸人听闻的案件，这些故事最初刊登在十九世纪末的《海滨杂志》上。读者很快爱上了福尔摩斯和助手约翰•H．华生医生侦办的案件，这种热爱超过了对史上所有其他侦探小说的喜爱程度，让维多利亚时代身处各地的读者激动不已。福尔摩斯无可争议地成为侦探的代名词。
第一卷中，世界著名福学家莱斯利•S．克林格将1891年到1893年间首次发表在《海滨杂志》上的系列故事——即后来出版的单行本《冒险史》（1892）和《回忆录》（1893）——结集整理，内容涵盖福尔摩斯探案生涯的早期时代，即从事业初期到1891年。这一时期有代表性的案件包括福尔摩斯出道的第一桩案件《“格洛里亚斯科特”号三桅帆船》，富于传奇色彩的爱情勒索案《波希米亚丑闻》，布局巧妙的盗窃案《红发会》，有着恶毒坏人的《斑点带子案》，以及让福尔摩斯声名大噪的体育丑闻案《银色马》。主要是以华生医生的追述形式呈现出在读者面前。
在本卷中，读者会看到克林格撰写的前言《歇洛克•福尔摩斯的世界》，该文为读者了解阿瑟•柯南•道尔的生平事迹，进入福尔摩斯和华生虚构的侦探世界提供了一份富于洞察力的无价指南。卷一还包括由著名的插图画家西德尼•佩奇特和W．H．海德绘制的数百幅插图，以及那些长期以来被遗忘的插画家的作品。上千条注释涵盖了福学的重大问题，包括那条叫人难以捉摸的蛇的身份（《斑点带子案》）、华生那会移动的伤口以及有关福尔摩斯在莱辛巴赫瀑布“死亡”的其他解释。还有一些注释带领读者深入到那些故事发生的社会和时代背景，反映出一些鲜为人知的资料，诸如将囚犯“流放”到澳大利亚、王冠的处置权以及十九世纪手枪改进的历史。
本卷的最后一篇故事记录了福尔摩斯和主要敌手莫里亚蒂教授在莱辛巴赫瀑布上的著名决斗，福尔摩斯在那里坠入深渊，被认为不幸“遇难”。1893年12月，这篇故事发表之后，一位痛苦的读者写信给作者大骂“你这个畜生！”年轻的伦敦男士在帽子上别上代表致哀的绸带。甚至《海滨杂志》的出版商也觉得将福尔摩斯杀死是“一件可怕的事情”。不过单从表面上看，福尔摩斯的生命的确就此告一终结。
福尔摩斯探案全集Ⅱ：歇洛克•福尔摩斯成功归来——以及大侦探杰出事业的最后三十二篇故事。
歇洛克•福尔摩斯和死敌莫里亚蒂教授在莱辛巴赫瀑布边上展开那场著名的搏斗之后，每个人都认为福尔摩斯去世了。从1894年到1901年，没有出现新的故事叙述他的非凡成就。但这段空白时期没能减少粉丝群体愈演愈烈的呼声。他们的要求很简单：让史上最伟大的侦探归来。直到二十世纪初，他们终于达成了心愿。
莱斯利•S．克林格这部针对福尔摩斯正典的注释本第二卷包括从1903年到1905年间首次发表的十三篇故事——其后结集成单行本《归来记》——还有1907年到1927年间零星发表的故事——其后结集成单行本《最后致意》和《新探案》。它们最初在《海滨杂志》上发表的时候附带了数百幅插图。
卷二中的两篇故事（《第二块血迹》和《临终的侦探》）虽然直到1900年之后才发表，但是叙述的却是福尔摩斯事业早期的经历，即1891年他消失之前的那段时期。剩下的故事发生在福尔摩斯回到迷雾重重的伦敦之后，一直到1901年他退休去苏塞克斯丘陵地带之前。同样还包括两件退休之后发生的案件——《狮鬃毛》和《最后致意》，后者是唯一一篇有关福尔摩斯从事秘密谍报工作的记录，这是1914年世界大战的前奏。
除了故事原著之外，还有一千余条注释，涵盖了重要的福学问题，诸如华生妻子的身份、福尔摩斯就读的大学，以及莱辛巴赫瀑布上到底发生了什么事情。同样，其他注释涉及维多利亚时代和爱德华时代迷人的文化和历史知识，涵盖了各式各样的主题，包括维多利亚时代的自行车、指纹术的发展、布尔战争的历史、潜水艇的发明、铁路的发展、文学作品中的吸血鬼以及令人发指的活埋现象。
卷二同时收录了多篇附录，包括一份详细的参考书目，国际性福尔摩斯研究社团列表，以及大量福学网站的网址资料，为爱好者进一步研究原著故事和时代背景提供参考。
福尔摩斯探案全集 Ⅲ
四部出色的福尔摩斯长篇探案，横跨大侦探整个杰出的办案生涯。
阿瑟•柯南•道尔不仅因为他的五十六篇短篇小说而名声显赫，1887年到1915年间发表的这四部经典长篇同样功不可没，莱斯利•S．克林格将其收录在这部具有里程碑性质的著作的最后一卷中。
实际上，《海滨杂志》首次刊登歇洛克•福尔摩斯短篇探案之前的四年里，柯南•道尔已经写了两部长篇小说。第一部即《血字的研究》，发表在长期以来遭人遗忘的1887年《比顿圣诞年刊》上。这桩有关谋杀和复仇的离奇故事让福尔摩斯和毕生的好友兼搭档约翰•H．华生医生相遇，他们联手揭开了共同遭遇的第一桩谜案。
柯南•道尔的第二部长篇故事始于和美国出版商J．B．利平科特的一次重要的午餐，发生在1889年，同席还有年轻的文学名流奥斯卡•王尔德。利平科特为他的新杂志寻找中篇小说；王尔德应邀撰写出饱受争议的名篇《道连•格雷的画像》，柯南•道尔则完成了《四签名》。这部小说具备了诸多如今已经成为维多利亚惊悚小说标志性的元素，如独腿人、不道德的印度军官、被偷的财宝以及河道追踪等，堪称是日后那些不朽的福尔摩斯短篇探案的惊悚前奏曲。
1902年，柯南•道尔发表《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》引起世界范围的轰动。虽然死忠的粉丝们失望地发现这篇故事发生在莱辛巴赫瀑布事件之前，但毫不妨碍《新注释本福尔摩斯探案全集(套装全3册)》迅速成为二十世纪最早的畅销书之一。福尔摩斯在本案中解决了计划缜密的谋杀、家族的诅咒以及迷雾笼罩的沼地中的猎犬怪物等一系列经典谜团。许多评论家将这部作品推举为史上最伟大的侦探小说。
《恐怖谷》是四部长篇的最后一部，发生在第一次世界大战开始的时候。这本作品将发生在英国乡下的一桩“密室”谜案与美国宾夕法尼亚煤矿区的劳工冲突和黑帮暴力巧妙地绾合在一起。虽然有现代学者对《新注释本福尔摩斯探案全集(套装全3册)》表现的历史观的正确性提出质疑，但它仍无愧于第一部“硬汉侦探故事”的头衔。
本卷和其他两卷一样，附有超过一千条注释，内容涵盖了所有重要的福学问题，诸如华生的妻子、真正的巴斯克维尔庄园所在地、华生在战争期间的情况（以及他神秘伤口的位置）、肖尔托谋杀案的日期等等。同时，注释还广泛涉及了许多维多利亚时代的文化背景知识，包括颅相学、伤寒症疗法、秘密社团、平克顿侦探社、棍术运动和小提琴等迷人的主题。
编者莱斯利•S．克林格搜罗了近四百幅当时的插图和杂志图片，包括早期美国插画家的作品、被遗忘的德国画家理查德•古特施米特的插图，以及传奇人物西德尼•佩奇特为《海滨杂志》绘制的全部插图。本卷还包括一份详细的参考书目和年表，根据年表可以方便地查找到与福尔摩斯、华生以及柯南•道尔相关的事件资料。

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources.
In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century—pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.

Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power.

How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages are potentially always active and in competition with one another? What are the neural mechanisms that underlie proficient bilingualism? What are the general consequences of bilingualism for cognition and for language and thought? This handbook will be essential reading for cognitive psychologists, linguists, applied linguists, and educators who wish to better understand the cognitive basis of bilingualism and the logic of experimental and formal approaches to language science.

The new and updated edition of this bestselling introductory textbook is a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition. In an easy-to-read, accessible style, it provides students with information about the scope of the field, but also provides background information on related areas such as first language acquisition. The book introduces students to current issues of data collection and data analysis, as well as provides an historical overview of the field, thus giving students context and perspective about how today's issues arise from earlier approaches.Each chapter offers discussion questions and/or problems so that students can put their knowledge to use in a way that is relevant to what they have learned, but that also challenges them to go beyond what is in the chapter and to relate information across chapters. The book covers a range of areas of second language research including sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and linguistic perspectives. It also includes a chapter on the lexicon and on instructed second language learning. The concluding chapter pulls the information in the previous chapters together into a coherent framework that challenges students to think about the field of second language acquisition as a whole.

《寡居的一年》以委婉的叙述方式剥开了爱的各个复杂层面，直达其最神秘、最黑暗的深层角落……纽约州东汉普顿的海滩上，这个夏天之于着名的儿童读物作家泰德·科尔亦或他美丽的妻子玛丽恩来说，都是生命中最为不平凡的一段时光。俩人也曾拥有甜蜜幸福的时光，却因为十几年前突如其来的惨剧而彻底粉碎--那场车祸中，他们失去了两个儿子。十年蹉跎，两人虽然表面上恩爱如昔，婚姻已名存实亡。现在，他们惟一能够达成共识的就是对聪明可爱的小女儿罗丝不可逆转的爱。本来，科尔一家虽然不幸，却在情感上达成了某种程度的平衡共同维系着这个家，可是泰德的不忠却打破了这一平衡……然后，埃迪·奥海尔出现了。
泰德表面上雇用埃迪作为自己的助手，实则希望他可以成为自己和妻子所面对难堪的婚姻关系的催化剂。可以说，埃迪一直将泰德视为自己的偶像。然而泰德不稳定甚至古怪的工作习惯很快使得满怀热情的埃迪整日无所事事--他开始将心思花在风韵犹存、引人无限遐想的女主人身上；反之，只有16岁的埃迪也重燃了玛丽恩作为一个母亲乃至一个女人的热情。在与玛丽恩肉体纠缠的同时，埃迪却渐渐意识到，泰德看似无能的外表背后实则隐藏着某些更为深层的晦涩……夏天在慢慢消逝，玛丽恩和泰德都需要为自己的未来重新选择生活。 ps.blind assassin
书评：
令人惊异的丰富与原创性，《寡居的一年》是欲振乏力的二十世纪末小说中罕见的佳作，当读者将离开这个深邃而精细的想像世界时，都将感到难舍难离。——斯蒂芬·金
一本让人震撼、令人感动的小说，将旧式与新式的叙述技巧完美地熔于一炉。——《纽约时报》
具有深层的魅力……《寡居的一年》的丰富与美丽具有多样性，享受它是人生的乐趣之一。 ——《洛杉矶时报》
《寡居的一年》具有聪颖的写作技巧，是一本徘徊不散的悲伤，我们很容易将自我投射于主角的家庭故事。欧文是当今少数能用近乎反讽与幽默手法写作忧伤的作家。 ——《今日美国》
《寡居的一年》提供了其他作家同类型小说无法提供的阅读乐趣。 ——《达拉斯晨报》
欧文的颠峰之作……有令人狂喜的角色、令人着迷不已故事。 ——《时代周刊》

Her topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt feelings and the quest for power, prestige and possession.

Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed." The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent: My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets.

Highly regarded throughout her prestigious literary career, and today seen as an undeniable master of her art, Elizabeth Bishop remains one of America's most influential and widely acclaimed poets. This is the definitive collection of her work. "The Complete Poems" includes the books "North and South," "A Cold Spring," "Questions of Travel," and "Geography III," as well as previously uncollected poems, translations, and juvenilia.

This definitive poetry collection, originally published in 1954 to honor Stevens on his 75th birthday, contains: - andquot; Harmoniumandquot; - andquot; Ideas of Orderandquot; - andquot; The Man With the Blue Guitarandquot; - andquot; Parts of the Worldandquot; - andquot; Transport Summerandquot; - andquot; The Auroras of Autumnandquot; - andquot; The Rockandquot;

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?
In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.
In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.
Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.

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Frankl's timeless memoir and meditation on finding meaning in the midst of suffering With a new Foreword by Harold S. Kushner and a new Biographical Afterword by William J. Winslade Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. Frankl's theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos ("meaning")-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful. At the time of Frankl's death in 1997, Man's Search for Meaning had sold more than 10 million copies in twenty-four languages. A 1991 reader survey for the Library of Congress that asked readers to name a "book that made a difference in your life" found Man's Search for Meaning among the ten most influential books in America. Beacon Press, the original English-language publisher of Man's Search for Meaning, is issuing this new paperback edition with a new Foreword, biographical Afterword, jacket, price, and classroom materials to reach new generations of readers.
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Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?

Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry—harmony, balance, proportion—and economy. There are other meanings of “beauty,” but this is the deep logic of the universe—and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.

Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question , this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that “all things are number,” to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentiethcentury physics. Though the ancients weren’t right about everything, their ardent belief in the music of the spheres has proved true down to the quantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just how intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos.

Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost literally the same equations that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries. The universe itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want to embody beautiful and elegant forms. Perhaps this force is the pure elegance of numbers, perhaps the work of a higher being, or somewhere between. Either way, we don’t depart from the infinite and infinitesimal after all; we’re profoundly connected to them, and we connect them. When we find that our sense of beauty is realized in the physical world, we are discovering something about the world, but also something about ourselves.

Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.

Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2011
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2011: Drawing on decades of research in psychology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on an exploration of what influences thought example by example, sometimes with unlikely word pairs like "vomit and banana." System 1 and System 2, the fast and slow types of thinking, become characters that illustrate the psychology behind things we think we understand but really don't, such as intuition. Kahneman's transparent and careful treatment of his subject has the potential to change how we think, not just about thinking, but about how we live our lives. Thinking, Fast and Slow gives deep--and sometimes frightening--insight about what goes on inside our heads: the psychological basis for reactions, judgments, recognition, choices, conclusions, and much more. --JoVon Sotak
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“A tour de force. . . Kahneman’s book is a must read for anyone interested in either human behavior or investing. He clearly shows that while we like to think of ourselves as rational in our decision making, the truth is we are subject to many biases. At least being aware of them will give you a better chance of avoiding them, or at least making fewer of them.”—Larry Swedroe, CBS News
“Daniel Kahneman demonstrates forcefully in his new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, how easy it is for humans to swerve away from rationality.”—Christopher Shea, The Washington Post
“An outstanding book, distinguished by beauty and clarity of detail, precision of presentation and gentleness of manner. Its truths are open to all those whose System 2 is not completely defunct. I have hardly touched on its richness.”— Galen Strawson, The Guardian
“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one.”— Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail
“A sweeping, compelling tale of just how easily our brains are bamboozled, bringing in both his own research and that of numerous psychologists, economists, and other experts...Kahneman has a remarkable ability to take decades worth of research and distill from it what would be important and interesting for a lay audience...Thinking, Fast and Slow is an immensely important book. Many science books are uneven, with a useful or interesting chapter too often followed by a dull one. Not so here. With rare exceptions, the entire span of this weighty book is fascinating and applicable to day-to-day life. Everyone should read Thinking, Fast and Slow.” —Jesse Singal, Boston Globe
“We must be grateful to Kahneman for giving us in this book a joyful understanding of the practical side of our personalities.” —Freeman Dyson, The New York Review of Books
“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman’s contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being . . . A magisterial work, stunning in its ambition, infused with knowledge, laced with wisdom, informed by modesty and deeply humane. If you can read only one book this year, read this one.” — Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail
“It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is recounting his collaboration with Tversky . . . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky’s work ‘will be remembered hundreds of years from now,’ and that it is ‘a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.’ They are, Brooks said, ‘like the Lewis and Clark of the mind’ . . . By the time I got to the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, my skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who are merely interested in Kahenman’s takeaway on the Malcolm Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment—chess, firefighting, anesthesiology—then blink. In all other cases, think.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Ask around and you hear pretty much the same thing. 'Kahneman is the most influential psychologist since Sigmund Freud,' says Christopher Chabris, a professor of psychology at Union College, in New York. 'No one else has had such a broad impact on so many fields' . . . It now seems inevitable that Kahneman, who made his reputation by ignoring or defying conventional wisdom, is about to be anointed the intellectual guru of our economically irrational times.”— Evan R. Goldstein, The Chronicle of Higher Education
“There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow . . . This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read.”—William Easterly, Financial Times
“[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd.”— Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
“Absorbingly articulate and infinitely intelligent . . . What's most enjoyable and compelling about Thinking, Fast and Slow is that it's so utterly, refreshingly anti-Gladwellian. There is nothing pop about Kahneman's psychology, no formulaic story arc, no beating you over the head with an artificial, buzzword-encrusted Big Idea. It's just the wisdom that comes from five decades of honest, rigorous scientific work, delivered humbly yet brilliantly, in a way that will forever change the way you think about thinking.”—Maria Popova, The Atlantic
“I will never think about thinking quite the same. [Thinking, Fast and Slow] is a monumental achievement.”—Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg/Businessweek
“Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be.” —The Economist
“[Kahneman’s] disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed the way that we think about thinking . . . We like to see ourselves as a Promethean species, uniquely endowed with the gift of reason. But Mr. Kahneman’s simple experiments reveal a very different mind, stuffed full of habits that, in most situations, lead us astray.” —Jonah Lehrer, The Wall Street Journal
“[A] tour de force of psychological insight, research explication and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions, over five decades, to the study of human judgment, decision-making and choice . . . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas, and the robustness of the evidence he offers for them, he has helped us to a new understanding of our divided minds—and our whole selves.” —Christoper F. Chabris, The Wall Street Journal
“The ramifications of Kahenman’s work are wide, extending into education, business, marketing, politics . . . and even happiness research. Call his field “psychonomics,” the hidden reasoning behind our choices. Thinking, Fast and Slow is essential reading for anyone with a mind.” —Kyle Smith, The New York Post
“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
“Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions.” —Jacek Debiec, Nature
“With Kahneman’s expert help, readers may understand this mix of psychology and economics better than most accountants, therapists, or elected representatives. VERDICT A stellar accomplishment, a book for everyone who likes to think and wants to do it better.” —Library Journal
“The mind is a hilariously muddled compromise between incompatible modes of thought in this fascinating treatise by a giant in the field of decision research. Nobel-winning psychologist Kahneman (Attention and Effort) posits a brain governed by two clashing decision-making processes. The largely unconscious System 1, he contends, makes intuitive snap judgments based on emotion, memory, and hard-wired rules of thumb; the painfully conscious System 2 laboriously checks the facts and does the math, but is so "lazy" and distractible that it usually defers to System 1. Kahneman uses this scheme to frame a scintillating discussion of his findings in cognitive psychology and behavioral economics, and of the ingenious experiments that tease out the irrational, self-contradictory logics that underlie our choices. We learn why we mistake statistical noise for cohere...

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