NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.

What kind of person are you?
Are you independent--individual, unique, and in control of your world? Are you interdependent--relational, similar to others, and good at adjusting to situations?
Or are you both?
In Clash!, leading cultural psychologists Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner show us how our cultural backgrounds create and reflect these two basic ways of being a self, which then shape everything from how we run our governments to how we raise our children.
Markus and Conner also demonstrate how clashes between independence and interdependence fuel many of today's most pressing conflicts, including tensions between East and West, the Global North and Global South, men and women, blacks and whites, conservative and liberal, religious groups, rich and poor, and businesses, governments, and nonprofits.
Provocative and entertaining, Clash! offers solutions to many of the problems that plague our workplaces, schools, and relationships. For readers of The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille and The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, it doesn't just explain who we are, it also envisions who we could become.

2016年春节前夕，一篇名为《一个农村儿媳眼中的乡村图景》的文章，以一个农村儿媳的视角，记述了生活在湖北农村的婆家三代人的命运变迁，引发了全国乡村问题大讨论。借此契机，作者黄灯将十三年来未中断的乡村书写重新结构、写成此书，详细记录了婆家、自己家、外婆家所在的三个村庄家族的人世浮沉。黄灯对自己亲人真实、详尽、深入的记录和剖析，为国人思考乡村问题、中国社会问题，提供了宝贵的样本。
黄灯在书中展现的三个村庄——丰三村、凤形村、隘口村，横跨湖南、湖北两省，尽管彼此看似毫无关联、相距遥远，但生活于此的亲人因为拥有共同的“农民身份”，他们面对的挑战和危机几乎如出一辙。在三十年来的社会转型过程中，现代性裹挟城市的面具，彻底渗透到村庄、渗透到生活于此地人群。黄灯借由亲人的遭遇，试图展现出身为农的亲人和命运抗争的复杂图景，追问中国村庄的来路与去向，也借此袒露内心的不解与困惑。在黄灯笔下，乡村不再是寄寓乡愁的载体，而是一个知识分子倾其智识、关怀于其中的“问题的场域”——凸显真相、直面问题、寻找可能。

这本书主要探讨群众运动的一些共有特征，重点是陷入狂热的乌合之众的人格。长期与下层民众打交道的生活经历使作者发现，积极投身群众运动的往往是一些失意者。他们认为自己的生活已无可救药地失败，渴望逃离自我寻求重生，将生命托付给某项神圣伟业让他们感觉不错，整齐划一的集体生活令个人的责任、恐惧、无能得以掩埋。运动的领导者则刻意培养参与者的罪恶感，号召自我牺牲以获救赎。
自1951年出版后，《狂热分子》即被视为社会科学领域的经典之作，短期内行销50万册以上，被译成10余种语言，是多所大学政治系的必读书。书中俯拾皆是充满智慧的思想火花与一针见血的比喻，风格酷似法国思想家蒙田与帕斯卡尔的随笔。至今，其佳言警句仍不断被引用、辑录。