As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?
In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.
Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness--allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.

A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of the state, political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.
Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of the state? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
Includes Black-and-White Illustrations

From Publishers Weekly
"In logic, as in life, it is the obvious that most often bears emphasizing, because it so easily escapes our notice," McInerny argues in this pithy guide to applying logical thinking to everyday life. Modeled after Strunk and White’s indispensable handbook, The Elements of Style, McInerny’s primer offers valuable counsel on making a clear and effective point. He calls attention to the tremendous importance that language holds in the crafting and presentation of an argument, advising readers to "make your words as precise and sharply focused as possible" and to keep arguments, or at least their essential purpose, simple. Readers need not have a background in philosophy to follow McInerny’s remarkably comprehensible explanation of the methods used to construct a valid case, including the syllogistic argument, the conjunctive and disjunctive arguments and the conditional argument. The author also dedicates considerable discussion to the sources and the principal forms of illogical thinking, from such common ruses as begging the question and using tears as a diversionary tactic to the more ethically questionable ad hominem strategy, in which a person ignores an argument and attacks his opponent’s character instead. McInerny recommends that people hone their logical thinking skills by using them in real life situations, but perhaps one of the best ways his audience can learn to clearly express their views is by examining the crisp, articulate writing in this slender but richly informative guide.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
"Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore-Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second." Ambrose Bierce's satire on the syllogism belongs to one of many species of specious reasoning that college professor McInerny takes to task in this precis on logic. Remarking that logic is rarely taught "as such" in American education, he presents this makeup course consciously modeled on Strunk and White's Elements of Style (1959). In concise language, McInerny's guide distributes the elements of logic among short, admonitory headings, such as "Avoid Vague and Ambiguous Language." McInerny also provides definitions of the tools of logic and their application in arriving at truth. Inculcating this noble and, in principle, attainable aim, McInerny's explanatory outline of sound thinking will be eminently beneficial to expository writers, debaters, and public speakers. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

自从人类开始围坐在一起共同进餐，饮食之道就与文化而不仅仅是生理需求，结下了不解之缘，人类透过饮食，将自然转化为文化。数百万年来，人类已经整合汇编了明智的饮食之道，包括饮食的禁忌、仪式和烹调方式。让我们避开有害的食物，摄取有益的食物，身为杂食者的人类便无须餐餐面对吃与不吃的两难。
然而，20世纪后半期，在工业化食品和不成熟营养学的推波助澜下，人类创造了新的食物链。餐桌上的食物与它的源头越来越远，而人类则萎缩在工业化食物链的末端，丧失了与自然之间的原始记忆，更无从判断哪些食物该吃，哪些不该吃。于是我们发现自己在的卖场与餐桌前面临杂食者的两难：要吃有机苹果还是普通苹果？如果要吃有机苹果，那要吃本地的还是进口的？要吃野生鱼还是养殖鱼？应该吃肉还是吃素？
如果吃素，要吃纯素还是乳素食？
作为美国饮食界的引领者，迈克尔·波伦长期关注饮食议题，企图在工业社会与田园自然中寻求调和。在本书中，他以田园调查的方式走访农场、研发室、牧场、食品加工厂和超市，从产地一路追踪到餐桌，如侦探般地揭开现代食品的面貌，追寻现代饮食如何成为人类疾病的来源，给出了杂食者“到底要吃什么”的答案。

世界的基本组成部分是什么？时间和空间真的存在吗？现实（Reality）的本质是什么？现象级科普畅销书《七堂极简物理课》作者、意大利理论物理学家卡洛·罗韦利以优雅易懂的方式带我们踏上这场探索现实之旅：从德谟克利特到爱因斯坦，从法拉第到引力波，从经典物理到量子引力……通过介绍现实的概念是如何随时间变迁的，今天的物理学家又是如何理解宇宙的结构的，他为我们提供了比《七堂极简物理课》更深入的理论解释。

为什么我们记得过去，而非未来？时间“流逝”意味着什么？是我们存在于时间之内，还是时间存在于我们之中？卡洛·罗韦利用诗意的文字，邀请我们思考这一亘古难题——时间的本质。
在我们的直觉里，时间是全宇宙统一的，稳定地从过去流向未来，可以用钟表度量。可罗韦利向我们揭示出一个奇怪 的宇宙，在这里，时间的特质一一坍塌，在最基本的层面上，时间消失了。他告诉我们，我们对时间流逝的感知，取决于我们的视角……
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◆“让物理变得性感的男人，下一个史蒂芬·霍金”、意大利物理学家卡洛·罗韦利《七堂极简物理课》之后全新力作。
◆物理学与哲学的完美融合，在习以为常之处，探索世界的惊人真相，用诗意语言、前沿物理学理论探索时间的本质，颠覆我们的常识与直觉。
◆“奇异博士”本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇（卷福）倾情朗读，有声书获得英国国家图书奖。
◆《时代》《自然》《卫报》《新科学家》《纽约时报》等10余家媒体好评推荐。
◆精美装帧，相同开本，延续《七堂极简物理课》《现实不似你所见》《极简科学起源课》的唯美设计。

★ 人气插画师、古生物研究者川崎悟司重磅作品，尚未出版就已走红网络！
★ 风靡日本的科普神作震撼上市！魔性画风+专业知识+奇趣解读，以独一无二的脑洞向你展示跟动物交换身体是怎样一种体验。
★ 绝佳脑洞创意，前所未有的“体感型”动物图鉴，内容独特，画风清奇，吸睛搞笑！
★ 图解4大类20余种动物的身体结构、成因、特殊功能、生活方式、进化故事等，专业知识全掌握。
★ 知名古生物学者、科普作家邢立达作序审定，日本游戏制作人小岛秀夫特别推荐！
《跟动物交换身体》是日本人气插画师、古生物研究者川崎悟司创作的一本以人体作为参照的“体感型”动物图鉴。全书用多幅生动幽默的插画描绘了爬虫类、两栖类、哺乳类、鸟类4大类，乌龟、大象、长颈鹿、企鹅等二十多种动物的身体结构及背后的演化奥秘，通过将动物的特征与人类一一对比，将专业的生物解剖学知识转化成夸张、冲击力超强的画面，产生真实有趣的对照，带你走进一场跨物种体验的惊奇之旅！

很难简单概括《平面国》这本书。
它可以是：首次解释"维度"概念的科普读物、脑洞大开的科幻小说、煞有介事的数学童话、剑走偏锋的精神启蒙、辛辣讽喻英国维多利亚时代的社会寓言。
这本一百年前横空出世的小书，通篇在一本正经地胡说八道，散发着浓浓英式幽默，有趣、迷人，令人捧腹 。
它启发过无数大师，深刻影响了现当代科学。“平面国”已然成为全球范围内的超级文化符号。
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作者在平面宇宙设定基础上，展开细节详实的“平面国”生活画卷。平面国的各形状居民操心自己的国家社会，就像我们操心自己的日常生活。他们住在平面房子里，通过雾气和光线识别他人，靠彼此触摸识别“角度”区分地位。平面国史上还发生通过染色消除阶级而引发的大事件，比起空间世界的人类历史也不遑多让。
故事的主角，一位体面的正方形先生突然遇到了从三维国前来平面国传福音的“球”。他决定跟随这位导师向平面国传播立体空间的真理，却无法用平面国居民能理解的语言去解释高度和上（而不是北）。被人当做疯子后，他写出了这部传世的《平面国》。
作为读者的我们，将在这个故事中获得上帝视角，得以审视自身，以科学的态度，理解“科学的谦卑”
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*** 题 献 ***
写给所有空间中的居民
特别献给H·C
本书的作者是一位谦卑的平面国居民
他一开始只知道两二维的世界
后来才有幸被引入三维的空间
作者把这本书献给天空之国的臣民们
希望本书能激励你们不断立下更高的志向
去探索四维、五维、甚至六维的秘密
立体人，你们是比作者更高级的物种
愿探索能拓宽你们的想象
并孕育出最少见、最卓越的美德——谦虚
—— 本书作者正方形

● 《真实的幸福》是积极心理学之父马丁·塞利格曼的集大成之作，是央视《读书》栏目连续五天力荐的作品，是每一个人提升幸福感不可不读的经典作品。
● 过去的几十年，心理学只关心一件事，那就是心理疾病，而且做得不错——我们可以对抑郁症、精神分裂症、酗酒等问题做出非常精准的描绘，并且已经有很多心理疾病可以通过药物和心理治疗的方式进行有效医治。但是，谁都不愿意糊里糊涂地度过一生，我们更需要的不是一天天地减少痛苦，而是找出自己的优势和生活的意义，让自己的生活变得越来越幸福。而现在，心理学已经走到了了解积极情绪、建构优势和美德、帮助人们获得幸福的时候了。
● 《真实的幸福》以一种通俗而又不失科学的方式告诉我们，什么是真正的幸福，以及怎样才能变得更加幸福。如果你想变得更幸福一些，不妨照着书中的建议来试试，相信幸福一定就在你的眼前！
[编辑推荐]
● 央视《读书》栏目连续五天力荐读物！
● 积极心理学之父、美国心理学会前主席塞利格曼集大成之作，塞利格曼幸福经典系列之一。
● 建立优势、实现自我的心理学箴言，提升幸福感不可不读的经典作品。
● 全球畅销近20年，销量达到200多万册。
● 清华大学社会科学学院院长、中国积极心理学发起人彭凯平教授作序推荐。
● 给所有人的幸福课：
在哈佛，这是一堂听课人数zui多、zui受欢迎的课程；
在IBM、通用电气、壳牌、宝洁、谷歌，这是一堂平衡成功事业和幸福人生的必修课；
在英国贵族名校威灵顿公学，这是一堂提升人生品质的素质课。
● 湛庐文化出品。

● 《活出最乐观的自己》是积极心理学之父马丁·塞利格曼扛鼎之作，是央视《读书》栏目连续五天力荐的作品，是告别抑郁，从根本上改变悲观人生，提升幸福感的必读作品。
● 全书分为三个部分，Di一部分探讨了人们为什么会抑郁；Di二部分讲述了乐观的人具有哪些优势？第三部分探讨了人们应如何从悲观思维转变成乐观思维。塞利格曼认为，乐观思维可以帮助人摆脱抑郁、正视挫折、改善健康状况，而通过运用“ABC”模式，你就可以习得把悲观思维变成乐观思维的方法。
● 乐观和幸福是成比例的，乐观有多层次的、多方面的概念。我们要通过学习方式和善于在生活中发现新奇的、美丽的、善意的东西，培养愉悦的心情，才能在生活中活出乐观的自己。
● 如果你是企业家，你需要学会乐观，能抵挡住每一次公司发展带来的压力；如果你是职场人士，你需要学会乐观，扛过每一个难关和挑战；如果你是家长，你需要学会乐观，给孩子一个积极的榜样；如果你是学生，你需要学会乐观，以应对学业的压力；如果你是运动员，你需要乐观，抓住每1秒的胜利机会。

From the author of the International Bestseller Authentic Happiness. In this groundbreaking book, one of the world's foremost academic psychologists - and founder of the Positive Psychology movement - offers a new theory on what makes people flourish and how to truly get the most out of life. Flourish is a fascinating evolution of Seligman's thinking, and offers inspiring stories of Positive Psychology in action - innovative schools that add resilience to their curricula; a new theory of success and intelligence; and evidence on how positive physical health can turn medicine on its head. Building on his game-changing work on optimism, motivation and character, Seligman shows us how to flourish and bring well-being into both our personal lives and society as a whole. Wellbeing is a way of thinking that the new coalition government is taking very seriously indeed.

Tired of spending hours on the treadmill? Dealing with the joint pain of high-impact exercise? And seeing very few results in terms of fat-burning and weight loss? If so, it’s time to join the revolution. Sal Di Stefano, the founder of the mega-popular Mind Pump podcast, reveals how resistance training is the best exercise to burn fat, boost metabolism, and achieve health benefits you cannot obtain from other forms of exercise. Based on Mind Pump’s Muscular Adaptation Programming System (MAPS), The Resistance Training Revolution features:
* How to optimize your workout time with over 60 fat-burning, metabolism-boosting workouts you can do at home
* Raw fitness truths about what works and what doesn’t
* The newly discovered health benefits of resistance training in terms of heart health, bone strength, joint protection, and especially antiaging
* The exact formula for nutrition that makes losing fat while sculpting your body a breeze
* Dozens of self-assessments to track your progress and much more

立足经典权威的布泰科呼吸法，风靡欧美、日本及中国台湾
让你彻底摆脱呼吸问题困扰的新锐呼吸法
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 本书作者在布泰科呼吸法基础之上，经过13年自身实践和推广教学发展出“呼吸优化训练”。迄今为止，已有数千名呼吸疾病患者及专业运动员受益，得以恢复体适能，缓解鼻塞，激活身心。
☆ 风靡欧美日，获顶尖运动员、主流媒体、专业医师及广大实践者热情推荐。针对不同呼吸水平的人群定制专属改进方案，使“呼吸优化训练”轻松融入日常生活和运动锻炼。
☆ 本书实践根基在于，将错误呼吸习惯改为鼻（轻）呼吸，化“深”为“浅”，化“大”为“小”，修正长期换气过度，提升体内氧气利用率。闭上嘴，好呼吸。
☆ 应用群体十分广泛，如饱受鼻炎、哮喘、打鼾、睡眠呼吸暂停等多种病症困扰的人群；易疲劳、睡眠不佳、专注力差、容易情绪低落的上班族；因职业需求讲话过多的业务员、教师等；瘦身尝试屡战屡败、易反弹的人群；运动表现因呼吸问题而低迷的运动员等。
◎ 内容简介
换气过度或呼吸过多，竟也是一种病，由此引发的焦虑、哮喘、疲劳、失眠、肥胖、心脏疾病等问题更是让人困扰难耐。作者根据布泰科呼吸法的习得经验，整合并开创了呼吸优化训练。他用这种训练方法改善了自己的哮喘，更有效地帮助了有相同问题的各国患者及运动员，帮他们缓解哮喘、鼻塞等呼吸系统疾病，增强代谢功能，改善身体疲劳，解决睡眠和体重问题等，使他们的整体健康状态得以恢复提升。本书立足科学，图说翔实，个案丰富，还设置了自测部分和针对性的训练方案，是值得融入日常生活和锻炼的健康呼吸妙招。
◎ 媒体推荐
麦基翁在本书中向读者介绍了“呼吸优化训练”，这项训练较为系统、完备，而又兼具开创性，可以帮助人们提高整体健康水平……麦基翁积极的态度也使本书读者受众更加广泛，影响力极为深远。 ——《出版人周刊》
呼吸疗法导师帕特里克·麦基翁推荐的鼻呼吸方式……开始几周虽然觉得不适，但久之你会发现自己锻炼时间更长且不会迅速进入疲惫状态。 ——《奥兹医生健康生活》杂志
◎ 名人推荐
我是一名NFL外接手，根据测量自身BOLT值只有13秒。接受呼吸优化训练三周后，BOLT值达到了30秒，目前还在进步。我在跑步时感觉到比以往更轻松，因为呼吸过程变得简单有效，结合其他训练能帮助表现更出色。呼吸优化训练真的有效果！
——杰伊·威斯纳，美国职业橄榄球大联盟自由球员
本书推介的是你应该融入日常生活的健康妙招。正确的呼吸法并不会对身体造成任何负面影响，所产生的正面效果却是数也数不清。我个人是本书呼吸法的使用者，并且强烈建议你改变呼吸习惯，好好享受健康的好体能。
——约瑟夫．默克拉医师　Mercola.com创始人、天然保健先驱

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.
There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

From “one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics” (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.
Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That’s a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detective. We shouldn’t be suspicious of statistics—we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives: they are, at heart, human behavior seen through the prism of numbers and are often “the only way of grasping much of what is going on around us.” If we can toss aside our fears and learn to approach them clearly—understanding how our own preconceptions lead us astray—statistics can point to ways we can live better and work smarter.
As “perhaps the best popular economics writer in the world” (New Statesman), Tim Harford is an expert at taking complicated ideas and untangling them for millions of readers. In The Data Detective, he uses new research in science and psychology to set out ten strategies for using statistics to erase our biases and replace them with new ideas that use virtues like patience, curiosity, and good sense to better understand ourselves and the world. As a result, The Data Detective is a big-idea book about statistics and human behavior that is fresh, unexpected, and insightful.
"[Harford] expertly guides us through the many ways in which data can trick us….Though numbers are at the core of The Data Detective, it’s emotion that wields … power, affecting not only how we respond to data but also how we absorb it in the first place." —The Wall Street Journal
"The Data Detective is sure to be another success from Harford, and is a powerful tool, especially in the current climate, one that will give readers the confidence to delve into data and statistics in a new and meaningful way." —Booklist
"One of the most wonderful collections of stories that I have read in a long time... fascinating." —Steve Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics
"Few people write about social science with the clarity and wit of Tim Harford. If you’re staggered by statistics or daunted by data, this entertaining romp of a book is essential reading.” —Daniel H. Pink, author of When and Drive
"Nobody makes the statistics of everyday life more fascinating and enjoyable than Tim Harford." —Bill Bryson, author of The Body
“Tim Harford is one of the finest writers of nonfiction. This is another brilliant read: wise, humane, and above all illuminating. Nobody is better on statistics and numbers – and how to make sense of them.” —Matthew Syed, author of Rebel Ideas
“An immensely enjoyable guide to using statistics. I loved it.” —Matt Parker, author of Humble Pi
“We are supremely lucky to have the fabulously readable, lucid, witty, and authoritative Tim Harford to remind us why fact, reason, numbers, clarity, and truth matter, how beautiful they are and how crucial to our understanding of the natural world and human society. Every politician and journalist should be made to read this book.” —Stephen Fry
"In The Data Detective, Tim Harford continues to amuse and instruct the reader with deceptively profound and broad statistical intuition and wisdom. He finds historical precedent for our modern mistakes that are delightful and enlightening and serve to make us hopeful rather than despairing about our future—a feat in itself." —Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction
"Thanks to Tim Harford's characteristic wit and magnetic storytelling, you may not realize you're getting an advanced course in how to understand the kind of statistics we're all faced with every day. The Data Detective is certainly a fun book to read, but it's also a genuinely important one." —David Epstein, author of Range
"Tim Harford is a brilliant guide to a world that we humans often find overwhelming and intimidating: the world of data. This entertaining, engrossing book about the power of numbers, logic, and genuine curiosity has, in Harford's own words, 'awakened my sense of wonder' about the beauty of statistics." —Maria Konnikova, author of The Biggest Bluff
"Characteristic lucidity, concealed intellectual depths, wry humour—and a big unifying idea—from one of our finest economic and statistical communicators" —The Independent

《科学发现纵横谈》是一本漫谈科学发现的书，篇幅虽然不算大，但作者王梓坤同志纵览古今，横观中外，从自然科学发展的历史长河中，挑选出不少有意义的发现和事实，努力用辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的观点，加以分析总结，阐明有关科学发现的一些基本规律，并探求作为一个自然科学工作者，应该力求具备一些怎样的品质。这些内容，作者是在“四人帮”形而上学猖獗、唯心主义横行的情况下写成的，尤其难能可贵。今天，党中央率领我们进行新的长征，努力赶超世界科学作者是一位数学家，能在研讨数学的同时，写成这样的作品，同样是难能可贵的。
王梓坤院士是我国著名数学家、教育家、科普作家，曾任北京师范大学校长。本书中，他以一个科学家的眼光，结合自己的亲身经历，纵谈古今中外科学发现的一般规律和过程，横谈成功者所具备的品质——德、识、才、学。书中许多保人的思想、经验、警句和诗话，读后让人爱不释手，备受启迪。是一本名副其实的励志名作。

生活成本为何居高不下？
费雪在本书提出著名的交易方程式，揭示了决定物价的三大因素，用于分析当下政策、事件对物价的影响。
本书还探讨了货币的本质及价值支撑，破除了对货币的误解；用资产负债表逐步展示银行信用不断扩张的过程；以辩论方式论证历史上复本位制究竟能否让币值稳定；并用交易方程式推演物价变动如何触发经济周期，并提出措施降低经济危机的次数和后果；最后对导致“生活成本高昂”的近30种流行说法一一驳斥，并说明持有这些错误信念的后果。

觉得生活成本越来越高，工资涨了还是不够用？这说明你出现了货币幻觉。货币幻觉是人的一种心理错觉，即决策时只看到货币的名义价值，而忽视了实际购买力的变化。
费雪列举了大量存在货币幻觉的生动例子，并认为这种错觉源于货币单位的不稳定——即货币购买力的波动。他继而分析波动的原因和对不同行业不同阶层的危害，分别站在个人、银行和政府的角度提出补救办法。比如用指数衡量货币购买力，并根据指数调整工资等；或直接用指数创造商品本位，取代当时的金本位。
本书能加深人们对货币的认识，更重要的是，能帮助个人在生活、投资决策时少受货币幻觉的影响。
*名家推荐
费雪一生扮演过许多角色——社会哲学家、经济工程师、教师、发明家、商人，还有他坚信在很多方面对人类福祉至关重要的改革活动家，但不管是哪个角色，我斗胆预测，他会作为这个国家最伟大的科学经济学家载入史册。
——熊彼特
本书活泼、清晰，又有趣，延续了费雪教授一贯的写作特点。而教授正是用这样的写法，令经济学的门外汉不仅能够理解货币幻觉，还让他们准备好为破除幻觉出一份力。
——沃伦·伦道夫·伯吉斯
前纽约花旗银行董事长，美国银行家协会前会长
纯从可用的理论衡量费雪的贡献，二十世纪的经济学家无出其右。费雪是经济学中的莫扎特。无论是功用分析、指数分析、货币理论、利息理论，此君皆立竿见影。他平生论著无数，皆天才之作也。
——张五常
从经济分析的贡献来看，欧文·费雪是美国经济学历史上最伟大的一个名字。
——萨缪尔森
在我看来，费雪是到目前为止美国最伟大的经济学家。
——弗里德曼

想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性、惊奇，
弗吉尼亚大学医学博士的心态重塑指南
用5种快乐特质打败生活的挫折与乏味
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 我们缺的不一定是玩耍和娱乐的时间，而是轻松生活所不可或缺的顽皮特质
对很多成年人来说，严肃和充满压力的生活并非源于没有时间玩耍和娱乐，而在 于他们内心的顽皮特质被侵蚀掉了。玩耍和娱乐只是一种行为，而顽皮是对待行为的一种态度。玩耍的行为很容易达成，但启动我们性格中的顽皮特质却需要有意识的思考和努力。
☆ 弗吉尼亚大学医学博士的心态重塑指南，用5种顽皮特质打败生活的挫折与乏味
本书作者拥有杜克大学普拉特工程学院生物医学工程学士学位，密歇根大学拉克姆研究生院健康和卫生保健研究硕士学位，以及弗吉尼亚大学医学院医学博士学位。在书中，作者介绍了想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性、惊奇5种顽皮特质，帮助我们对抗压力、严肃和超负荷这些成年人的主要困扰。
☆ 本书内容精彩而实用，提醒读者去笑、去做白日梦、去活在当下、去爱
本书融合了心理学、社会学、神经科学等一系列学科的知识，充满了令人信服的研究、激励人心的故事和切实可行的步骤，既可以拓展读者的见识，又能让读者从真实的故事中感受“顽皮”的积极力量，从身心健康、人际关系到面对困境等诸多方面受益，并轻松学会如何以一种孩童般的视角看待生活，快乐生活。
◎ 内容简介
成年之后的压力和忙碌让很多人被疲惫感和麻木感包围，生活渐渐失去色彩，甚至怀疑自己是否陷入抑郁。记忆中愉快而顽皮的年少时代就这样一去不复返了吗？在严肃的成年世界里，如何拥有轻松生活的力量？
作为拥有多年临床经验的执业医师，高强度的工作压力和责任令作者不堪重负，即使生活方式依然健康，也无法扭转严肃、紧张的精神状态。他警觉必须找回失去的轻松心态，学习如何轻松地生活。
回想童年，正是性格中的顽皮特质，让我们把世界看作游乐园。作者由此出发，通过观察、采访并研究数千人，结合心理学、社会学、神经科学等一系列学科，确定了5种最重要的顽皮特质：想象力、社交能力、幽默、自发性和惊奇。
本书致力于探索以上5种顽皮特质的效果和益处，为我们分享了十几个真实动人的案例，逐一证明了每种顽皮特质拥有的力量，它将促使我们更为积极地处理人际关系，应对事业和生命困境，摆脱严肃的束缚，迎接更轻松愉悦的生活。