《假装的艺术:一本让你看起来无所不知的书》简介：在信息疯狂传播的今天，傻瓜才会花工夫去研究嘻哈文化，谁是新锐导演、哪部独立电影最近独领风骚关我屁事呢？但是，无奈的是，我们活在一个没谈资就会被圈子抛弃的时代，社交、把妹、接近上流人物无处不存在要与人交流话题的需要，在经过一百多种选择的思考之后，还是选择最经济实惠的“假装”吧，这本《假装的艺术:一本让你看起来无所不知的书》教给你的就是如何“装”出你的范儿来，作者无所不知的经历以及辛辣嘲讽的个性教你在读书、电影、古典音乐、建筑、美酒等常用装B话题中自由穿梭，在掌握了这些常人不容易知晓的知识后，还请根据需要研究出一套和你相匹配的微笑、耸肩、皱眉、嘲讽等表情，这样，才能将“假装的艺术”发挥到淋漓尽致的境界！
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The Art of Faking It: Sounding Smart Without Really Knowing Anything

这是一本论述自由人社会的政治组织的书。它的方法论、概念工具以及逻辑分析法，本质上渊源于把这样一种社会的经济组织作为其主题的学科。对于所考虑的各种核心问题，政治学方面的研究者和学者会与我们一样感兴趣，而他们的经济学同行则会与我们一起对此一论题的建构感兴趣。本书将坚定不移地沿着政治经济学的这两大支系之间的神话式的和神秘的边界线展开。本书分为概念框架、社会选择的王国、决策规则分析、民主的经济学与伦理学等组成。值得一阅。

Philosopher, naturalist and rugged individualist, Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This representative sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862). Reprinted from standard editions.

来自印尼、菲律宾和越南的女性，来到陌生的国度从事家务劳动。雇用她们的台湾雇主，多数是青壮年的中产阶级，他们的父母辈少有在家雇用佣人的历史，这些“新富家庭”的经验，映现了台湾社会在阶级、族群、性别与代间关系的转变。

为了解台湾雇主和东南亚帮佣之间的互动关系，台湾大学社会系教授蓝佩嘉花了数年时间，访谈了超过百位的印菲帮佣和台湾雇主，了解劳雇双方在家庭屋檐下所面临的结构困境、生存策略与认同政治。

蓝佩嘉以“跨国灰姑娘”的比喻来彰显家务移工的处境：她们或为了逃离家乡的贫穷与压迫，或为了扩展人生视野及探索现代世界。跨越国界工作后，却发现自己坐困雇主家中，被视为“用完就丢”的劳动力，灰姑娘的美满结局仍如童话般梦幻。

相对于2006年的英文版，作者以返璞归真的母语和大量的生命故事，描绘了“跨国灰姑娘”的身影，并且透过社会学透视，展现了台湾雇主和东南亚移工，在全球化社会中相遇而生的种种面貌。

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这本具有开创性的研究，呈现了种族、阶级、性别和公民身份等等界限，如何在家务移工的生命中形成。蓝佩嘉经由划界工作的理论透镜，为萌芽发展中的女性迁移研究贡献了极为重要的成果。这是一本杰出的作品。

——Rhacel Parreñas, 布朗大学美国文明学系教授

我们或许会以为，只要和世界上的其他人接触越多，我们和他们的社会关系就越亲密。但是蓝佩嘉指出我们错得有多严重。在某些状况下，台湾的女雇主和他们的菲佣很“亲密”，但在其他时候两方则非常疏远。的确，有时最接近的反面最为遥远。这本脉络清晰、掷地有声的重要著作，便是在讨论这些现象如何发生。

——Arlie Hochschild，柏克莱大学社会学系荣誉教授

这是一本独一无二的学术作品，论述圆融、研究透彻、理论扎实，不但具有高度可读性，而且蕴含深度人文关怀。

——Delias Davin，英国里兹大学中国学研究所荣誉教授

In his bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism. In Trust, a penetrating assessment of the emerging global economic order "after History," he explains the social principles of economic life and tells us what we need to know to win the coming struggle for world dominance. Challenging orthodoxies of both the left and right, Fukuyama examines a wide range of national cultures in order to divine the underlying principles that foster social and economic prosperity. Insisting that we cannot divorce economic life from cultural life, he contends that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large-scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy. A brilliant study of the interconnectedness of economic life with cultural life, Trust is also an essential antidote to the increasing drift of American culture into extreme forms of individualism, which, if unchecked, will have dire consequences for the nation's economic health.

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The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freak quel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is—good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over—but only now, with SuperFreakonomics , has it met its match.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.

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Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities.

《断裂》一书从社会学的独特视角出发，对90年代以来中国社会生活发生的一系列变化进行了系统的分析。“断裂”是一个很有穿透力和学术潜力的概念。作者用这个要领来表明目前中国社会生活中存在的种种不和谐的现象及其背后的原因。在此基础上，作者提出一个命题：90年代以来，一个与80年代有着很大不同的新的社会正在我们的生活中出现并开始逐步定型化。认识到这一点， 对于我们明确我们社会的历史方位是非常有意义的。

《博弈:断裂社会的利益冲突与和谐》试图从利益均衡机制、转变增长模式、郎咸平提出的三个命题、国有企业改革、房地产博弈、足球革命、城市化、医疗改革、利益集团、突发事件等方面来阐述博弈以及实践。该书论述详细，对中国改革有一定的指导意义。
“博弈”是一个外来词，指人们在一定规则下进行竞赛。博弈论是“研究决策主体的行为在直接相互作用时，人们如何进行决策以及这种决策如何达到均衡的问题”。用我们日常的语言来说，博弈论是研究在不同情境下的策略选择的一种理论。

本书是《断裂——20世纪90年代以来的中国社会》一书的续篇。《断裂》从现实和理论上对“断裂社会”进行了系统的分析，而本书则进一步探讨了在现实生活中断裂社会的运作逻辑，并进而将“失衡”作为理解“断裂社会”的一个基本概念来进行深入的研究。
作者认为，合作主义的宪政体制是使我们走出权利失衡困境的一种可能的宏观体制安排。

「我從某處得知，在地球上，人與人之間只被六個人隔絕。六度的分隔，正是這個星球的人際距離。」－－舞台劇《六度分離》中歐莎之語，作者約翰．桂爾（John Guare）
沒有一件事會毫無理由，憑空發生。在這連結的時代裡，什麼會發生、如何發生，彼此之間都是環環相扣的。頂頂有名的「六度分隔」理論，指的是任何兩個不相干的人，可經由六個人連結出某種關係。正因如此，世界顯得如此之小。而當世界僅以六度延伸，事情蔓延的速度與廣度遠超過你我所能想像。螢火蟲的發光、蟋蟀的叫聲，以及心律細胞的跳動，如何自動調節出同步頻率？單一病例，如何衍生為大規模的傳染病？新穎的觀念，如何造就時尚？個別投資者如何引爆投機泡沫，並傷及整體財務系統？面對隨機的意外或甚至刻意的攻擊，電路、網際網路等大型基礎網路又是何其脆弱？規範習俗如何在人類社會中開展維繫，並被推翻甚或取代？ �歸根結柢，在極端複雜的世界裡，個別行為究竟如何集結成群體行為？新興的「網路科學」，指涉六個人的小世界，其實就是一切事物的原點。

In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or terrorist organizations, networks are everywhere in the real world, yet only recently have scientists attempted to explain their mysterious workings. From epidemics of disease to outbreaks of market madness, from people searching for information to firms surviving crisis and change, from the structure of personal relationships to the technological and social choices of entire societies, Watts weaves together a network of discoveries across an array of disciplines to tell the story of an explosive new field of knowledge, the people who are building it, and his own peculiar path in forging this new science.