本书着重谈的是美国国家经济政策制定方面受到的民情的影响。正是出于选民的“偏见”，他们的选票才会被贸易保护主义者、反竞争的特殊利益集团利用，进而对美国的经济造成损害。本书是一部在美国媒体和政治经济学界引起广泛关注和讨论，赞誉与批评兼而有之的一部作品。媒体关注它，是因为作者在书中不仅毫不留情地批判了美国政府和公众一直引以自豪的东西——民主，而且将其失败的原因归结为选民的“理性的胡闹”。而学界关注的重点则在于该书对经济学及公共选择理论的两个核心概念，即“理性(rationality)”和“理性的无知”(rationalignorance)，提出了修正和质疑。
作者认为，在美国，大多数投票者不仅对政治问题是无知的，而且他们本身固有的观点甚至都是错误的。民众不仅因为自己的无知而把选举搞砸，而且因为自己的投票带有“偏见”，更容易使国家政策走上歧途。因此，作者提倡“有水准的选民”，要解决美国的问题，要做的是减少民主的量而提高民主的质。

托克维尔(Tocqueville)是法国著名的政论思想家，其代表作《论美国的民主》出版后 ，立即受到普遍好评，使他名扬海外。这部著作的上卷和下卷，不是写于同一时期，其间相隔5年，因而在笔调、结构、叙述上有所不同。上卷的第一部分讲述美国的政治制度，第二部分对美国的民主进行社会学的分析。下卷分四个部分，以美国为背景发挥其政治哲学和政治社会学思想。

From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time—the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country—is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones , a book that explores the human side of China's transformation. Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand. Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.

《经济发展理论》一书是约瑟夫·熊彼特早期成名之作。熊彼特在这本著作里首先提出的“创新理论”，当时曾轰动西方经济学界，并且一直享有盛名。此书最先以德文发表于1912年，修订再版于1926年，越数年又重印了德文第三版。 1934年，以德文修订本为依据的英译本，由美国哈佛大学出版社出版，被列为（哈佛经济丛书）第46卷。现在的中译本，据此英译本译出。
熊彼特的《经济发展理论》以 “对于利润、资本、信贷、利息和经济周期的考察”作为副标题，涉猎范围可谓极其广泛。但是书中最具特色和最引人注目的，还是他所提出的“创新理论”。
全书共分为六章。
第一、第二两章最为重要，从静止状态的“循环流转”到经济发展的根本现象，特别是第二章　，对经济发展，包括从“企业家”的特点和功能、 “生产要素的新组合”、“创新”的涵义和作用，直到资本主义的产生，熊彼特都作了开创性的精辟的论述，既是理论上的探讨，也是历史发展过程的概述。
第三、 四、五各章则进一步分别阐述了信贷与资本，企业家利润，以及资本的利息。我们可以概括地说，“创新理论”就是熊彼特“经济发展理论”的核心。

美国联邦最高法院的内部运作一向鲜为人知。1979年出版的《最高法院弟兄们》，刻画了伯格法院的大法官群像，讲述了许多重大判决的幕后隐情。《九人：美国最高法院风云》则将视角转向伦奎斯特法院与罗伯茨法院，客观叙述了1980年至2007年间，在堕胎、民权、政教关系等议程上，最高法院内部观点交锋与立场变化的历史。专栏作家杰弗里•图宾通过采访现任大法官与70多位法官助理，以人物列传形式，描述了伦奎斯特、奥康纳、罗伯茨、肯尼迪、斯卡利亚等大法官的个性、理念与成长经历，生动阐释了大法官们的个人偏好、政治派别与判决意见间的关系。该书几乎涉及最高法院近17年来所有重要判决内幕，捎带穿插了联邦党人协会、美国法律与正义中心等保守派组织的发展历程。作为一名畅销书作家，图宾善于拿捏材料，讲述故事，许多珍闻轶事，经他的生动笔触娓娓道来。人们将会在这本书中读到：亲手将小布什送进白宫的奥康纳，最终为什么与总统反目成仇？同性恋法官助理如何改变了最高法院的法律文化？为什么首席大法官伦奎斯特那么厌恶米兰达诉亚利桑那州案，却拒绝将其推翻？克林顿总统为什么最终放弃提名一位政治家出任大法官的想法？右翼保守派势力为什么要坚决抵制艾伯特•冈萨雷斯与哈里特•迈尔斯这两位铁杆保守主义者出任大法官？托马斯大法官为什么在庭审时一言不发？图宾的细节刻画，完美呈现了大法官们黑色法袍下的另一面：肯尼迪的闷骚、伦奎斯特的“赶时髦”、斯卡利亚的孩子气、奥康纳的突发奇想、托马斯的特立独行、布雷耶的长袖善舞、苏特的隐士气质。也正因于此，《纽约时报》才将本书作为2007年的十大好书予以推荐。

How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on.

英文原版引进
目前它的印数已超过500万册。在上架的第一个礼拜，它就取得了前所未有的成功，在纽约时报的畅销榜上排名第一，在华尔街杂志上名列第一，在出版家周报上名列第一，在旧金山年鉴上也排名第一。自从出版以来，荣登过全美所有主要排行榜的榜首，正被翻译成35种语言。
《达芬奇密码》打破了传统悬念小说的模式，其行文节奏明快，语言富有智慧，情节错落有致，调查资料翔实，刻画细致入微。从小说的精彩开篇到难以预料的令人叫绝的结尾，畅销书作家丹·布朗充分证明自己是个善讲故事的大师。
这是一本博学而充满悬念的小说，场景设定在卢浮宫宏大的厅堂之中。
丹·布朗在小说里描述了一种带有黑色幽默的人生哲学，同时通过小说主人公之口对卢浮宫收藏的经典画作进行了别具一格的点评，对创作这些作品的画家也有非常有意思的介绍。
该书是惊险小说和智力解迷结合的典范之作。

哈佛大学的符号学专家罗伯特·兰登在法国巴黎出差期间的一个午夜接到一个紧急电话，得知卢浮宫博物馆年迈的馆长被人杀害在卢浮宫的博物馆里，人们在他的尸体旁边发现了一个难以捉摸的密码。兰登与法国一位颇有天分的密码破译专家索菲·奈芙，在对一大堆怪异的密码进行整理的过程当中，发现一连串的线索就隐藏在达芬奇的艺术作品当中，深感震惊。这些线索，大家都清楚可见，然而却被画家巧妙地隐藏起来。

兰登无意之中非常震惊地发现，已故的博物馆馆长是峋山隐修会（Priory of Sion）的成员——这是一个真实存在的秘密组织，其成员包括艾撒克·牛顿爵士、波提切利、维克多·雨果与达芬奇，这无疑给他们增加了风险。兰登感觉到他们是在找寻一个石破天惊的历史秘密，这是个数世纪以来就证明了的既能给人启迪又很危险的秘密。在这场足迹遍及巴黎以及伦敦的追逐中，兰登与奈芙发现他们在跟一位始终不露面的幕后操纵者斗智斗勇。他们必须解开这个错综复杂的谜团，否则，峋山隐修会掩盖的秘密，那隐藏了多年的令人震惊的古老真相，将永远消逝在历史的尘埃之中。
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With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.
A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's grandfather's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself. Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought.
--Jeremy Pugh
From Publishers Weekly
Brown's latest thriller (after Angels and Demons)is an exhaustively researched page-turner about secret religious societies, ancient coverups and savage vengeance. The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre's chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown's last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As their search moves from France to England, Neveu and Langdon are confounded by two mysterious groups-the legendary Priory of Sion, a nearly 1,000-year-old secret society whose members have included Botticelli and Isaac Newton, and the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. Both have their own reasons for wanting to ensure that the Grail isn't found. Brown sometimes ladles out too much religious history at the expense of pacing, and Langdon is a hero in desperate need of more chutzpah. Still, Brown has assembled a whopper of a plot that will please both conspiracy buffs and thriller addicts.
From Library Journal
When Brown regular Robert Langdon is called in to investigate the murder of a curator at the Louvre, he discovers that the body is surrounded by strange ciphers evidently linked to the paintings of Da Vinci-and a powerful relic protected by the Priory, a secret society to which the artist belonged.
From Booklist
In a two-day span, American symbologist Robert Langdon finds himself accused of murdering the curator of the Louvre, on the run through the streets of Paris and London, and teamed up with French cryptologist Sophie Neveu to uncover nothing less than the secret location of the Holy Grail. It appears that a conservative Catholic bishop might be on the verge of destroying the Grail, which includes an alternate history of Christ that could bring down the church. Whoever is ordering the deaths of the Grail's guardians--modern-day members of an ancient society descended from the famed Knights Templar--must be stopped before the treasure is lost forever. To do so, Langdon and Neveu have to solve a series of ciphers and riddles while evading a tireless French police commander and a ruthless albino monk. Despite being hampered by clunky flashback sequences and place descriptions that read like tourist brochures, the story is full of brain-teasing puzzles and fascinating insights into religious history and art. Ultimately, Brown's intricate plot delivers more satisfying twists than a licorice factory.
Frank Sennett
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The definitive, bestselling book on the origins and development of nationalism.
Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject. In this greatly anticipated revised edition, Anderson updates and elaborates on the core question: what makes people live, die and kill in the name of nations? He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was adopted by popular movements in Europe, by imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa, and explores the way communities were created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing, and the birth of vernacular languages-of-state. Anderson revisits these fundamental ideas, showing how their relevance has been tested by the events of the past two decades.

奥地利学派经济学方法论的代表作。

一九七一年，社會心理學家金巴多教授主導「史丹福監獄實驗」；該實驗有如一發震撼彈，引爆全球心理學界重新審視以往對人性的天真看法。
三十年後，金巴多教授以《路西法效應》（The Lucifer Effect）首度親自撰述、並呼應從「史丹福監獄實驗」到「伊拉克監獄虐囚案」三十多年來觀察到的社會現象，深度剖析複雜的人性，全盤且深入解釋「情境力量」影響個人行為的概念。在實驗中以標準的生理與心理測驗，挑選了自願擔任受試者、身心健康且情緒穩定的大學生，被隨機分派到「守衛」和「犯人」兩組，接著讓他們身處模擬的監獄環境。實驗一開始，受試者便強烈感受到角色規範的影響，努力去扮演被指定的角色。
實驗第六天，情況演變得過度逼真，原本單純的大學生已轉變為殘暴不仁的守衛或是情緒崩潰的犯人——一套制服、一個身分，就輕易讓一個人性情大變——為期兩週的實驗不得不宣告中止。為什麼握有權力的人，很輕易地為「以控制他人為樂」所誘惑？而置身弱勢角色的人，為什麼卻常以沉默來面對問題？。
藉由獨具開創性的「史丹福監獄實驗」研究，金巴多教授將為讀者解釋「情境力量」和「團體動力」如何能使平凡男女變成殘忍的魔鬼。在日常生活中，我們都努力想扮演好自己的角色，例如「男性－女性」、「上司－員工」、「父母－子女」、「老師－學生」、「醫生－病人」等關係，在這些社會角色劇本的規範與束縛下，我們是否會像上帝最愛的天使路西法一樣不知不覺而對他人做出難以置信的事？
本書提供認識地位和權力角色差異的原因；了解在環境中影響個人思考、情感及行動的形成及改變原因；幫助讀者重新審視、了解自己，一旦面臨陌生情境，自己「會做什麼」及「不會做什麼」，以及面對情境的強大壓力，如何勇敢反抗「路西法效應」。

《社会心理学(第10版)》对社会心理学的理论与方法、社会认知、社会影响、人际吸引、人际关系、群体行为、社会心理学与健康等内容进行论述。

"Stimulating, provocative, often infuriating, but well worth reading."--Peter Newman, "Economica"
"His critical blast blows like a north wind against the more pretentious erections of modern economics. It is however a healthy and invigorating blast, without malice and with a sincere regard for scientific objectivity."--K.E. Boulding, "Political Science Quarterly"
"Certainly one of the most engrossing volumes that has appeared recently in economic theory."--William J. Baumol, "Review of Economics and Statistics"

This is a survey of bounded rationality, an area of theoretical macroeconomics which is receiving increased attention. The book is written by a leading macroeconomist who outlines the issues involved, describes some of the analytic tools that are being used, and shows how they can be applied in a range of models. It points to further potential positive developments of the theory as well as some of its limitations.

This book is an expanded and revised edition of the author's critically acclaimed volume Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. In twenty-six succinct chapters, Jon Elster provides an account of the nature of explanation in the social sciences. He offers an overview of key explanatory mechanisms in the social sciences, relying on hundreds of examples and drawing on a large variety of sources-psychology, behavioral economics, biology, political science, historical writings, philosophy and fiction. Written in accessible and jargon-free language, Elster aims at accuracy and clarity while eschewing formal models.

This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers a tool box of mechanisms--nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels--that can be used to explain complex social phenomena. Within a brief compass, Jon Elster covers a vast range of topics. His point of departure is the conflict we all face between our desires and our opportunities. How can rational choice theory help us understand our motivation and behavior? More significantly, what happens when the theory breaks down but we still cleave to a belief in the power of the rational? Elster describes the fascinating range of forms of irrationality--wishful thinking, the phenomenon of sour grapes, discounting the future in non-cooperative behavior. He shows how these issues bear directly on our lives in such concrete situations as wage bargaining, economic cartels, political strikes, voting in elections, and court decisions involving child custody.