《乌合之众:大众心理研究》为社会心理学领域的经典著作，至今已被翻译成近20种语言出版。在书中，作者以十分简约的方式，考察了群体的特殊心理与思维方式，尤其对个人与群体的迥异心理进行了精辟分析。经典之为经典，就在于其永远不会过时。为什么博学鸿儒在群体中却只会鹦鹉学舌？为什么谦谦君子在群体的支持下会变得粗野不堪、肆无忌惮？为什么打动群体的观念总是经不起严密的推理？作者百年前在书中讨论的这些问题，今天依然困扰着许多人。二战中日本普通民众如何变成丧尽天良的战争机器，“文革”中的单纯学生又为何会作出那许多丧心病狂的举动？个人到群体的变化总是叫人难以理解、难以置信，此书的解释，或能稍解你的困惑。

A witty, wise, biting, and completely individual meditation on what it means to think, live, and be to the contrary.
"Art of Mentoring" series
In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and entertaining ways.
This book explores the entire range of "contrary positions"-from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy consensus within an increasingly centrist political dialogue, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast.
He bemoans the loss of the skills of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society. He understands the importance of disagreement-to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress-heck, to democracy itself. Epigrammatic, spunky, witty, in your face, timeless and timely, this book is everything you would expect from a mentoring contrarian.

Written by the Australian author Lisa Pryor, this book brings out a new perspective of consuming recreational drugs.

Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many young girls are in reality limited by a culture that sees women's sexual allure as their only passport to success. At the same time we are encouraged to believe that the inequality we observe all around us is born of innate biological differences rather than social factors. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, Natasha Walter, author of the groundbreaking THE NEW FEMINISM and one of Britain's most incisive cultural commentators, gives us a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity, today.
Book Reviews:
@Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/31/living-dolls-natasha-walter
@Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7093722/Living-Dolls-the-Return-of-Sexism-by-Natasha-Walter-review.html