Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month? Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.
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韩少功归隐乡野后创作的首部，跨文体长卷散文，记录山野自然和民间底层的深入体察，一部亲历者挑战思想意识主潮的另类心灵报告。韩少功的“寻根”与回乡，他二十几年来的写作和生活，演绎着中国人在城乡之间的焦虑和选择，他把认识自我的问题执着地推广为认识中国的问题。

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Surveying the new urban poor from Bombay to Cairo, Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro, Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not an industrious beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but a stagnant ferment of extreme Darwinian competition which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.

The World of Cities is a concise theoretical and empirical introduction to urban sociology. In clear and engaging terms, the book surveys and critiques all the major theoretical perspectives in urban studies.
Provides a concise introduction to urban sociology.
Uses clear and engaging terms.
Surveys the main theoretical models of urban studies.
Includes empirical data on contemporary cities and neighborhoods, and the impact of the world economy on city life.
Features a discussion of the current reconstructive efforts of educational, political, and business leaders to improve cities and maintain their civic culture.

人总不免要和医生、医院、医疗打交道，所有这些与人健康和生存质量相关的事统称为医事。医事与普通人认真对待的楼事和亲事，与大家奋力争取的事业成就同等重要，甚至更为重要。事实上，所有对医事的有效经营和准备，总能让人在人生规划中多些主动性，也总能让人获得医疗体系较好的照顾，而所有对它的忽略，都带给人措手不及的痛楚和意料之外的损失。
这本由局内人写的书让你了解医界现状和运行规则，了解医学的局限，医生的尴尬和体系的困窘，最主要的是：能让你解在有限的条件下怎么和医生结盟。抱怨和愤怒对于就医无济于事，作为普通人，面对这个复杂工程唯一可靠的选择是保持理性， 做个了解内情也足够聪明的合作者。
人该如何面对疾患和治疗疾患，不仅仅是一个单纯的病人如何面对医生和医院这么简单的事，它涉及人怎么去认识目前医学理念，技术、服务、经济、治疗体系。对于个人而言，一旦疾患发生，他必须开始考虑如何去面对一个庞杂的系统，了解这个系统中从未明言的规则，了解那些不能直接在医院里获知的隐情，调整出一个良好的心态，调动起自己的智慧去有效应对。
医生和病人在一个千疮百孔的体系下各自感受到失望和伤害，这本书让两种角色重新审视各自的位置和需求。作者提供了一个开阔和多层次的视角，客观通达，她细腻深切地分析了生与死，疾病与医疗，技术和人情，这些对于严肃地检点一个矛盾重要的医疗世界，推进建设一个合理高效的新医疗世界，将会是弥足珍贵的思考。

—— 摘自当当网

天堂是这样一个世界——也就是当她还小的时候的那个世界。随着时间的流逝，一切都改变了。
接下来的其实是大家所熟知的，但是舒比格让人惊喜、充满童话色彩的故事是不会让你提前猜到结局的，要耐心等待。我们在那些简单又神秘的事物中发现故事，比如：动物是从哪里得到名字的；怎样才能获得帮助和幸福。
谁读这本书都会惊叹，因为在书中藏满了美丽的灵感。

《伊斯坦布尔：一座城市的记忆》书写的既是一部个人的历史，更是这座城市的忧伤。对帕慕克而言，伊斯坦布尔一直是一座充满帝国遗迹的城市。这个城市特有的“呼愁”，早已渗入少年帕慕克的身体和灵魂之中。如今作为作家的帕慕克，以其独特的历史感与善于描写的杰出天分，重访家族秘史，发掘旧地往事的脉络，拼贴出当代伊斯坦布尔的城市生活。跟随他的成长记忆，我们可以目睹他个人失落的美好时光，认识传统和现代并存的城市历史，感受土耳其文明的感伤。

In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. For almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house.
Historians would come to call it tulipomania. It was the first futures market in history, and like so many of the ones that would follow, it crashed spectacularly, plunging speculators and investors into economic ruin and despair.
This is the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren, windswept steppes of central Asia to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted--and beautiful--commodity in Europe. Historian Mike Dash vividly narrates the story of this amazing flower and the colorful cast of characters--Turkish sultans, Yugoslav soldiers, French botanists, and Dutch tavern keepers--who were centuries apart historically and worlds apart culturally, but who all had one thing in common: tulipomania.

The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial--the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of silence exist at every level of society, ranging from small groups to large corporations, from personal friendships to politics. Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, The Elephant in the Room helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us. Zerubavel shows how such conspiracies evolve, illuminating the social pressures that cause people to deny what is right before their eyes. We see how each conspirator's denial is symbiotically complemented by the others', and we learn that silence is usually more intense when there are more people conspiring--and especially when there are significant power differences among them. He concludes by showing that the longer we ignore "elephants," the larger they loom in our minds, as each avoidance triggers an even greater spiral of denial. Social life in families, organizations, communities and even entire nations is full of situations where the emperor has no clothes. The Elephant in the Room illuminates the dynamics behind these situations, revealing why we ignore obvious and alarming realities.