The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in and around New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse.

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Once our ancestors learned to put their heads together with others to pursue shared goals, humankind was on an evolutionary path all its own.

Tomasello argues that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together. What differentiates us most from other great apes, Tomasello proposes, are the new forms of thinking engendered by our new forms of collaborative and communicative interaction.

A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition.

Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power.

Fisher was one of America’s greatest mathematical economists. This book is still used a textbook and is an outstanding example of clearly written economic theory.

Winner of the 2002 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology presented by Division 7 (Developmental Psychology Division) of the American Psychological Association (APA). The award is given to the author of a book in the field of psychology that has had or promises to have a profound effect on one or more of the areas represented by Division 7 of the APA. and Winner of the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition in the category of Psychology, presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind.
According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways.
This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.

在一个阶级固化的社会里，寒门为什么再难出贵子？为了回答这一问题，理解美国社会的贫富两极分化是如何影响下一代人的生活机遇的，哈佛大学帕特南教授组织研究团队，以数年之功，追踪访问了生活在美国各地的107位年轻人，呈现出美国社会在过去大半个世纪以来的变迁图景，书写了一则关于“美国梦之衰落”的警世恒言。
正如《纽约时报书评》所言，“读罢此书，没人还能相信美国还有机会平等这回事。”帕特南用“以点带面”的叙述方式，生动地展示了美国社会在过去半世纪以来日渐扩大的“阶级鸿沟”。在《我们的孩子》一书中，帕特南依次讨论了穷孩子和富家子在成长过程中所经历的全方位差距。中上阶级的父母有更多时间陪伴孩子、给予引导、提供资源，而寒门子弟，不仅是经济上“穷”，还更有可能生活在残缺不全的破碎家庭，成长过程中无法得到父母双全的关爱或在隔代教养的环境中长大。全书反复出现的一个意象——贫富阶级之间的“剪刀差”——在家庭结构、父母教育方式、学校教育、邻里社区内都有鲜明的反映。在这个生而不平等的时代，仅仅谈机会均等都是不公正的！
2013年，帕特南曾因“深化了我们对美国社区的理解”而得到总统颁布的国家人文勋章。本书在此意义上又是一次学术的跃进，它更生动地展示出美国社会的全幅图景：当寒门子弟发现自己再努力也是徒劳时，美国梦已碎。对于当下的中国人而言，这本书以手术刀般的锐利所进行的批判，是我们千金难买的经验和教训。

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.

From the author of the immensely influential and best-selling Of Paradise and Power— a major reevaluation of America’s place in the world from the colonial era to the turn of the twentieth century.
Robert Kagan strips away the myth of America’s isolationist tradition and reveals a more complicated reality: that Americans have been increasing their global power and influence steadily for the past four centuries. Even from the time of the Puritans, he reveals, America was no shining “city up on a hill” but an engine of commercial and territorial expansion that drove Native Americans, as well as French, Spanish, Russian, and ultimately even British power, from the North American continent. Even before the birth of the nation, Americans believed they were destined for global leadership. Underlying their ambitions, Kagan argues, was a set of ideas and ideals about the world and human nature. He focuses on the Declaration of Independence as the document that firmly established the American conviction that the inalienable rights of all mankind transcended territorial borders and blood ties. American nationalism, he shows, was always internationalist at its core. He also makes a startling discovery: that the Civil War and the abolition of slavery—the fulfillment of the ideals of the Declaration—were the decisive turning point in the history of American foreign policy as well. Kagan's brilliant and comprehensive reexamination of early American foreign policy makes clear why America, from its very beginning, has been viewed worldwide not only as a wellspring of political, cultural, and social revolution, but as an ambitious and, at times, dangerous nation.

Game theory has revolutionized economics research and teaching during the past two decades. There are few undergraduate or graduate courses in which it does not form a core component. Game theory is the study of multi-decision problems and such problems occur frequently in economics. Industrial organization provides many examples where firms must consider the reactions of others. But there are many other areas in which it is applicable - from individual workers vying for promotion to countries competing or colluding to choose trade policies. Bob Gibbons provides an introduction to the branches of game theory that have been widely applied in economics. He emphasizes the applications as much as the pure theory. This not only helps to teach the theory, but also illustrates the process of model building - the process of translating an informal description of a multi-person decision situation into a formal, game theoretic problem to be analyzed. The approach aims to serve as both an introduction to those who will go on to specialize as pure game-theorists. It also introduces game theory to those who will later construct (or at least use) game-theoretic models in applied fields of economics.

近年来，几次全球性的金融危机再一次将全球化问题推到了风口浪尖之上。人们开始思索，全球化是否是一个正确的选择，全球化真的有利于世界的发展，能够实现全世界共同发展的目标吗？本书用大量真实的案例告诉我们，全球化没有错，错的是我们推动全球化的方法，错的是我们追求的全球化的程度。每个国家都各有其特点，适用于某一国家的方法不一定适用于其他国家，想要用一种方法在各国实现全球化是不可能的。此外，一味地拒绝全球化，各国之间会存在难以逾越的壁垒，不利于各国共同发展；而过分推崇全球化，会将某个地区的危机无限放大，最终变成世界性的灾难。所以，本书要告诉我们的是：各国应该根据自己的国情，选择恰当的方法推动全球化；要推行适度的全球化，充分发挥出全球化的优势。

Acclaimed one of the "seminal books...comparable in ultimate importance to...Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the "past four decades," which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead." -- Saturday Review

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

美国革命是一次奇怪的革命。“在其他的革命中，人们拔剑出鞘是为了捍卫受到侵犯的自由，反抗那正在威胁着社会核心的压迫。”但很难说美国革命是由于这个爆发的。北美的保皇主义者彼得·奥利弗（Peter Oliver）批评说：“这是地球上从未有过的最胡闹和不自然的叛乱。”
对北美在 英国治理下的生活的优劣，可以用几个量化指标来做一个简单的审视。第一个指标是人均税负。以不列颠本土人民在1765年人均税负为100，弗吉尼亚、康涅狄格、纽约、马萨诸塞、马里兰、宾夕法尼亚诸州的税负只在2到4之间（0.1到0.22美元之间）。第二个指标是居民身高。英法七年战争期间美洲殖民地新兵的平均身高大约是1.727米，比同期的英国新兵的身高平均要高上7到8厘米。也就是说，几乎在200年前，殖民地人民的身高就达到了现代水平。根据常识，身高反映营养水平，间接反映生活水平。第三个指标是收入水平，1760年代北美人的人均收入是60美元（相当于现在的1920美元）。第四个指标是经济学家所估算出的英国贸易法规给北美施加的直接间接经济负担——平均每个人损失0.26美元。
无论如何，英国在北美的统治说不上严酷。正相反，可以说是善治的典范。正因为如此，当时的北美人民普遍都有英国认同。
那么，为什么北美还会独立出去，就是一个值得回答的问题。本书认为，要回答这个问题，需要我们转变两个旧观念：1，不要把北美的独立看作是殖民地对帝国的反抗，而应该看出，美国革命其实是一场英国内战。北美独立不是战争的起因和目的，而只是内战的结果；2，应该从英帝国的整体环境来考虑美国革命问题。
首先，与其说美洲革命是一场反抗暴政的起义，不如说这是一次“跳船”行动。从根源上来看，使北美人离心离德的原因，在于他们对英国统治的不放心。再具体一点，就是英国国内政治的弊陋和腐败导致它统治合法性的丧失。再追根溯源一点，就是十八世纪英国正在经历政治转型和社会转型，在这种转型中，君主立宪制与议会制的争斗、大众社会与大众政治的兴起、政治改革呼声与社会运动都在摧毁殖民地人民对英国政治的信心。直到1775年，殖民地人士都确定自己在处于一场由政治和社会腐败引发的宪法危机之中，这种危机心态极大的影响了他们对英国诸项殖民地政策的判断。
其次，英帝国的政治结构是有严重缺陷的，而这种缺陷反过来激发了北美与英国之间的矛盾。在长达十多年的时间里面，英美双方一直在寻找一条帝国框架下满足彼此需要的合法出路，他们思考了若干种方案，比如让北美向不列颠议会派出代表，或不列颠与北美组成共主体制，或成立帝国总议会，又或建立一个倾斜式双头帝国，但是这些方案都遇到了严重的困难而无法实行。
由于宪法结构上的缺陷，导致北美和不列颠两方的妥协空间减少，敏感性与脆弱性增高。
最后，不列颠人的应对实在不当。尽管从国王到大臣未必存心为恶，但是他们的反应却不好，一是回避真正的政治问题，把美洲问题简单归结为一小撮人野心作祟，把政治冲突庸俗化；二，在冲突显性化之后，却又实施“边缘政策”，又把政治斗争“零和”化。这些行动策略极严重的恶化了局势。
总之，本书的观点可总结为：
1.美国革命其实是一场英国内战，内战的结果是北美独立。
2.美国革命也是第二次英国革命——美国独立运动与英国革命之间存在继承关系。
3.18世纪英国的政治与社会转型制造着一场总危机，北美人士的抗争是英国抗争运动的一部分。
4.大英帝国的政治结构存在根本缺陷，这种结构上的缺陷转化成实际的政治对抗。
5.英国统治者无意镇压，北美抗争者无意决裂，但存在循环刺激，恶性升级。
6.在革命/改良的关键时刻，英式保守主义并不胜任。
最后，本书也提出，对美国独立这个案例的研究，有助于我们突破既有的国家分裂理论的限制（现实冲突视角、情感-心理视角、资源动员视角、政治过程视角等），从变迁、结构、话语、互动等更动态、更历史的角度来审视国家分裂问题。

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.
Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our universe may be just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes. If M-theory is proven correct, we may perhaps finally find answer to the question, “What happened before the big bang?” This is an exciting and unforgettable introduction into the new cutting-edge theories of physics and cosmology from one of the pre-eminent voices in the field.

In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning.

本书叙述美国独立战争爆发前近200年的历史，并将这个时期概括为“美国的奠基时代”，凸现了它在美国历史上的重要性。《美国的奠基时代（1585—1775）》不仅重视政治、经济等传统史学所关注的内容，而且吸收社会史、思想史和文化史研究的成果，对北美社会演变的各个侧面进行了细致的考察。全书引证丰富，大量利用了各殖民地的档案和当时人的日记、书信、旅行记等原始文献，广泛吸收了美国和国内最近几十年的重要研究成果，反映了国内外美国早期史研究的前沿进展。本书还在理论和方法上进行了一些探索，既重视文化多样性的意义，又强调英格兰文化的主导作用，并对美国早期史研究中一些有争议的问题做出了回应。

Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.
The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

新批评派是源出于英国而极盛于美国的现代西方形式主义文论流派，其全部历史持续四十余年（1915-1957），而且至今在美国文论界和文学教学中仍有着一定的影响。
作者将其置于从唯美主义到结构主义的整个西方形式主义发展潮流中，多角度、多层次地剖析了这一流派的思想倾向、理论体系及其哲学基础、方法论特点和对诗歌语言研究的成就和缺点，从而为读者从纵横两个方面提供了线索来认识形式主义文学理论的大致发展趋势，很有值得借鉴之处。

这本小书是美国法学院一本畅销书，简要介绍当代英美法律理论中的基本概念和重要理论，清晰明了，深入浅出，非常适合法学院学生阅读，也是法律研究者的案头必备工具。 虽是一本不起眼的小书，但在当代中国法理学的语境下，小书的价值丝毫不亚于大部头的专著。索伦教授基于自身的研究兴趣与理论视野，广泛搜集法科一年级学生在美国法学院各种课程中可能会碰到的理论性学术概念，对其进行初步的解释并给出基本的文献指南。 索伦教授法理词汇的搜集整理工作，得到了法学院学生的广泛赞誉。