In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.

The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.

Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.
Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror.
With firsthand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson traces the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades and shows how they are alive today within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and in postwar Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners of war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have 100 debleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces Command Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? How was the U.S. military associated with the mysterious mass suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? The Men Who Stare at Goats answers these and many more questions.

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.
'It's about the terror, isn't it?'
'The terror of what?' I said.
'The terror of being found out.'
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.
A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.
Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.

踢爆、轉貼、圍攻，然後被遺忘
網路上的集體砲轟，究竟是為了體現正義，
是集體狂熱，還是毀掉別人的快感？
「每天都有新的英雄和壞蛋，好人也可能變惡魔……」
最會講故事的頂尖記者強．朗森
以15個網路真實事件，15段驚心動魄的旅程
帶你直擊最複雜詭譎的人性，重新思考「網路正義」！
★ 紐約時報暢銷書、亞馬遜讀者4.3顆星推薦
★《出版人周刊》2015年最佳非文學書籍
★《商業周刊》1488期搶先書摘
☉偽造不實內容，書籍全面下架的暢銷科普作家
☉因種族歧視貼文慘遭解雇的公關總監
☉從羞辱中全身而退的人
☉能改變Google搜尋結果的人
☉涉及造假的知名心理實驗
這是個「全民皆狗仔」的時代，不管你是名人、素人，都可能成為下一個網路事件的當事人。
身兼獨立記者、心理學家、編劇等身分的強．朗森，花了三年時間，深入法庭、分享團體、A片拍攝現場等，親自訪談身陷抄襲、作假、歧視等風暴中的人，包括越界者、爆料者、旁觀者，完整重現事件經過，以及當事人不為人知的生活劇變和心路歷程。
「有了社群媒體後，我們就為固定上演的『人為大戲』創造了舞台。每天都有新的人冒出來，扮演了不起的英雄或令人不齒的壞蛋。……是什麼激情，有時會像這樣使我們無法自拔？我們從中得到的又是什麼？」──強．朗森
透過作者詼諧又力道十足的文筆，你將以更細膩敏銳的角度，重新解讀「網路正義」！
本書特色
1.重新思考「網路正義」
在「全民皆狗仔」的時代，鄉民肉搜起底的強大能力令人佩服，網路謠言的感染力卻也令人恐懼，「網路正義」，是每個人無可迴避、必須深入思考的問題。
2.真實事件第一手完整報導
書中真實重現網路公審的真實案例，包括美國暢銷科普作家喬納．雷勒，被踢爆在書中杜撰不實的內容，著作因而全面下架銷毀，還在直播網友留言的大螢幕前公開道歉；美國知名網路公司的公關總監賈絲汀．薩科，因種族歧視的推特發文引發軒然大波，最後丟掉工作。
3.洞察時代趨勢與深刻人性的代表作
群眾的譏諷與撻伐（幾乎都是匿名）迅速摧毀了一個人，而這些舉著正義大旗的人，卻不假思索地堅稱自己在做對的事，或是無動於衷地迅速轉往下一個焦點。身兼記者、心理學家、編劇等多重身分的作者，長達三年時間，深入法庭、監獄等，以詼諧又有力道的犀利文筆，從當代議題中挖掘人性更深層的樣貌！
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「太有趣，也太有爆點。真不知道朗森怎麼可以既保持書的輕鬆，又講述一場噩夢般的過程。一如以往，他特別善於捕捉這些恐怖的發展，又不至於精神錯亂。」――《紐約時報》
「朗森是頑強、勇敢的記者。他的幽默和敏銳，永遠無損於他在新聞工作上的正直。」――《週日泰晤士報》
「朗森真的是當今頂尖的幽默作家之一！」――威爾．塞爾夫（Will Self），《衛報》
「有趣又發人深省！」――《金融時報》

THEM began as a book about different kinds of extremists, but after Jon had got to know some of them -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen -- he found that they had one oddly similar belief: that a tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In THEM, Jon sets out, with the help of the extremists, to locate that room. The journey is as creepy as it is comic, and along the way Jon is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses international CEOs and politicians participate in a bizarre pagan ritual in the forests of northern California. THEM is a fascinating and entertaining exploration of extremism, in which Jon learns some alarming things about the looking-glass world of 'them' and 'us'. Are the extremists on to something? Or has Jon become one of THEM?

From the bestselling author of
and
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A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In
journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room.
As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of "Them" but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place. Was he just not invited?
takes us across three continents and into the secret room. Along the way he meets Omar Bakri Mohammed, considered one of the most dangerous men in Great Britain, PR-savvy Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Thom Robb, and the survivors of Ruby Ridge. He is chased by men in dark glasses and unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp. In the forests of northern California he even witnesses CEOs and leading politicians -- like Dick Cheney and George Bush -- undertake a bizarre owl ritual.
Ronson's investigations, by turns creepy and comical, reveal some alarming things about the looking-glass world of "us" and "them."
is a deep and fascinating look at the lives and minds of extremists. Are the extremists onto something? Or is Jon Ronson becoming one of them?

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath.
Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

From the Sunday Time s top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test , a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.

'It's about the terror, isn't it?'

'The terror of what?' I said.

'The terror of being found out.'

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.

A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.

Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.

In "What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness," the second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardian journalism, he hilariously demonstrates how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. But also, as he chillingly demonstrates, there are clever people working in the highest echelons of business who are employed to spot, nurture and exploit the irrationalities of those among us who can barely cope as it is.
In part one, read about the time Jon inadvertently made a lewd gesture to a passing fourteen-year-old girl late at night in the lobby of a country-house hotel. And about his burgeoning obsession with a new neighbour who refused to ask him what he did for a living, despite Jon's constant dropping of intriguing hints. And about the embarrassment of being caught recycling small talk at a party.
In part two, read some of Jon's longer stories, which explore manifestations of insanity in the wider world: the tiny town of North Pole, Alaska, where it's Christmas 365 days of the year; behind the scenes at "Deal or No Deal," which Jon likens to a cult with Noel Edmonds as its high priest; a meeting with TV hypnotist Paul McKenna, who has joined forces with a self-help guru who once stood trial for murder - but can they cure Jon of his one big phobia?
As hilarious as it is perturbing, Jon Ronson's new collection is a treat for everyone who has ever suspected themselves to be at the mercy of forces they can barely comprehend.

Wojna w Wietnamie. Podpułkownik Jim Channon wpada na pomysł stworzenia nowego modelu żołnierza - superwojownika wyposażonego w nadnaturalne zdolności, które pozwolą odmienić okrutne oblicze wojny. Nie zdaje sobie sprawy, jakie owoce wydadzą jego odjazdowe pacyfistyczne koncepcje...
Rok 1983, Arlington w Wirginii. Człowiek w mundurze zafrasowany chowa głowę w dłoniach. Znów nie udało mu się przejść przez ścianę. To generał Albert Stubblebine, szef amerykańskiego wywiadu. Ma jeden cel - urzeczywistnić wizje Channona. Czy uda mu się przekonać do tego zwierzchników?
Fort Bragg w Karolinie Północnej. W niepozornym budynku stoi stado supertajnych kóz, pozbawionych zdolności meczenia. Co właściwie trenuje na nich grupa starannie wyselekcjonowanych komandosów?
Fort Meade w stanie Maryland. Nędzny barak w głębi bazy wojskowej. Czy pracujący tam zespół szpiegów o zdolnościach parapsychicznych naprawdę potrafi zdalnie przeniknąć tajemnice wroga?
Jon Ronson, dziennikarz i dokumentalista, postanowił rzucić światło na historię niekonwencjonalnych broni stosowanych przez amerykańską armię. Przed dwa i pół roku zbierał materiały i przemierzył setki kilometrów, docierając do zaangażowanych w projekt ludzi. Efekt tej pracy zapiera dech: niewiarygodne historie, postacie jak z filmu sf, pomysły, które wydawały się bardzo zabawne, dopóki nie wprowadzono ich w życie... Po atakach z 11 września 2001 roku przypominano sobie o ekscentrycznych koncepcjach Channona i wykorzystano je do walki z terroryzmem. Z przerażającym skutkiem.
Ronson po mistrzowsku żongluje historiami, które składają się na zaskakujący obraz współczesnej Ameryki i absurdów nowoczesnej wojny, ukazując też cienką granicę między technokratyczną racjonalnością a szaleństwem. Książkę, pełną czarnego humoru, czyta się jak świetnie napisaną powieść.


Ronson żywo opisuje jednego pomyleńca za drugim. W świetny sposób łączy wątki, nie tracąc z oczu tematu przewodniego - obłędu.
„The New York Times"

Koszmarnie śmieszne.
„Publishing News"

Szalona podróż przez najciemniejsze strony wojen ery Busha. A także okrucieństw, które popełniono w imię wojny z terroryzmem.
„The Observer"

Ronson podchodzi do zgromadzonego materiału bez uprzedzeń, z otwartym umysłem i rozkosznie złośliwym poczuciem humoru.
„Publishers Weekly"

Często zajmujący i zabawny, częściej niewygodny i prowokujący - Ronson potrafi zbliżyć się do swoich rozmówców.
„The New York Times"

Nowa książka obecnego od wielu lat na listach bestsellerów Jona Ronsona – wciągająca i błyskotliwa opowieść o jednej z najbardziej niedocenianych sił rządzących światem: o wstydzie.

Przez ostatnie trzy lata Jon Ronson podróżował po świecie, spotykając się z ludźmi, którzy zostali publicznie napiętnowani. Ludźmi takimi jak my. Ludźmi, którzy opublikowali w mediach społecznościowych kiepski żart albo popełnili jakiś błąd, wykonując swoją pracę. A kiedy ich występek został ujawniony, wściekły tłum rzucił im się do gardeł – byli wyszydzani, odsądzani od czci i wiary, czasem nawet zwalniani z pracy.

Dzięki internetowi publiczne zawstydzanie przeżywa dziś renesans. Jesteśmy świadkami demokratyzacji sprawiedliwości. Milcząca większość w końcu doszła do głosu. Jak to wykorzystujemy? Jesteśmy bezlitośni w wytykaniu cudzych błędów. Tworzymy definicje normalności, rujnując życie tych, którzy nie spełniają naszych kryteriów. Używamy wstydu jako formy społecznej kontroli.

#WstydźSię! to książka poruszająca, a jednocześnie przesiąknięta typowym dla Jona Ronsona poczuciem humoru. Szczerze i wprost opowiada o naszym współczesnym życiu, uświadamiając nam, jak przerażającą rolę odgrywamy w zbierającej coraz większe żniwo wojnie wypowiedzianej ludzkim słabościom.

精神療養院中的病患，看起來竟比你我更正常更迷人
眾人景仰的成功人士，其實是靠冷血、操弄和自我吹噓
原來，這個世界，近乎貪婪地需要瘋狂！
英國知名獨立記者強．朗森從監獄到豪宅四處挖掘人心底層的真相，結果完全超乎你想像……
由於受託調查一本神秘圖書，強�1�76�1�74朗森踏入探索反社會人格者的世界之旅，他自認獲得了「辨識反社會人格者的能力」，深入惡名昭彰的企業家豪宅、囚禁殺人狂的監獄，還有精神療養院的危險與嚴重人格異常中心……。
據說每100個人就有1個反社會人格者，你今天在街上可能就有一位跟你擦肩而過。這些人缺乏同理心、愛沒有罪惡感、愛操弄、狡詐卻獨具魅力、容易擄獲人心。
書中進一步探問如何定義「正常」和「瘋狂」？人性是否更存在於灰色的複雜？譬如以裁員無數著稱的冷血執行長「鏈鋸」艾爾�1�76�1�74鄧樂普（“Chainsaw” Al Dunlap），雖然毫無同情心、缺乏罪惡感，卻對婚姻忠誠，甚至受到華爾街金融分析師的看好：認為他的上任能為公司削減成本，提升獲利，因此提供投資人正面的看法。
隨著採訪對象增加，朗森逐漸發現自己也有反社會人格的那一面，而那些「有問題」的受訪對象，也有「很正常」的行為表現，甚至他們的「與眾不同」，正是成功的原因。他們堂而皇之處在這個社會的各個領域的高層，成為企業家、政治家、藝術家，以及各個領域的極端人物，他們以他們的瘋狂力推動著這個世界。
難道，這個世界真的需要靠「瘋狂」來運轉？
這是一部對反社會人格者明查暗訪的紀實調查報告，視角獨特、思考深入，以幽默犀利的筆調刻畫各種千奇百怪的人，道出令人歎為觀止的故事，讓人一探反社會人格者的究竟，引發人們對當今世界狀況的種種思考。