History tells us that when you want something clone you turn to a leader: right? Wrong. If you want to make a correct decision or solve a problem, large groups of people are smarter than a few experts. This brilliant and insightful book shows why the conventional wisdom is so wrong and why the theory of the wisdom of crowds has huge implications for how we run our businesses, structure our political systems and organise our society. Shrewd, meticulous and profound, The Wisdom of Crowds will change for ever the way you think about human behaviour. 作者简介： James Surowiecki is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he writes the popular business column, 'The Financial Page'. His work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Wired and Slate. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship,addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on ContinentalEuropean theories of state and legal systems as it was at home.This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from boththe Anglophone and Continental traditions, bringing together newlycommissioned work by scholars from ten different countries in atopic-by-topic sequence of essays that follows the structure ofLeviathan, re-examining the relationship among Hobbes's physics,metaphysics, politics, psychology, and religion. Collectively theyshowcase important revisionist scholarship that re-examines boththe context for Leviathan and its reception, demonstrating thedegree to which Hobbes was indebted to the long tradition ofEuropean humanist thought. This Cambridge Companion shows thatHobbes's legacy was never lost and that he belongs to a traditionof reflection on political theory and governance that is stillalive, both in Europe and in the diaspora.

This book is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture - Adorno's finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture.

This easy-to-use reference—with hundreds of helpful, classroom-tested answers, ideas, techniques, and teaching tools—will help you on your way to a successful and productive school year. Designed to be flexible, the book offers a choice of ideas and approaches that best fit your classroom situation. Master teacher Julia Thompson shows you how to: Develop successful relationships with students, colleagues, administrators, and parents Manage professional responsibilities and develop career skills Create an orderly classroom where students are courteous and respectful Motivate students to become independent learners Use proven strategies to prevent misbehavior Design instruction that will appeal to every student Set up a classroom for maximum comfort and learning Thrive in the world of high-stakes testing

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of "On the Road," published asKerouac originally composed it IN THREE WEEKS in April of 1951,Jack Kerouac wrote his first full draft of "On the Road"atyped as asingle-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper,which he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll. A majorliterary event when it was published in Viking hardcover in 2007,this is the uncut version of an American classicarougher, wilder,and more provocative than the official work that appeared, heavilyedited, in 1957. This version, capturing a moment in creativehistory, represents the first full expression of Kerouacasrevolutionary aesthetic.

Of all the books of the Bible few have had more resonance for modern readers than the Book of Job. For a world that has witnessed great horrors, Job's cries of despair and incomprehension are all too recognizable. The visionary psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung understood this and responded with this book, in which he set himself face-to-face with "the unvarnished spectacle of divine savagery and ruthlessness". Jung perceived in the hidden recesses of the human psyche the cause of a crisis that plagues modern humanity and leaves the individual, like Job, isolated and bewildered in the face of impenetrable fortune. By correlating the transcendental with the unconscious, Jung, writing not as a biblical scholar but "as a layman and physician who has been privileged to see deeply into the psychic life of many people", offers a way for every reader to come to terms with the divine darkness which confronts each individual.

Based on rapid advances in what is known about how peoplelearn and how to teach effectively, this important book examinesthe core concepts and central pedagogies that should be at theheart of any teacher education program. Stemming from the resultsof a commission sponsored by the National Academy of Education,Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends the creation ofan informed teacher education curriculum with the common elementsthat represent state-of-the-art standards for the profession.Written for teacher educators in both traditional and alternativeprograms, university and school system leaders, teachers, staffdevelopment professionals, researchers, and educationalpolicymakers, the book addresses the key foundational knowledge forteaching and discusses how to implement that knowledge within theclassroom. Preparing Teachers for a Changing World recommends that, inaddition to strong subject matter knowledge, all new teachers havea basic understanding of how people learn and develop, a

Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentiethcentury, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the mostinfluential figures of European modernism. In this Companion,leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays onhis life and social context, his correspondence, all his majorcollections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies andSonnets to Orpheus, and his seminal novel of Modernist anxiety, TheNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke's critical contexts areexplored in detail: his relationship with philosophy and the visualarts, his place within modernism and his relationship to Europeanliterature, and his reception in Europe and beyond. With itsinvaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke'slife and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engagingaccount of this extraordinary poet whose legacy looms so largetoday.

Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancercare. As medical director of the Block Center for IntegrativeCancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands ofpatients who have lived long, full lives beyond their originalprognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experienceinto the first book that gives patients a systematic,research-based plan for developing the physical and emotionalvitality they need to meet the demands of treatment andrecovery.

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, JaredDiamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed thetechnologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much ofthe world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probesthe other side of the equation: What caused some of the greatcivilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can welearn from their fates? As in Guns, Germs, and Steel, Diamond weaves anall-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinatinghistorical-cultural narratives. Moving from the Polynesian cultureson Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of theAnasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony onGreenland, Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe.Environmental damage, climate change, rapid population growth, andunwise political choices were all factors in the demise of thesesocieties, but other societies found solutions and persisted.Similar problems face us today and have already brought

'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of themost extravagant physical effects one person can have on anotherwithout touching them'. But how do we identify something which ismeant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and whatdoes this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text?Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide toreading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance toanything from novels and newspaper columns to billboards andemails. The book enables you to enhance your grasp of the comicthrough familiarity with characteristic structures and patterns,referring to comedy in literature, film and television throughout.Perfect for drama and literature students, this Introductionexplores a genre which affects the everyday lives of us all, andwill therefore also capture the interest of anyone who loves tolaugh.

Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is aremarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa,Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristiccogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind hisofficial press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of thefrightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life duringwar. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

Tourists, armchair travelers, and historians will all delightin this fluid narrative that can be read straight through, dippedinto over time, or used as a reference guide to each period inSicily’s fascinating tale. Emigration of people from Sicily oftenovershadows the importance of the people who immigrated to theisland through the centuries. These have included several whobecame Sicily’s rulers, along with Jews, Ligurians, and Albanians.Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Goths, Byzantines, Muslims, Normans,Hohenstaufens, Spaniards, Bourbons, the Savoy Kingdom of Italy andthe modern era have all held sway, and left lasting influences onthe island’s culture and architecture. Sicily’s character has alsobeen determined by what passed it by: events that affected Europegenerally, namely the Crusades and Columbus’s discovery of theAmericas, remarkably had little influence on Italy’s most famousisland. Maps, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading,a glossary, pronunciation keys, and much more ma

The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is thewatershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed thelandscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significantphilosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion toKant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particularfocus on his moral and political philosophy. It also providesdetailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormousimpact and influence that his work has had on the subsequenthistory of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive andorganized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. Thisvolume thus provides the broadest and deepest introductioncurrently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy,making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to thosecoming to his work for the first time.

Can we understand important social issues by studyingindividual personalities and decisions? Or are societies somehowmore than the people in them? Sociologists have long believed thatpsychology can't explain what happens when people work together incomplex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists andeconomists believe that if we have an accurate theory of howindividuals make choices and act on them, we can explain prettymuch everything about social life. Social Emergence takes a newapproach to these longstanding questions. Sawyer argues thatsocieties are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way toresolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence,focusing on multiple levels of analysis - individuals,interactions, and groups - and with a dynamic focus on how socialgroup phenomena emerge from communication processes amongindividual members. This book makes a unique contribution not onlyto complex systems research but also to social theory.

A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, WashingtonPost, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, andDenver Post Bestseller In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett venturedinto the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. Henever returned. Over the years countless perished trying to findevidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.”In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Granninterweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” andhis own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatestexploration mystery of the twentieth century.

George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer inEnglish of the twentieth century. The massive critical literatureon Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and thereforesomewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributedto and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer andhis literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell'swriting and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly,this Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work andfurnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh criticalperspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, which includeschapters dedicated to two of Orwell's major novels, NineteenEighty-Four and Animal Farm, Orwell's work is placed within thecontext of the political and social climate of the time. Hisresponse to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, WorldWar II, and the politics of the British Left are also examined.

Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's lastplays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What ismeant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining playsin this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in latestudies, and recognising the gaps in accessible scholarship on thisarea, leading international Shakespeare scholars address these andmany other questions. The essays locate Shakespeare's last plays –single and co-authored – in the period of their composition,consider the significant characteristics of their Jacobean context,and explore the rich afterlives, on stage, in print and other mediaof The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Pericles, The TwoNoble Kinsmen and Henry VIII. The volume opens with a historicaltimeline that places the plays in the contexts of contemporarypolitical events, theatrical events, other cultural milestones,Shakespeare's life and that of his playing company, the King'sMen.

Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the authorof the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, AmongSchoolchildren, and Home Town. He has been described by theBaltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” Thispowerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make adifference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who isin love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cureit. At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer.Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist,anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant,world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on aboat, and in medical school found his life’s calling: to diagnoseand cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools ofmodern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent bookshows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seeminsurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful l

In December 1978, at the 1 l th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party,the Central Committee under Dang Xiaoping embarked on a policy of reformthat opened the doors to the rest of the world, helping to make China the economic superpower it is today and transforming the lives of its people. For the few foreign business people who have been engaged with China since this time, the changes have been equally dramatic My Thirty Years in China is a compilation of true-life stories by foreign nationals, allindividually successful in their chosen field of business, who have been pioneers in living and working in this challenging country. Their memories and insights - sometimes comic, sometimes sad- recall the joys and frustrations of their adopted home and paint a fascinating picture of what has changed in China over the past three decades - and what has not.

"The Quest" continues the riveting story Daniel Yergin begantwenty years ago with his No.1 International Bestseller "ThePrize", revealing the on-going quest to meet the world's energyneeds - and the power and riches that come with it. A master storyteller as well as our most expert analyst, Yergin proves thatenergy is truly the engine of global political and economic change.From the jammed streets of Beijing, the shores of the Caspian Sea,and the conflicts in the Middle East, to Capitol Hill and SiliconValley, Yergin tells the inside stories of the oil market, the riseof the 'petrostate', the race to control the resources of theformer Soviet empire, and the massive corporate mergers that havetransformed the oil landscape. He shows how the drama of oil - thestruggle for access to it, the battle for control, the insecurityof supply, its impact on the global economy, and the geopoliticsthat dominate it - will continue to shape our world. And he takeson the toughest questions: will we run out; are China and theU