理查德·怀斯曼(Richard Wiseman),英国著名的大众心理学教授,致力于以科学方法研究人们日常生活中看似无法用理性理解的行为。他是爱丁堡大学的心理学博士,并获剑桥三一学院Perrott-Warrick奖学金,目前负责英国贺福郡大学心理系的一个研究机构。他在直觉、欺骗、运气、幽默和超自然等领域的研究享誉国际。怀斯曼教授是英国各大报刊...
London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill . . .a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London s emerging youth culture. The young and restless--the absolute beginners--were creating a world as different as they dared from the traditional image of England s green and pleasant land...
Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He was the magazine s correspondent in China, where he lived in a restored house in Beijing north of the Forbidden City, from 2005 until 2013 when he moved to Washington, D.C. He has received many prizes, including the Asia Society s Osborn Elliott Pr...
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three ...