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是「知識分子」還是「滋事分子」？
保羅．約翰遜最受推崇、也最多爭議的經典大作
──一部現代人必看的「除魅」之書──

★暢銷多國三十餘年，是最具批判力道的人文巨著
★作者獲頒美國最高榮譽，受總統乃至知識分子的大力盛讚
★《紐約時報》暢銷書、美國亞馬遜暢銷書

「在我的經驗裡，除了說謊成癖者外，最忘恩負義、最難應付的病人就是知識分子。」──榮格

►自戀病、雙重標準，與「特殊性關係」，造就了改變世界的知識分子

‧為什麼盧梭自稱「全人類之友」，卻連一個朋友都沒有？
‧為什麼托爾斯泰大談「博愛」，卻連自己的家人都不愛？
‧為什麼高談「自由」的易卜生，卻犧牲了他人的人生？
因為，他們是這世上最會說故事的人……

　　你一定聽過書中的人物，他們推動人類進步、急於改變世界，包括盧梭、雪萊、馬克思、易卜生、托爾斯泰、海明威、布萊希特、羅素、沙特等。這些知識分子至今仍深具影響力，言論思想既嚇人又迷人。他們的生活特立獨行，個個精通虛張聲勢、情緒勒索、欠債不還。他們眼光遠大，甚至遠到看不見自己的缺點。

　　《所謂的知識分子》是一部非典型的人文巨著，作者將在本書中抽絲剝繭，將這些偉大心靈的另一面攤在聚光燈下，而你將看見思想的誕生，也將知道他們的崇高理想是否為空談，以及最重要的──他們是否配得上「知識分子」的光環。

►歷史表明：知識分子不可輕信！

　　兩百年前，知識分子儼然成為了人類的嚮導與良師。他們肩負重大的道德任務，也因此需要獨特的洞察力，替人類看清真相。然而，現代社會最重要的教訓，就是要小心知識分子。他們曾經為了謀求人類的進步，居高臨下指使別人，卻犧牲數百萬條無辜的性命。

　　本書挑選出當代最有代表性的十多位知識分子，細細檢視他們的私人生活。你將發現，他們的眼光常常失準，也常常自相矛盾。他們表裡不一、極度虛榮、欺騙成性、性關係複雜，多數拋家棄子，極端的行為甚至害慘了整個社會。

　　這是一本知識分子的「除魅之書」，現代人將從中得到借鑑──要當心知識分子的言行、所屬團體，也要懂得質疑他們，因為他們常常忘記一件最重要的事：「人」遠遠比他們崇高的理念來得重要。

各界好評

「保羅．約翰遜在他的著作中，展現出淵博的知識和清晰的道德觀，深刻理解我們這個時代的挑戰。」──美國前總統小布希

「這是一部很獨特的作品，任何人拿起這本書就很難再放下。」──《紐約郵報》

「約翰遜先生揭露了這些偉大思想家們邪惡的一面，而這也顯示本書將饒富興味。」──《紐約時報書評》

「充滿生命、活力與迷人的細節，對現在來說多麽適切，任何拿起這本書的人，都很難放下。」──《紐約郵報》

「珍貴且充滿娛樂性，是一部心靈冒險者的入獄檔案照。」──英國小說家金斯利．艾米斯（Kingsley Amis）

「這本書對往後幾年的西方文學與文化，應該具有淨化的影響力。」──《富比士》雜誌發行人，邁爾．康富比士（Malcolm Forbes）

「這些對傑出知識份子予以重擊的人物側寫，尖鋭、帶有偏見、激發思考，讀起來迷死人。」────《出版者週刊》（Publishers Weekly）

「對於知識份子的傲慢、自大與惡意，辛辣且往往搞笑的仔細分析。」────美國藝術評論家金貝爾（Roger Kimball）

In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin.

In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas—you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us.

Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers readers a master class in business values, strategy, and execution:

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　　•    How to start new businesses and create significant organic growth in an already successful company
　　•    Why culture is an imperative
　　•    How a willingness to fail is closely connected to innovation
　　•    What the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us

Each insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges—and more importantly, tomorrow's—and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time.

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos is co-published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, and Harvard Business Review Press.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing, as featured in the HBO documentary Crime of the Century.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain begins with the story of three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer and the incalculably energetic Arthur, who weathered the poverty of the Great Depression and appalling anti-Semitism. Working at a barbaric mental institution, Arthur saw a better way and conducted groundbreaking research into drug treatments. He also had a genius for marketing, especially for pharmaceuticals, and bought a small ad firm.

Arthur devised the marketing for Valium, and built the first great Sackler fortune. He purchased a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. The brothers began collecting art, and wives, and grand residences in exotic locales. Their children and grandchildren grew up in luxury.

Forty years later, Raymond’s son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue. The template Arthur Sackler created to sell Valium—co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness—was employed to launch a far more potent product: OxyContin. The drug went on to generate some thirty-five billion dollars in revenue, and to launch a public health crisis in which hundreds of thousands would die.

This is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling. It is a portrait of the excesses of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world’s great fortunes.

Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to scientific geniuses to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and inspiring, than we ever imagined. 'Malcolm Gladwell ... has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Tim Adams, Observer 'The best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' Dominic Maxwell, The Times 'I wanted to cheer or clap' William Leith, Evening Standard 'Fizzingly entertaining and enlightening' Harry Ritchie, Daily Mail

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New York Times Bestseller

A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with gorgeous full-color illustrations and concise, easy to comprehend text for readers of all ages.

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us?

In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind’s creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted beliefs, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and view specific events within the context of larger ideas.

Featuring 256 pages of full-color illustrations and easy-to-understand text covering the first part of the full-length original edition, this adaptation of the mind-expanding book furthers the ongoing conversation as it introduces Harari’s ideas to a wide new readership.

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