《男孩与男人之间》 现代男性挣扎这件事为什么影响重大、要怎么做
Of Boys and Men. By Richard Reeves. Brookings Institution Press; 256 pages; $28.99. Swift Press; £20
In some ways the world remains male-dominated, yet many men are falling behind, says the author. Boys do worse than girls in school in many countries, and are more likely everywhere to end up in prison or kill themselves. He suggests practical, incremental reforms, such as having boys start school a year later.
作者说，某种意义上世界仍然是男性主导，但许多男性落于人后。许多国家的学校里男生成绩不如女生，而且最终入狱或自杀的概率也搞很多。他从实践角度提出建议，通过逐步改革，例如男生晚一年入学。
《人艰不拆》 哲学如何帮助我们找到前路
Life is Hard. By Kieran Setiya. Riverhead Books; 240 pages; $27. Hutchinson Heinemann; £16.99
A professor of philosophy at mit argues that suffering need not diminish or spoil a good life. Living well and hardship can go together, he says; clear thinking is the key. A humane, consoling guide to this vale of tears, with a glimmer of hope.
一位MIT的哲学教授提出观点，苦难不必要弱化或毁掉一个好的人生。好好生活和苦难经历能共同前行，他说，关键是清晰的思考。对这个伤感尘世点燃一丝希望，一本人性的、慰藉的指南。
《次要情节》 中国在读什么，这点为什么重要
The Subplot. By Megan Walsh. Columbia Global Reports; 133 pages; $16 and £11.99
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《纸莎草书》古代世界对书的发明
Papyrus. By Irene Vallejo. Translated by Charlotte Whittle. Knopf; 464 pages; $35. Hodder & Stoughton; £25
A lively history of books in the ancient world. The committing of words and stories to papyrus scrolls was, the author says, as disruptive as the internet.
一本关于古代世界书籍的生动历史。作者说，关于纸莎草书的文字和故事就像互联网的历史一样“破坏式创新”
《壮丽的反叛》最初的浪漫和自我的创造
Magnificent Rebels. By Andrea Wulf. Knopf; 512 pages; $35. John Murray; £25
An arresting group biography of the “Jena Set”, a gang of young German intellectuals who played an outsize part in the movement that came to be known as Romanticism. It reads as if Iris Murdoch had set a novel during an especially muddy phase of German metaphysics.
关于浪漫主义运动的历史。#德国
《细胞之歌》关于医学和新人类的探索
The Song of the Cell. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. Scribner; 496 pages; $26.99. Bodley Head; £22
A tour d’horizon of cell theory, by a clinical oncologist and professor of that subject at Columbia University. Cases from the author’s own career illustrate the results of both cellular understanding and the lack of it. The result is part history lesson, part biology lesson and part reminder of how science itself actually proceeds.
前沿细胞理论的探索之旅。部分历史课、部分生物课、部分是科学发展史。
《难以捕捉》彼得希格斯如何解开质量之谜
Elusive. By Frank Close. Basic Books; 304 pages; $26. Allen Lane; £25
A compelling account of the long search for the Higgs boson: its existence was predicted in 1964, but it did not show its face to the world until 2012. This is also a biography of Peter Higgs, the shy physicist after whom the particle was named.
追寻希格斯粒子的故事，从1964到2012.
《无尽的世界》动物感官如何揭露我们身旁的隐秘王国
An Immense World. By Ed Yong. Random House; 464 pages; $30. Vintage; £17.99
Human senses can only perceive a fraction of the energy and information moving through the world. Animals manage much more: some birds can sense magnetic fields, bees can see ultraviolet light and bats perceive their surroundings using sound waves. By examining how such creatures sense their environments, this book lifts the shroud on previously invisible dimensions of the world itself.
人类感官只能接收到世界上流动能量与信息中的碎片。动物能收到的多得多：有些鸟儿能感应到磁场，蜜蜂能看到紫外线光，蝙蝠能用声波感应环境。通过钻研这些生活如何感知环境，这本书揭露了一个隐形的世界维度。
《超越测量》测量的隐秘历史，从尺子到量子常量
Beyond Measure. By James Vincent. W.W. Norton; 432 pages; $32.50. Faber; £18.99
Humans are list-makers, this deeply researched history of measurement argues. From Aristotle’s “Categories” to the Linnaean taxonomy of biology, people are splitters, not lumpers, forever seeking to parse and quantify the world.
人类是清单家，这本深入研究测量的历史如是说。从亚里士多德到林内，人类永远在寻求讲世界分解和量化。
《平等的机器》驾驭数字科技，驶向更光明和包容的未来
The Equality Machine. By Orly Lobel. PublicAffairs; 368 pages; $30 and £25
This author agrees with those who fear artificial intelligence can be biased. But, in a brilliant act of intellectual jiu-jitsu, she argues that the answer is not to slow the technology, but to speed it up to solve those defects and achieve social progress.
作者同意许多人害怕人工智能的观点可能存在偏差。但是，通过出色智力柔术，她提出解答并不是放慢科技，而是加速以解决缺陷，从而实现社会进步。
《如斯的尘世纠缠》死亡的历史
This Mortal Coil. By Andrew Doig. Bloomsbury; 384 pages; $34 and £25
A biochemist at the University of Manchester provides a surprisingly upbeat history of death—and points to medical marvels that may lie ahead. An empowering story of human ingenuity.
一位曼彻斯特大学的生物化学家给出对死亡的令人惊讶、积极向上的历史 - 医学奇迹就在前方。一个关于人类才华的动人的故事。
SOURCE: https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/12/06/these-are-the-economists-best-books-of-2022
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