扎克伯格今年打算读哪本书？

    这本书的名称翻译成中文是《历史绪论》，书中追溯了人类的发展历程，并努力抛弃史书中常见的偏见，揭示将人类连接在一起的通用元素。该书被认为是最重要的伊斯兰前现代史著作。

    赫勒敦是一位著名的阿拉伯学者和伟大的思想家，被誉为现代社会学、人种学和历史哲学领域的奠基人之一。

    原英文版的一位书评人声称：“毫无疑问，这部伟大的著作超越了人类历史上任何国家、任何时间、由任何人创作的同类作品……它对人类历史的发展进程进行了最全面、最有启发性的分析。”

    每一年，扎克伯格雄心勃勃的新年决心都会引起关注。迄今为止，这些决心包括减肥、学说普通话等。他今年的挑战是创建一个现代读书俱乐部。受到扎克伯格的鼓励，许多人加入了该俱乐部，并在Facebook上讨论每一本书。

    下面是他到目前为止所选的书单：

    •《权力的终结：权力正在失去，世界如何运转》（The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be），作者：莫伊塞斯•纳伊姆

    •《人性中的善良天使》（The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined），作者：史蒂芬•平克

    •《黑帮老大的一天》（Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets），作者：素德•文卡特斯

    •《免疫：接种》（On Immunity: An Inoculation），作者：尤拉•比斯

    •《创意公司：克服阻拦灵感的隐形力量》(Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration) ，作者：埃德•卡特莫尔和艾米•华莱士

    •《科学革命的结构》（The Structure of Scientific Revolutions），作者：托马斯•S•库恩

    •《理性仪式：文化、协作，与常识》（Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge），作者：崔时英

    •《与中国打交道》（Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower），作者：亨利•M•保尔森

    •《奥威尔的复仇：1984 年重写本》（Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest），作者：彼得•休伯

    •《新吉姆•克劳时代：色盲时代的大规模监禁》（The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness），作者：米歇尔•亚历山大

    •《历史绪论》，作者：伊本•赫勒敦（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    审校：任文科

    The book, whose title translates to “The Introduction,” traces the progress of humanity while attempting to remove the biases captured in historical records and reveal the universal elements that connect us. It is often considered the most important Islamic history of the premodern world.

    Kaldun, a lauded Arab scholar, is credited as one of the foundational thinkers of modern sociology, ethnography, and the philosophy of history.

    One reviewer of the original English translation called it, “Undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created by any mind in any time or place … the most comprehensive and illuminating analysis of how human affairs work that has been made anywhere.”

    Zuckerberg is known for his high-flying annual resolutions, which have ranged from killing his own meat to learning to speak Mandarin Chinese. This year’s challenge created a modern-day book club where Zuckerberg has encouraged other’s to join along and discuss each book on Facebook.

    Here are the books he’s chosen so far:

    •“The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be,” by Moisés Naím

    •“The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” by Steven Pinker

    •“Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets,” by Sudhir Venkatesh

    •“On Immunity: An Inoculation,” by Eula Biss

    •“Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration,” by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace

    •“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,” by Thomas S. Kuhn

    •“Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge,” by Michael Chwe

    •“Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower,” by Henry M. Paulson

    •“Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest,” by Peter Huber

    •“The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” by Michelle Alexander

    •“The Muqaddimah,” by Ibn Khaldun