『욕망의 진화』는 1994년에 출간되어 데이비드 버스의 이름과 진화심리학이라는 신생 학문을 전 세계에 널리 알린 심리학 분야의 명저이다. 인간 남녀의 사랑, 연애, 섹스, 결혼의 실체를 밝히기 위해 머나먼 과거로부터 현재에 이르기까지의 수백만 년에 걸친 인간 진화의 역사를 파헤쳐 우리 마음속 깊은 곳에 숨겨진 인간 본연의 성적 욕망을 낱낱이 드러낸다. 사랑, 연애, 섹스, 욕망에 대해 알고 싶은 모든 것, 그러나 차마 묻지 못했던 것들을 이 책은 진화심리학이라는 창을 통해 인간의 마음속 깊은 곳을 들여다봄으로써 그 궁금증을 해결할 수 있는 기회를 제공한다. 

Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today.

"A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York Times

After working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some places it isn't. Rutger Bregman's TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. It's just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today.

Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon's near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come.

Every progressive milestone of civilization -- from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy -- was once considered a utopian fantasy. Bregman's book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. Being unrealistic and unreasonable can in fact make the impossible inevitable, and it is the only way to build the ideal world.