发现世界海洋里满是塑料垃圾后，这名纪录片导演调查了该污染对环境的恶劣影响。

Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor programming in today’s model-based statistics, the book pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that readers understand enough of the details to make reasonable choices and interpretations in their own modeling work.
The text presents generalized linear multilevel models from a Bayesian perspective, relying on a simple logical interpretation of Bayesian probability and maximum entropy. It covers from the basics of regression to multilevel models. The author also discusses measurement error, missing data, and Gaussian process models for spatial and network autocorrelation.
By using complete R code examples throughout, this book provides a practical foundation for performing statistical inference. Designed for both PhD students and seasoned professionals in the natural and social sciences, it prepares them for more advanced or specialized statistical modeling.

This book comprehensively discusses the neural network models from a statistical mechanics perspective. It starts with one of the most influential developments in the theory of neural networks: Hopfield's analysis of networks with symmetric connections using the spin system approach and using the notion of an energy function from physics. Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation uses these powerful tools to analyze neural networks as associative memory stores and solvers of optimization problems. A detailed analysis of multi-layer networks and recurrent networks follow. The book ends with chapters on unsupervised learning and a formal treatment of the relationship between statistical mechanics and neural networks. Little information is provided about applications and implementations, and the treatment of the material reflects the background of the authors as physicists. However the book is essential for a solid understanding of the computational potential of neural networks. Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation assumes that the reader is familiar with undergraduate level mathematics, but does not have any background in physics. All of the necessary tools are introduced in the book.

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound's understanding - it is fair to say, his appropriation - of the text. Fenollosa's manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North Americaand East Asia. Pound's editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa's encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa's important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound's deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa's sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the development of Fenollosa's ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.

《守护者》由瑞安·怀特 (《审判八号提案》、《披头士女助理》) 执导。这部精彩的 7 集纪录片讲述了巴尔的摩修女被害悬案和其中的恐怖秘密，以及她遇害后近 50 载仍挥之不去的痛楚。
记录片从修女凯茜·切斯尼克的失踪事件展开，她是巴尔的摩一位备受喜爱的修女，也是天主教会高中的教师，她于 1969 年 11 月 7 日失踪。大约两个月后，人们发现了她的尸体，时至今日，她的遇害仍是一桩悬案。
直到 90 年代，修女凯茜·切斯尼克曾经的一位学生 (一位匿名“无名氏”的女性) 说出了自己遭受高中牧师性虐待的可怕经历，这件案子才重新受到人们的关注。令人难以置信的是，该女子透露，在人们发现修女凯茜·切斯尼克的尸体之前，她曾被带到跟前接受警告“看看说别人坏话会有什么下场”。尽管有上述证据以及其他受害者和目击者的证词，但并没有人被追究责任，而且此事在巴尔的摩外鲜有报道。
通过走访数十人，包括修女凯茜的朋友、亲戚、记者、政府官员和决心找出真相巴尔的摩市民，怀特拼凑出事件的大体，不仅涉及受人喜爱的天主教会学校老师之死，还牵涉到神职人员性虐待、被压抑的回忆以及政府和宗教机构，他说：“说得好听点是 (政府和宗教机构) 过去 45 年存在失职，说得难听点就是他们隐瞒了事实真相。”

一名充满争议的教派领袖在俄勒冈州的沙漠中建起乌托邦之城，他与当地居民的冲突演变为了全球性丑闻。

The dissenting opinions of Patrick Henry and others who saw the Constitution as a threat to our hard-won rights and liberties.
Edited and introduced by Ralph Ketcham.

穷困潦倒的乔（Jack Bittner 饰）在狭小的居室内得到神秘启示，为了生计，他开始经营出售梦境的生意。人们拥至他的门前，一位银行职员梦到被夜莺纠缠的女人；一位执着于签单的姑娘看到了一场流水线上模型人的爱情；职员妻子幻觉同一位绅士对话，主持放映了一场无声电影；强行闯入的罪犯眼前不断浮现旋转的圆，那似乎象征着欲望；女孩和盲老人给乔送来了古怪的铁丝玩具。乔送走所有客人，自己随即也陷入了一场梦境，他从一场诡异的牌局脱身出去，发现自己面临更玄妙的遭遇。
本片由汉斯·里希特在杜尚、卡尔德、麦克斯·爱恩斯特等几位艺术家的合作下完成，获得1947年威尼斯电影节特别奖。

In this visionary look into the future, Freeman Dyson argues that technological changes fundamentally alter our ethical and social arrangements and that three rapidly advancing new technologies — solar energy, genetic engineering, and worldwide communication — together have the potential to create a more equal distribution of the world's wealth.
Dyson begins by rejecting the idea that scientific revolutions are primarily concept driven. He shows rather that new tools are more often the sparks that ignite scientific discovery. Such tool-driven revolutions have profound social consequences: the invention of the telescope turning the medieval view of the world upside down, the widespread use of household appliances in the 1950s replacing servants, to cite just two examples. In looking ahead, Dyson suggests that solar energy, genetics, and the Internet will have similarly transformative effects, with the potential to produce a more just and equitable society. Solar power could bring electricity to even the poorest, most remote areas of third-world nations, allowing everyone access to the vast stores of information on the Internet and effectively ending the cultural isolation of the poorest countries. Similarly, breakthroughs in genetics may well enable us to give our children healthier lives and grow more efficient crops, thus restoring the economic and human vitality of village cultures devalued and dislocated by the global market.
Written with passionate conviction about the ethical uses of science, The Sun, The Genome, and The Internet is both a brilliant reinterpretation of the scientific process and a challenge to use new technologies to close, rather than widen, the gap between rich and poor.

1948年诺贝尔奖得主，大诗人T.S.艾略特的著名长诗《荒原》的副题就是：“献给埃兹拉·庞德，最卓越的匠人”，该诗曾得益于庞德的亲自修改。作为欧美现代主义文学公认的鼻祖之一，庞德在艺术创作及批评理论方面都有较大影响。主要作品是一部雄心勃勃、包揽人类文明的长诗，以诗章形式于1917～1959年分批发表，共包括109首诗章及8首未完成的草稿。1969年又出版了未完成草稿的一些片断。这些诗章晦涩难懂，题材广泛，技巧多变而独特，是学院派长期研究的重要课题。其中第1～7章讨论诗的构成与意义，第8～11章讲述一位威尼斯将军及艺术庇护人的故事，第12～13章比较西方现代社会秩序与中国孔子道德理想，第14～16章描写从现代地狱的伦敦转入古代天堂威尼斯的途径，第41章颂扬墨索里尼，第62～71章研究美国总统约翰·亚当斯，还有他在美军俘虏营里写下的《比萨诗章》，述说他身为战犯穿越“灵魂的黑夜”的心路历程，等等。其思想主要特征是：反对资本主义工业文明及西方正统文化统治（其中包括英国文学教条、犹太人及文艺检查制度），强调借鉴东方智慧与古代文明财富（如中国与埃及古诗、日本戏剧、儒家哲学、古罗马艺术、杰弗逊的重农主义民主理想等），造成一个充满人性、崇尚艺术、多种文化交融并存、而又受到个别英明救世主庇护与领导的美好世界。在诗歌理论上，庞德曾提出有关意象诗及“漩涡主义”的观念，打破传统诗歌严密结构，促成英美现代诗歌形式历史性的突破与发展，并且在开阔视野、搜胜猎奇、吸收东方及古代文化方面有较大进步。庞德也是宣扬中国文明、翻译介绍中国古诗的西方诗人之一。庞德为诗歌的民族化与世界化做出了可贵的探索。他广泛借鉴世界文化优秀遗产，特别是中国文化的优秀成果。
1947 年，方志彤应邀到哈佛大学参与《汉英词典》的编撰。此后，他在东亚语言与文明系任讲师和高级讲师，专业领域是中国经典和艺术批评。
1954 年，庞德的中国古诗选集《诗经》英译本出版，书首有方志彤的介绍。他早期对西方文学的兴趣吸引他进入哈佛的比较文学系。庞德作品是他学习的基本内容。1949 年获得硕士学位后，他开始了博士论文研究，研究庞德这位在其诗歌中大量吸收中国表意字的诗人。方志彤关于Pisan Cantos的评论文章于1958 年送呈，他完成了博士学业，并于此年被授予博士学位。《庞德<诗章>研究》被学界认为是庞德研究成果中最重要的作品之一。

作者在本书中考察了关于历史和历史学性质的思想的深刻变化，以及自 19世纪职业历史学出现以来作为其基础的基本原则的发展，描述了二战以后新的社会科学学科如何改变历史学，特别是近二十年来后现代主义思想对历史学的巨大挑战，并得出结论：当代的历史学正从经典的、宏观的形式走向微观史、文化史和日常生活史。本书是新版，增加了题为“21世纪初的回顾 ”的后记，考察了从后现代主义向新的社会科学方法的进展，特别注意文化因素和全球化问题。本书已被译成十种文字在多个国家出版。

根据美国的一个真实案件改编的一部电视电影，HBO出品。
McMartin一家本来经营着一家学前儿童学校，是由外祖母传办的。有一个小孩的母亲到警察局控告McMartin家的孙子，也是这间学校的老师之一，对她2岁半的儿子性骚扰。警察要求其他的学生家长询问自己的孩子是否也受到过这样的性骚扰，一开始似乎没有什麽结果。后来这些家长把孩子带到一家类似儿童治疗中心的地方，在那里的工作人员的诱导下，很多孩子都说在那间学校收到过性骚扰。结果McMartin一家，包括祖母，母亲，孙子，孙女，还有其它三名女教师都被捕入狱，因为大家相信孩子是不会编造这样的谎言的。然而他们没有想到的是，这些孩子虽然不会编造谎言，但是有可能在大人的诱导之下说出谎言。那家治疗中心根本就很不专业，他们诱导孩子的过程跟诱供差不多。然而一开始的时候，大家都被这桩让人感到发指的案件冲昏了头，认定McMartin一家是恶魔。有一名律师一开始主要为了出名才帮助McMartin家辩护，他也认为他们是有罪的。但是随着案件的展开，很多疑点暴露出来，他逐渐开始信任McMartin一家，并且和他们一起在逆境中抗争，经过长达7年的诉讼，1990年1月18日终于还之以清白。然而这一家人的生活毕竟给毁掉了，他们在这一过程中所受到的心灵上的伤害，是无法弥补的。

20世纪50年代，第一代认知科学产生于先验哲学世界观。1975年，莱考夫提出心智的亲身性，开始创立与认知科学和神经科学一致的认知语言学，由此形成基于实证立场的第二代认知科学。
本书根据人类的范畴化以及认知模式研究，阐述了新的“经验主义”。第一册“超越机器的心智”，包括范畴与认知模式、哲学的启示两大部分；第二册“实例研究”论证了采用经验主义方法可以做些什么。基于多学科成果，作者对古希腊以来流行于西方的思维和理性的经典观念，即 “客观主义”展开批判，对心智和语言哲学中的关键问题加以述评，展示了认知科学的跨学科研究范式。
作为认知科学领域的一座里程碑，本书为我们打开了一扇进一步观察心智和语言奥秘的窗口……

"There are books--few and far between--which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and objectivity."--Yaakov Garb, San Francisco Chronicle

AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction, including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this best-seller have been revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understanding of linguistics and languages.

What is the best way to auction an asset? How should a group of people organize themselves to ensure the best provision of public goods? How should exchanges be organized? In An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design, Tilman Börgers addresses these questions and more through an exploration of the economic theory of mechanism design. Mechanism design is reverse game theory. Whereas game theory takes the rules of the game as a given and makes predictions about the behavior of strategic players, the theory of mechanism design goes a step further and selects the optimal rules of the game.
A relatively new economic theory, mechanism design studies the instrument itself as well as the results of the instrument. An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design provides rigorous but accessible explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design, such as Myerson's theorem on expected revenue maximizing auctions, Myerson and Satterthwaite's theorem on the impossibility of ex post efficient bilateral trade with asymmetric information, and Gibbard and Satterthwaite's theorem on the non-existence of dominant strategy voting mechanisms. Börgers also provides an examination of the frontiers of current research in the area with an original and unified perspective that will appeal to advanced students of economics.
"Tilman Borgers offers the first book-length introduction into the theory of mechanism design. Written in a very personal and masterful style, he carefully covers the main developments in theory of mechanism design-the theory of how to choose the rules of the game-over the past decades. It will be an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses for many years to come."
Dirk Bergemann, Douglass and Marion Campbell Professor of Economics and Chair, Yale University
"Tilman Borgers gives a beautifully lucid and elegant development of mechanism design in this wonderful book. His masterful exposition provides a unified and cohesive treatment of modern mechanism design, starting from first principles and working through topics at the leading edge of the research frontier. This book is a delight and an invaluable resource for those new to the field and experts alike."
Chris Shannon, Richard and Lisa Steiny Professor of Economics and Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
"This book provides an integrated treatment of the theory of mechanism design by a leading practitioner in this area. It covers the core theory together with chapters on recent developments in robust mechanism design and dynamic mechanism design. The core theory is built up in an original and pedagogically successful way, starting with screening in chapter 2 and immediately using those tools to develop leading applications of Bayesian mechanism design-auctions, bilateral trade, and public goods-in chapter 3. These results can then naturally be adapted to dominant strategies in chapter 4. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 then deal with the general theories of incentive compatibility, Bayesian mechanism design, and dominant strategy mechanism design.
The first seven chapters of the book focus on the quasi-linear environments studied in most economic applications, with more general environments ('non-transferable utility') postponed to chapter 8. This ordering of material reflects not the historical development of the subject but a natural and effective path to learn the material. Borgers develops a unified treatment of core material without attempting to be exhaustive. Valuable endnotes at the end of each chapter then explain the historical context and relation to the literature more broadly. It will serve as an excellent textbook for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, and an invaluable reference for researchers."
Stephen Morris, Professor of Economics, Princeton University

当前，资本市场是一个充满诱惑和浮夸的热词。并购、私募、私有化、跨境并购……专业人士欲以专业来开拓资本市场方向的业务，同时，资本市场却是“乱花渐入迷人眼”。本书作者以通俗易懂文采飞扬的写作风格，基于“中国的问题 世界的眼光”将资本市场的游戏规则抽丝剥茧，将现实发生的商战大戏纳入生动的分析之下。同时，将资本市场的关键词进行注释予以说明，堪称一本书轻松地读懂资本市场。
《资本的规则》是一本弹性较大的书，入门级的读者通过阅读能达到“一本书读懂资本市场”的扫盲效果;专业资深的读者能透过资本市场的波诡云谲发现其背后的规律与实质。
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丁颖华(国泰君安证券资本市场部董事总经理)
沈哲清(倍哲资本创始人、原巴克莱银行董事总经理兼中国金融机构部门主管)
苏龙飞(《新财富》主笔、《股权战争》作者)
周志峰(方达律师事务所创始合伙人)
徐明磊(上海证券交易所上市公司监管一部副总监)
彭冰(北京大学法学院教授)
蔡祥(博流资本合伙人、原德意志银行执行董事)
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Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing European and Japanese conceptions of modernity -- as imagined in the writings of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, as well as ethnologist Yanagita Kunio and Marxist philosopher Tosaka Jun -- Harootunian seeks to expose the problematic nature of scholarly categories. In doing so, History's Disquiet presents intellectual genealogies of such orthodox notions as "field" and "modernity" and other concepts intellectuals in the East and West have used to understand the changing world around them. Contrasting reflections on everyday life in Japan and Europe, Harootunian shows how responses to capitalist society were expressed in similar ways: social critics in both regions alleged a broad sense of alienation, particularly among the middle class. However, he also points out that Japanese critics viewed modernity as a condition in which Japan -- without the lengthy period of capitalist modernization that characterized Europe and America -- was either "catching up" with those regions or "copying" them. As elegantly written as it is controversial, this book is both an invitation for rethinking intellectual boundaries and an invigorating affirmation that such boundaries can indeed be broken down.