Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Addiction by Design takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schll shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the "machine zone," in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schll describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and "ambience management," player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum "time on device." Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. Addiction by Design is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life.

※美国高校德国史指定读物
※纳粹研究名著 读懂纳粹绕不开的书
※德国版的《叫魂》：20世纪30年代初，魏玛德国的“大萧条”大恐慌
※四次重版 首次汉译
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“经典研究力作。”
——《历史与记忆中的第三帝国》《第三帝国的到来》作者理查德•J.埃文斯
“感性的、充满想象力的……阿伦研究了一个纳粹统治下的真实德国社区……他对于这上百个片段（浓缩着人类的悲剧和反讽命运）的诠释是天才式的。”
——《美国历史评论》
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为这个无名之地立传，因为它是理解纳粹在地方层面运作最佳的切入点。
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小镇上的纳粹分子好像精准地知道该说什么，什么时候说，知道做什么，怎么做，以便赢得大部分镇民的选票。
他们针对一次又一次的选举，精心策划了讲座集会、盛装游行、舞会、军事演习……他们会根据每一次活动的反馈仔细地总结经验，修改下一场活动的安排。
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一切，都是为了掌权。
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《纳粹掌权：一个德国小镇的经历》展示了纳粹独裁政权如何通过宣传手腕巧妙地超越民主制度，并且夺取权力。威廉•谢里登•阿伦依靠当地报纸、期刊、报告、预算信息、犯罪统计数据、采访当事人以及法律记录，解剖了诺特海姆这个德国小镇，用显微镜般的视角精确地描绘了一个昏睡小镇向纳粹据点的转变。在这一有力的分析中，阿伦认为，以往人们所认为的希特勒在国家层面上掌权的普遍看法是一种误解，与此相反，希特勒如果没有地方上的狂热支持者，第三帝国永远不会出现。阿伦的研究展示了纳粹能够利用尖锐而精细的宣传手段来发掘群众的弱点，因此，这本书不仅仅是对历史的研究，也是对人性的研究。

Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, the book considers three common subjects of measurement—people, objects, and relationships—and then discusses how to pivot effectively between subjects and methods. Measuring Culture takes the reader on a tour of the state of the art in measuring meaning, from discussions of neuroscience to computational social science. It provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her.
With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.

Over the past two decades, higher education employment has undergone a radical transformation with faculty becoming contingent, staff being outsourced, and postdocs and graduate students becoming a larger share of the workforce. For example, the faculty has shifted from one composed mostly of tenure-track, full-time employees to one made up of contingent, part-time teachers. Non-tenure-track instructors now make up 70 percent of college faculty. Their pay for teaching eight courses averages $22,400 a year—less than the annual salary of most fast-food workers.
In The Gig Academy, Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott assess the impact of this disturbing workforce development. Providing an overarching framework that takes the concept of the gig economy and applies it to the university workforce, this book scrutinizes labor restructuring across both academic and nonacademic spheres. By synthesizing these employment trends, the book reveals the magnitude of the problem for individual workers across all institutional types and job categories while illustrating the damaging effects of these changes on student outcomes, campus community, and institutional effectiveness. A pointed critique of contemporary neoliberalism, the book also includes an analysis of the growing divide between employees and administrators.
The authors conclude by examining the strengthening state of unionization among university workers. Advocating a collectivist, action-oriented vision for reversing the tide of exploitation, Kezar, DePaola, and Scott urge readers to use the book as a tool to interrogate the state of working relations on their own campuses and fight for a system that is run democratically for the benefit of all. Ultimately, The Gig Academy is a call to arms, one that encourages non-tenure-track faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students, and administrative and tenure-track allies to unite in a common struggle against the neoliberal Gig Academy.

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despite the linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences among settlers and, eventually, citizens? Clemens reveals that an important piece of the answer to these questions can be found in the unexpected political uses of benevolence and philanthropy, practices of gift-giving and reciprocity that coexisted uneasily with the self-sufficient independence expected of liberal citizens Civic Gifts focuses on the power of gifts not only to mobilize communities throughout US history, but also to create new forms of solidarity among strangers. Clemens makes clear how, from the early Republic through the Second World War, reciprocity was an important tool for eliciting both the commitments and the capacities needed to face natural disasters, economic crises, and unprecedented national challenges. Encompassing a range of endeavors from the mobilized voluntarism of the Civil War, through Community Chests and the Red Cross to the FDR-driven rise of the March of Dimes, Clemens shows how voluntary efforts were repeatedly articulated with government projects. The legacy of these efforts is a state co-constituted with, as much as constrained by, civil society.

牛奶是被认为接近完美的食物，尤其是在健康饮食盛行的当下，它已经成为中国人餐桌上不可替代的餐食。但是，牛奶并不是一开始就被广为接受的，在江南，尤其是在上海不以奶制品为主的传统饮食结构中，牛奶从未受到热捧，更是因为本身含有细菌，具有饮用安全威胁，而一度遭到人们的冷落。
那么，牛奶是如何登上日常餐桌的？
牛奶消毒是如何成为一种卫生制度？
上海又是如何成为今日牛奶管理制度肇始之地的？
本书将带领读者回溯20世纪的中国，重看牛奶管理制度的变迁历史，细探行业标准的形成过程，深究上海乳业面临的困境与挑战。

Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes. The collection’s focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.
The first section, “Good Foods,” focuses on how food norms and rules have been established in modern Asia. Ideas about good foods and good bodies shift at different moments, in some cases privileging local foods and knowledge systems, and in other cases privileging foreign foods and knowledge systems. The second section, “Bad Foods,” focuses on what makes foods bad and even dangerous. Bad foods are not simply unpleasant or undesirable for aesthetic or sensory reasons, but they can hinder the stability and development of persons and societies. Bad foods are symbolically polluting, as in the case of foreign foods that threaten not only traditional foods, but also the stability and strength of the nation and its people. The third section, “Moral Foods,” focuses on how themes of good versus bad are embedded in projects to make modern persons, subjects, and states, with specific attention to the ambiguities and malleability of foods and health. The malleability of moral foods provides unique opportunities for understanding Asian societies’ dynamic position within larger global flows, connections, and disconnections.
Collectively, the chapters raise intriguing questions about how foods and the bodies that consume them have been valued politically, economically, culturally, and morally, and about how those values originated and evolved. Consumers in modern Asia are not simply eating to satisfy personal desires or physiological needs, but they are also conscripted into national and global statemaking projects through acts of ingestion. Eating, then, has become about fortifying both the person and the nation.

As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself.
Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own.
In this volume, Wang talks about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. He was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents’ orientation was always to China. Wang grew up in the plural, multi-ethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya (now Malaysia). He learned English in colonial schools and was taught the Confucian classics at home. After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya.
Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.

In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their hometowns, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half had been left behind by both parents. Rachel Murphy draws on her longitudinal fieldwork in two landlocked provinces to explore the experiences of these left-behind children and to examine the impact of this great migration on childhood in China and on family relationships. Using children's voices, Murphy provides a multi-faceted insight into experiences of parental migration, study pressures, poverty, institutional discrimination, patrilineal family culture, and reconfigured gendered and intergenerational relationships.
Based on rich first-hand interviews with left-behind children and their caregivers, as well as migrant parents in the cities
Casts fresh light on changing gender and generational relationships in rural families as China rapidly urbanizes
Provides a multi-faceted insight into children's experiences of parental migration and how their experiences, sentiments and relationships evolve overtime

✉【编辑推荐】
是枝裕和、椎名林檎、满岛光推崇的日剧大神，《东京爱情故事》《四重奏》编剧坂元裕二唯一心碎小说集首度引进；
写给孤独者的深情书简，致艰难生存的你：爱是相互看见，更是相互拯救
★ 日剧大神·爱的灵魂捕手坂元裕二唯一心碎故事集：“我要说的，是这个世界的痛楚，和与痛楚数量相当的喜悦。”
一如他深受喜爱的影视作品，坂元的小说擅长捕捉日常细节，刻画普通人情感，在既冷酷又饱含温柔、既有伤害也有无尽深情的故事中，讲述爱与救赎的永恒主题。
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★ “哪怕一个也好，我想将那些艰难活着的人，从他们的生活中拯救出来”
突破恋爱小说边界，触及深层社会问题与边缘人生存状况，替被霸凌者、被漠视者与被抛弃者努力发出声音。
“比起多数派，我更想为少数派书写。让他们感到原来这么想的人不只我一个。”
——坂元裕二
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★ 初恋是一次奋不顾身的冒险，不伦是一场无法回头的逃亡：
漠视是一种暴力，而相互看见就是初恋的开始；背叛是一场杀戮，重新去爱就是最好的报复——而爱是相互看见，更是相互拯救。
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★ 独特的书信体小说，金句王坂元裕二集毕生功力写下的极具个人特色故事集：
以写信对抗冷漠、对抗背叛、对抗死亡，用书信体写著暗涌日常，在聊天记录里刻画日常、人性、爱的残酷、孤独者的相互救赎。
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★ 特别收录作者坂元裕二手写寄语，给中国读者的心意：
“这是关于两个人之间通过书信把心系在一起的故事，而我现在也正在写这封信。希望这封渡海传达的信可以让你们的心有所震动。谢谢，期待着有朝一日能相见。”
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★ 日式信封装设计×书封独立插画
信封装使用日本广告纸手工裱糊，以独特而切题的方式呈现这部“信”的故事；书封插画为星空上掉落的床单，深蓝忧郁，暗合初恋纯真与不伦挣扎。
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★ 是枝裕和、小泉今日子落泪推荐；高桥一生、满岛光真情献声
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✉【内容简介】
本书是日剧大神坂元裕二的一部中篇小说集，书中以书信邮件、聊天记录的形式描绘出两则心碎又心动的恋爱物语，也是现代人触动最深的情感形式：初恋与不伦。坂元裕二讲述得克制、文艺、美好，把注定悲伤的故事用优美清新的口吻娓娓道来，感动万千读者。
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《初恋》：从久未联系的初恋女孩那里收到了一封信。同一时间，女孩的婚约者是一场交通事故的肇事司机，并且在那起事故中逃逸了……
《不伦》：妻子突然说要去非洲做除地雷的志愿者，就这么抛下丈夫开启了自己的旅程，但却遭遇恐怖袭击，去世了。一年后，还在调查事件的丈夫突然收到了一封信：“你的妻子还活着，和我的丈夫在非洲生活着。”两颗同样丧气的心慢慢靠近……

孤寡老人是特殊群体，他们虽然都享有国家的良好福利，但又似乎被社会所遗忘，似乎他们从未在这个社会立足过。事实上，每一位孤寡老人都有着丰富的人生阅历，甚至因为誓要摆脱孤身的命运，他们的阅历更为丰富和令人动容。本书中的54位孤宿老人即是如此，如今他们均已经得到了民政部门的悉心照料，生活舒适安逸，而他们的精神状况则成为相对凸显的问题。从他们的口述中，可以看到他们都有着极为丰富的人生经历，都向往家庭生活、对天伦之乐充满向往，都在遭遇到命运的不公对待后长时间地抗争与奋斗。但“孤寡”似乎有着某种遗传密码，总能在一代代人身上发生，这些孤宿老人的命运与经历，有助于我们更深一步理解孤寡的成因，对如今尚在中青年的人群有着极为宝贵的借鉴意义。
本书为中国作协、湖北省作协“孤寡老人生存状态调查项目”，旨在通过对福利院等场所的孤宿老人的走访采访，提炼出孤寡的成因，呈现孤宿老人的现状，引发社会各界的高度关注。在老龄化越来越明显的今天，孤宿老人的人生际遇、当下生存和精神状态，是极具社会价值的资料。

Parents in China greatly value higher education for their children, but the intensity and effects of their desire to achieve this goal have largely gone unexamined—until now. Governing Educational Desire explores the cultural, political, and economic origins of Chinese desire for a college education as well as its vast consequences, which include household and national economic priorities, birthrates, ethnic relations, and patterns of governance.
Where does this desire come from? Andrew B. Kipnis approaches this question in four different ways. First, he investigates the role of local context by focusing on family and community dynamics in one Chinese county, Zouping. Then, he widens his scope to examine the provincial and national governmental policies that affect educational desire. Next, he explores how contemporary governing practices were shaped by the Confucian examination system, uncovering the historical forces at work in the present. Finally, he looks for the universal in the local, considering the ways aspects of educational desire in Zouping spread throughout China and beyond. In doing so, Kipnis provides not only an illuminating analysis of education in China but also a thought-provoking reflection on what educational desire can tell us about the relationship between culture and government.

听八旬奶奶讲述她和妈妈的故事。
1914年，世上有了“秋园”这个人。1918年，汉语有了“她”这个字。秋园，她来过，挣扎过，绝望过，幸福过。今天，她80岁的女儿，把普普通通的她，讲给世界听。
“我写了一位普通中国女性一生的故事，写了我们一家人如何像水中的浮木般挣扎求生，写了中南腹地那些乡间人物的生生死死。我知道自己写出的故事如同一滴水，最终将汇入人类历史的长河。”

” 如果你曾经在大卫·塞达里斯那些搞笑又厌世的故事中找到乐子，你可能会猜到这本书在讲什么。但你想的其实是错的。“
当塞达里斯在卡罗莱纳海岸买下一间海滨别墅的时候，他期待能在这里度过悠长又放松的假期，比如玩玩桌游或者在躺椅上做个日光浴。事实上在“域海”（他给这间度假别墅起的名字）的生活确实如他想象的一样悠闲，美中不足的是，他领悟到一个小烦恼：人真的很难彻底放空自己。
在这本书中，年逾六十的塞达里斯通过一个个小故事对中年危机和死亡进行了细致的刻画。别误会：这些故事是非常，非常搞笑的——可以让你笑到停不下来，就像家人才能做到的那样。塞达里斯的观察力从来没有这么犀利过，他逗笑读者的能力也是一如既往的无与伦比。但本书大部分的段子其实来源于一些郁闷的时刻，当你的身体正在背叛你自己，你意识到在你人生的篇章中，可期待的未来已经所剩无几，更多的是过去的回忆。
如果你厌恶海滩，这对你来说就是一本极佳的海滩读物。如果你讨厌闲聊，有兴趣听一个关于肿瘤的笑话，这本书你就一定要读。《卡利普索》是塞达里斯迄今为止最黑暗同时又最温暖的书——也可能是他最棒的作品。

◎ 编辑推荐
★社会学学者“潜伏”三和，以白描手法还原“三和大神”真实面貌；一部罕见的真实和诚恳的作品。
深圳龙华一处城市角落里，有一群被称为“三和大神”的年轻人。他们干一天玩三天，吃廉价的食物，经常睡大街，十天半月不洗澡、不换衣服。
三和随着一部纪录片而火遍全网，一方面被妖魔化为中国版的里约贫民窟，一方面被娱乐化为颓废时代的精神乌托邦。在种种被粗暴简化的标签和符号背后，这些徘徊在边缘地带的“三和大神”们，其生存状况究竟如何？社会学者孤身融入三和，展开长达半年的艰难田野调查，拨开媒体猎奇化的迷雾，还原一个全面而真实的三和。
★深度挖掘“三和大神”背后的故事，一窥 “佛系”外表下的无奈与挣扎；
“丧文化”横行的时代，“三和大神”离我们并不遥远。
“躺尸”到死亡，颓废到绝望。看似玩世不恭的生活，背后隐藏着怎样的复杂经历？本书列举一个个活生生的例子，讲述三和青年的“前世今生”。每一个流落街头的“大神”背后，都有一段不为人知的往事；每一张故作洒脱的脸上，都藏着失落与迷茫。他们想做一个活生生的人，却成了混吃等死的躯壳。当梦被现实击碎，当希望沦为绝望，“丧”是他们对世界的无声反抗。
★探寻三和式底层社会成因，剖析中国社会转型期的种种发展问题。
为何新一代的进城务工者不再像父辈一样选择节俭而吃苦耐劳地工作？满怀希望前来三和寻找出路的青年们，为何无可避免地走向沉沦？本书尽可能透视与理解三和青年的想法与选择，揭示三和消磨斗志、泯灭理想的特殊“魔力”，并分析其背后的经济与社会原因，为理解中国城市化问题提供独特的视角。
★凝视高楼之下的无名阴影，探索三和青年“后备军”的可能出路。
三和青年的遭遇绝非孤例，他们是中国现代化和城市化进程中一些难以被城市容纳的群体的缩影。三和青年的“后备军”，是整整一代没有知识与技能的农村青年。本书对三和青年抱以人道主义的关怀与同情，并鼓励各界关注社会发展过程中被抛下的那一群人，共同寻找解决之道。
★李培林、李银河、梁鸿、熊培云诚挚推荐
这是一本关于中国青年农民工边缘群体的社会学著作，它以田野笔记和深描的方法，提供了类似《街角社会》的观察视角，有助于我们理解现代化过程艰难复杂的全貌。
——李培林 中国社会科学院学部委员
一个社会的内在裂缝如何形成？“三和青年”如何一步步从社会秩序中游离出来，成了得过且过、没有任何生存实感的“三和大神”？当理论术语无法解释社会现象时，或许，回到经验，回到现场，我们能获得最真实也最有效的理解力。《岂不怀归》的两位写作者秉承这一信条，进入“三和”，让我们看到那些被忽略的细节——人才市场、中介、小旅馆、工厂，甚至天气，等等，它们构成强大的现实合力“剥夺”青年们的梦想和精神。在这里，“三和”就像一面魔镜，照出时代逻辑的另一面——荒凉、坚硬，以粗暴的力量侵袭着我们的灵魂。我希望大家能够阅读这本书。
——梁鸿 学者、作家、中国人民大学文学院教授
◎ 内容简介
在深圳龙华三和人力资源市场，生活着一群“三和大神”。他们干一天玩三天，白天四处闲逛，晚上睡大街；吃5块钱一碗的“挂逼面”，喝2块钱一大瓶的水，抽5毛钱一根的散装红双喜，在臭气熏天的网吧里呆到天明。混吃等死，得过且过，挣扎在城市边缘，在生存的极限自我麻痹。他们是城市化浪潮中掉队的人，是被时代遗弃的“零部件”。“留城无望，回村无意”，是他们共同面临的两难困境。
社科院社会学学者“潜伏”三和，历时半年，完成了这份20多万字的研究笔记，并配有几十幅图片。采用白描式研究手法，还原三和青年生存处境，全景式展现“90后”和“00后”农民工流浪三和的生活，打破大众对这一群体的刻板印象。以点窥面，了解中国社会剧烈变革之下的城市化问题，探寻解决底层社会问题的进路。本书在突显学术价值的同时，体现人文关怀和学界对社会现实、劳动者的关照。

本书采用社会学的研究视角,以当代中国法律改革的三个基本特征为起点,基于作者几年来对我国法律职业各个领域的实证调查,深入地审视、分析和反思中国法律职业的形成和发展过程中出现的诸多理论与实践问题,并为近年来方兴未艾的法律实证研究提供一些新的研究思路与方法。

The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb―which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. Soon, however, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point―and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life.
A gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening, her departure from the church, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.

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一旦发生不幸，有些社会的第一反应就是 掩盖真相，对于这样的社会而言，《巨浪下的小学》是发人深省的一堂课。今年你再也不会读到比这本书更好的非虚构故事。——《经济学人》
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2011年3月11日，日本发生9.0级特大地震，引发巨大海啸与核泄漏，是日本自二战以来面临的最严峻灾难。
这场大地震致使1.8万人遇难，只有75个孩子在老师的看护下仍不幸身亡，但其中竟有74个孩子就读于同一所学校——大川小学。为什么在全境其他学校都获救的情况下，只有这个学校没有幸免于难？悲剧本可以避免，但仅因微不足道的疏漏，84名师生葬身于巨浪之下，严密的系统和秩序成为吞噬生命的怪兽。
英国记者帕里花费6年追踪调查，还原这场令人心碎的灾难全过程，挖掘出日本秩序井然表象下暗藏的致命缺陷——海啸并不是问题所在，日本本身就是问题。
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这场海啸像是一个骇人的隐喻，隐现着日本精致整齐表象下涌动的潜藏力量……在作者令人紧张和震撼的字句之间，游荡着一个幽灵，提醒我们：在日本富有秩序的美丽外表下，仍然存在我们看不见的力量，统治着这片土地。——《纽约时报》
长期担任伦敦时报驻东京记者英国记者理查德·劳埃德·帕里广受尊敬，他生动细致地讲述了一个非常复杂的事件，并且明智地选择退后一步，思考故事的本质。——《纽约书评》
很难想象有人能以如此洞察力讲述这一巨大悲痛及其骇人的经过。这本书将与约翰·赫西的《广岛》一同成为灾难新闻写作的经典。——《卫报》
在一张由细节编织的精密之网中，劳埃德·帕里将灾难的分析解剖与小说家的灵巧手法结合在一起……这本书记录下了大自然不可估量之力与我们可悲的缺陷。——《日本时报》
一本纯粹、心碎的真与美之书。要是能写出这么一本书，我宁愿少写四部小说。——吉姆·克雷斯，都柏林文学奖得主

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在本书中，亚隆教授从临床经验、实证性研究、哲学文献以及其他大量资料出发，围绕着四个“生命的终极关怀”——死亡、自由、存在的孤独和无意义——逐一进行深入的探讨，阐述每一个存在性关怀的意义，并论述治疗师应该如何通过对他们的理解来进行有效的临床工作。
本书不仅为那些存在主义取向的心理治疗师提供了一部经典的教科书，同时也为所有流派的治疗师以及所有思考过人生意义的人提供了一个对生命和存在进行反思的空间。