A touching, meticulous portrait of two boys growing up in a Chicago housing project reveals how they help each other maintain a shred of innocence among street gangs, gunfire, violence, and drugs. Reprint. NYT.

At the center of Stefan Bargheer’s account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data derived from written narratives and oral histories, Moral Entanglements follows the development of conservation from the point in time at which the greatest declines in bird life took place to the current efforts in large-scale biodiversity conservation and environmental policy within the European Union. While often depicted as the outcome of an environmental revolution that has taken place since the 1960s, Bargheer demonstrates to the contrary that the relevant practices and institutions that shape contemporary conservation have evolved gradually since the early nineteenth century. Moral Entanglements further shows that the practices and institutions in which bird conservation is entangled differ between the two countries. In Britain, birds derived their meaning in the context of the game of bird watching as a leisure activity. Here birds are now, as then, the most popular and best protected taxonomic group of wildlife due to their particularly suitable status as toys in a collecting game, turning nature into a playground. In Germany, by contrast, birds were initially part of the world of work. They were protected as useful economic tools, rendering services of ecological pest control in a system of agricultural production modeled after the factory shop floor. Based on this extensive analysis, Bargheer formulates a sociology of morality informed by a pragmatist theory of value.

A series of candid personal interviews with nearly 100 donors gives an in-depth look at the world of elite philanthropy. Harvard sociologist Francie Ostrower focuses on the New York City area to explore the motivations of single donors and the significance of elite group philanthropy. This book won the 1996 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize and was co-recipient of the 1996 ARNOVA Award.

本书以中国台湾地区20世纪50—80年代的经济崛起为论题，综合利用大量文献资料，并访谈了多位曾亲历台湾经济腾飞的经济官僚，深入探讨了台湾经济崛起的政治根源，对诸多经济现象尤其是台湾中小企业在出口市场上的巨大成功，提出了自己的解释。

Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business
The charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more power over education policy, global agriculture, and global health than ever before.
In No Such Thing as a Free Gift, author and academic Linsey McGoey puts this new golden age of philanthropy under the microscope—paying particular attention to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As large charitable organizations replace governments as the providers of social welfare, their largesse becomes suspect. The businesses fronting the money often create the very economic instability and inequality the foundations are purported to solve. We are entering an age when the ideals of social justice are dependent on the strained rectitude and questionable generosity of the mega-rich.

We live in a tumbleweed society, where job insecurity is rampant and widely seen as inevitable. Companies are transforming the way they organize work. While new working conditions offer gains for some workers, others lose out. Home life offers little respite: while diverse types of families are more accepted than ever before, stability is increasingly lacking in our intimate lives. In The Tumbleweed Society, sociologist Allison Pugh examines the ways we navigate questions of commitment and flexibility at work and at home in a society where insecurity has become the norm. Drawing on 80 in-depth interviews with three groups of parents who vary in their experiences of job insecurity and family structure, Pugh explores how people are adapting to the new culture of insecurity and how these adaptations themselves affect what we can expect from each other. Faced with perpetual insecurity both at work and at home, people construct stronger walls between the two, expecting little or nothing from their jobs and placing nearly all of their expectations for fulfilling connections on their intimate relationships. This trend, Pugh argues, often has the effect of making intimate lives even more fraught, reproducing the very tumbleweed dynamics they seek to check. Pugh shows that our experiences of insecurity shape the way we talk about obligations, how we interpret them as commitments we will or will not shoulder, how we conceive of what we owe each other―indeed, how we are able to weave the fabric of our connected lives.

☆《毛姆短篇小说全集》《海风中失落的血色馈赠》译者陈以侃，接引英美文坛新风，挥洒一流文字趣味。
☆ 捕捉阅读时的每一次动心。投身字里行间，每一句都是热恋。
☆ Book-chat is still the best game in town.
这里什么都没有，只有读过残留的快感。评判一个作者合不合自己的心意，先别翻那本大部头，找篇聊阅读聊作家的文章，要是读来还没有下楼取快递心潮澎湃，那就先搁置一旁吧。
前编辑、现翻译兼评论，总之靠写字吃饭的陈以侃，把阅读时的动心捕捉为文字，引诱我们直面文学、相信文学，再相信阅读。
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——你读过这本书吗？
——不算亲身读过。
写出这本《一年危险阅读》的安迪·米勒，如果跟我在一个单位，恐怕会成为饭搭子。我们不但都认清，“此生非读不可的书”，恐怕八十辈子都读不完；而且，那些我们骗人家读过的书，用余生去补也早已无望了。后来他也去做了编辑，但在儿子出生后的两年里，意识到工作之外，只读过一本书。丹·布朗的《达·芬奇密码》。这就很严重了。
这本书最好的地方，在于他要你相信，好书已经足够好了，你要舍得辛苦。我也认同，阅读的一大销魂之处，是某个从来没有想过要讨好你的作家，在熬到百来页的时候，突然跟你勾肩搭背引为知己，不管你朝哪边看，都是四目相接；不管你怎么跑，都跟他踩在同一个步点上。
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陈以侃在以一位真正的读者的身份，去创造一种作者文本，通过称叹、训斥与从不间断的调试，去接近那些难以言喻的瞬间，某个自我的核心。与此同时，他还拥有一副那么迷人的腔调：无比桀骜，又像在密谋。使人想要痛击，或者与之痛饮一场。——班宇，作家
陈以侃下笔有一种罕见的、时刻具有自觉意识的诚实——其实这很难，因为它一不小心就会被理解成自恋。读完这本书，在收获了无数让人为之击节抑或陷入沉思的见识之余，我也清晰地看到一个倔强的、试图从平稳持重中突围而出的写作者的轨迹。他熟读经典，却也质疑经典；他迷恋技术，却也解构技术——他永远更敏感于捕捉浩瀚文本里的那一点僭越的灵光。——黄昱宁，作家
我羡慕陈老师总是可以奋不顾身、毫无保留地投入他喜欢的作家和文本，也羡慕他转身又能找到描述和评价这种热爱的距离和准确性。他本质上和他写的那些有趣而有才能的灵魂是一类人。或者让我再诚实一点，这种羡慕其实已经严重到了嫉妒的程度。——吴琦，《单读》主编
任何编辑能够拥有陈以侃这样的作者，都是一大幸事。对我来说，拿到他的稿件之后，除了必要的技术处理，几乎不用任何改动，剩下要做的，无非就是欣赏他炼字锻句的工夫与推敲琢磨的巧思。我觉得他的这本文集，除了提示作者可以怎样写之外，更大的作用还在于提示读者可以怎样读。所以，任何作者拥有陈以侃这样的读者，也是一大幸事。——郑诗亮，《上海书评》执行主编
你可真敢胡来，陈老师那是多厉害的人和书，要我多嘴。——苗炜，作家

《到民间去：中国知识分子与民间文学，1918-1937（新译本）/海外中国研究文库》从文化思想史的角度，使用民间文学和民俗学资料，探讨20世纪初五四运动至抗战前的民间文学运动及其影响。这场运动由北京大学的几位青年民俗学者发起，他们批评封建儒家传统及贵族文化，认为它们是中国现代化的绊脚石。他们主张“到民间去”，找寻中国文学的真正宝藏。他们认为民歌、传说、儿童文学和谚语等是平民的“真声”，也是中国文学的精粹部分。他们还认为，这些平民文学种类长期受到上层儒家精英文化的轻视和压制，正在迅速消失，故应该抓紧抢救，努力搜集，恢复它们原有的光彩。民俗学者把中国文化划分为泾渭分明的两个阶层：平民文化与贵族文化。他们大部分人认同平民文化，主张要向老百姓学习。这不仅代表了他们要重新评估中国文化的决心，也标志着他们反思自己的社会角色的转向，以及希望参与改革社会的抱负。这场民间文学运动为后来中国共产党在延安时期的“文化下乡”运动开启了先河。

How did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Cubans become known as “Hispanics” and “Latinos” in the United States? How did several distinct cultures and nationalities become portrayed as one? Cristina Mora answers both these questions and details the scope of this phenomenon in Making Hispanics. She uses an organizational lens and traces how activists, bureaucrats, and media executives in the 1970s and '80s created a new identity category—and by doing so, permanently changed the racial and political landscape of the nation.
Some argue that these cultures are fundamentally similar and that the Spanish language is a natural basis for a unified Hispanic identity. But Mora shows very clearly that the idea of ethnic grouping was historically constructed and institutionalized in the United States. During the 1960 census, reports classified Latin American immigrants as “white,” grouping them with European Americans. Not only was this decision controversial, but also Latino activists claimed that this classification hindered their ability to portray their constituents as underrepresented minorities. Therefore, they called for a separate classification: Hispanic. Once these populations could be quantified, businesses saw opportunities and the media responded. Spanish-language television began to expand its reach to serve the now large, and newly unified, Hispanic community with news and entertainment programming. Through archival research, oral histories, and interviews, Mora reveals the broad, national-level process that led to the emergence of Hispanicity in America.

The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most people.
What holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretense at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.
The Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organized along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalization and just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.
This is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us down to earth is the task of politics today.

本书通过冷战时期匈牙利秘密警察长达20年的档案，所揭开的一部隐藏了几十年的家庭历史和时代侧记。
冷战时期，苏联集团中的匈牙利，秘密警察通过庞大的告密网，试图全面渗透控制匈牙利的政治生活。作者的父母原是匈牙利著名记者，他们的报道是西方了解匈牙利的重要信息来源。因此他们被视为“人民的敌人”，长期受秘密警察的监控，终因叛国和间谍罪而先后入狱。一家移居美国后，匈牙利政府却又异想天开地试图招募他们当间谍，而美国也对他们进行了几年的监控。书中不只还原了马顿夫妇被告密者包围的经历和遭遇，他们的抗争、坚守、脆弱和勇气，也展现了他们情感和内心的矛盾——夫妻之间相互的感情背叛与灾难中的支撑，父母子女之间的爱与亲情，人性的坚强与软弱，从而使得这本书更为丰富、复杂，具有血肉。

Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you're lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. You've taught Kant for twenty years, but now you're team-teaching a new course on "Ethics and the Internet". The personality theorist retired and wasn't replaced, so now you, the neuroscientist, have to teach the Sexual Identity course. Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach courses in areas they don't know very well. The challenges are even greater when students don't share your cultural background, lifestyle, or assumptions about how to behave in a classroom. In this practical and funny book, an experienced teaching consultant offers many creative strategies for dealing with typical problems. How can you prepare most efficiently for a new course in a new area? How do you look credible? And what do you do when you don't have a clue how to answer a question? Encouraging faculty to think of themselves as learners rather than as experts, Therese Huston points out that authority in the classroom doesn't come only, or even mostly, from perfect knowledge. She offers tips for introducing new topics in a lively style, for gauging students' understanding, for reaching unresponsive students, for maintaining discussions when they seem to stop dead, and - yes - for dealing with those impossible questions. Original, useful, and hopeful, this book reminds you that teaching what you don't know, to students whom you may not understand, is not just a job. It's an adventure.

In this study of space and power and knowledge in France from the 1830s through the 1930s, Rabinow uses the tools of anthropology, philosophy, and cultural criticism to examine how social environment was perceived and described. Ranging from epidemiology to the layout of colonial cities, he shows how modernity was revealed in urban planning, architecture, health and welfare administration, and social legislation.

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later–the night before New Year’s Eve–the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma.
This powerful book is Didion’s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.”

Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.
Contents:
I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
John Wayne: A Love Song
Where the Kissing Never Stops
Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)
7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38
California Dreaming
Marrying Absurd
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
II. PERSONALS
On Keeping a Notebook
On Self-Respect
I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind
On Morality
On Going Home
III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND
Notes from a Native Daughter
Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W
Rock of Ages
The Seacoast of Despair
Guaymas, Sonora
Los Angeles Notebook
Goodbye to All That

“这个行业真的适合我吗？”
“保持现状似乎就是在走下坡路……”
“选择越来越少，我还能做什么？”
20世纪90年代，日本泡沫经济破灭，终身雇用制和论资排辈的时代走向终结，就业方式发生了根本的改变，雇佣者和被雇佣者的双向选择带来的是自由，也是压力。这一时期之后进入职场的日本年轻人被称为“迷惘的一代”。
曾经，找到一份工作就意味着稳定的人生；如今，未来充满了不确定性。跳槽，创业，出国深造……三十岁上下， 换跑道似乎还不太迟。年轻人以不断改变对抗不安，在职场中漂流不定，寻找属于自己的生存方式。可究竟如何改变，该漂向何方？
8位日本年轻人的职场故事
8场“迷惘一代”的生命漂流
向感叹“不懂年轻人”的经营者，以及教育学界的诸位推荐这本书。《工作漂流》以生动的笔触描写了失落的一代所经历的“工作现场的现实”。
——中原淳（东京大学副教授）
读完之后，深感沉闷。……有人会说，现在的年轻人太懒散。但是，在我国的未来景象和经济状态尚不明朗的现在，这些年轻人已察觉到了切肤的危机感，这种感受为现下许多人所共有，超越年龄和就业问题，并不是能随意抛在一边的“他人之事”。
——四之原恒宪（《朝日新闻》记者，原朝日新闻社编辑委员）

In 1963, Howard S. Becker gave a lecture about deviance, challenging the then-conventional definition that deviance was inherently criminal and abnormal and arguing that instead, deviance was better understood as a function of labeling. At the end of his lecture, a distinguished colleague standing at the back of the room, puffing a cigar, looked at Becker quizzically and asked, “What about murder? Isn’t that really deviant?” It sounded like Becker had been backed into a corner. Becker, however, wasn’t defeated! Reasonable people, he countered, differ over whether certain killings are murder or justified homicide, and these differences vary depending on what kinds of people did the killing. In What About Mozart? What About Murder?, Becker uses this example, along with many others, to demonstrate the different ways to study society, one that uses carefully investigated, specific cases and another that relies on speculation and on what he calls “killer questions,” aimed at taking down an opponent by citing invented cases.
Becker draws on a lifetime of sociological research and wisdom to show, in helpful detail, how to use a variety of kinds of cases to build sociological knowledge. With his trademark conversational flair and informal, personal perspective Becker provides a guide that researchers can use to produce general sociological knowledge through case studies. He champions research that has enough data to go beyond guesswork and urges researchers to avoid what he calls “skeleton cases,” which use fictional stories that pose as scientific evidence. Using his long career as a backdrop, Becker delivers a winning book that will surely change the way scholars in many fields approach their research.

Fielding Transnationalism presents a collection of original essays that explore the promises of the theory of social fields, a concept advanced most prominently by Pierre Bourdieu, for the analysis of global relations.
Features contributions from leading experts who scrutinize how transnational relationships in different areas are shaped by field dynamics
Draws on case studies ranging from the fields of religion, journalism, human rights, the social sciences, imperial governance, and the arts to the European Central Bank
Combines theoretical discussion with empirical approaches to provide an essential teaching resource on global issues
Offers a conceptual toolkit for researchers concerned with international and transnational phenomena across the social sciences