Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

目前，由靖国神社而引起的对立已经陷入泥淖，看不到解决的眉目。“靖国”问题，具有什么样的意义，我们真的了解吗? 本书则尽可能从逻辑上对有关靖国神社的各种“问题”进行分析和整理，从中选出“感情”、“历史认识”、“宗教”、“文化”、“国立追悼设施”5个论点，分别进行阐述，并提出作者自己的解决方案。
本书于二00五年四月在日本出版后，印数已达三十万册。它犀利地道破了日本社会中一个人所共知而又不甚了了的“禁忌”。它的分析深入、透彻，对于拨开围绕着靖国问题的各种“文化”、“历史”、“政治”的迷雾，有很大的帮助作用，是了解靖国问题的最佳读本之一。

“追问一个人的情感是否发自内心，即情感的真与伪，这种提问本身没有什么意义，因为所有成年人的情感体验其实都是被训练的结果。”
一个人内心的情感体验，是某种关系的体现。无论是个人、团体还是阶层的情感表达，都无法忽视社会情感准则的教化训练。本书作为情感史研究的奠基之作，提出了情感表达、情感体制、情感导航、情感自由、情感痛苦等理论，并以“情感主义”为切入点，研究启蒙时代及法国大革命时期人们情感表达方式的变化及其意义。沙龙、共济会、咖啡馆等情感避难所的出现，是人们避免情感痛苦、追求情感自由的表现。人们在日记、通信、演讲中表露出对情感自由的向往，报纸刊物以及私人发行的小册子也在这方面发挥了引领作用。呼吁情感真挚、拒绝伪善成为人们在情感表达方面的基本要求。这种情感表达方式并不仅限于小说、戏剧等文学创作，而是成为一种社会行为规范，上升为一种政治上的“美德”。
由此，雷迪清晰勾勒出情感与认知、情感与理性、情感表达与文化之间的关系，在“硬邦邦”的“理性”材料之外，强调“情感有自身的历史”，使情感成为历史学的合理研究面向，为情感史的发展提供了坚实的理论支撑。
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雷迪通过提出问题，提供一些关于集体情感变化及其限制的答案，开启了情感研究跨学科领域的新阶段。—— 《美国社会学杂志》
这是一项不同寻常的工作，既刺激又富有成效....雷迪的直觉是，情感不应该简单地从“思想”中区分出来，这种直觉发展得非常出色……我相信这本书将成为任何关于自我和情感的人类学中的必读书目。——纽约大学弗雷德·迈尔斯
这是一本深刻的学术著作，将成为快速发展的跨学科情感研究的核心。雷迪在心理学、人类学和历史学之间架起了桥梁，探讨了情感是管理与人类最亲密的关系的过程这一迷人的观点。
——基思·奥克利，多伦多大学教授，认知心理学家，小说家

《厌女》不是一部纯理论性著作，而是运用女性主义理论针对日本当代的各种社会现象的实践性分析。《厌女》处理了广泛的日本题材，其中既有文学性的，比如谈到小说家吉行淳之介、永井荷风、林真理子等，更多的则是社会性的。上野千鹤子谈到的许多现象，尤其是家庭的、婚姻的，在中国也有很类似的情况。知性的读者会从这些论述中获得强烈共鸣并得到理论上的指引。

How are boundaries created between groups in society? And what do these boundaries have to do with social inequality? In this pioneering collection of original essays, a group of leading scholars helps set the agenda for the sociology of culture by exploring the factors that push us to segregate and integrate and the institutional arrangements that shape classification systems. Each examines the power of culture to shape our everyday lives as clearly as does economics, and studies the dimensions along which boundaries are frequently drawn. The essays cover four topic areas: the institutionalization of cultural categories, from morality to popular culture; the exclusionary effects of high culture, from musical tastes to the role of art museums; the role of ethnicity and gender in shaping symbolic boundaries; and the role of democracy in creating inclusion and exclusion. The contributors are Jeffrey Alexander, Nicola Beisel, Randall Collins, Diana Crane, Paul DiMaggio, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Joseph Gusfield, John R. Hall, David Halle, Richard A. Peterson, Albert Simkus, Alan Wolfe, and Vera Zolberg.

罐头，我们最熟悉的食品包装，也是食物保存方式。它能长期存放又便于运输，跨越季节和地区限制，满足各种环境的需求。
但是在150年前，当它第一次出现在美国时，美国人对它满是疑惑：一个不透明罐子里的食物安全吗？此后，又是什么原因让罐头逐渐成为美国人不可或缺的生活必需品？跟着本书作者来一次“罐头之旅”吧：
· 美国南北战争带动了罐头牛奶的产量，促进了罐头产业的发展。
· 豌豆罐头经历了罐头商、农民和科学家们的共同努力才有了现在的美味。
· 罐头工业的第一次危机居然是因为橄榄罐头中的肉毒杆菌！
· 番茄罐头上的等级便签能让消费者满意吗？
· 金枪鱼罐头代表了“二战”后美国罐头食品的热潮。
· BPA导致了金宝汤公司开始放弃“罐头”产品。
在美味的罐头背后，是否还藏着其他不为人知的秘密？
“这是一段引人入胜的重要历史，展示了罐头食品的加工、营销与政治化过程，这也是如今厨房中加工和包装食品的由来。”
——本杰明•科恩，《耕耘笔记：美国农村中的科学、土壤与社会》作者。
“读罢此书，再打开豌豆、西红柿或金枪鱼罐头时，你便能品味到其中蕴含的历史。”
——格雷格•米特曼，《呼吸空间：过敏如何塑造我们的生活与景观》作者。

全書中分為4個主題來陳述
1.KTV的文化觀察篇
以輕鬆幽默的筆法，從社會觀察的角度，窺探KTV在現今社會中的種種現象。
2.KTV的人際教戰篇
KTV是現今社會上的主流休閒之一，大家該如何在包廂中善用一些社交技巧，打破尷尬、提昇人氣。
3.KTV的歌唱教學篇
怎麼建立唱歌的基礎？怎麼運用一些技巧讓你歌會唱的更好？怎麼點歌？
其中包括＜暢銷歌手專訪＞＜音樂人專訪＞等等內文
4.KTV的玩樂導覽篇
以全彩圖文方式呈現，介紹各式KTV的型態與玩樂小撇步，有你不知道的ktv玩法情報。

❤没有人天生是父母，当孩子降临，婴儿床、学区房、升级考、兴趣班……却无师自通
❤童年宽松的父母，为什么纷纷开始“推娃”？是爱，是对未来的恐惧，还是不甘落后之心？
❤孩子，变得越来越“昂贵”；教育，投入多少才算够？
❤耶鲁经济学者重新理解育儿这场国家战争背后的逻辑
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诺奖得 主赫克曼 | 《国家为什么会失败》作者阿西莫格鲁
《纽约时报》德鲁克曼 | 香港中文大学宋铮 | 复旦大学王永钦
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当富裕家庭的孩子被父母推着一步步向前时，贫穷家庭孩子的机会却在减少？
“别傻了，是经济决定了美国人如何抚养孩子！”
——帕特里克·A.科尔曼，“好爸爸”网站
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在不平等的时代抚育子女
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从美国到中国，无论富裕抑或贫穷，不管男孩还是女孩，世界各地的父母都希望孩子能快乐成长，有所成就。然而，他们实现这一目标的方式却千差万别。美国和中国的父母越来越权威、专断，“育儿战争”日益激烈；而北欧的父母相比之下更为宽容。这种转变背后的原因是什么？
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从中世纪到现代社会，从美国、英国、北欧到中国和日本，本书跨越了时间与空间，研究了经济激励和约束如何影响了不同国家的育儿习俗，以及什么才是好的教养方式。
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在竞争日益激烈的时代，实现机会平等和教育公平，帮助孩子立足未来是所有人的共同愿望。

Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her own experiences as an American Muslim woman, as well as an attorney working on behalf of immigrant women, Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism that forges true solidarity by bringing Black and brown voices and goals to the fore.
Ranging from the savior complex of British feminist imperialists to the condescension of the white feminist– led “development industrial complex” and the conflation of sexual liberation as the “sum total of empowerment,” Zakaria presents an eye- opening indictment of how whiteness has contributed to a feminist movement that solely serves the interests of upper middle- class white women.

Citizenship 2.0 focuses on an important yet overlooked dimension of globalization: the steady rise in the legitimacy and prevalence of dual citizenship. Demand for dual citizenship is particularly high in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where more than three million people have obtained a second citizenship from EU countries or the United States. Most citizenship seekers acquire EU citizenship by drawing on their ancestry or ethnic origin; others secure U.S. citizenship for their children by strategically planning their place of birth. Their aim is to gain a second, compensatory citizenship that would provide superior travel freedom, broader opportunities, an insurance policy, and even a status symbol.
Drawing on extensive interviews and fieldwork, Yossi Harpaz analyzes three cases: Israelis who acquire citizenship from European-origin countries such as Germany or Poland; Hungarian-speaking citizens of Serbia who obtain a second citizenship from Hungary (and, through it, EU citizenship); and Mexicans who give birth in the United States to secure American citizenship for their children. Harpaz reveals the growth of instrumental attitudes toward citizenship: individuals worldwide increasingly view nationality as rank within a global hierarchy rather than as a sanctified symbol of a unique national identity.
Citizenship 2.0 sheds light on a fascinating phenomenon that is expected to have a growing impact on national identity, immigration, and economic inequality.

Wild Milk is like Borscht Belt meets Leonora Carrington; it’s like Donald Barthelme meets Pony Head; it’s like the Brothers Grimm meet Beckett in his swim trunks at the beach. In other words, this remarkable collection of stories is unlike anything else you’ve read.
“Sabrina Orah Mark is a writer of strangeness & tenderness & undeniable brilliance. I wanted to read this book aloud to everyone I’ve ever loved, & to fold it into a locket to keep close to my heart.” Elizabeth McCracken

In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors, and the Indian state initiated a massive effort to prevent it. HIV prevention programs channeled billions of dollars toward those groups designated as at-risk—sex workers and men who have sex with men. At Risk captures this unique moment in which these criminalized and marginalized groups reinvented their "at-risk" categorization and became central players in the crisis response. The AIDS crisis created a contradictory, conditional, and temporary opening for sex-worker and LGBTIQ activists to renegotiate citizenship and to make demands on the state.
Working across India and Kenya, Gowri Vijayakumar provides a fine-grained account of the political struggles at the heart of the Indian AIDS response. These range from everyday articulations of sexual identity in activist organizations in Bangalore to new approaches to HIV prevention in Nairobi, where prevention strategies first introduced in India are adapted and circulate, as in the global AIDS field more broadly. Vijayakumar illuminates how the politics of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape global crisis response. In so doing, she considers the precarious potential for social change in and after a crisis.

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“Civil Society and Political change in Asia not only constitutes a major contribution to the study of civil society in East Asia but also helps to blaze the trail for contributions to be made in the future.”—Perspectives on Politics
“This volume presents readers with an excellent opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of civil society and the challenges of creating a democratic space in Asia, thus addressing the serious gaps in the current literature....this expertly edited, theoretically rich, and analytically sophisticated book will make an important contribution to scholarly debates on civil society. It should be of considerable interest to scholars, policymakers, students, and development activists who are keen on gaining a deeper understanding of civil society, democracy, and development.”—Journal of Asian Studies
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This book is the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asia—change toward open, participatory, and accountable politics. Its findings suggest that the link between a vibrant civil society and democracy is indeterminate: certain types of civil society organizations support democracy, but others have the potential to undermine it.
Further, the study argues that while civil society is a key factor in political change, democratic transition and consolidation hinge on the development of effective political parties, legislatures, and state institutions. Rooted in a common definition of civil society, a strong analytical framework, and rich empirical material, the analyses and conclusions of the book will have a lasting impact on the understanding of civil society and its relation to democracy in Asia and around the world.

The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in British-China relations. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars.
Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court’s ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li’s influence as Macartney’s interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain.
Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers a valuable argument for cross-cultural understanding in a better-connected world.

本书可看作英国文学专家吕大年先生的读书笔记，全书共八篇，介绍了大多数读者不能直接接触到的英国作品，如《第二只布谷》系英国《泰晤士报》历年读者来信汇编而成，在五花八门的信件中，既有对生活中各类琐事趣事的记录，也有文化含量相当高的对语言问题的讨论，甚至还有凯恩斯关于经济改革的来信，在二次大战的专题中既有战死士兵之父的来信，也有前德国军官、集中营主管对英美战俘的真诚问候与美好祝愿。《乔治时代的童年》则对各种18世纪画册和读物中的儿童形象及其所处的社会状况、所反映的社会文化和思想作了深入的剖析。《理查逊和帕梅拉的隐私》对书信体小说、畅销书《帕梅拉》，从历史学家的角度对18世纪英国社会作了透彻的研究。《替人读书》是一篇别致的书评，不仅是书评人与原书作者加上书评读者的“三方通话”，更是“多方通话”——几位十八世纪的英国小说家也加入了进来。此外，《歧义相与析》、《〈罗马帝国衰亡史〉译文推敲》等则是作者对《帕梅拉》、《罗马帝国衰亡史》等中译本译文的商榷、探讨之作。作者知识渊博，文字清透利索，毫不拖泥带水，对英国文学作品的介绍、批评和研究，完全能让没有读过的人看明白，就像一个向导，解说它们跟十八世纪英国社会生活的关系以及历来学者对它们的研究，真正尽到“替人读书”的责任。

对于近代日本而言，西方是最重要的他者。日本作为非西方国家却要实现“西化”，其本身就存在着自我矛盾。肤色的不可改变，恰恰以一种可视化的形式反映了这种自我矛盾。近代日本人究竟如何看待人种差异？近代日本思想的谱系中，人种问题到底是怎样的存在？本书通过聚焦明治时代到二战后日本精英的海外经历，考察这段曾被讳言的思想谱系。

A dollar is a dollar - or so most of us believe. Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing social relations to cold, hard cash. Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.

What happens when media technologies are able to interpret our feelings, emotions, moods, and intentions? In this cutting edge new book, Andrew McStay explores that very question and argues that these abilities result in a form of technological empathy. Offering a balanced and incisive overview of the issues raised by ‘Emotional AI’, this book:
Provides a clear account of the social benefits and drawbacks of new media trends and technologies such as emoji, wearables and chatbots
Demonstrates through empirical research how ‘empathic media’ have been developed and introduced both by start-ups and global tech corporations such as Facebook
Helps readers understand the potential implications on everyday life and social relations through examples such as video-gaming, facial coding, virtual reality and cities
Calls for a more critical approach to the rollout of emotional AI in public and private spheres
Combining established theory with original analysis, this book will change the way students view, use and interact with new technologies. It should be required reading for students and researchers in media, communications, the social sciences and beyond.

They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child's path to greatness...or at least to an Ivy League school. From cradle to college, they remain intimately enmeshed in their children's lives, stifling their development and creating infantilized, spoiled, immature adults unprepared to make the decisions necessary for the real world. Or so the story goes. Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening interviews with parents across the country, Margaret K. Nelson cuts through the stereotypes and hyperbole to examine the realities of what she terms 'parenting out of control'. Situating this phenomenon within a broad sociological context, she finds several striking explanations for why today's prosperous and well-educated parents are unable to set realistic boundaries when it comes to raising their children. Analyzing the goals and aspirations parents have for their children as well as the strategies they use to reach them, Nelson discovers fundamental differences among American parenting styles that expose class fault lines, both within the elite and between the elite and the middle and working classes. Nelson goes on to explore the new ways technology shapes modern parenting. From baby monitors to cell phones (often referred to as the world's longest umbilical cord), to social networking sites, and even GPS devices, parents have more tools at their disposal than ever before to communicate with, supervise, and even spy on their children. These play important and often surprising roles in the phenomenon of parenting out of control. Yet the technologies parents choose, and those they refuse to use, often seem counterintuitive. Nelson shows that these choices make sense when viewed in the light of class expectations. Today's parents are faced with unprecedented opportunities and dangers for their children, and are evolving novel strategies to adapt to these changes. Nelson's lucid and insightful work provides an authoritative examination of what happens when these new strategies go too far.