From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity.
Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to “How Do We Look” and “The Eye of Faith,” the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever made―whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers― to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark. 92 illustrations

Real love starts with you. In order to attract a life partner, you must first become a good partner to yourself. This book offers twenty invaluable lessons that will help you explore and commit to your own emotional and psychological well-being so you’ll be ready, resilient, confident, and completely whole when that special someone comes along.
Many of us enter into romantic relationships full of expectation and hope, only to be sorely disappointed by the realization that the partner we’ve selected is a flawed human being with their own neuroses, history, and desires. Most relationships end because one or both people haven’t done the internal work necessary to develop self-awareness and take responsibility for their own experiences. We’ve all heard “You can’t love anyone unless you love yourself,” but amid life’s distractions and the myth of perfect, romantic love, how exactly do you do that?
In Loving Bravely, psychologist and relationship expert Alexandra H. Solomon introduces the idea of relational self-awareness, encouraging you to explore your personal history to gain an understanding of your own relational patterns, as well as your strengths and weaknesses in relationships. By doing so, you’ll learn what relationships actually require, beyond the fairytale notions of romance. And by maintaining a steady but gentle focus on yourself, you’ll build the best possible foundation for making a loving connection.
By understanding your past relationship experiences, cultivating a strong sense of self-awareness, and determining what it is you really want in a romantic partner—you’ll be ready to find the healthy, lasting love your heart desires.

Challenges dogma and dispels cliches that have long clung to topics involving race, ethnicity and culture.

An esteemed memoirist examines aging with the grace of "Elegy for Iris" and the wry irreverence of "I Feel Bad About My Neck," Diana Athill is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited the likes of V. S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, for whom she was a confidante and caretaker. As a writer, Diana Athill has made her reputation for the frankness and precisely expressed wisdom of her memoirs. Now in her ninety-first year, "entirely untamed about both old and new conventions" ("Literary Review") and freed from any of the inhibitions that even she may have once had, Athill reflects candidly, and sometimes with great humor, on the condition of being old--the losses and occasionally the gains that age brings, the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Distinguished by "remarkable intelligence... and the] easy elegance of her prose" ("Daily Telegraph"), this short, well-crafted book, hailed as "a virtuoso exercise" ("Sunday Telegraph") presents an inspiring work for those hoping to flourish in their later years.

聚焦性别身份困境，看见女性，看见女性学者
史无前例的豪华阵容，推心置腹的深度对谈
性别很重要，但不是全部
拨开时代激变的迷雾，进入思想的另一半天空
上野千鹤子、戴锦华、毛尖、梁鸿、张莉、包慧怡……
她们是业界翘楚，是历史亲历者，也是时代风向标
她们的生命经验，不满与困惑，野心与梦想，我们一起倾听、辨认、诉说、书写。
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“女生不适合做学术”？
“女博士是第三种人类”？
“女同学只会死读书？”
“不够理性、不够严谨、不够创新，不够……”
“学得好不如嫁得好？”
一句话，身为女性，意味什么？为什么她们大都拒绝性别标签，甚至排斥在前面加上“女性”二字？
上野千鹤子、戴锦华、贺桂梅、梁鸿、张莉、包慧怡……她们虽然国别不同、领域各异、代际也参差不齐，但全是业界翘楚，是相应领域绕不过去的名字。对她们而言，女性主义意味着什么？性别身份带给她们的，是束缚、壁垒，还是成就、自由？她们又如何在男性为主导的规范中涉水而行？《开场：女性学者访谈》试图打破性别刻板印象，破除学术圈性别壁垒。全书以一问一答的形式，与11位学者展开了深度访谈，围绕学思历程、性别身份与学术研究关键词，回溯了各自的思想脉络，盘点了她们的不满与困惑，野心与梦想；同样，这些生命经验也是大部分现代女性所共同拥有的痛与快乐。
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————性别很重要，但不是全部。————
今天，女性主义一路高歌，女性整体的生存境况是在恶化，还是在改善？
为什么年轻人都在拒绝内卷、开始躺平？
疫情后，世界将去向何方？
*聚焦性别身份困境，献给同样遭遇不公、有过困惑的读者的动人之作
*是思想脉络的回溯与梳理，更是“大转折时代”的阐释与前瞻
*史无前例的豪华阵容，忠实记录的真实心声
风靡东亚的社会学者、“日本最可怕的女人”、日本女性主义理论第一人上野千鹤子，国内最早从事女性主义研究的大佬戴锦华，火力十足、写辛辣影评的毛尖，开大陆非虚构写作之风的梁鸿，青年新锐包慧怡……她们始终站在思想前沿、身处转折之中。
●关于女性与女性主义。
性别议题频上热搜的今天，我们真的实现平等了吗？从何种层面，女性可以作为一种方法？女性主义意味着什么？进一步说，女性，只关注女性问题吗？
●关于时代。
疫情后，世界将去向何方？时代激变、躺平声势渐高的今天，年轻人该何去何从？
●关于个体。
身处前所未有之大变局，如何看待时代与个体、与自我的连接？我们要怎么理解这个世界？
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这些是她们的困惑、愤怒与失望，回顾、阐释与前瞻，也是我们每个人的。从这点来看，学术只是她们阐释世界、理解世界的入口，是她们与我们的桥梁，所以我们说，《开场：女性学者访谈》也是一部关于女性与女性主义，关于时代，关于个人还能做些什么的警世与醒世之作。

如果世界上有一种叫作阅读家的职业，不会再有人比毛姆更加适合。
作家热爱读书，这似乎是自然的事，但像毛姆一样，按图索骥，从作家的作品问解到作家的生平和性格，再由他们的生平和性格回转身，关照作家的作品，并以此写成一本精彩绝伦的随笔集，也是文学史上并不多见的妙事。
这是一本巨匠的八卦之书，也是毛姆对于阅读和哲学的洞见之书。文学巨匠的辛辣秘密与有趣人性，简·奥斯汀善良的“刻薄”，司汤达内心的自卑，福楼拜童年的沙滩初恋，列夫·托尔斯泰一生的迷惑与忏悔，陀思妥耶夫斯基的背叛……

本书是一部小说解读手册，它将手把手带领读者阅读众多小说经典文本，主要从主题和技术两个方向，一探小说艺术的堂奥。如同此前张秋子深受网友喜爱的文风，本书依然坚持“新手友好”原则，循循善诱。以文本细读的方式，勘探文学带给心灵深处最隐秘的震动。不同于印象式的、读后感式的小说评论，本书致力于将学院派的文学解读方法以易懂的方式传递到一般读者手中，使读者获得深入理解小说魅力的能力。

In this fascinating narrative, therapist Catherine Gildiner's presents five of what she calls her most heroic and memorable patients. Among them: a successful, first generation Chinese immigrant musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her at age nine with her younger siblings in an isolated cottage in the depth of winter; and a glamorous workaholic whose narcissistic, negligent mother greeted her each morning of her childhood with Good morning, Monster.<br /><br />Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. They seek Gildiner's help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried.<br /><br />As in such recent classics as <i>The Glass Castle</i> and <i>Educated</i>, each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes very funny. <i>Good Morning Monster</i> offers an almost novelistic, behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office, illustrating how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.

Despite all the welcome changes that have happened in our culture and laws over the past few decades in regards to sexuality, the subject remains one of the most influential but least understood aspects of our lives. For psychologist and bestselling author Julia Shaw, this is both professional and personal—Shaw studies the science of sexuality and she herself is proudly and vocally bisexual.<br /><br /> It’s an admission, she writes, that usually causes people’s pupils to dilate, their cheeks to flush, and their questions to start flowing. Ask people to name famous bisexual actors, politicians, writers, or scientists, and they draw a blank. Despite statistics that show bisexuality is more common than homosexuality, bisexuality is often invisible.<br /><br /> In <i>BI: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality</i>, Shaw probes the science and culture of attraction beyond the binary. From the invention of heterosexuality to the history of the Kinsey scale, as well as asylum seekers trying to defend their bisexuality in a court of law, there is so much more to explore than most have ever realized. Drawing on her own original research—and her own experiences—this is a personal and scientific manifesto; it’s an exploration of the complexities of the human sexual experience and a declaration of love and respect for the nonconformists among us.

Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account.

<p>For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Now award-winning writer Carl Zimmer takes us on a fantastic voyage into the secret parasite universe we actually live in but haven't recognized. He reveals not only that parasites are the most successful life-forms on Earth, but that they triggered the development of sex, shape ecosystems, and have driven the engine of evolution. <br /></p><p><br />In mapping the parasite universe, Zimmer makes the astonishing observation that most species are parasites, and that almost every animal, including humans, will at one time or another become the home of a parasite. Zimmer shows how highly evolved parasites are and describes the frightening and amazing ingenuity these commando invaders use to devour their hosts from the inside and control their behavior. The sinister Sacculina carcini makes its home in an unlucky crab and proceeds to eat everything but what the crab needs to put food in its mouth, which Sacculina then consumes. When Sacculina finally reproduces, it places its young precisely where the crab would nurture its own progeny, and then has the crab nurture the foster family members. Single-celled Toxoplasma gondi has an even more insidious role, for it can invade the human brain. There it makes men distrustful and less willing to submit to social mores. Women become more outgoing and warm-hearted. Why would a parasite cause these particular personality changes? It seems Toxoplasma wants its host to be less afraid, to be more prone to danger and a violent end -- so that, in the carnage, it will be able to move on to another host. <br /></p><p><br />From the steamy jungles of Costa Rica to the fetid parasite heaven of rebel-held southern Sudan, Zimmer tracks the genius of parasitic life and its impact on humanity. We hosts have developed remarkable defenses against the indomitable parasite: our mighty immune system, our culturally enforced habit of keeping clean, and, perhaps most intriguingly, sex. But this is not merely a book about the evil power of parasitism and how we must defend against it. On the contrary, Zimmer concludes that humankind itself is a new kind of parasite, one that preys on the entire Earth. If we are to achieve the sophistication of the parasites on display here in vivid detail, if we are to promote the flourishing of life in all its diversity as they do, we must learn the ways nature lives with itself, the laws of <i>Parasite Rex</i>.</p>

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human.

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss

In the 1980s, a wave of Chinese from Fujian province began arriving in America. Like other immigrant groups before them, they showed up with little money but with an intense work ethic and an unshakeable belief in the promise of the United States. Many of them lived in a world outside the law, working in a shadow economy overseen by the ruthless gangs that ruled the narrow streets of New York’s Chinatown.
The figure who came to dominate this Chinese underworld was a middle-aged grandmother known as Sister Ping. Her path to the American dream began with an unusual business run out of a tiny noodle store on Hester Street. From her perch above the shop, Sister Ping ran a full-service underground bank for illegal Chinese immigrants. But her real business-a business that earned an estimated $40 million-was smuggling people.
As a “snakehead,” she built a complex—and often vicious—global conglomerate, relying heavily on familial ties, and employing one of Chinatown's most violent gangs to protect her power and profits. Like an underworld CEO, Sister Ping created an intricate smuggling network that stretched from Fujian Province to Hong Kong to Burma to Thailand to Kenya to Guatemala to Mexico. Her ingenuity and drive were awe-inspiring both to the Chinatown community—where she was revered as a homegrown Don Corleone—and to the law enforcement officials who could never quite catch her.
Indeed, Sister Ping’s empire only came to light in 1993 when the Golden Venture , a ship loaded with 300 undocumented immigrants, ran aground off a Queens beach. It took New York’s fabled “Jade Squad” and the FBI nearly ten years to untangle the criminal network and home in on its unusual mastermind.
THE SNAKEHEAD is a panoramic tale of international intrigue and a dramatic portrait of the underground economy in which America’s twelve million illegal immigrants live. Based on hundreds of interviews, Patrick Radden Keefe’s sweeping narrative tells the story not only of Sister Ping, but of the gangland gunslingers who worked for her, the immigration and law enforcement officials who pursued her, and the generation of penniless immigrants who risked death and braved a 17,000 mile odyssey so that they could realize their own version of the American dream. The Snakehead offers an intimate tour of life on the mean streets of Chinatown, a vivid blueprint of organized crime in an age of globalization and a masterful exploration of the ways in which illegal immigration affects us all.
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<b>One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.</b><br /><br />In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of <i>The Stranger in the Woods</i> brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.<br /><br />For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.<br /><br />In <i>The Art Thief</i>, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.<br /><br />This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.

美国伯克希尔女性史会议书籍奖“首部著作奖”
备受关注的女性史研究著作
探究明清时期的贞女现象与性别问题的经典之作
名人推荐语：
作者大大丰富了我们对那些令人不安的、有趣的现象的了解：一大批年轻女性发誓终身守贞，或以自杀的方式来纪念她们生病、精神错乱或死去的未婚夫。作者阐明了那个时期的意识形态和社会复杂性，并将广泛的性别问题纳入了关注范围，远远超出了所调查的主题。
——加拿大约克大学人文部女性研究院教授，季家珍（Joan Judge）
社会历史学家面临的最重要也是最具挑战性的任务之一，就是解释那些在现代读者看来令人困惑甚至震惊的行为。作者在这本优秀的书中抽丝剥茧地阐明了这个问题。
——明尼苏达大学历史教授，王安(Ann Waltner)
作者让我们更深入地了解了中国封建末期，女性在意识形态、心理、文化和经济等方面对社会的反应。作者收集的资料丰富，包括了贞女们自己的作品，以及生动的插图、编年表和地图，同时保持学术严谨。这本书对非专业人士和专家理解这个时期女性、家庭、社会的相互作用起到了重要作用。
——美国圣地亚哥州立大学历史系，艾志端（Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley）
作者整理了一系列令人印象深刻的原始档案，细致入微地展现了中国封建末期的“贞女”这个被极度塑造的人群形象。她的书将这种对女性贞节的极端崇拜置于当时文化和知识讨论的背景中，为研究女性生活和中国历史增添了宝贵的内容。
——美国加州大学欧文分校东亚语言与文学系教授，胡缨（Ying Hu）
内容简介：
中国封建末期的贞女现象引发了中国历史上关于礼与女德最激烈、最持久的意识形态论争。
本书从家庭冲突、国家政策、地方历史、学术论争以及贞女个人的主观观点等角度，对中国封建末期贞女的生活进行了全面的研究，旨在对贞女现象及其与当时社会制度、文化、经济、思想变迁的关系进行全面的了解，探讨女性与其家庭和社会之间的关系。通过勾勒贞女现象之形成、发展轨迹以及国家和社会对它的反应，通过判析围绕着贞女现象的矛盾冲突，揭示这种行为对家庭和社会的影响。本书的根本目的在于探索贞女的心理、情感、理想和生活历程，并由此解释是什么影响了这一时期女性的性别身份，以及她们如何看待和表达尊严、责任和爱情，从而为了解中国封建末期的历史提供了一个新的窗口。

《危险的愉悦》是一部上海娼妓业史话，但它是产生于后结构主义时代的史学著作，得益于20世纪后半叶丰富的理论探索、思想对话与多重视角，作者尤其受到马克思主义、女性主义与社会性别研究、后结构主义、后殖民研究中“下属群体”概念等的影响，将“史料”和自己所生产的“历史”都看作是无比生动的、复杂的、开放的“过程”中的对话、商谈、记忆、建构、创造活动。《危险的愉悦》分五大部分，共15章，论述从晚清到20世纪90年代初100年间，“娼妓”问题在各个层面上如何扭结了民族意识、政治权力关系、商业和经济利益、强国方针、社会改革、民族心理、欲望和恐惧、社会性别构造等等的丰富的语义场，成为相当核心的中国政治、经济、历史和精神文化的象征符号。《危险的愉悦》获得美国历史学会琼·凯利妇女史著作纪念奖，这是历史学会首次将此奖项授予写美国以外地区妇女历史的作者。

From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with an extraordinary fusion of precision and poetry. And as he continued his mysterious private quest, his sense of human self slowly dissolved, to be replaced with the alien and implacable consciousness of a hawk.
It is this extraordinary metamorphosis, magical and terrifying, that these beautifully written pages record.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.
"A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.” —The Wall Street Journal
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.
But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.
The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.

<p>After the first forty days we were alone,' writes Churchill.This edition is Churchill's own abridgement of his original ix-volume history of the Second World War.</p>

Miscast in the media for nearly 130 years, the victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told in this eye-opening and chilling reminder that life for middle-class women in Victorian London could be full of social pitfalls and peril.
The "canonical five" women murdered by Jack the Ripper have always been dismissed as society's waste, their stories passed down to us wrapped in a package of Victorian assumptions and prejudice. But social historian Hallie Rubenhold sets the record straight in The Five. In reality, only two of the victims were prostitutes, and Rubenhold has uncovered entirely new research about them all--in some cases, material no one has ever seen before.
The Five tells for the first time the true stories of these fascinating women. It delves into the Victorian experience of poverty, homelessness, and alcoholism, but also motherhood, childbirth, sexuality, child-rearing, work, and marriage, all against the fascinating, dark, and quickly changing backdrop of nineteenth-century London. From rural Sweden to the wedding of Queen Victoria, from the London of Charles Dickens to the factories of the Industrial Revolution and the high-class brothels of the West End, these women were not just victims but witnesses to the vagaries and vicissitudes of the Victorian age.