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Rogue Regime 豆瓣 谷歌图书
作者:
Jasper Becker
OUP USA
2005
- 7
What happens when a dictator wins absolute power and isolates a nation from the outside world? In a nightmare of political theory stretched to madness, North Korea's Kim Jong Il made himself into a living god, surrounded by lies and flattery and beyond criticism. As over two million of his subjects starved to death, Kim Jong Il roamed between palaces staffed by the most beautiful girls in the country and stocked with the most expensive delicacies from around the world. Outside, the steel mills shut down, the trains stopped running, the power went out, and the hospitals ran out of medicine. When the population threatened to revolt, Kim imposed a reign of terror across the country, deceived the United Nations, and plundered the country's dwindling resources to become a nuclear power. Now tiny bankrupt North Korea is using her nuclear capability to blackmail the United States.Veteran correspondent Jasper Becker takes us inside one of the most secretive countries in the world, exposing the internal chaos, blind faith, rampant corruption, and terrifying cruelty of its rulers. Becker details the vain efforts to change North Korea by actors inside and outside the country and the dangers this highly volatile country continues to pose. Small, podgy and easily overlooked, Kim Jong Il has emerged from the shadow of his father to lead the most successful and dangerous rogue state of our times.This unique land, ruled by one family's megalomania and paranoia, seems destined to survive and linger on for some time, a menace to its own people and to the rest of the world. But should the nations of the world allow this regime to survive? That's the question with which this book concludes.
Dragon Rising 豆瓣
作者:
Jasper Becker
National Geographic
2006
- 10
No nation on Earth is as newsworthy as 21st-century China—and no book could be timelier than Dragon Rising, as world attention focuses on China's all-out effort to present itself as a modern world power and on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Becker is the ideal guide to the profound changes within China that are reshaping global economic, diplomatic, and military strategies. He weaves analysis with anecdotes to address today's pressing uncertainties: How will China cope with pollution, unemployment, and demand for energy? What form will its government take? Can Shanghai's success with urban capitalism be replicated elsewhere? Each chapter focuses on a specific region and its local issues—minority unrest, poverty, corruption—then places them in the broader context of China society as a whole.
光焰不熄 豆瓣
9.6 (9 个评分)
作者:
周质平
九州出版社
2012
- 7
在中国现代思想史上,胡适作为新文化运动的一面旗帜,占有不可动摇的领袖地位。20世纪上半叶,胡适与鲁迅、冯友兰、林语堂、吴稚晖、赵元任、梁漱溟、钱玄同等学人,在学术路径的取舍上产生了前所未有的碰撞与融合,为新文化运动开拓了广阔的学术领域。胡适作为当时“暴得大名”的学者,他的政治思想、学术观点与鲁迅、冯友兰、梁漱溟等人究竟有哪些异同,一直是学界普遍关注但至今未有定论的问题。周质平先生任教于普林斯顿大学东亚系,多年来致力于胡适思想的研究及胡适著述的整理工作,是海内外公认的研究胡适的权威学者。在本书中,作者通过考证相关史料,对以上问题提出了自己的观点,对于现代中国背景下的胡适思想进行了深刻的阐述与总结。
Behind the Beautiful Forevers 豆瓣
作者:
Katherine Boo
Random House
2012
- 2
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
唉,我的沧桑50年(1959至今) 豆瓣
作者:
八爪夜叉
2011
- 1
主人公赵超美:1959年出生,正好碰上三年大饥荒,但活了下来;1966 年文革,学业终止,红卫兵武斗;1969年,兄弟姐妹上山下乡;1974年轮到自己;1979年知青回城,无业闲晃;1989年走进工厂;2002年遭遇下岗;2007年被拆迁……剧烈的社会变化,从出生、成长、恋爱到工作、家庭等等方面,密集地一个接一个冲击着这个普通的中国人。
苏菲的世界 豆瓣 Goodreads
Sofies verden
8.8 (243 个评分)
作者:
[挪威] 乔斯坦·贾德
译者:
萧宝森
作家出版社
2007
- 10
这本书以小说的形式,通过一名哲学导师向一个叫苏菲的女孩传授哲学知识的经过,揭示了西方哲学发展的历程。由前苏格拉底时代到萨特,以及亚里士多德、笛卡儿、黑格尔等人的思想都通过作者生动的笔触跃然纸上,并配以当时的历史背景加以解释,引人入胜。评论家认为,对于那些从未读过哲学课程的人而言,此书是最为合适的入门书,而对于那些以往读过一些哲学而已忘得一干二净的人士,也可起到温故知新的作用。
14岁的少女苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信,世界像谜团一般在她眼前展开。在一位神秘导师的指引下,苏菲开始思索,她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识,企图解开这些谜团。然而,事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、更离奇……
14岁的少女苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信,世界像谜团一般在她眼前展开。在一位神秘导师的指引下,苏菲开始思索,她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识,企图解开这些谜团。然而,事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、更离奇……
读库1301 豆瓣
8.2 (8 个评分)
作者:
张立宪
新星出版社
2013
- 1
本辑《读库》一共有八篇文章,《第五次迁徙》、《两败俱伤》、《支边去》、《求学奇遇记》、《童书的黎明》、《谁论金角复银边》、《皇帝梦》和《声音》。
2008年3月,高屯子回到青藏高原的东部山地,把手中的镜头,从阳光与风雪中的藏族牧人身上,移向了山林与田野里的羌族农民。在山 路和田野间行走之余,他开始更系统地翻阅一些关于“羌”的文字。2008年5月12日汶川大地震破坏最惨重的区域,正是羌族聚居地。他和他的摄影团队常年穿梭在这一带高山深谷之中,有了了解熟悉路线和地形的救援优势,做了很多救援工作。重灾区灾民散落安置到各地,今后羌文化还如何延续?如何传承?仍是个很大的问题。他的妻子开始了“羌绣帮扶计划”,把目光从现代都市的时尚空间,向古老羌寨的田间地头转移。而他自己和助理去了不通公路的夕格羌寨和其他有羌人居住的深谷高山,了解羌文化,延续拍摄羌人的行程。《第五次迁徙》一文选了二十八幅图片,展示羌人离开故土的惜别之情。
《两败俱伤》讲的是一起由阑尾炎手术引起的医疗纠纷。医学并非尽善尽美,法律亦非滴水不漏,当医学迷局遭遇法学困境,我们能否收获期待中的正义?
二十世纪六十年代,上海许多十几岁的年轻人揣着户口本去报名“中国人民解放军新疆军区生产建设兵团”,要“支援边疆”,当时他们觉得离开上海,就像是一次秋游。而在遥远的新疆,团场领导说要派人到上海动员十万知识青年,接他们到新疆来,到兵团来,一起参加生产建设。《支边去》讲的是这些年轻人怀揣梦想到新疆“磨炼自己,改造地球”过程中经历的事情。
张五常的《求学奇遇记》是他自己的一段自述,从跟在哥哥后面上学到出国拿下博士学位,他说,他的秘方是先学创作然后求学,不是先求学然后尝试创作。求学一般求成见,是创作的大忌。
自格林威和凯迪克这两位童书艺术的先驱开始,童书不再是成年读物的简化本与配图本,主要供儿童欣赏的图画书,也渐渐发展成为一门独立的艺术。《童书的黎明》一文,是作者姬炤华对“童书”发展史进行的梳理,包括了创作手法技巧材料以及印刷的变迁的介绍。优秀的童书正是通过用图画说故事的方式,将人类数千年历史长河中一路流淌而来的宝藏传递给儿童。
在《谁论金角复银边》中,作者余昌民回顾了1964年到1983年在清华发生的围棋往事。
张宏杰挖掘太平天国起义的另一面,在《皇帝梦》里,列举了中国历朝历代包括新中国成立之后各色人等在追逐“皇帝梦”过程中的起因和结果。
《声音》是每年年底《读库》的保留栏目,是对2012年的表达与记录。
2008年3月,高屯子回到青藏高原的东部山地,把手中的镜头,从阳光与风雪中的藏族牧人身上,移向了山林与田野里的羌族农民。在山 路和田野间行走之余,他开始更系统地翻阅一些关于“羌”的文字。2008年5月12日汶川大地震破坏最惨重的区域,正是羌族聚居地。他和他的摄影团队常年穿梭在这一带高山深谷之中,有了了解熟悉路线和地形的救援优势,做了很多救援工作。重灾区灾民散落安置到各地,今后羌文化还如何延续?如何传承?仍是个很大的问题。他的妻子开始了“羌绣帮扶计划”,把目光从现代都市的时尚空间,向古老羌寨的田间地头转移。而他自己和助理去了不通公路的夕格羌寨和其他有羌人居住的深谷高山,了解羌文化,延续拍摄羌人的行程。《第五次迁徙》一文选了二十八幅图片,展示羌人离开故土的惜别之情。
《两败俱伤》讲的是一起由阑尾炎手术引起的医疗纠纷。医学并非尽善尽美,法律亦非滴水不漏,当医学迷局遭遇法学困境,我们能否收获期待中的正义?
二十世纪六十年代,上海许多十几岁的年轻人揣着户口本去报名“中国人民解放军新疆军区生产建设兵团”,要“支援边疆”,当时他们觉得离开上海,就像是一次秋游。而在遥远的新疆,团场领导说要派人到上海动员十万知识青年,接他们到新疆来,到兵团来,一起参加生产建设。《支边去》讲的是这些年轻人怀揣梦想到新疆“磨炼自己,改造地球”过程中经历的事情。
张五常的《求学奇遇记》是他自己的一段自述,从跟在哥哥后面上学到出国拿下博士学位,他说,他的秘方是先学创作然后求学,不是先求学然后尝试创作。求学一般求成见,是创作的大忌。
自格林威和凯迪克这两位童书艺术的先驱开始,童书不再是成年读物的简化本与配图本,主要供儿童欣赏的图画书,也渐渐发展成为一门独立的艺术。《童书的黎明》一文,是作者姬炤华对“童书”发展史进行的梳理,包括了创作手法技巧材料以及印刷的变迁的介绍。优秀的童书正是通过用图画说故事的方式,将人类数千年历史长河中一路流淌而来的宝藏传递给儿童。
在《谁论金角复银边》中,作者余昌民回顾了1964年到1983年在清华发生的围棋往事。
张宏杰挖掘太平天国起义的另一面,在《皇帝梦》里,列举了中国历朝历代包括新中国成立之后各色人等在追逐“皇帝梦”过程中的起因和结果。
《声音》是每年年底《读库》的保留栏目,是对2012年的表达与记录。
Marketing for Engineers, Scientists and Technologists 豆瓣
作者:
Tony Curtis
John Wiley & Sons
2008
- 3
Marketing For Engineers, Scientists and Technologists has been written using the author’s considerable experience in both teaching marketing and dealing with engineers, scientists and technologists. The book focuses on marketing but will follow CIM developments in adding enough skills to put the marketing into context (i.e. finance for marketing, managing people and project management).
我不是潘金莲 豆瓣
7.9 (73 个评分)
作者:
刘震云
长江文艺出版社
2012
- 8
当代著名作家刘震云获茅奖后的第一部长篇,也是他第一部以女性为主角的小说。直逼现实,书写民苦,使这部小说成为《一句顶一万句》的姊妹篇。
和《一句顶一万句》一样,故事都是写一个戴了绿帽子的人想杀人,其实不过是想在人群中找到能说上话的人,不同的是,这本书中是一个戴绿帽子的女人,从杀人到折腾人,不过是想在人群中纠正一句话。
这个顶了潘金莲冤名的妇女经历了一场荒唐的离婚案后,要证明之前的离婚是假的,更要证明自己不是潘金莲,走上告状路。结果从镇里告到县里、市里,甚至申冤到北京的全国人民代表大会,不但没能把假的说成假的,还把法院庭长、院长、县长乃至市长一举拖下马;以至每到“两会”时她所在的省市县都要上演围追堵截的一幕,竟持续二十年。
刘震云用一个看似荒诞的故事讲述真切的生活常理。他的写作立场使他成为当代文坛少有的可以与时代、人民和国家对话的现实主义作家。
和《一句顶一万句》一样,故事都是写一个戴了绿帽子的人想杀人,其实不过是想在人群中找到能说上话的人,不同的是,这本书中是一个戴绿帽子的女人,从杀人到折腾人,不过是想在人群中纠正一句话。
这个顶了潘金莲冤名的妇女经历了一场荒唐的离婚案后,要证明之前的离婚是假的,更要证明自己不是潘金莲,走上告状路。结果从镇里告到县里、市里,甚至申冤到北京的全国人民代表大会,不但没能把假的说成假的,还把法院庭长、院长、县长乃至市长一举拖下马;以至每到“两会”时她所在的省市县都要上演围追堵截的一幕,竟持续二十年。
刘震云用一个看似荒诞的故事讲述真切的生活常理。他的写作立场使他成为当代文坛少有的可以与时代、人民和国家对话的现实主义作家。