《一个大国的崛起与崩溃》是一部有关苏联74年兴衰历史的实证性专题研究著作，由22名中国学者合力完成，书中涉及政治、军事、外交、经济、文化、民族、宗教等各个方面，共28个专题，总计约110万字。这部著作利用大量俄国解密档案，立足专题或个案分析，开拓新的研究领域和研究视角，以重构苏联74年历史兴衰的主要过程。

A gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius  In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. A prize of one million dollars was offered to anyone who could unravel it, but Perelman declined the winnings, and in doing so inspired journalist Masha Gessen to tell his story. Drawing on interviews with Perelmanâ s teachers, classmates, coaches, teammates, and colleagues in Russia and the United Statesâ and informed by her own background as a math whiz raised in Russiaâ Gessen uncovered a mind of unrivaled computational power, one that enabled Perelman to pursue mathematical concepts to their logical (sometimes distant) end. But she also discovered that this very strength turned out to be Perelman's undoing and the reason for his withdrawal, first from the world of mathematics and then, increasingly, from the world in general.

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation.
Or so we’re told.
In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation’s history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters.
Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never “sold themselves”; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms.
Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms.
In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichés that have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.

你会忍不住爱上这座城市，它是人类的瑰宝。而这本书值得你一读再读。 ——比尔•克林顿（美国前总统）
西蒙•蒙蒂菲奥里扎实的研究功底，栩栩如生的讲述能力，使得无论是学者还是门外汉，都将这本书视若珍宝。 ——基辛格（美国前国务卿）
美国前总统克林顿2011年年度选书，基辛格视 若珍宝的经典巨作。读《耶路撒冷三千年》，了解真实的耶路撒冷，更是明白世界为何演变成今天的模样。
耶路撒冷曾被视为世界的中心，是基督教、犹太教和伊斯兰教三大宗教的圣地，是文明冲突的战略要冲，是让世人魂牵梦绕的去处，是惑人的阴谋与虚构的网络传说和二十四小时新闻发生的地方。
西蒙•蒙蒂菲奥里依年代顺序，以三大宗教围绕“圣城”的角逐，以几大家族的兴衰更迭为主线，生动讲述了耶路撒冷的前世今生。以客观、中立的角度，透过士兵与先知、诗人与国王、农民与音乐家的生活，以及创造耶路撒冷的家族来呈现这座城市的三千年瑰丽历史，还原真实的耶路撒冷……

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times

FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Failshows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
 
Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them:
 
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
 
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?

“This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek

作者：艾萨克·阿西莫夫（Isaac Asimov）（1920-1992）

俄裔美籍作家，被全世界的读者誉为“神一样的人”；美国政府授予他“国家的资源与自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。

阿西莫夫是一个全知全能的作家，其著作几乎覆盖人类生活的一切方面，上天下海、古往今来、 从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调，为了尽情发挥自己诙谐搞笑的天赋，他甚至还写过一本《笑话集》。

到了晚年，他开始变得“好色”，出版了一系列两性话题的“黄书”。

他提出的“机器人学三定律”是当代机器人研究的基本法则，他预言了今天的生物科技，预言了互联网时代的数字图书馆，预言了人类将进行太空殖民。

终其一生，阿西莫夫最引以为豪的则是：《银河帝国》系列小说。

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译者：叶李华

一九六二年生，台湾大学电机系毕业，加州大学柏克莱分校理论物理博士，致力推广中文科幻与通俗科学二十余年，相关著作与译作数十册。自一九九○年起，即透过各种管道译介、导读及讲授阿西莫夫作品，被誉为“阿西莫夫在中文世界的代言人”。

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

第一部全面解析巴黎历史文化景点的中文旅行指南
一本书读懂法国王宫、巴黎博物馆和法式花园的前世今生
300幅精美图片，深度解读50多个经典目的地
巴黎迷恋症患者、浪漫派文青小清新行前必备枕边书
随书附赠巴黎历史文化人物别册，贯穿逾40位法国名流的悲喜人生
看景点、读故事、学历史，带你畅游文化巴黎上下2000年。
人们常说，游览巴黎最好的方式是慢慢欣赏，就像品味一杯醇酒。而去巴黎旅行的我们，往往行色匆匆，没有足够时间品读它的悠闲与浪漫。常常是坐了十几个小时的飞机，千辛万苦来到世界上最美的都市，却茫然迷失于语言不通的异国陌生文化。为什么不做好功课，多了解一些巴黎和法国的历史再出发？
这是第一本专为中国读者撰写的真正意义上的巴黎文化之旅指南。作者精心设计的巴黎经典游览路线，将带领读者穿越2000年起伏跌宕的法国历史，同时感受到古典面纱之下这个世界之都的当代脉搏。不管是行前准备还是随身枕边指南，这本书都是你探索巴黎秘密的一把万能钥匙。

《众病之王：癌症传》是一部饱含人文主义色彩的社科文化著作。作者悉达多•穆克吉历时六年，凭借翔实的历史资料、专业文献、媒体报道、患者专访等众多信息，向读者阐述了癌症的起源与发展，人类对抗癌症、预防癌症的斗争史。作者借由医学、文化、社会、政治等视角透露出一种社会化关怀；生动、文学性的写作手法展现出鲜活的人物和历史事件，让读者为之动容。

图书简介：
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硅谷创投教父、PayPal创始人作品，斯坦福大学改变未来的一堂课，为世界创造价值的商业哲学。
在科技剧烈改变世界的今天，想要成功，你必须在一切发生之前研究结局。
你必须找到创新的独特方式，让未来不仅仅与众不同，而且更加美好。
从0到1，为自己创造无限的机会与价值！
Paypal创始人、Facebook第一位外部投资者彼得•蒂尔在本书中详细阐述了自己的创业历程与心得，包括如何避免竞争、如何进行垄断、如何发现新的市场。《从0到1》还将带你穿越哲学、历史、经济等多元领域，解读世界运行的脉络，分享商业与未来发展的逻辑，帮助你思考从0到1的秘密，在意想不到之处发现价值与机会。
揭开创新的秘密，进入彼得•蒂尔颠覆式的商业世界：
创新不是从1到N，而是从0到1
全球化并不全是进步
竞争扼杀创新
“产品会说话”是谎言
失败者才去竞争，创业者应当选择垄断
创业开局十分重要，“频繁试错”是错误的
没有科技公司可以仅靠品牌吃饭
初创公司要打造帮派文化

这不是美国通史，也不是学术著作，是作者多年观察美国的心得，尽量用浅显的“大白话”讲出来。这些个人心得却也不是一时心血来潮，而是经过反复思考、探索的结果。
本书作者对美国的论述，是把美国作为一种文明或者西方文明的变异来研究的，特别是把美国的政治、经济等制度作为一种人类正常的迥异于我们传统的政治文明来研究。

Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy.
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year

如果有一個地方，可以解決我們所有的煩惱……
東野圭吾最令人感動落淚的作品！結局更出人意表！
榮獲「中央公論文藝賞」、達文西雜誌2012「Book of The Year」第3名！
日本熱銷突破30萬冊！亞馬遜書店讀者★★★★(四顆星)一致好評！已改編成舞台劇！
這裡不只賣日常生活用品，
還提供消煩解憂的諮詢。
困惑不安的你，糾結不已的你，
歡迎來信討論心中的問題。
靜僻的街道旁，佇立著一家「解憂雜貨店」。只要在晚上把寫了煩惱的信丟進鐵捲門上的投遞口，隔天就可以在店後面的牛奶箱裡拿到回信解答。
男友罹患不治之症，陷入愛情與夢想兩難的女孩；一心想成為音樂人，不惜離家又休學，卻面臨理想與現實掙扎的魚店老闆兒子；爸爸的公司倒閉，打算帶著全家捲款潛逃，在親情與未來之間游移不定的少年……
當他們紛紛寫信到雜貨店，不可思議的事情也接二連三發生。而那些一瞬間的交會，又將如何演變成一生一世的救贖？跨越三十年時空，雜貨店恆常散放著溫暖奇異的光芒……

本书是解析群体心理的经典名著，虽然是一部学术性著作，但语言生动流畅，分析鞭辟入里，入木三分。因此，《乌合之众》一经问世，已被译成十几种语言。
本书颠覆了人们通常对群体的认识，将群体的特点剖析得淋漓尽致，让人先是惊异，后是佩服。
作者层层分析，逐步推进，明确指出个人一旦融入群体，他的个性便会被湮没，群体的思想便会占据绝对的统治地位，而与此同时，群体的行为也会表现出排斥异议，极端化、情绪化及低智商化等特点，进而对社会产生破坏性的影响。
《乌合之众》是社会心理学领域中最具影响力的著作，深刻思考群体行为并意欲有所作为的人们都应该读读这本书。

《蝇王》是英国作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者威廉·戈尔丁的代表作，是一本重要的哲理小说，借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。故事发生于想象中的第三次世界大战，一群六岁至十二岁的儿童在撤退途中因飞机失事被困在一座荒岛上，起先尚能和睦相处，后来由于恶的本性的膨胀起来，便互相残杀，发生悲剧性的结果。作者将抽象的哲理命题具体化，让读者通过阅读引人入胜的故事和激动人心的争斗场面来加以体悟，人物、场景、故事、意象等都深具象征意义。

朝鮮向來是個外人難以深入、臆測的一個祕密國度。
夜空中，整個朝鮮地區都是黑的，那黑暗訴說著人民深不可測的痛苦，有時卻又穿插著零星微弱的希望曙光……

與燈光閃耀的南韓相比，北韓好似黑夜與白晝。在這裡，飢荒奪去了數百萬人的性命，製造和貿易幾乎停止，經濟崩潰，醫療機制失敗，人們習慣於行走在要跨越屍體倒臥在街頭。

朝鮮曾遭受兩次悲劇。第一個是朝鮮半島分裂的二戰結束時（史達林安扶植金正日作為蘇聯在朝鮮的代理人），第二悲劇是蘇聯的崩潰（在後蘇聯時代，朝鮮遭受短缺，電力，自來水和食物）。金日成和金正日藉機創造了個人崇拜的一種痴迷的支持，自我監督的社會。本書透過生動地描寫六個勇敢的叛逃者的悲哀生命，投射出現實生活中集權主義的本質。

《我們最幸福》作為一個故事它確實引人入勝，但實質上則作為一種政治信息的描述：看這個極權主義鎮壓下可怕的朝鮮共和國是如何成功地讓人民對外部世界完全一無所悉，以及他們如何避免內部政權的垮台？其中究竟暗藏了什麼樣的詭計？

從六名平凡百姓的生活中，我們對北韓有了超乎以往的認識。

《大数据时代》是国外大数据研究的先河之作，本书作者维克托•迈尔•舍恩伯格被誉为“大数据商业应用第一人”，拥有在哈佛大学、牛津大学、耶鲁大学和新加坡国立大学等多个互联网研究重镇任教的经历，早在2010年就在《经济学人》上发布了长达14页对大数据应用的前瞻性研究。
维克托•迈尔•舍恩伯格在书中前瞻性地指出，大数据带来的信息风暴正在变革我们的生活、工作和思维，大数据开启了一次重大的时代转型，并用三个部分讲述了大数据时代的思维变革、商业变革和管理变革。
维克托最具洞见之处在于，他明确指出，大数据时代最大的转变就是，放弃对因果关系的渴求，而取而代之关注相关关系。也就是说只要知道“是什么”，而不需要知道“为什么”。这就颠覆了千百年来人类的思维惯例，对人类的认知和与世界交流的方式提出了全新的挑战。
本书认为大数据的核心就是预测。大数据将为人类的生活创造前所未有的可量化的维度。大数据已经成为了新发明和新服务的源泉，而更多的改变正蓄势待发。书中展示了谷歌、微软、亚马逊、IBM、苹果、facebook、twitter、VISA等大数据先锋们最具价值的应用案例。

从学生到科学家，从秘书到总裁，从家庭主妇到销售员，拖延的问题几乎会影响到每一个人。本书的两位作者基于他们倍受好评和极具开创性的拖延工作坊和从众多心理咨询领域中汲取的丰富理论和经验，对拖延作了一次仔细、详尽、有时也颇为幽默的探索。
通过鉴别和检查那些我们将事情推掉的背后原因——对失败、成功、控制、疏远和依附的恐惧，加上我们的时间概念问题和大脑的神经学因素——为我们学会怎样理解拖延的冲动以及怎样以全新方式采取行动做了一件非常扎实的基础工作。
作者为我们提供了达成目标、管理时间、谋求支持和处理压力等一系列方案来克服拖延问题，她们提供的方案极为实用并经受过实践的检验。本书还考虑到工作和生活节奏不断加快的当代文化诉求，以及诸如注意力缺失紊乱症、执行功能障碍症等神经认知问题对拖延的影响。本书甚至还为生活和工作在拖延者身边的人群提供了不少实用性建议。

莫言怀抱华美颓败的土地，决意对半个世纪的土地做出重述。莫言郑重地将土地放在记忆的丰碑前，看着它在历史中渐渐荒废并确认它在荒废中重新获得庄严、熔铸、锋利。
《生死疲劳》是一部向中国古典小说和民间叙事的伟大传统致敬的大书。在这次神圣的“认祖归宗”仪式中，小说将六道轮回这一东方想象力草灰蛇线般隐没在全书的字里行间，写出了农民对生命无比执著的颂歌和悲歌。
地主西门闹一家和农民蓝解放一家的故事充满了吊诡和狂热，唏嘘和罹难。当转世为人的“大头儿”终于执著坚定地叙述时，我们看到了一条生气沛然的人与土地、生与死，苦难与慈悲的大河，流进了我们的心田。
在莫言对伟大古典小说呼应的那一刻，聆听到了“章回体”那最亲切熟悉的大音；莫言承受着生死疲劳的磨砺以及冤缠孽结，将中国人百感交集、庞杂喧哗的苦难经验化为纯美准确的诗篇，祈祷祖国庄严、宁静、祈望人类丰沛的生命祥和、自然。