《局部》第三季，“伟大的工匠——意大利文艺复兴湿壁画”，由看理想主讲人，画家陈丹青主讲，继续跟随他的语言，洞察与审美深度寻访意大利数十座教堂、修道院，实地拍摄文艺复兴早期的湿壁画工匠创作，揭示文艺复兴的另外一面。

From Publishers Weekly
'We shop therefore we are' seems to be the conclusion of this homage to the great American pastime. Rather than pass judgment on our shopping compulsion, Zukin, an endowed chair of sociology at the City University of New York, provides a historical and analytical context to help readers understand how shopping has affected public and private life from the mid-19th century to today. Zukin's 1995 book, The Cultures of Cities, described her experiences growing up in one of Philadelphia's retail neighborhoods and examined how other shopping districts, like 125th Street in Harlem and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, had gone through significant racial changes. Here she dissects shopping culture at large, from eBay and the Internet to the death of Woolworth's and the birth of WalMart. Well researched and thorough, the book unearths how and where we shop and, more importantly, why consumer culture has so much power over us. Zukin examines these issues by analyzing both particular individuals' experiences-such as a young woman's search for the perfect pair of leather pants-and retailers' shifts in business strategies. For many people, Zukin writes, shopping isn't simply a transaction, but an experience: "We dream of shopping for beauty, truth and perfection, and if we do not shop for a perfect society, at least we shop for a perfect self." She believes that the noblest aspect of shopping is finding a community, a discovery that usually happens at a place like a farmer's market or a neighborhood store, where interaction among customers is fostered. Rallying for these public spaces rather than buying things, she argues, should be what we use shopping to achieve. Though this book is more likely to appeal to specialists than to general readers, Zukin's lively prose and vivid anecdotes may win her a larger audience.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Paris-based writer Andrew Hussey travels through the glorious art and surprising history of an extraordinary French institution to show that the story of the Louvre is the story of France. As well as exploring the masterpieces of painters such as Veronese, Rubens, David, Chardin, Gericault and Delacroix, he examines the changing face of the Louvre itself through its architecture and design. Medieval fortress, Renaissance palace, luxurious home to kings, emperors and more recently civil servants, today it attracts eight million visitors a year. The documentary also reflects the very latest transformation of the Louvre - the museum's recently-opened Islamic Gallery.

作者在浓厚的法国历史文化氛围中，用大量的历史细节和场景，丰富了对艺术、文化，对历史、社会，以及对“革命”的理解。

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1962 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Like Jacobs, Zukin looks at what gives neighborhoods a sense of place, but argues that over time, the emphasis on neighborhood distinctiveness has become a tool of economic elites to drive up real estate values and effectively force out the neighborhood "characters" that Jacobs so evocatively idealized. With a journalist's eye and the understanding of a longtime critic and observer, Zukin's panoramic survey of contemporary New York explains how our desire to consume authentic experience has become a central force in making cities more exclusive.

电话收单业务主管陶德（Josh Hamilton 饰）惊闻公司要将电话收单外包，相同的工作交由印度职员完成，实在可以节省不少成本。陶德被公司借鸡下蛋派往印度培训当地接班人。苦于工作未满年限陶德只得服从安排。
甫下飞机，陶德便目睹印度邋遢又充满活力的异域特色，除了名字被念做托德（蟾蜍）以外似乎没有太大不妥，前来接站的接班人普洛的名片上赫然写着“未来经理”。陶德入住一家私人旅馆，同时经过战场般的荷丽节洗礼，得以更加亲近印度文化。另一方面，陶德为提高工作效率在培训之外适度奖励，收效明显。随着印度部门业绩提升，陶德离开的时候快到了，但他实在不愿让与下属亚莎的爱情成为一段回忆……

The publication of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.

Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra—the copy without an original—and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.

Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.

Sheila Glaser is an editor at Artforum magazine .

这本书是陈丹青纽约生涯的结账，初事写作的开端……他的生活因这本书从此转向，出现新地带。和其它几本书相比，陈丹青说“这本书不越界、没脾气，聊聊纽约、谈谈艺术，自然显得雅，而久在域外，所谓生活积累比较厚，要论写作的闲静与专注，也确是这本书”。初版分为两册，下册多是访谈、杂稿，修订版全部删除。

《购买点:购物如何改变美国文化》内容简介：当都市问题与文化问题如此紧密地纠缠在一起的时候，“都市研究”与“文化研究”的内在联系也就更为明晰地呈现在我们眼前，莎朗•佐京认为人类生活不是简单地运作于城市之中和城市之上，而是很大程度上也从城市发源，从城市生活复杂的特殊性和激发点上发源。如果说主流的社会科学视野和正统的科学社会主义在阐释人类历史和社会时，已经日趋忽视这些空间特殊性的解码性潜力，那么现在则到了把这“隐没的维度”带回到画面上的时候了。在《购买点：购物如何改变美国文化》一书中，莎朗•佐京深入剖析了城市空间中的商店这样一个特别的单元，以及购物活动是如何使商店变成一种“全面控制的机构”。

从学院到厨房、不求学位只求美味
作者与你分享专业厨房背后的秘密
在厨房发现广袤的田野，以食艺色香写照众生面相。
这不仅是一本记录厨艺学校和餐饮生活的书，更是一本蕴涵着人类学思想的生活小品。
入围2010台北国际书展“书展大奖”
作家梁文道、蔡珠儿、韩良忆、叶怡兰等人满足推荐
《厨房里的人类学家》
作者放弃西雅图华盛顿大学博士学位、转战厨房！
为读者讲述专业厨房里不为人知的秘密与乐趣
听，台湾料理人说厨房的故事！

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone stall operators, Chinese guesthouse workers, Nepalese heroin addicts, Indonesian sex workers, and traders and asylum seekers from all over Asia and Africa live and work there—even backpacking tourists rent rooms. In short, it is possibly the most globalized spot on the planet.
But as Ghetto at the Center of the World shows us, a trip to Chungking Mansions reveals a far less glamorous side of globalization. A world away from the gleaming headquarters of multinational corporations, Chungking Mansions is emblematic of the way globalization actually works for most of the world’s people. Gordon Mathews’s intimate portrayal of the building’s polyethnic residents lays bare their intricate connections to the international circulation of goods, money, and ideas. We come to understand the day-to-day realities of globalization through the stories of entrepreneurs from Africa carting cell phones in their luggage to sell back home and temporary workers from South Asia struggling to earn money to bring to their families. And we see that this so-called ghetto—which inspires fear in many of Hong Kong’s other residents, despite its low crime rate—is not a place of darkness and desperation but a beacon of hope.
Gordon Mathews’s compendium of riveting stories enthralls and instructs in equal measure, making Ghetto at the Center of the World not just a fascinating tour of a singular place but also a peek into the future of life on our shrinking planet.

本书由台湾蒋勋、侯文咏、韩良露、沈春华、严长寿、舒国治等三十位名人，写下他们行走台湾的“私房”回忆，以深度、细致、慢游的行走方式以及全新的视野，带领读者赏鉴自然的、文化的、新鲜的台湾，深刻体验台湾的美丽，借由一个个旅行故事及影像，传递出台湾人对这块土地的情感。

《新周刊》是一本杂志。但她更着力叫卖的是一种无形的东西，视角、方法和观念。是的，她提供对趋势的把握。我们的读者群不是含混的、广而泛之的所谓“白领阶层”，而是现代社会中最为注重趋势的“意见领袖”们。

本书辑录了费孝通先生1988-2003年的部分与文化议题相关的重要论文，分上、中、下三篇，系统地展现了作者对人和文化的生与死研究的基本思路和基本观点。这些文章高瞻远瞩，胸怀全球，既有对人类生存发展的忧患，更有对未来美好社会的自信。上篇回首反思了作者在学术园地耕耘的曲折历程，有感有悟地进行了深层的文化思考，体现了他的文化观和人文价值观。中篇是在反思、补课基础上对首次提出的“文化自觉”概念及其思想的主要论述，为扩展社会学的传统界限提出了特别重要的“人文思想”和使社会学成为成熟学科的重大课题。下篇以《中华民族的多元一体格局》为起篇，重点论述了21世纪的文化传承、人才培养和创建和而不同“美好社会”的期望。

从这一期开始，卷首的“编辑部的故事”改为“编辑部札记”。用“札记”取代“故事”，没有别的意思，只是不必专门拿自己来说事儿，扯东扯西更随意一些。
新年伊始，想来许多报刊都会有一些不乏创意的迎新文字，本刊也曾商议要搞点应景花样（借着拜年跟读者套个近乎也好），可是终竟计拙，弄不出一个像样的方案。倒是想起前人办刊的一桩旧事，就是一九三三年《东方杂志》的“新年特大号”推出的“新年的梦想”，那回一百四十多位社会名流凑到一起各叙“梦想中的未来中国”和“梦想的个人生活”，硬是搅得舆论沸扬。把过年跟做梦扯到一起，可谓中国期刊史上最有趣的节日策划之一。当日主事的出版家胡愈之很有引导言论的本事，既然国民党当局不让人们说真话，那就用梦境来构筑理想。可事情并非如其所愿，虽说影响做大了，却是两头不讨好，上头的压力很快就来了，很快就让他丢了主编一职，而另一方面这创意又被鲁迅斥为回避现实的空头说梦。鲁迅拿到那期刊物当天就写了一篇《听说梦》——“做梦，是自由的，说梦，就不自由。做梦，是做真梦的，说梦，就难免说谎。”如今看来，鲁迅文中每一句都说在点子上，尤其说醒着做梦“不免有些不真”，不啻一记当头棒喝。
其实，真正的做梦并非都能跟“言志”、“载道”扯上关系，甚至拿佛洛伊德的理论也往往不能解释。编辑部里闲聊时也听各人说起自己的真实梦境，那倒真是无厘头至极：一辈子没跟政界人物挨上边的居然跟克林顿同车旅行，不懂IT技术的成了微软公司的程序员（还派往科特迪瓦做技术支持），纤纤女子在沙漠里擒拿鳄鱼（沙漠里怎么会有鳄鱼？），还有一向忌讳甜食的在梦里大吃冰淇凌……。或许，梦里的情形反向居多，没准做鸡蛋煎饼的成了CIA特工，金融大鳄要为当月水电费发愁，打工仔梦见手里上亿资产要玩完，任何理论都没法规划人们潜意识中的活动，思想离开了现实的向度就不知拐到哪儿去了。那很好玩，可绝对别惦记着梦想成真。回到现实来说，鲁迅当年强调的“饭碗”问题无疑才是硬道理。当然，如今对于解决了温饱问题的中国人来说，生存与发展之中自然又绕不开一个精神生活的问题。所以，眼下做房地产的没有不在文化上做概念的，就连“国学”也跟黄金期货一般震荡走高。精神上的事情倒是难免要与梦境发生关系，文学家有自己的白日梦，后生小子自有寻爱绮梦，博客们则在网上画梦，汉唐一路传下来的中国照式演绎着惊梦寻梦圆梦的老例……
当然，一切梦境都很容易被纳入娱乐化轨道，把知识的问题都弄成电视里Discovery的套路也不是难事。难怪人说这年头教授愈来愈像商人，而商人愈来愈像教授。以中国之大，世变之亟，说来也是万事皆有可能。