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如果你有一位严肃刻板的父亲，你不被允许在街上又蹦又跳，不能赤脚坐在窗台上，不能说“该死的”，你会怎么办？
如果你喜欢和善良可爱的小女孩一起打棒球、挖蛤蜊、观海潮，但她却是个黑人，你会怎么办？
如果你喜欢小岛上淳朴的人们，但你家镇子上有权有势的人却要把他们赶走，以便赚钱牟 利，你又会怎么办？
十四岁的特纳走到了人生中的十字路口。面对友情与亲情、自由与规矩、纯真与利益、良知与种族，他会做出怎样的选择呢？

《酒国》是莫言1989年到1992年创作的一部长篇小说，原名《酩酊国》。省人民检察院的特级侦察员丁钩儿（这个名字在土话里有“臀部”的暗示）奉命到酒国市侦察金刚钻部长吃婴儿的案件。侦察员丁钩儿在调查过程中也享受到了婴儿宴的美味，并且目睹了酒国的疯狂社会现状：父母把婴儿卖给酒店，并且因为卖了个一等价钱而自豪、激动。在酒国的美酒和婴儿宴里，丁钩儿很快迷失了本性，最后跌进粪池淹死了。《酒国》中的官员之所以为官，不是因为他们才华高过他人，而是因为海量，并且食欲旺盛。吃的影响已经到了这样一种地步，吃可以改变一个人的命运……在小说里还贯穿着酒国一个业余作者与莫言的通信，小说结尾作家莫言和丁钩儿一样，兴致勃勃地来到酒国考察……

What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life?<br /><br />In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions. Modifying Max Weber’s famous definition, Bourdieu defines the state in terms of the monopoly of legitimate physical and symbolic violence, where the monopoly of symbolic violence is the condition for the possession and exercise of physical violence. The state can be reduced neither to an apparatus of power in the service of dominant groups nor to a neutral site where conflicting interests are played out: rather, it constitutes the form of collective belief that structures the whole of social life. The ‘collective fiction’ of the state Ð a fiction with very real effects - is at the same time the product of all struggles between different interests, what is at stake in these struggles, and their very foundation.<br /><br />While the question of the state runs through the whole of Bourdieu’s work, it was never the subject of a book designed to offer a unified theory. The lecture course presented here, to which Bourdieu devoted three years of his teaching at the Collège de France, fills this gap and provides the key that brings together the whole of his research in this field. This text also shows ‘another Bourdieu’, both more concrete and more pedagogic in that he presents his thinking in the process of its development. While revealing the illusions of ‘state thought’ designed to maintain belief in government being oriented in principle to the common good, he shows himself equally critical of an ‘anti-institutional mood’ that is all too ready to reduce the construction of the bureaucratic apparatus to the function of maintaining social order.<br /><br />At a time when financial crisis is facilitating the hasty dismantling of public services, with little regard for any notion of popular sovereignty, this book offers the critical instruments needed for a more lucid understanding of the wellsprings of domination.

十八年前，一起离奇的爆炸案，两个本可大有作为的年轻生命就此消亡，只留给死者的恋人和好友十八年的追念和自责
十八年后，爆炸案凶手再次现身网络，以Eumenides（复仇女神）为名发出死亡征集帖，由网民公投出他要杀死的对象。
接下来的一系列连环凶杀事件表明：这是一场由Eumenides一手导演的正义审判，也是一场他和警方的角逐游戏！而这场游戏，却一次次地以Eumenides的胜利而告终。
十八年后，作为当事人的罗飞终于再次介入此案，十八年前的隐秘案卷在他面前一层层解开了尘封……
每个人都有着各自的秘密，每个人都在自己的道路上做出了选择，他们毫无例夕卜都在选择对自己最有利的前进方向。
第一轮交锋的结果，多年的秘密逐渐露出真相，人性的弱点在极端的环境中挣扎，令人震惊的答案让专案组的人不忍卒睹……而新一代死亡宣判者，年轻的Eumenides，他与罗飞的决战。才刚拉开序幕！

In his introduction to "The Best American Noir of the Century", James Ellroy writes, 'noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction. It's the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad.' Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more thorough distillation of American noir fiction. James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual "The Best American Mystery Stories", mined one hundred years of writing - 1910-2010 - to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir's twenties-era infancy come gems like James M. Cain's "Pastorale," and its post-war heyday boasts giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith and William Gay, with many page-turners appearing in the last decade.

Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of semiotics—the study of signs and signifiers in the world around us—from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. It identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms.

One the eve of WWI, three American male explorers stumble onto an all-female society somewhere in the distant reaches of the earth. Unable to believe their eyes, they promptly set out to find some men, convinced that since this is a civilized country--there must be men. So begins this sparkling utopian novel, a romp through a whole world "masculine" and "feminine," as on target today as when it was written 65 years ago.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust.
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed Break It Down (1986) to the 2007 National book Award finalist Varieties of Disturbance.

《心念的奇迹》讲述了一个神秘、美丽又发人深省的传奇寓言。“我”是一个普通飞行员，过着自在但稍嫌孤独的生活，从一个小镇飞往另一个小镇，向当地居民兜售三美元一次的飞行体验，以此为生。一次“偶然”的机会，我遇到了同行唐纳德，一见如故、引为知己。交往中，我渐渐发现唐异于常人，一场自我探索与潜能开发之旅由是展开……

The dynamic product of and extraordinary partnership, The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for creating innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.
The author's hormoniously interwoen perspecives provide a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possibility can play in every aspect of life. Through uplifting stories, parables, and personal anecdotes, the Zanders invite us all to become passionate communicators, leaders and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world

Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore.
In these compellingly candid essays, Liu reflects on his life as a second-generation Chinese American and reveals the shifting frames of ethnic identity. Finding himself unable to read a Chinese memorial book about his father's life, he looks critically at the cost of his own assimilation. But he casts an equally questioning eye on the effort to sustain vast racial categories like “Asian American.” And as he surveys the rising anxiety about China's influence, Liu illuminates the space that Asians have always occupied in the American imagination. Reminiscent of the work of James Baldwin and its unwavering honesty, The Accidental Asian introduces a powerful and elegant voice into the discussion of what it means to be an American.

When imagination becomes habit, it can transform your work and your life The best corporations know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that cannot be outsourced. The best schools are those that create cultures of imagination. Now in paperback, Imagination First introduces a wide-variety of individuals who make a habit of imaginative thinking and creative action, offering a set of universal practices that anyone can use to transform their life at work, home, and play. These 28.5 practices will enable anyone to become more imaginative and to teach others to do so as well?from corporate executive to educator to platoon sergeant. Bonus content includes: Winning "practices" submitted by the public Guidelines for educators who want to cultivate creativity in their classrooms Expanded resource section The book is filled with illustrative stories of creative leaders, teachers, artists, and scientists that clearly illustrate the original practices and new material that shows how to bring imagination to life.

This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by the finely tuned translation and enlightening introduction.
Translated by Robert Fagles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard

"A very warm, very engaging read. . . . The reader falls totally under his spell." --"Associated Press " The second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world. Now in a new edition for the first time in a decade, "All Things Bright and Beautiful" is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, "All Creatures Great and Small," and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners. "Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric---all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable." --"Columbus Dispatch"

是什么让文学作品或好或坏？读者如何可以自由解释呢？诸如《咩咩黑羊》之类的童谣，是否可以充满隐藏的厌恶、反感以及侵略？在这本书里，特里•伊格尔顿比较有趣地提出了解决这些问题的途径。《文学阅读指南》对于文学研究的学生，以及所有其他感兴趣的读者而言，都是一部加深他们理解、丰富他们阅读体验的理想选择。
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《文学阅读指南》比所有其他书评人的作品都更出色、更耀眼。它还能——恕我斗胆——逗人大笑。很显然，你应当拿起特里•伊格尔顿的这部近作，仅仅是因为你能从中收获颇丰。毕竟，这人堪称当今世上伟大的批评家与教师之一，且拥有歇洛克般的天赋，能从一句话甚至一个词中，追溯梳理出其隐藏的含义。而《文学阅读指南》所以别具一格，还在于伊格尔顿独有的机智与幽默，字里行间流露出他的随和与友善。这不仅仅是一部学习之书，更是一部枕边之书，一部享受之书。——米切尔•德尔达（《悦读经典》作者）
这不只是一部消遣的书，这更是一部重要的书。在尼采之后，伊格尔顿所说的“慢阅读”，作为一种人类活动，似乎濒临灭绝的危险。他引导我们回归基础，在尖锐分析的基础上，重视智力阅读的本质层面。我喜爱他灵动的风格，易于接受且具体可感；此外，他从不牺牲细节或微妙之处。这是为所有读者准备的书，不仅仅是初学者。当然，它的作用在课堂上能得到更大程度的展现。——杰•帕里尼（《诗为什么重要》作者）

《从布朗克斯到百老汇》是美国著名戏剧家莫斯•哈特的自传杰作。莫斯•哈特出身寒微，为了走上戏剧之路，先后做过仓库保管员、戏剧公司的勤杂工、戏剧演员、夏令营的戏剧导演，挨过坑、受过骗，最穷的时候家里一文不名，要靠赊账和借钱度日。在最困苦的时候他也产生过对戏剧梦想的怀疑，然而，对梦想的坚持和不屈的意志，最终使他战胜了各种挫折，取得了辉煌的成功。本书就是他对自己自幼年喜欢上戏剧时到《一生的一次》公演取得巨大成功为止的经历的回忆。全书语言诙谐幽默，人物刻画栩栩如生，对戏剧从业者的心理描写极其细腻，对戏剧创作、导演以及表演有很多深刻的独到之见。本书出版后，收到读者的热烈欢迎和戏剧界的高度评价，被誉为“影响了一代美国戏剧人的经典”和“我们这一代乃至所有时代里，由戏剧人所写的最好的回忆录之一”。

“普通人不比历史人物有人左一本右一本书，从不同的角度写他们，因而有立体的真实性。尤其中下层阶级以下，不论过去现在，都是大家知道得最少的人，最容易概念化。即使出身同一阶级，熟悉情形的，等到写起来也可能在怀旧的雾中迷失。所以奥斯卡•刘易斯的几本畅销书更觉可贵。”
——张爱玲
自1961年初版以来，《桑切斯的孩子们》被公认为深情而直白地讲述了贫穷所带来的极大不公。玛格丽特•米德说它“是对人类学的一次杰出贡献——并将永远如此”；路易斯•布努埃尔说，制作出如此忠实于这部原著的电影将是他职业的“顶峰”；菲尔德•卡斯特罗说它“具有革命性”，“价值超过五万份政治传单”。它不但被《时代周刊》评为“近十年最佳图书”，也引发了“墨西哥史上最为激烈的一次公共辩论”。
《桑切斯的孩子们》讲述了墨西哥城一个贫困家庭的故事，目的是向读者们呈现，在经历社会和经济巨变的拉美大城市中心区的贫民窟，住在一居室的出租屋里长大成人到底是怎样一番景象。
奥斯卡•刘易斯采用了一种全新的方法，让读者对一个普通家庭进行更深层次的查看，每一个家庭成员会用他们自己的语言讲述他们自己的生活经历。这种多人自传体的方法也易于减少调查者的偏见，并同时为读者带来情感上的满足和理解。因为人类学家在直接和受访对象接触时能够体会到这样的满足和理解，可在充斥了专业术语的人类学专著中却很少传递出来。