这是一本非典型的都市爱情小说。没有凄凄惨惨戚戚的女主人公，也没有白马王子般的男主人公，他们都是一些鲜活而真实的形象，有特点，也有缺点。一口气读完，觉得这些人就生活在我们周围，或许在他们身上，就能看到我们自己的影子。
我们带着对生活、对爱情的疑问去读这本书，合上书的那一刻，有些人已经明白了答案，而另外一些人心中会泛起更多的疑问。
不管怎么说，我们对爱情的理解又往前迈了一步。

死是谜。有人把生看作一个谜。
许多人希望知道生，更甚于愿意知道死。而我则不然。我常常想了解死，却没有一次对于生起过疑惑。
世间有不少的人喜欢拿“生是什么”、“为什么生”的问题折磨自己，结果总是得不到解答而悒郁地死去。
真正知道生的人大概是有的；虽然有，也不会多。人不了解生，但是人依旧活着。而且有不少的人贪恋生，甚至做着永生的大梦：有的乞灵于仙药与术士，有的求助于宗教与迷信；或则希望白日羽化，或则祷祝上登天堂。在活着的时候为非作歹，或者茹苦含辛以积来世之福——这样的人也是常有的。

《老张的哲学•猫城记(高荣生插图本)》独辟蹊径，与以往的老舍作品选不同，力争图文并茂。以中短篇小说为切入点，配以著名画家叶浅予、方成、袁运生、高荣生、李全武等为老舍先生的作品创作的插图。力求帮助读者更好地理解老舍作品的精髓，避免了重复出版，且选用的中短篇小说极具代表性，读者可以充分领略到作者对当时世界忧愤深广的讽刺与批判，温婉戏谑的幽默与自我解嘲，博大悲悯的人道主义情怀。

The comics that first launched Tomine into his luminary career, in a special-edition box set Redesigned to coincide with the release of "Shortcomings" in paperback is a brand-new edition of Adrian Tomine's first book, "32 Stories," that collects his inaugural mini-comics in a special edition. This onetime printing includes facsimile reprints of the seven mini-comics packaged in a slipcase, as well as an additional pamphlet containing a new introduction and notes by Tomine.

Adrian Tomine’s cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine’s fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on their most intimate moments and, with forensic skill, laying their lives bare. The conflicts between emotional gratification, narcissistic neediness and moral discernment mark the title story in which a socially crippled man nurses an obsessive crush on a young woman. He watches close up, paralyzed by his guilt, as her beauty catches the eye of his neighbor: a hip, selfish young man with a short attention span. One of Optic Nerve’s most popular stories, `Hawaiian Getaway,` features Hilary, telephone service rep who is having the worst week of her life. She lost her job, her apartment, and her grandmother. Close to the edge, she is losing her grip. Reaching out to random strangers on the phone, Hilary is looking for someone to help her. In "Alter Ego" a successful young author has writer`s block. He can`t, or won`t, decide between another ghostwriting gig and finishing his second ‘real’ novel. He stalls on committing to his novel and his girlfriend when a chance postcard leads him to flirt with fantasies of changing the past. Finally, "Bomb Scare" documents the early unease of his generation by setting this coming-of-age story during the tense months of the Gulf War, the event that ushered in the 1990s.

http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shortcomings/

The realities of the social life in China's business practices reveal an increasing divergence from the ideologies of the Chinese state. In this engaging work, Xin Liu examines the Asian economic crisis and, particularly, the rise of China as a major trading power in the region. Liu illuminates a history of conjuncture, including the effects of the Maoist revolution and the influence of transnational capital and capitalism.
The Otherness of Self, in addition to being an anthropological study of the development of so-called high-tech industries in (South) China, also explores the complex formation of capital in a developing new world of business practices. By tracing the birth and development of the Beihai Star Group, a high-tech company that achieved success despite a major national economic crisis, Xin Liu shows how a capitalist order emerged within a self-proclaimed socialist country.

《性学五章》是关于中国性学史研究，分为《诗》《书》《画》《药》《人》五个篇章。
西方有《古罗马风化史》《欧洲风化史》《古希腊风化史》，本书以严谨的学术态度来研究“性学”，堪称“中国性学史”“中国风化史”。
江晓原先生除了在学术领域成绩突出，且自谓好古成癖，对历史有特别的感情，性的历史归根结底也是历史的一部分，自然也在其感兴趣的范畴之内。他想要将其推进到“学术研究”的层次上去，于是利用空闲时间（硕士答辩结束后），“发奋”研究起中国古代的房中术，结果写成论文∶《中国十世纪以前的科学性初探》，并于1986年在《大自然探索》杂志上发表；遂又写了几篇“学院派”的性史论文在《中国文化》《汉学研究》(台湾)等刊物上发表；继而又出版了《性在古代中国》《中国人的性神秘》以及《性张力下的中国人》等书。可以说，性学研究，已然成为江晓原先生的第二专业。
这样一本学术与大众兼具的著作，实在值得读者一探究竟。

尼采和维拉莫维兹都曾说过，唯有交付我们的鲜血和灵魂，才能让古人向我们发声。威廉斯以其特有的敏锐和深邃重回荷马史诗与希腊悲剧和其他希腊作品，在其特定的历史语境中展示其中有关人类行动和经验的洞见，澄清基于进步主义历史观的种种误解：希腊人的思想并不原始，神灵、魔力、命运、机遇等不可控制因素的在场并没有妨碍他们理性地洞察人的自由与责任。威廉斯对希腊人伦理传统的阐释饱含热情，然而，他并没有尊经复古的企图，他对古代世界观的重构始终渗透着对现代性的自我反思和重建，理解古人实际上就是在理解我们自己。

《赋形者》是胡桑十余年诗歌写作的结晶。缓慢而节制的写作使他的诗歌逐渐具备了晶体般精妙的自我构形能力。他对于技艺的探索、对于世界的敏锐感受、对历史的提炼增加了当代汉语诗歌的可能性。这些诗里不仅记录了技艺的进展、生活的变形，更内蕴着一个如海螺壳般的灵魂，它们用强大的心灵握持着一个柔软而危险的肉体。他的诗是承受生活压强的结果，也是时间赋予语言的形式。

在政治术语和学者的论著里，自由主义是世界历史中一种积极的力量；自由的社会可能曾容忍了一些罪恶，但那只是实现普遍自由过程中的偶然产物。洛苏尔多反对此种说法，他揭示了自由主义的内在矛盾：它是一种无力践履自身理想的意识形态。本书中，他以批判柏克、洛克、孟德斯鸠、富兰克林、杰斐逊等自由主义先驱开篇，指出自由主义作为一种哲学立场和意识形态，自始就与奴隶制、殖民主义、种族灭绝、种族主义和势利眼之类最反自由的政治行为密切相关。
自由主义的功绩太突出，优点太明显，故而大可不必把其他想象出来的功绩和优点也归之于它。本书撰写的初衷，是反对普遍的盲视事实和美化自由主义的行为，最后它被写成了一部“反面历史”。若要得到扎实的历史理据，首先就必须向圣徒传记说再见。
——多米尼克·洛苏尔多
洛苏尔多在自由主义中看到的，既不是自由的神话，也不是一种纯为谋求统治的信仰。和现代怀疑论的大师们一样，他看到了解放和征服的辩证对立。任何自认为了解自由主义历史的人，读过本书后都会感到惊诧。
——柯瑞·罗宾（Corey Robin）
作为哲学家和历史学家，多米尼克•洛苏尔多具有非同寻常的洞察力。他这部新著探究了自由主义的阴暗深处，指出了其根深蒂固的、常令人反感透顶的弱点。
——意大利新闻报
自由主义太重要了，因此，不能让自由主义者控制它。
——意大利时报

★ 蒋晓云被夏志清喻为“又一张爱玲”，连续三次获得联合报文学奖
★ 王安忆作序，倾力推荐
★ 我们终于等到曾源流于同一片黄土地，因改朝换代而离家离乡离国的人，之后的故事。
★ 张爱玲写的是二三十年代的都市女人，王安忆写的是一九四九年后留在上海的女人，而蒋晓云写的则是流亡在外的这群女人的故事。
《百年好合》中包含了十二个独立的故事，但是这些主人公却有着千丝万缕的联系，母女，亲友，或一面之缘。这些人中有上层官太，也有下层舞女，有私奔台湾的清真面馆老板娘，有远嫁美国独自创业的上海滩舞女，也有享尽繁华的军官小姐。她们被卷入了历史的洪流中，经历了最为动荡的时代，命运的捉弄，乱世飘零的她们，一人有一个传奇。

透过复眼，我们看见世界的温度。
★台湾最红华语小说家吴明益长篇小说代表作
★王德威、杨照、刘克襄、韩松 感动推荐
★自然环保主题，浪漫幻想故事
★充满诗意和忧伤
我们曾经以为已然弃绝的记忆与物事，终将在海的某处默默聚成岛，重新随着坚定的浪，搁浅在忧伤的海滩上。
★荣获 2012 年台北书展大奖 蝉联 2011、2012时报开卷十大好书奖
这是一个充满诗意和忧伤的故事，讲述了一个岛的过去和现在，也预示了人类的未来。
故事的开头，在广大无边的海上，有一个岛，叫瓦忧瓦忧岛，瓦忧瓦忧人相信世界就是海，而卡邦（瓦忧瓦忧语“神”的意思）创造了这个岛给他们。岛上的次子在出生后第一百八十次月圆时，出海远航，不准回头。少年阿特烈的命运就是因为他是次子……
《复眼人》集合了好几个因为不同原因，逃离了日常庸俗态度的人。他们是难得看出了一般人的庸俗日常中，带着最恐怖的不正常的“复眼人”。
——杨照
我不知如何表达对环保议题的悲哀，以及一种无法抗拒的人生的悲伤，写到后来，我被笔下人物深深感动。
——吴明益
《复眼人》是一部描写人类心灵中的孤寂、挣扎的作品，写出了人与环境之间的互动。
——《晶报》
当年那个因迷恋蝴蝶而写“蝴蝶的散文”的大男生，已“演化”成一位用双脚踏查台湾土地，在自然写作领域越走越深，并常常站到环境议题第一线的自然写作者。
——《书香两岸》杂志

Amazon.com
Alain de Botton has crafted a delightfully ingenious novel in the form of a biography of an unknown woman. Told by a former flame that he lacks empathy, the engaging narrator of Kiss & Tell decides to write a book about the next person he meets. This turns out to be Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a London stationery company. The sincere effort of this would-be Boswell to make this ordinary woman fascinating cause him to fall in love with her, causing a shift in his writing from an examination of Isabel's life to a minutely-detailed account of his relationship with her. Alain de Botton's earlier work, The Romantic Movement, garnered praise from John Updike and Pico Iyer, who called him "a Stendhal of the 90's dating scene." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
"Dental work on," "first kiss" and "new hairstyle" can all be found under the index entries for Isabel Rogers, the charming, unsuspecting subject of this diverting fictional biography. De Botton plays a nimble game, through the eyes and idiosyncrasies of his smart, pretentious narrator. Looking for an opportunity to explore the nature of biography without being overshadowed by his subject, the narrator attaches himself to a woman he thinks will be mundane enough to be fully mastered. To play off the appealing if thoroughly normal Isabel, de Botton (The Romantic Movement) makes his narrator as fastidious as any of Nicholson Baker's and as smarmily self-absorbed as one of Martin Amis's. But the ordinary details of Isabel's ordinary life?she is 28, a production assistant in London?prove more than enough to handle, and the narrator, who likes to quote Dr. Johnson and Richard Ellman, finds that the high-brow rigors of formal biography have to make concessions to the unruliness of lived life. Inevitably in this comic relationship, the narrator digresses too often, experimenting with handwriting analysis, palmistry and psychiatric questionnaires before he realizes that he is missing a very different kind of understanding of Isabel. Deftly, de Botton manages to flesh out the character of Isabel within the parameters of what is?in every sense?his narrator's pseudo-intellectual conceit. In the manner of Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries, photos of "Isabel" and her family add a droll touch.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
After an ex-girlfriend accuses the narrator of being a narcissist, he decides to find out as much as possible about the next person he meets. Fortunately she, in the form of Isabel Jane Rogers, proves to be a woman of many layers. Intrigued by the biographer's mission, the unnamed narrator plunges into Isabel's life, creating a laundry list of minutiae--such as how she learned to make the figure 8, her first bubble bath, candies eaten as a child, and how she cleans her apartment to The Best of Blondie music--all to gain insight, reformulate prejudices, and grow empathic. Along the way, he consults other biographies for direction. An index (unusual in a fictional work) draws out details from the lives of Samuel Johnson, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce, among others. Readers who enjoy biographies must not miss Kiss & Tell. It provides insight into the genre while also presenting bit by nonchronological bit the ordinary albeit captivating life of Isabel Jane Rogers. Jennifer Henderson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A young, self-centered British swain vows to get to know the next woman he meets better than she knows herself, in de Botton's self-consciously coy follow-up to On Love (1993) and The Romantic Movement (1995). ``It took me a long time to . . . understand how someone could have been so un-self-aware and at the same time so self-obsessed,'' reads the narrator's most recent Dear John letter. ``You said you loved me, but a narcissist can't love anyone but himself.'' Miffed by the accusation, de Botton's intellectual hero determines not just to pay more attention to the next woman he meets but to immerse himself in her life as assiduously as a biographer studies his subject. Ordinary as that randomly picked woman turns out to be--pretty, 25-year-old Isabel Rogers is a production assistant for a stationery company--our hero earnestly commits to paper every thought she expresses, every casual mannerism, every minor anecdote about her childhood, in the hopes of proving himself worthy of love. At first, Isabel is flattered by such attention, though she wisely attributes her biographer's attentions to ordinary lust. As the months pass and the narrator charts Isabel's ancestral tree, challenges her with personality quizzes, and gravely ponders such inscrutable utterances as ``I know I should read more, but TV is easier. I should love people who are nice to me, but grumps are more of a challenge . . . I want to have babies, but I'm frightened of becoming my mother,'' he increasingly gets on her nerves- -proving, inevitably, that too much attention can be as irritating as too little. ``And I think we should stop seeing one another as well,'' Isabel continues. ``But unfortunately I can't be sure about that either. I don't know any more, all right?'' Having stuck with this one-joke plot that is, like its narrator, amusing and tedious by turns, readers will understand her fond impatience all too well. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
"Original, intelligent, and beguiling . . . You will get more than pure pleasure from reading...you may never again look at biography in quite the same way."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"This ingenious, and even wise, novel elicits an almost continuous smile."—The New Yorker
"An impressively ambitious book . . . More than just an offbeat romantic comedy--it's a provocative meditation on the essence of personality and the nature of the biographer's task."—Michael Upchurch, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Playful and adroit...a sometimes essayistic, often funny meditation on biographical form which has at its root universal and problematic questions of how we know ourselves, and how we begin to understand others."—Sara Kramer, Boston Review
"Shows ingenuity. De Botton makes some witty and arch observations about the twentysomething English generation and its culture. Isabel may be alarmingly ordinary, but in his hands she is also fascinating."—Greg Morago, The Hartford Courant
"Engaging and delightful...Such a writer could write the biography of a broomstick, as Dr. Johnson suggested, and it would come alive under his pen."—Philip Glazebrook, The Spectator
"Rich, intelligent, and finely written...Alain De Botton provides not merely an engaging suburban love story, but a lip-smackingly irreverent take on the entire biographical genre."—Paul Sussman, The Independent on Sunday
"Brilliantly erudite and amusing...De Botton is the boy wonder of contemporary English literature. What gives his novels their considerable charm is his winning combination of candor and intellect."—The Tatler
"Genuinely funny...perceptive...cheerfully wrought...De Botton's prose is an arm wrestle of erudition with popular culture...His writing is endearing, not in the least remote, and attempts to return value and sophistication to a currency--the ever-Austenesque minuet of courtship and love."—Rachel Cusk, The Times
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"Happy . . . clever debunking of biographical objectivity."—James Atlas, Vogue
Review
"Original, intelligent, and beguiling . . . You will get more than pure pleasure from reading...you may never again look at biography in quite the same way."—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"This ingenious, and even wise, novel elicits an almost continuous smile."—The New Yorker
"An impressively ambitious book . . . More than just an offbeat romantic comedy--it's a provocative meditation on the essence of personality and the nature of the biographer's task."—Michael Upchurch, The San Francisco Chronicle
"Playful and adroit...a sometimes essayistic, often funny meditation on biographical form which has at its root universal and problematic questions of how we know ourselves, and how we begin to understand others."—Sara Kramer, Boston Review
"Shows ingenuity. De Botton makes some witty and arch observations about the twentysomething English generation and its culture. Isabel may be alarmingly ordinary, but in his hands she is also fascinating."—Greg Morago, The Hartford Courant
"Engaging and delightful...Such a writer could write the biography of a broomstick, as Dr. Johnson suggested, and it would come alive under his pen."—Philip Glazebrook, The Spectator
"Rich, intelligent, and finely written...Alain De Botton provides not merely an engaging suburban love story, but a lip-smackingly irreverent take on the entire biographical genre."—Paul Sussman, The Independent on Sunday
"Brilliantly erudite and amusing...De Botton is the boy wonder of contemporary English literature. What gives his novels their considerable charm is his winning combination of candor and intellect."—The Tatler
"Genuinely funny...perceptive...cheerfully wrought...De Botton's prose is an arm wrestle of erudition with popular culture...His writing is endearing, not in the least remote, and attempts to return value and sophistication to a currency--the ever-Austenesque minuet of courtship and love."—Rachel Cusk, The Times
"Happy . . . clever debunking of biographical objectivity."—James Atlas, Vogue
Product Description
Dr. Samuel Johnson observed that everyone's life is a subject worthy of the biographer's art. Accused by a former girlfriend of being unable to empathize, the narrator of Kiss & Tell takes Johnson's idea to heart and decides to write about the next person who walks into his life.
He meets Isabel Rogers, a production assistant at a small stationery company in London, apparently an ordinary woman. But as the biographer's understanding of Isabel deepens, she becomes remarkable. Her smallest quirks, private habits, and opinions become worthy of the most painstaking investigation—and unexpectedly attractive to her biographer.

From Publishers Weekly
Using drawings, quizzes and quotes from famous philosphers, de Botton presents a postmodern look at the ups and downs of a love affair.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."--John Updike, The New Yorker
"A reader gets whiffs of Donald Barthelme, Julian Barnes, Woody Allen, the films of Eric Rohmer . . . Mr. de Botton borrows exuberantly, and well, from his forebears . . . therein lies the buoyant charm of the approach."--Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review
Review
"The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."--John Updike, The New Yorker
"A reader gets whiffs of Donald Barthelme, Julian Barnes, Woody Allen, the films of Eric Rohmer . . . Mr. de Botton borrows exuberantly, and well, from his forebears . . . therein lies the buoyant charm of the approach."--Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times Book Review
Product Description
In The Romantic Movement, Alain de Botton explores the progress of a love affair from first meeting to breaking up, intercut with musings on the nature of art of love. The relationship between Alice, an advertising executive, and Eric, a banker, is examined at every stage, supplemented by quizzes and line drawings by the author and commentary by a chorus of great philosophers, from Descartes to Plato to Aretha Franklin. The Romantic Movement will charm readers and lovers alike with wit, insight, and intelligence.

"Essays in Love" will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work's genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we've all felt before but have perhaps never understood so well: it includes a chapter on the anxieties of when and how to say 'I love you' and another on the challenges of disagreeing with someone else's taste in shoes.While gripping the reader with the talent of a great novelist, de Botton brings a philosopher's sensibility to his analyses of the emotions of love, resulting in a genre-breaking book that is at once touching and thought-provoking. 'The book's success has much to do with its beautifully modelled sentences, its wry humour and its unwavering deadpan respect for its reader's intelligence ...full of keen observation and flashes of genuine lyricism, acuity and depth' - Francine Prose, New Republic. 'Witty, funny, sophisticated, neatly tied up, and full of wise and illuminating insights' - P. J. Kavanagh, "Spectator". 'De Botton is a national treasure' - Susan Hill. 'I doubt if de Botton has written a dull sentence in his life' - Jan Morris, "New Statesman". 'Single-handedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose: helping us to live our lives' - "Independent".

Q就是一个概念，与英文单词cute（可爱）谐音，泛指一切可爱的事物，也就是很萌、很有爱的感觉。如果你拥有一双总是能发现周围可爱事物的慧眼，常常在心里描绘一个与现实不同的Q版世界，那么就用手边的画笔将你的感觉抒发在本子里。如果你喜欢发挥创意，就可以自己动手将生活中的小细节也装点得很可爱，绘制贺卡、留言条，在杯子上、墙上涂鸦，制作冰箱贴、书签，画出复活节彩蛋，创造一个小纸人娃娃军团……本书的目的也在于启发你的想象力，哪怕是一件非常不起眼的小事件，用一支笔稍加修饰，就能使它跃然纸上，变得与众不同的可爱。
这是一本很Q的故事集，也是一部超级搞笑的无厘头漫画，还是一本很实用的卡漫手工教程！想要成为绘本达人、可爱先锋、创意高手的话，那么请阅读这本书。画出可 爱搞笑的物体、写出有趣的漫画日记、做出精美实用的手工。
在阅读完这本书后，相信你一定可以，用最简单的方法，画出最Q的世界！

加尔文的《基督教要义》作为影响人类历史的十部著作之一，是基督教经典中的经典。这部著作对于研究基督教的神学思想和西方现代文明的形成都具有重要的意义。
《基督教要义》在加尔文笔下历25年（1534－1559）始告完成。这书自1536年初版至最后由作者修正的修正版，篇幅扩充达五倍之多。内容最初以护教论说为主，以后各版修正则以训练为主，目的是教授纯正神学，使信徒能了解圣经。
此书的最后订正版分为四卷，试行对基督教神学整体的各部分均衡论述。每卷题目按照《使徒信经》的次序论述，即父、子、圣灵、圣而公之教会等。

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《中华国学文库:世说新语笺疏》内容简介：1920年，中华书局在创办人陆费伯鸿先生的主持下，开始编纂《四部备要》。这套汇集三百三十六种典籍的大型丛书，精选经史子集的“最要之书”，校订成“通行善本”，以精雅的仿宋体铅字排印。一经推出，即以其选目实用、文字准确、品相精美、价格低廉的鲜明特点，最大限度地满足了国人研治学问、阅读典籍的需要，广受欢迎。丛书中的许多品种，至今仍为常用之书。
新中国成立之后，党和国家倡导系统整理中国传统文献典籍。六十馀年来，在新的学术理念和新的整理方法的指导下，数千种古籍得到了系统整理，并涌现出许多精校精注整理本，已成为超越前代的新善本，为学界所必备。
同时，随着中华民族以前所未有的自信快速发展，全社会对中国固有的学术文化——国学，也表现出前所未有的关注和重视。让中华文化的优秀成果得到继承和创新，并在世界范围内进行传播和弘扬，普惠全人类，已经成为中华民族的历史使命。当此之时，符合当代国民阅读需要的权威的国学经典读本的出现，实为当务之急。于是，《中华国学文库》应运而生。