A video game is half-real: we play by real rules while imagining a fictional world. We win or lose the game in the real world, but we slay a dragon (for example) only in the world of the game. In this thought-provoking study, Jesper Juul examines the constantly evolving tension between rules and fiction in video games. Discussing games from Pong to The Legend of Zelda, from chess to Grand Theft Auto, he shows how video games are both a departure from and a development of traditional non-electronic games. The book combines perspectives from such fields as literary and film theory, computer science, psychology, economic game theory, and game studies, to outline a theory of what video games are, how they work with the player, how they have developed historically, and why they are fun to play.Locating video games in a history of games that goes back to Ancient Egypt, Juul argues that there is a basic affinity between games and computers. Just as the printing press and the cinema have promoted and enabled new kinds of storytelling, computers work as enablers of games, letting us play old games in new ways and allowing for new kinds of games that would not have been possible before computers. Juul presents a classic game model, which describes the traditional construction of games and points to possible future developments. He examines how rules provide challenges, learning, and enjoyment for players, and how a game cues the player into imagining its fictional world. Juul's lively style and eclectic deployment of sources will make Half-Real of interest to media, literature, and game scholars as well as to game professionals and gamers.

In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, created vast collections as a means of knowing the world and used this knowledge to their greater glory. Drawing on extensive archives of visitors' books, letters, travel journals, memoirs, and pleas for patronage, Paula Findlen reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. She follows the new study of natural history as it moved out of the universities and into sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific societies, religious orders, and princely courts. Findlen argues convincingly that natural history as a discipline blurred the border between the ancients and the moderns, between collecting in order to recover ancient wisdom and the development of new textual and experimental scholarship. Her vivid account reveals how the scientific revolution grew from the constant mediation between the old forms of knowledge and the new.

This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution, Deborah Harkness contends. While Francis Bacon has been widely regarded as the father of modern science, scores of his London contemporaries also deserve a share in this distinction. It was their collaborative, yet often contentious, ethos that helped to develop the ideals of modern scientific research.The book examines six particularly fascinating episodes of scientific inquiry and dispute in sixteenth-century London, bringing to life the individuals involved and the challenges they faced. These men and women experimented and invented, argued and competed, waged wars in the press, and struggled to understand the complexities of the natural world. Together their stories illuminate the blind alleys and surprising twists and turns taken as medieval philosophy gave way to the empirical, experimental culture that became a hallmark of the Scientific Revolution.

《灵的编年史》是作者结撰十五年的精心之作，表现为百科全书的样式，是汉语语境罕见的以知识想象为推动力与结构方式的长篇小说。作品以大元即十三世纪上下至二十一世纪中期一千年的时间跨度，以欧亚大陆直抵中国腹地的空间幅度，抟取中西方知识的精华，虚构了一种“法穆知识”，并以该知识波及的个人命运、历史褶皱、伦理转换为书写场地，展示出复杂的世界观和庞大的知识系统，并显现出向内探求的微妙和深度，显示了作者文字创世的野心与能力。其丰沛、精密、光润的细节，让人惊叹。

方笑一著的《经学科举与宋代古文》主要研究经学、科举与宋代古文三者之间的关系，关注的核心对象是古文。宋代古文在当时经学与科举的影晌之下，所呈现出的面貌和主要特征，以及经学与科举影响古文的方式和途径，是本书着重探讨的问题。具体而言，本书从宋代官方经学与科举制度的演变这一背景入手，梳理士人的经学活动与经学观念，探寻经学与宋人古文理论及写作实践的深层联系，又以经解序文、策问、策文这三个对象作为个案，通过对其内容和文本形态演变的分析，具体呈现在整个宋代的不同历史时段中，经学与科举究竟是怎样深刻介入和“塑造”古文，而这种影响又是如何延及后世的。

☆ 屡获大奖的现象级畅销书！美国国家书评人协会奖自传类大奖，《华盛顿邮报》《纽约书评》《时代》年度十大好书，《芝加哥论坛报》、《魅力》、Elle年度书籍，《科克斯书评》年度推荐回忆录；
☆ 震撼全美的勇气之书！希拉里、崔娃激赏推荐，继《汤姆叔叔的小屋》以来美国最重 要的历史文档之一；
☆ “斯坦福性侵案”全纪录，受害者实名讲述直抵人心，获取正义的过程如何变成第二次精神施暴；
☆ 与所有受伤的心灵同在！呈现受害者漫长的疗愈过程，将感动与力量带给每一颗有过创伤的心灵；
☆ 非虚构写作典范，优美的文学书写，清晰逻辑推理，透视美国Me Too运动的风起云涌。
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2015年1月，斯坦福大学性侵案震惊全美。犯罪嫌疑人布罗克·特纳是一名曾参加过奥运会预选赛的游泳新星。
面对法庭的不公审判，受害者化名为埃米莉发表法庭陈述，这份陈述被认为是继《汤姆叔叔的小屋》以来美国最重要的历史文档之一。在案件影响下，加州罢免庭审法官并改变性侵立法。
她不是埃米莉，她是香奈儿·米勒，一个华裔女孩，中文名字是张小夏。
她不是符号般的受害者，而将在书写中为自己、为所有曾遭受伤痛的女孩重新获得疗愈、尊严和力量。
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这个美丽、饱含力量、重要的故事也是一次重新寻回自我的行动，它值得被广泛阅读，尤其是下一代的青年男性。米勒的文字是我们的目标和地图。她是我们珍视的宝藏。——《纽约时报》
在《知晓我姓名》中，我们每分钟都与米勒同在，感同身受，在记录庭审的章节里甚至不忍卒读……米勒是一位杰出的作家：平实、精准却感人至深。——美国国家公共广播电台
米勒展现了一桩强暴案件的受害者获取正义有多么困难，这个过程如何变成第二次施暴。虽然米勒的笔触不时充满愤怒，但她始终致力于宽慰，向其他有同样受害经历的人提供获救的途径。《知晓我姓名》不仅激发我们的勇气，更在结局充满救赎的希望。——《华盛顿时报》
米勒与庞大的性侵受害者群体分享着同一种语言，她将自己的痛苦放置于这个群体的普遍背景之中。在一个要求受害者保持沉默的世界里，《知晓我姓名》以毫不畏惧的气势展现了作者坚毅、惊人的强大存在。——《卫报》
《知晓我姓名》既是公开的怆痛，也是自我的疗愈，既是沉默的饮泣，也是大声的呼喊……它不仅仅是一份成功的控告书，也是一只向你伸出、邀请你与她共同战斗的手。——Elle

本书主要研究元代以后，中国同西方、东南亚一带经济文化交流的历史，中国文化对阿拉伯地区以及东南亚的影响，以及对近代世界文明的贡献。

《柳林风声》是英国作家肯尼思•格雷厄姆（1859—1932）的代表作，以他讲给天生患有眼疾的儿子的故事为基础创作而成。自1908年出版以来，《柳林风声》收获了一代又一代读者的喜爱，是当之无愧的英国文学经典和儿童文学瑰宝。
本书是深沉父爱的见证，是关于家园的绝美童话，让心灵在无尽幻想中获得自由。格雷厄姆的文字娴静、优雅，堪称完美散文的典范。一百多年来，许多名家为这部作品配过插图，E.H.谢泼德（1879—1976）奉献的版本是其中广受赞誉的一种。很少有人比谢泼德更能捕捉柳林世界里不掺杂任何杂质的喜悦了；正如有人说的那样，“他们的文字和绘画是绿色与金色的结合，就像在秋天里回忆夏天的美好”。

The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to the scent of his female mate is the basis for the hammer orchid's deceit--in effect, orchids exploit the male insect's highly adaptive sense of smell for their own propagation. While pollinating orchids is a waste of time, and thus a maladaptive activity for a wasp, his mistake comes about because he must react quickly whenever he senses a possible mate nearby. Alcock suggests that, "for insects, he who hesitates is lost, although perhaps it would be better to say that he who hesitates often loses a chance to pass on his genes." This book abounds with clever explanations for how these exceptionally complex flowers came to be shaped as they are. The reader can explore many aspects of orchid biology and history ranging from how some species avoid inbreeding, to the origins of orchids from an ancestor that belonged to the asparagus family. Examining each component of an orchid's flower, Alcock explains how the various parts work together to produce the plant's minute offspring. Each element of an orchid, as quirky as it may seem, is biologically significant, bearing the imprint of natural selection. Readers can share in the delight that Darwin and all other orchid enthusiasts have felt in making sense of even the smallest of details of these most wonderful plants.

本論文集是2008年5月在香港中文大學舉辦的一次會議的文章之結集。會議後經海外匿名學者審稿後從38篇會議論文中，選取16篇論文結集出版。
大量的田野調查研究，使我們認識到儀式專家對地方社會中的社會生活所扮演的重要角色和中國農村社會的儀式傳統之多樣性，可惜相關的研究缺乏系統性的學術分 析及討論，會議主辦單位希望透過舉辦研討會及出版論文集，邀請不同的學者，包括道教專家、佛教專家、人類學家和歷史學家，對中國地方社會儀式傳統中的佛教 及道教元素和中國地方社會儀式的多樣性兩方面進行深入的研討。論文集的16篇論文分成兩個主題：「醮儀：歷史與現況」和「地方信仰與儀式」，冀能為從事相 關研究的學者及對中國農村社會宗教有興趣的讀者提供第一手的田野調查研究材料及報告。論文集的作者包括李豐楙、勞格文（John Lagerwey）、譚偉倫、蔡志祥、王振忠、丁荷生（Kenneth Dean）、康豹（Paul R. Katz）、葉明生、呂鵬志等資深的學者。
中國農村裏的宗教儀式活動往往是地方上最隆重的活動及節慶聚會，儀式楺合了佛教、道教甚至是儒家的傳統，部份更吸納了民間的傳統、巫教及其本土的文化特 色，是組成當地宗教文化的重要部份。研究中國農村社會的儀式傳統無疑幫助我們尋找地方社會歷史中遺失的一頁——神明的地方中國社會。

全书分为上下两篇，四章十五节，从不同角度集中讨论了中国古代信仰世界中神格和地域两大问题，其中有相当一部分内容曾经作为单篇文章论文发表。本书对任何一个专题所涉及的史料，都先进行史源学辨析，然后尽可能深入地探寻史料中所蕴含的每一个历史信息。

本书将系统阐述什么是考古文献、考古学研究与古代文献之间关系；简要介绍中国古文献数量、古籍分类的基本知识；系统介绍丛书的概念和历史发展概况，丛书的类型、考古研究中重要的大型丛书、丛书书目；系统介绍工具书的类型，解决字形、字音、字义和词义、词源问题的工具书-字典、词典，查找各种古籍的下落、了解古籍内容的工具书，同书异名、同名异书和伪书的辨别，查找古代人物传记资料的工具书，查考古地名材料的工具书，查考职官制度名称工具书，年号历表工具书，查找讳字的工具书；部分古史专著和史料要籍（正史、编年体和纪事本末体重要文献、部分重要史料文献）；类书、礼制文献、地理图经和方志、科技考古常用文献、笔记考证类文献；古文献中的民族学材料；金石学文献。

All humans, but no other species, have the capacity to create and understand language. It provides structure to our thoughts, allowing us to plan, communicate, and create new ideas, without limit. Yet we have only finite experiences, and our languages have finite stores of words. Where does our linguistic creativity come from? How does the endless scope of language emerge from our limited selves? Drawing on research from neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics, David Adger takes the reader on a journey to the hidden structure behind all we say (or sign) and understand. Along the way you'll meet children who created language out of almost nothing, and find out how new languages emerge using structures found in languages spoken continents away. David Adger will show you how the more than 7000 languages in the world appear to obey the same deep scientific laws, how to invent a language that breaks these, and how our brains go crazy when we try to learn languages that just aren't possible. You'll discover why rats are better than we are at picking up certain language patterns, why apes are far worse at others, and how artificial intelligences, such as those behind Alexa and Siri, understand language in a very un-human way. Language Unlimited explores the many mysteries about our capacity for language and reveals the source of its endless creativity.

そらまめくんの宝物は、雲のようにふわふわで、綿のようにやわらかいベッド。だからだれにも貸してあげません。ある日、そのだいじなベッドが突然無くなってしまったからさあ大変！ そらまめくんは必死でベッドをさがしますが、どこにもありません。ところが、やっと見つけたベッドには、うずらがたまごを生んで温めていたのです。さて、そらまめくんは……。子どもたちに大人気の愉快なそらまめくんが大活躍する絵本です。

本书探讨了宋代任官制度的主要特点，例如有关选任的部门与条例，考课法在宋代的施行，铨选中“资”与“资序”系统的并立，铨选中占特殊重要地位的荐举制度，以课绩、资考为依据的磨勘制度，宋代文官差遣除授制度，以及宋代铨选中的诸多矛盾及应对方 式等。试图通过对这些问题的研究，追踪当年的选任逻辑，厘清错综表象背后的因由。
本书自1993年首次出版后即成为宋史研究的典范之作。此次修订，在保持原有结构布局的基础上，重新校核了史料，并对部分论述做了补充与修正，同时还增补了三篇近年的相关研究文章作为附录。

《形神俱妙:道教造像艺术探索》是近年来有关道教文化研究热潮中的又一部力作。作者长期收集海内外有关研究的成果，加以精心编写而成。全书共分五章。上溯道教形成以前中国史前宗教造像艺术，以及先秦时期宗教造像艺术、秦汉时期的神仙造像艺术的渊源；至东汉末年道教的产生、道教造像艺术的萌发，魏晋南北朝时期道教与造像艺术的兴起，隋唐时期道教造像艺术的发展达到鼎盛。宋元时期道教的造像艺术开始走向世俗化，明清时期则已经衰微。有关道教的造像，涉及石窟、摩崖造像、碑刻，以及宫观雕塑等，材料涉及玉、石、金、银、铜、铁、木、竹，泥塑等。全书插图120幅，图文并茂。作者对各时期道教造像的规范、艺术特点，及其继承、发展等都有精辟的论述，可以作为道教院校师生，以及普通大学文物考古、雕塑艺术和旅游专业师生的基本教材。也是道教文化爱好者鉴赏的工具。

本书是由10个宋代相对独立的个案世家研究组成，但彼此之间具有密切的关系。主要是对宋代世家个案加以深入探讨，升堂入室，具体解剖典型家族的各个侧面，并以之为例来说明世家的群体特征及其与社会变迁之间的相互关系。世家以仕宦为基本特征，故本书对所选个案家族的仕宦情况，均进行了必要的研究。除此之外，重点论述了所选个案的突出社会特点，如苏州范氏、成纪张氏等家族的义庄建设和家族经济，三槐王氏、饶阳李氏等家族的婚姻关系，华阳王氏、浦城章氏等家族的科举状况，真定韩氏等家族的文化状况，真定曹氏、邢州柴氏等家族的特权身份，以及青州麻氏等家族的社会行为等等。通过探讨不同类型家族的发展途径及其与地方社会之间的关系，揭示出宋代世家的总体特征及其历史影响。

In the Qing period (1644–1912), China’s population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources.
Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China’s southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.