In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya Mikhail weaves together the women's tales of endurance and near-impossible escape with the story of her own exile and her dreams for the future of Iraq.
In the midst of ISIS's reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use. Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Eastern Turkey.
This powerful work of literary nonfiction offers a counterpoint to ISIS's genocidal extremism: hope, as ordinary people risk torture and death to save the lives of others.

本书考察五百余种宋人别集的版本源流，重点清理各集全秩之版本体系，尤其重视祖本及重要传本的研究，并尽量对各本优劣有所评骘。在前次出版的基础上，本次修订，吸收了学界有关宋人生平事迹考索的新成果，各别集选其常用版本，增述卷目编次情况，以明其结构内容，完善了《全宋诗》《全宋文》中有关底本及辑佚情况介绍，并增补了几种新见书叙录。

《为神性加注:唐宋叶法善崇拜的造成史》以唐代宫廷道士叶法善为例，讨论唐宋时期叶法善肉身成神的造神史。著名道士作为社会公共资源，成为箭垛式的圣者符号，被各种社会力量所利用，不断被加注新的神性，其中有中央朝廷的政治加注、传奇小说的文学加注、道团道经的托名加注、地方道观的在地化加注、叶氏宗族的祖先崇拜等等。

As war, pestilence and famine spread through Europe in the Middle Ages, so did reports of miracles, of hopeless victims wondrously saved from disaster. These "rescue miracles", recorded by over 10 14th-century cults, are the basis of Michael Goodich's account of the miraculous in everyday medieval life. Rescue miracles offer a wide range of voices rarely heard in medieval history, from women and children to peasants and urban artisans. They tell of salvation not just from the ravages of nature and war, but from the vagaries of a violent society - crime, unfair judicial practices, domestic squabbles and communal or factional conflict. The stories speak to a collapse of confidence in decaying institutions, from the law to the market to feudal authority. In particular, the miraculous escapes documented during the Hundred Years' War, the Italian communal wars and other conflicts are testimony to the end of aristocratic warfare and the growing victimization of non-combatants. Miracles, Goodich finds, represent the transcendent and unifying force of faith in a time of widespread distress and the hopeless conditions endured by the common people of the Middle Ages. Just as the lives of the saints, once dismissed as church propaganda, have become valuable to historians, so have rescue miracles, as evidence of an underlying medieval mentality. This work aims to expand our knowledge of that state of mind and the grim conditions that coloured and shaped it.

Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in
compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.

《唐朝与新罗关系史论》是《七世纪中叶唐与新罗关系研究》一书的续篇，对唐与新罗关系的研究延伸至九世纪。作者对唐与新罗问题的研究，在学术界处于较高的水准，前一著作曾连获省部级优秀成果一等奖、省部级高校优秀成果一等奖。

道家政治哲学乃是比较纯粹的、严格意义上的甚至真正的政治哲学，自有其边界明确的内容范围、理论特征，还发展出某种非常理论性的哲学语言思考和阐述政治性问题。如果说孔子以来的儒家学派是对当时历史去世的“保守回应”，道家政治哲学则提出了“玄德”“帝道”“执一”等概念，对浩浩汤汤的历史潮流做出了冷静积极的响应。
《道家政治哲学发微》全书分为四编，内容涉及老庄、黄老和儒道会通等，深入掘进、阐幽发微地抉发出道家政治哲学的深邃内容、理论旨趣和精神气质。

该书紧扣中越文化交流、越南对中国道教的容受、中国道教文化对越南社会文化的影响等方面展开了具体研究，同时横向比较越南道教与入越儒学、佛教之间的关系，以及道教对越南神灵信仰、民俗文化等诸多方面产生的广泛而深刻的影响，凸显入越道教的信仰功能和文化魅力，以及与越南文化不断融合的本土化过程。

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Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts and, by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records, reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as nature's constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and those laws finally gave birth to an ideally conceived community, objectively managed and rationally ordered.

一、本版画集是历史上道教版画规模最大的集结，虽然不能完全囊括存世道教版画，但是我们已尽力向『齐全』二字靠拢。所收录文献可以完整反映道教版画从兴起、发展、繁荣、衰落的历史脉络以及各个发展年间的特点和风格。也可从文献数量、不同时代流行文献的差异间接探求不同时期道教文化的流播及差异性，考察不同文献在道教文化乃至传统文化传播中发挥的独特作用。道教美术的研究把重点放在绘画、雕塑等领域，对道教版画重视不足，一个重要的原因就是道教版画文献没有大规模的整理，利用不便。一个资料丰富的道教版画全集将大大改观这种局面。
二、本版画集收录的大多数文献从来没有影印出版过，其中的一些甚至深藏高阁，不为学者所知。这些文献的面世将极大的方便道教版画领域展开研究和利用，甚至出现突破性的进展。一些已经再版的文献，或由于出版技术的限制，出版后图像质量不佳，不利于研究。比如道教研究最重要的文献明版《道藏》，学界普遍利用一九八八年出版的三家本，其底本是民国年间涵芬楼影印本，受当时影印及出版技术限制，加之为控制册数，缩小了版面，使书中许多图像质量不佳。本次出版我们原版影印中国国家图书馆藏明版《道藏》，图像及图像中的文字更加清晰，完全显露出木刻版画应有的线条特点，更利于《道藏》相关领域的研究，尤其是道教版画的研究。
三、本版画集每种文献都有刻印时间、著作者、施刻人员、绘刻人员、装帧方式、尺寸、内容简介等的相关介绍，限于篇幅言而不尽则在每卷卷首叙录中补充说明。每卷卷首叙录则从全集基础上联系前后各卷文献从宏观上解读、梳理，或梳理相关文献的联系，从相关性切入整体分析，或对重要文献重点解说，对于读者了解版画文献有极大的帮助。
本版画集名为《全集》，并非为眩人耳目。我们自知道教版画数量巨大，不可能一网打尽，我们只是尽力把它搜集齐全。叫它《全集》也只是向读者指出本书收录的范围，或者说表明我们整理的一个目标。此次结集出版后，相信仍会有新的发现，如若聚集到一定规模，我们将出版《补编》，使道教版画集更加完整。
最后，我们对本版画集搜集、整理、出版过程中给予帮助的公私藏家和朋友们致以衷心的感谢！

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.

Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism.
In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (960–1279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors' conceptualization of nature and sparked the emergence of the lake as a tourist destination, highlighting how the natural landscape played a role in shaping social and cultural constructs.
Incorporating evidence from miscellanies, local and temple gazetteers, paintings, maps, poems, and anecdotes, The Rise of West Lake explores the complexity of the lake as an interactive site where ecological and economic concerns contended and where spiritual pursuits overlapped with aesthetic ones.

In just over a hundred years—from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time. How this collection of Arabian tribes was able to engulf so many empires, states, and armies in such a short period of time is a question that has perplexed historians for centuries. Most recent popular accounts have been based almost solely on the early Muslim sources, which were composed centuries later for the purpose of demonstrating that God had chosen the Arabs as his vehicle for spreading Islam throughout the world.
In this ground-breaking new history, distinguished Middle East expert Robert G. Hoyland assimilates not only the rich biographical and geographical information of the early Muslim sources but also the many non-Arabic sources, contemporaneous or near-contemporaneous with the conquests. The story of the conquests traditionally begins with the revelation of Islam to Muhammad. In God's Path, however, begins with a broad picture of the Late Antique world prior to the Prophet's arrival, a world dominated by the two superpowers of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, "the two eyes of the world." In between these empires, in western (Saudi) Arabia, emerged a distinct Arab identity, which helped weld its members into a formidable fighting force. The Arabs are the principal actors in this drama yet, as Hoyland shows, the peoples along the edges of Byzantium and Persia—the Khazars, Bulgars, Avars, and Turks—also played important roles in the remaking of the old world order. The new faith propagated by Muhammad and his successors made it possible for many of the conquered peoples to join the Arabs in creating the first Islamic Empire.
Well-paced and accessible, In God's Path presents a pioneering new narrative of one the great transformational periods in all of history.

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.
From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book—the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy—he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries.
Inky Fingers ranges widely, tracing the transformation of humanistic approaches to texts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examining the simultaneously sustaining and constraining effects of theological polemics on sixteenth-century scholars. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and craft knowledge, manuscript and print.
Above all, Grafton makes clear that the nitty-gritty of bookmaking has had a profound impact on the history of ideas—that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.

Begun as a loose, ephemeral zine that was produced in limited editions, these comics, small in both size and length, are esoteric and immensely personal. Covering a span of four years, the comics collected here build a relationship that is deeper than their elegantly drawn surfaces.
Sophia Foster-Dimino is a cartoonist and illustrator living and working in San Francisco, CA. Foster-Dimino graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010 and has since produced illustrations for a variety of outlets and worked as a Google Doodler. She has self-published a number of zines and contributed to several anthologies.

Edited by Marthe Chandler and Ronnie Littlejohn, this work is a collection of expository and critical essays on the work of Henry Rosemont, Jr., a prominent and influential contemporary philosopher, activist, translator, and educator in the field of Asian and Comparative Philosophy. The essays in this collection take up three major themes in Rosemont's work: his work in Chinese linguistics, his contribution to the theory of human rights, and his interest in East Asian religion. Contributions include works by the leading scholars in Chinese philosophy in the Western world and Rosemont's close associates: Roger T. Ames, Bao Zhiming, Mary Bockover, Marthe Chandler, Ewing Y. Chinn, Erin M. Cline, Fred Dallmayr, Jeffrey Dippmann, Herbert Fingarette, Harrison Huang, Eric Hutton, Philip J. Ivanhoe, David Jones, William La Fleur, Ronnie Littlejohn, Ni Peimin, Michael Nylan, Harold Roth, Sumner Twiss, Tu Weiming, David Wong, with responses from Henry Rosemont, Jr. and a brief Reminiscence by Noam Chomsky.