《通灵宝玉与玫瑰花蕾——<红楼梦>中的导演课》是徐皓峰对《红楼梦》的独特解读。作为作家兼导演，他凭借深厚的文化研究功底和丰富的创作经验，从文学与电影的双重视角重新审视这部经典。书中，他不仅梳理出全新的人物关系与荣宁二府的另类样貌，还将曹雪芹与希区柯克等世界电影大师作比较研究，揭示《红楼梦》的艺术高度与创作原貌。通过细节捕捉与历史背景的深入分析，徐皓峰厘清了后世误读，展现了原著的多重魅力。
作者语言灵动，视角新颖，既尊重文学的想象力，又融入电影的叙事技巧，为读者提供了一次重返经典的全新体验。

In this rich and rewarding work, Yi-Fu Tuan vividly demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential components of life and society. The aesthetic is not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the individual and his physical world, Tuan's exploration progresses from the simple to the complex. His initial evaluation of the building blocks of aesthetic experience (sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch) develops gradually into a wide-ranging examination of the most elaborate of human constructs, including art, architecture, literature, philosophy, music, and more.

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Professor Patricia Wiltshire will take you on a journey through the fascinating edgeland where nature and crime are intertwined. She'll take you searching for bodies of loved ones - through woodlands, along hedgerows, field-edges, and through plantations - solving time since death, and disposal of remains, from ditches to living rooms. She will give you glimpses of her own history: her loves, her losses, and the narrow little valley in Wales where she first woke up to the wonders of the natural world. Pat will show you how her work with a microscope reveals tell-tale traces of the world around us, and how these have taken suspects of the darkest criminal activities to court.

From flowers, fungi, tree trunks to car pedals, walking boots, carpets, and corpses' hair, Traces is a unique book on life, death, and one's indelible link with nature.

这是一部以大理苍山为主体的自然文学，亦是一部严谨而详实的博物学非虚构作品。
内容以苍山地理现象和自然事物作为叙述对象：森林、鸟类、云和光、岩石、深壑、河川、湖泊、池塘、山脊线、山巅、废墟、野花和灌木，把在荒野中的经历和感知，融汇到博物学、地理学和气象学知识中，叙述在自然中如何观看、如何倾听、如何触摸和感受，乃至于如何存在。
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这座深沉高耸的山脉就在城市和村庄的边缘。在地质学上，苍山亦被视为一种交叉、边界式的存在。
从山麓的小路望向苍山山脊，山峰与天际相融的远处，每一支森列的山峰都托着风和冰雪的重荷伸向苍穹，像重重塔尖，与天空通灵。蓝色的湖水在视野中化作一个闪亮的平面。
在自然原生力塑造的无垠空间里，仿佛只有纯粹物理的世界与无限的时间是全然袒露的、真实的。

Bien des chemins mènent à la chambre : le sommeil, l'amour, la méditation, Dieu, le sexe, la lecture, la réclusion, voulue ou subie. De l'accouchement à l'agonie, elle est le théâtre de l'existence, là où le corps dévêtu, nu, las, désirant, s'abandonne. On y passe près de la moitié de sa vie, la plus charnelle, celle de l'insomnie, des pensées vagabondes, du rêve, fenêtre sur l'inconscient, sinon sur l'au-delà.

The Feminist Critique of Language provides a wide-ranging selection of writings on language, gender, and feminist thought. It serves both as a guide to the current debates and directions and as a digest of the history of twentieth-century feminist ideas about language. This edition includes extracts from Felly Nkweto Simmonds, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Luce Irigaray, Sara Mills, Margaret Doyle, Debbie Cameron, Susan Ehrlich, Ruth King, Kate Clark, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Deborah Tannen, Aki Uchida, Jennifer Coates and Kira Hall.

Drawing on the experience of celebrated women, from George Sand and Virginia Woolf to Dorothy Sayers and Adrienne Rich, Heilbrun examines the struggle these writers undertook when their drives made it impossible for them to follow the traditional "male" script for a woman's life. <br /><br />Refreshing and insightful, this is an homage to brave women past and present, and an invitation to all women to write their own scripts, whatever they may be.

Here, between the covers of one capacious book, is an illustrated summary of all the creatures that have ever lived, a vast compendium of earth's current and former inhabitants in all their dazzling and infinite diversity.
Colin Tudge argues that we are entering a new phase of biology in which, for the first time, biologists are achieving profound insight into life's true diversity and developing the tools to keep track of it.
heralds this new phase. The first part of the book describes why biologists now feel that there could have been as many as 4,000 billion species on Earth since life began. It then discusses the need for classification, beginning with the most basic principles--the strictly practical classification of fishmongers and foresters, who speak of "shellfish" and differentiate "hardwood" from "softwood"--and moves on to explore the intriguing deliberations of the modern "transformed cladists" and the novel contributions of molecular genetics. Part II describes the creatures themselves. It is divided into 24 sections, each describing a different group, illustrated by nearly 50 double-page spreads which present genealogical "trees" that summarize the evolutionary relationships between the creatures in each group. Some sections describe large, comprehensive groups such as the kingdoms of the Animals or the Plants. Others treat similar sub-groups in more detail, such as the Mammals, a class, or the Hominids, a family. In lively and accessible prose, all the significant groups of creatures--both alive and extinct--are described and their relationships clarified.
For general readers and serious biologists alike,
offers an unprecedented storehouse of knowledge of life on earth.

Cornucopia, on Dublin's Wicklow Street, has been serving up delicious vegetarian and vegan fare for more than 33 years. Their mission has always been to make great tasting, home produced, healthy food. At a time when plant-based eating is more popular than ever, Cornucopia is a pioneer in creating delicious meals packed with vegetables, legumes, fruits, herbs and spices.

Whether you are a vegetarian, vegan or are trying to cut down on your meat intake, this book brings you punchy flavors and unique, satisfying dishes. With a wide range of ingredients and smart culinary tips and ideas, each recipe is a delight to cook in your own home.

This is a cookbook for anyone who feels there is merit in reducing or limiting our consumption of animal-based foods, brought to you from Cornucopia’s long-standing head chef Tony Keogh, the staff of Cornucopia and Aoife Carrigy.

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life—eating, drinking, and reproducing—the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
An explosion of scientific discoveries in the last twenty years has shed new light on this fundamental aspect of our lives. Now, preeminent neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker gives us a new understanding of the vital importance of sleep and dreaming. Within the brain, sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions. It recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. Dreaming mollifies painful memories and creates a virtual reality space in which the brain melds past and present knowledge to inspire creativity.
Walker answers important questions about sleep: how do caffeine and alcohol affect sleep? What really happens during REM sleep? Why do our sleep patterns change across a lifetime? How do common sleep aids affect us and can they do long-term damage? Charting cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs, and synthesizing decades of research and clinical practice, Walker explains how we can harness sleep to improve learning, mood, and energy levels; regulate hormones; prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes; slow the effects of aging; increase longevity; enhance the education and lifespan of our children, and boost the efficiency, success, and productivity of our businesses. Clear-eyed, fascinating, and accessible, Why We Sleep is a crucial and illuminating book

An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy&#8211;a chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling &#233;lan&#8211;from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed and popular historians.
As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close to three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. For millennia she has been viewed as an exquisite agent of extermination. But who was she?
Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes who ruled over one of the most fertile areas of the Mycenaean world; Helen of Sparta, the focus of a cult that conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess; the home-wrecker of the Iliad; the bitch-whore of Greek tragedy; the pin-up of Romantic artists.
Focusing on the “real” Helen&#8211;a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age&#8211;Bettany Hughes reconstructs the context of life for this pre-historic princess. Through the eyes of a young Mycenaean woman, Hughes examines the physical, historical, and cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, North Africa, and Asia Minor. Vivid and compelling, this remarkable book brilliantly unpacks the facts and myths surrounding one of the most enigmatic and notorious figures of all time.