Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

本书由几十个有机连贯的“狼故事”一气呵成，情节紧张激烈而又新奇神秘。读者可从书中每一篇章、每个细节中攫取强烈的阅读快感，令人欲罢不能。那些精灵一般的蒙古草原狼随时从书中呼啸而出：狼的每一次侦察、布阵、伏击、奇袭的高超战术;狼对气象、地形的巧妙利用；狼的视死如归和不屈不挠；狼族中的友爱亲情；狼与草原万物的关系；倔强可爱的小狼在失去自由后艰难的成长过程――无不使我们联想到人类，进而思考人类历史中那些迄今县置未解的一个个疑问：当年区区十几万蒙古骑兵为什么能够横扫欧亚大陆？中华民族今日辽阔疆土由来的深层原因？历史上究竟是华夏文明征服了游牧民族，还是游牧民族一次次为汉民族输血才使中华文明得以延续？为什么中国马背上的民族，从古至今不崇拜马图腾而信奉狼图腾？中华文明从未中断的原因，是否在于中国还存在着一个从未中断的狼图腾文化？于是，我们不能不追思遥想，不能不面对我们曾经辉煌也曾经破碎的山河和历史发出叩问：我们口口声声自诩是炎黄子孙，可知“龙图腾”极有可能是从游牧民族的“狼图腾”演变而来？华厦民族的“龙图腾崇拜”，是否将从此揭秘？我们究竟是龙的传人还是狼的传人？

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British Intelligence service in Switzerland, the stories are vignettes in which he dramatises both the romance and absurdity of espionage as well as its ruthlessness and brutality. Accountable only to 'R', Ashenden travels all over the Continent on assignments which entangle him with such characters as the traitor Grantley Caypor, the passionate Guilia Lazzari, and the sinister 'hairless Mexican'.

本书是一部高扬爱国主义和英雄主义的史诗性作品。全书通过汉武帝纵横跌宕的人生，以新古典主义浪谩写实的手法，全景式的展现中华民族2000多年前历史上一个辉煌壮丽雄浑悲壮的时代。此书触及了中国古代社会政治经济文化的方方面面。对刘彻等，既不溢美，也不隐恶，又不过分渲染，分寸立场均力求客观。
大事脉络，基本遵循《史记》、《汉书》的历史事实，对汉代的社会阶级矛盾民族矛盾并未回避。但战争和平问题审慎处理，避免偏激。
民族问题，指出汉匈本是同源共生，战争乃是悲剧，片尾结束语强调匈奴民族已融入中华民族的血脉之中。
本书是一部高扬爱国主义和英雄主义的史诗性作品。全书通过汉武帝纵横跌宕的人生，以新古典主义浪谩写实的手法，全景式的展现中华民族2000多年前历史上一个辉煌壮丽雄浑悲壮的时代。
本书是一部高扬爱国主义和英雄主义的史诗性作品。全书通过汉武帝纵横跌宕的人生，以新古典主义浪谩写实的手法，全景式的展现中华民族2000多年前历史上一个辉煌壮丽雄浑悲壮的时代。
本书触及了中国古代社会政治经济文化的方方面面。对刘彻等，既不溢美，也不隐恶，又不过分渲染，分寸立场均力求客观。
书中塑造了一批可歌可泣的男女英雄，如晁错、卫青、李广、霍去病、司马迁、苏武、张骞等，必将脍炙人口。
书中没有任何脸谱化的坏人，反角如田蚡、伊稚斜也都给人留下深刻印象。汉景帝、汉武帝，窦太后三位则均可看作古代政治中典型的伟大政治家。
书中既有风光旖旎的宫廷场面，波诡云谲的政治斗争，又有瑰丽壮阔的大漠草原风光；真实再现了古代大规模骑兵战争的历史画面。
本书人物众多、英雄辈出。许多历史人物早已脍炙人口，许多历史故事早已家喻户晓。
全书充满爱国主义，英雄主义、浪漫主义的文化色彩。创作方法客观，求实，力戒借古讽今，只求令人观后得到历史的镜鉴。
汉民族之所以叫汉民族，是由于伟大的汉帝国的崛起。公元前一世纪，在世界的东方，初步繁荣的汉帝国，面临内外双重威胁：国内诸侯妄图脱离中央，实行地方割据：北方境外的匈奴大军屡屡起过长城防线侵略中原。汉王朝不得不实行“和亲”政策，承受了巨大的民族耻辱。
严峻的形势需要巨人来支撑。历史选择了一个16岁的少年皇子担当大任，他的名字叫刘
彻。在母亲和舅父的精心策划下，经过复杂的宫廷斗争，他得以登基。
刘彻做了皇帝之后表现出非凡的气魄！立刻下诏求贤，广开言路，试图进行改革。他的设想被祖母窦太后代表团的权贵外戚势力所压抑，遭遇重大挫折。但汉武帝决不是轻言放弃的人，他等待时机，在太皇太后死后，一举废黜了骄横的贵戚。毅然更换了黄老之道、无为而治的祖训，以“尊王攘夷”、“应天顺人”、“与时俱进”的儒家口号改革意识形态、统一帝国指导思想。
他实行察举、破格用人，任廉吏、严刑法。千方百计地削弱割据势力。
他破格用将、全民动员，连续多年对匈奴进行征伐，他将匈奴赶出河套和河西走廊，让南方的百越人、东南的闽越人、西南的云贵夜郎融入汉民族主流文化。
他凿通西域，把大汉帝国的军旗第一次插上了帕米尔的雪峰，让响彻沙漠的驼铃声宣告东西文化最早路上交流通道的开辟。他深入中亚细亚，打开丝绸之路，奠定了中华帝国的壮阔版图。他加强中央集权，建立“中朝”，高度崇尚知识和文化，为学者设官，建立中央太学（最高学府）。
他作用酷吏搏击豪强和游侠（黑社会），打击诸侯贵戚和贪官污吏；“罢黜百家，独尊儒术”，将汉帝国推向了鼎盛的高峰。
汉武帝前无古人的巨大功业，成为社会前进运动中一座勃然突起的巨峰，成为中国历史上一颗耀眼的巨星。汉武帝的时代是中华民族历史上最值得自豪和展示的伟大时代之一。
长达54年的铁腕统治，铸就了刘彻雄才大略的独特风格和高大形象，在后来中国的历代皇帝中，都可以看到汉武帝的影响。汉武帝的时代也是英雄辈出充满风流倜傥浪漫精神的时代，司马迁、董仲舒、张骞、李广、卫青、霍去病、苏武，这些英杰名垂青史。
但是，任何巨人都既有辉煌，又有错戾。刘彻也莫能例外，多年的征战，耗尽中国国力。他统治下的晚年发生了邪教作乱的“巫蛊之祸”。在内乱平定之后，他全面反思回顾自己的一生，发出轮台罪已诏。
汉武帝治国的基本思想是：尊王廉政、强国富民。外交的基本思想是：广结友邦，怀柔万国，御辱而不称霸，重武而不轻文。这些思想至今仍有现实意义。
通过对汉武帝时代文治武功的回顾，可以树立爱国主义的信心，汲取英雄主义奋发有为的斗志，增强民族文化的历史的自豪感。

A Classic Graphic Novel by World Renowned Cartoonist; Available in English for the First Time "Goodness! Isn't Monsieur Lambert here today?" - the waitress, Monsieur Lambert Jean-Jacques Sempé is one of the most successful and best-loved cartoonists in the world, best known from his drawings that have graced the covers and pages of the New Yorker and Paris Match for decades. Sempé has published numerous graphic novels in his native France, but never before have they been translated into English. Phaidon Press is delighted to announce the first English translated publication of Sempé's best-selling graphic novel, MONSIEUR LAMBERT, translated by Anthea Bell, a gentle and unmistakably French story with beautifully detailed drawings and poignant text. MONSIEUR LAMBERT offers a glimpse into the everyday lives and secret passions of a group of regulars at a small Parisian bistro, who see each other for lunch every day, without fail. They are creatures of habit, eating the same set meals on the same day, week in and week out. One day, however, one of their group, Monsieur Lambert, does not turn up for lunch at his usual time, and the other regulars soon turn to speculating as to the reasons for the sudden and unexpected changes in their fellow diner - it surely must be because of a woman, they conclude. Why does he develop a taste for terrine, a dish he has previously always despised? The diners are right: Lambert has indeed met a wonderful woman, Florence. This revelation changes everything, and instead of discussing football and politics as usual, the other diners in the bistro start reminiscing about women they have loved and lost, about passionate affairs in the past, all the while continuing to take a keen interest in Monsieur Lambert and his new love. Sempé, true to form, illuminates the humanistic feelings of intrigue, concern and jealously that occur amongst friends when confronted by change, to reveal the unexpected facets of the character's lives and personalities. The restaurant and its regulars are vividly brought to life in a series of drawings that, together with the handwritten dialogue bubbles and laconic texts, display Sempé's signature unerring eye and ear for the telling details of human behavior. MONSIEUR LAMBERT is a classic graphic novel that will appeal to cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public.

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Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received were the New Yorker Debut of the Year award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the highest critical praise for its grace, acuity, and compassion in detailing lives transported from India to America.

In The Namesake , Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations. Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail — the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase — that opens whole worlds of emotion.

The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged wedding, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name.

Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, strewn with conflicting loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. With penetrating insight, she reveals not only the defining power of the names and expectations bestowed upon us by our parents, but also the means by which we slowly, sometimes painfully, come to define ourselves.

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.
Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid.
With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her.
Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan’s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino’s greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all.
A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world’s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the final page.

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction--is it worse than the disease? <p align=center>
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We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.
We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...
Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and the bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect.
The future is closer than you think.

全书收录安妮墨脱之行所拍八张图片，皆沿途所见。
《莲花》叙述年轻女子庆昭身患疾病，滞留高原，静等死亡。中年男人善生刚刚结束追名逐利的暄腾往日，内心长久压抑的黑暗苏醒，准备去与世隔绝的墨脱，寻访旧友内河。内河是被世界遗忘的女子，命运多舛。一路上善生向庆昭讲述自己和内河的往昔，雅鲁藏布江江河谷的奇崛险阻，恰似叙述中依次展开的一代人苦痛而流离的蜕变过程。

From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity.
Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War
reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times.
When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks.
Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments-usually focused on Elvira-in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them.
Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. With her inimitable grace and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created a novel full of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together.

Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and manners. The engagement was announced discreetly, but all of New York society was soon privy to this most perfect match, a union of families and circumstances cemented by affection.
Enter Countess Olenska, a woman of quick wit sharpened by experience, not afraid to flout convention and determined to find freedom in divorce. Against his judgment, Newland is drawn to the socially ostracized Ellen Olenska, who opens his eyes and has the power to make him feel. He knows that in sweet-tempered May, he can expect stability and the steadying comfort of duty. But what new worlds could he discover with Ellen? Written with elegance and wry precision, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a tragic love story and a powerful homily about the perils of a perfect marriage.
Commentary by William Lyon Phelps and E. M. Forster

这是一个关于成长的故事。三个女孩子在二十一岁结伴来到美国，在她们无限憧憬的前途中，会经历什么祥的喜怒哀乐?在这个有点夸张的国度里，又会走过怎样的起起落落?这更是一个关于爱情的故事。
郑詹说，假如世界末日来临，她会一个人安安静静地去死，因为害怕那个说好和她一起死的男人在最后一刻扔下她去逃命……
张其馨相信，如果不能和心爱的人在一起，不要说去美国，就是去天堂，也没有什么意义。
关璐，并不太清楚自己究竟为什么来美国，她只是隐隐约约觉得。在这个异国他乡的某个角落，应该能找到属于自己的一份幸福。
“这是一个真实的爱情故事吗？”2005年度感人至深的温情小说，全世界75个网站转载她，全世界500万心灵关注她！这是一个关于成长的故事。三个女孩子在二十一岁结伴来到美国，在她们无限憧憬的前途中，会经历什么祥的喜怒哀乐?在这个有点夸张的国度里，又会走过怎样的起起落落?作者以丰富的生活阅历，细腻的笔触，展现了年轻一代海外学子的爱情理想追求，是一部新留学生的情感发言。
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It's not just another book on Ajax. It's "Pragmatic Ajax": a concise, complete look at a new way of envisioning and implementing browser-based applications. Ajax turns static web pages into interactive applications. Now you can deploy rich-client applications to clients without sacrificing the easy deployment of web applications. But to many folks, Ajax seems difficult. That's why we produced this book. As a Pragmatic guide, it strips away the mystery and shows you the easy way to make Ajax work for you. We cover the basics of DHTML, JavaScript, and the infamous XmlHttpRequest call. You'll see how to add Ajax to existing programs, and design new applications to exploit the power of Web 2.0. Learn the three layers of Ajax framework, and when (and how) to use each. See how to create rich clients, use visual effects, add client-side validation, and handle forms. Write applications that degrade gracefully if clients don't support JavaScript. And see how to integrate your Ajaxified clients into Java, .NET, and Ruby on Rails server frameworks. With "Pragmatic Ajax", you'll: understand the breadth of the Ajax/Web 2.0 landscape, and go-indepth on how Ajax works; learn how JavaScript works with your server-side framework; see how to easily apply Ajax techniques to an existing application - and when not to; and know what's coming by looking at new features and frameworks currently in active development. Writing dynamic applications isn't that hard. Folks are awed by Google Maps, but it isn't rocket science (apart from the satellite pictures). As a special bonus, see how to implement your own Google Maps-like application using DHTML.

这是一部渭河平原五十年变迁的雄奇史诗，一轴中国农村班斓多彩、触目惊心的长幅画卷。主人公六娶六丧，神秘的序曲预示着不祥。一个家族两代子孙，为争夺白鹿原的统治代代争斗不已，上演了一幕幕惊心动魄的活剧：巧取风水地，恶施美人计，孝子为匪，亲翁杀媳，兄弟相煎，情人反目……大革命、日寇入侵、三年内战，白鹿原翻云覆雨，王旗变幻，家仇国恨交错缠结，冤冤相报代代不已……古老的土地在新生的阵痛中颤栗。厚重深邃的思想内容，复杂多变的人物性格，跌宕曲折的故事情节，绚丽多彩的风土人情，形成作品鲜明的艺术特色和令人震撼的真实感。

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