《北美殉道者花园》由12篇故事组成，描绘了生活中那些郁郁寡欢、不得志的平凡人，用深沉的笔触将读者带入一个难以逃离、触动人心的灰暗世界。以谎言描绘自己家庭生活的少年，面对抗议的听众讲出自己心声的女教授，与搭便车的旅行者产生不愉快经历的孤独者，乘船游览共度金婚纪念日却各怀心 事的老年夫妇…小说中的人物跌跌撞撞却坚决果敢地寻找“人生正确道路”。该书是托拜厄斯·沃尔夫最受读者和评论界喜爱的短篇小说集。

《火车梦》是丹尼斯•约翰逊的一部微型史诗，是他最动人最令人心酸的小说。
罗伯特•格雷恩纳是20世纪初美国西部的一个工人——特殊年代的一个普通人。受家人去世的打击，格雷恩纳努力在这个崭新而陌生的世界里寻找活着的意义。随着故事的展开，我们看到了他个人令人扼腕的伤痛，也看到了美国社会的巨变。
这本书如同美国西部历史和风貌的画卷——书中的植物和动物奇异得不像真的，伐木工和桥梁建筑工命运多舛——展现了一种快要消失的美国生活方式。
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媒体推荐：
我信仰的神，须有丹尼斯•约翰逊那种智慧和幽默感。
——《自由》作者 乔纳森•弗兰岑
一本严肃而可爱的书，粗粝现实主义中夹带一点幻想元素，令这本书带上了悦目的光芒。
——《纽约客》

正调的日本文学 古风抒情派作家宫本辉
关于丧失与新生的 经典短篇小说集
威尼斯电影节金奖电影原著小说
丧失与新生、生与死是宫本辉文学世界的一大主题，作者在描述伫立于“死亡”深渊边沿的人们那内心的摇摆的同时，追求的是从彼处返照回来的一线光。
在《幻之光》里，再嫁后过着平稳生活的女主人公，内心里一直在追问已不在人世的前夫，问他究竟为什么扔下自己与幼儿自杀。那种哀痛，恰如日本海黑暗的海面，波涛一浪接一浪拍打而来……
这部短篇集共收录四部短篇小说，分别为《幻之光》、《夜樱》、《蝙蝠》和《卧铺车厢》，均以某种形式的丧失为主题。其中，标题作《幻之光》是宫本辉的著名短篇小说，出版后一再被改拍成同名影视剧，并曾在威尼斯国际电影节上夺得金奖。《夜樱》描写了不可思议的一夜，因事故猝然离世的儿子的房间盛开了艳丽的夜樱。

一位因为快速学习而成名的神奇小子，他应用自己发明的学习方法，完成了10天搞定线性代数，1年学习4年MIT课程的“不可能任务”。本书就是对他学习方法的全面介绍，其中包括整体性学习策略的核心思想和具体技术，详细介绍了快速阅读法、流笔记法、比喻法、内在化等七大方法，并为高效学习提供了从生活到时间管理的整体解决方案。跟随作者，你也将成为高效学习的超级学霸。

哈德良回忆录，ISBN：9787506016254，作者：（法）玛格丽特·尤瑟纳尔（Marguerite Yourcenar）著；陈筱卿译

故事从贯一和阿宫两个男女主角说起，贯一从小父母双亡，因贯一的父亲有恩于阿宫的父亲，故阿宫之父就负起养育贯一的责任。男女主角青梅竹马般快乐地成长，贯一对阿宫一向呵护备至，阿宫父母也许诺让两人成婚。阿宫终于长成美丽的少女，在一次宴会上遇见了当地一个银行家之子，她被他手上闪亮的大钻石戒指吸引，心想若能嫁给这样的人，或许会有幸福快乐的一生吧！而银行家之子对出众的阿宫更是一见钟情，回去后立刻说动父亲出面提亲。阿宫一家毁弃了对贯一的承诺，同意了这门婚事。
贯一受此刺激开始自甘堕落，成为金色的夜叉，一个金钱的奴隶，做起他原先最瞧不起的高利贷生意，一心只想赚大钱。而嫁为人妇的阿宫并没有得到想象中的幸福生活，幼子夭折后的不孕加上富贵人家的种种规矩让她的婚姻结冰，银行家之子也因得不到阿宫的真爱而沉迷欢场不归。一次偶然的机会，阿宫与贯一重逢，阿宫这才发觉她真正所爱的是贯一。于是她经常写信给贯一，但对爱情已经心死的贯一却从不回复。
一次贯一外出办事，却意外地救起了一对殉情男女。原来，女子是一名艺伎，而男子是她的恋人，这一对不见容于功利社会的恋人决定一起离开这个世界。贯一原已冰冷的内心突然被感动，他发现这世间还有真挚不渝的爱情，于是决定接受阿宫的忏悔和爱情。
故事将进入高潮，年仅36岁的作者尾崎红叶就因癌症辞世，让《金色夜叉》的后续情节划下了休止符，平添后人无限想象。

阿桥和阿菊是两个被生母遗弃在寄物柜里的男婴，他们在孤儿院里度过童年，被一对潦倒的夫妇收养，又在煤矿废墟里度过少年时代，先后踏进了东京的畸形社会。
阿桥以肉体为代价，以弃婴身世为卖点，被他的老板包装为流行歌星。走红了，但自我也丧失了，最后只能依靠自己的鲜血恢复知感，找到真正的音乐。阿菊跟着养母寻找阿桥，养母却死于东京的喧嚣和骗局之中。他试图阻止老板炒作阿桥的身世，却在媒体制造的混乱中误杀了生母。他在劳动教养中营救了失事海员，又在媒体的侮辱性采访中卷入混斗，不得不远赴太平洋，寻找毁灭这座肮脏都市的毒药。
小说描写了当代日本国家机器的冷漠刻板，都市的人性丧失，惟利是图者的贪欲和不择手段，媒体的无聊和颠倒是非，刻画了年轻的灵魂在这种社会里的挣扎和扭曲，笔力强悍，情节震撼，被誉为日本当代文学具有纪念碑意义的杰作。

《查泰莱夫人的情人(英文原版评注本)》是英文无删节原版评注本，为读者朋友们提供完整的全英经典名著小说内容，并附有国内知名的英美文学教授对于各经典原著文中的难点、疑点所作的精心评注。使读者朋友们在品读原汁原味的英文原版故事的同时，通过评注为你们提。供及时、必要的阅读参考，助朋友们一臂之力。

宇宙何时并如何起始？我们为何在此？为何是有非无？何为实在本性？为何自然定律被这么精细地调谐至让我们这样的生命存在？以及最后，我们宇宙的表观“大设计”能否证实使事物运行的仁慈的造物主？科学能否提供另一种解释？
有关宇宙起源以及生命本身的最基本的问题，曾经为哲学的范围，现在占据着科学家、哲学家和神学家相遇但却自说自话的领地。在霍金和蒙洛迪诺的新书中，他们以精彩简朴的非专业语言表述有关宇宙奥秘的最新的科学思考。
他们在《大设计》中解释，根据量子论，宇宙不仅具有单独的存在或历史，而且同时存在每种可能的历史。把这种思想应用于宇宙整体，就对因果概念本身提出疑问。然而，霍金和蒙洛迪诺描述的“从顶到底”的宇宙学方法会说，过去没有采取确定的形式这一事实意味着，我们因观察历史而创造历史，而非历史创造我们。作者进一步解释，我们自身是宇宙极早期的量子涨落的产物，并且展现量子论如何预言“多宇宙”——该思想是说，我们的宇宙只不过是自发地从无中出现的许多宇宙中的一个，每个宇宙具有不同的自然定律。
霍金和蒙洛迪诺在这过程中诘问实在的传统概念，提出“依赖模型”的实在论，这是我们能够希望找到的最佳答案。他们以对M理论的精彩评价来结束全书，M理论解释了制约我们和我们宇宙的定律，它还是完备的“万物理论”的目前可行的仅有候选者。他们写道，如果被证实的话，它将是爱因斯坦寻求的统一理论，也是人类理性的终极胜利。
这是一部简洁的惊人的附有大量插图的指南，导向正在改变我们的宇宙观并危及我们最神圣的信仰系统的一些发现。没有任何一本书像《大设计》这样信息丰富，这样刺激。

《艺术的故事》概括地叙述了从最早的洞窟绘画到当今的实验艺术的发展历程，以阐明艺术史是“各种传统不断迂回、不断改变的历史，每一件作品在这历史中都既回顾过去又导向未来。
继1997年三联版《艺术的故事》后，英国费顿出版社授权广西美术出版社独家出版，也是国内唯一合法授权的版本。

One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it.
In Willpower, the pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with renowned New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control.
In what became one of the most cited papers in social science literature, Baumeister discovered that willpower actually operates like a muscle: it can be strengthened with practice and fatigued by overuse. Willpower is fueled by glucose, and it can be bolstered simply by replenishing the brain's store of fuel. That's why eating and sleeping- and especially failing to do either of those-have such dramatic effects on self-control (and why dieters have such a hard time resisting temptation).
Baumeister's latest research shows that we typically spend four hours every day resisting temptation. No wonder people around the world rank a lack of self-control as their biggest weakness. Willpower looks to the lives of entrepreneurs, parents, entertainers, and artists-including David Blaine, Eric Clapton, and others-who have flourished by improving their self-control.
The lessons from their stories and psychologists' experiments can help anyone. You learn not only how to build willpower but also how to conserve it for crucial moments by setting the right goals and using the best new techniques for monitoring your progress. Once you master these techniques and establish the right habits, willpower gets easier: you'll need less conscious mental energy to avoid temptation. That's neither magic nor empty self-help sloganeering, but rather a solid path to a better life.
Combining the best of modern social science with practical wisdom, Baumeister and Tierney here share the definitive compendium of modern lessons in willpower. As our society has moved away from the virtues of thrift and self-denial, it often feels helpless because we face more temptations than ever. But we also have more knowledge and better tools for taking control of our lives. However we define happiness-a close- knit family, a satisfying career, financial security-we won't reach it without mastering self-control.

很久很久以前，精怪故事不光是给孩子们看的，《安吉拉·卡特的精怪故事集》就是如此。这部精彩的集子囊括了抒情故事、血腥故事、令人捧腹的故事和粗俗下流的故事，它们来自世界各地，从北极到亚洲——里面决没有昏头昏脑的公主和多愁善感的仙子；相反，我们看到的是美丽的女仆和干瘪的老太婆，狡猾的妇人和品行不端的姑娘，巫婆和接生婆，坏姨妈和怪姐妹。
这些出色的故事颂扬坚强的意志、卑鄙的欺诈、妖术与阴谋，采集它们的只可能是独一无二且令我们深深怀念的安吉拉·卡特。
最初以《悍妇精怪故事集》和《悍妇精怪故事集第二卷》的形式出版

"Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene. It permeated into our consciousness, our culture, our science, and our technology. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer showed us what we were capable of creating and what we were capable of destroying - and illuminated the dark corners of the path we were headed down." Today, we have this science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing our way into the information age and Internet society. Neuromancer's virtual reality has become our own. And yet, William Gibson's vision still manages to inspire the minds that will take us ever further into the future.

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and work are both surrounded by controversy. In this welcome reissue of his classic biographical study, complete with a brand-new Preface, Brian McGuinness traces the early years of this fascinating figure and examines the formative influences which shaped his extraordinary life.

The Longman Anthology of World Drama and Theatre is a fully-integrated text/anthology of drama with a global emphasis for the Introduction to Drama course. Divided into two parts: Part One covers the origins of drama: genres, conventions, styles and descriptions of roles, and Part Two is a six chapter anthology of plays, including plays from around the world with a solid core of western plays. Each chapter in Part Two includes visuals, maps, timelines, biographical and contextual headnotes, and an overview of the history and conventions of each period that help students gain a better understanding of the drama and theater being presented.

Although Franz Kafka (1883--1924) completed only a small number of works in his lifetime, perhaps no other author has had a greate r influence on twentieth-century consciousness. This engrossing biography of the Czech novelist and short-story writer emphasizes the cultural and historical contexts of his fiction and focuses for the first time on his complex relationship with his father.
Nicholas Murray paints a picture of Kafka’s German-speaking Jewish family and the Prague mercantile bourgeoisie to which they belonged. He describes Kafka’s demanding professional career, his ill health, and the constantly receding prospects of a marriage he craved. He analyzes Kafka’s poor relationship with his father, Hermann, which found its most eloquent expression in Kafka’s story “The Judgement,” about a father who condemns his son to death by drowning. And he asserts that the unsettling flavor of Kafka’s books—stories suffused with guilt and frustration—derives from his sense of living in a mysteriously antagonistic world, of being a criminal without having knowingly committed a crime.
Compelling and empathetic, this book sheds new light on a man of unique genius and on his enigmatic works.

Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

魔术时刻戏剧性滚落的泪珠，精密练习过上千次的侧脸低头微笑——给下一轮太平盛世的，女儿。
什么事情都在那么早的时候，就被预知了，剩下的只是绣补拼缀那朽烂斑斓的花片，这真是最深的悲哀。
亦真亦幻的岛屿纪事，影影绰绰的剪影侧写。量子力学里充满诗意，经验匮乏者掷下骰子，展现的却是现代人贫乏却多余、悲欢难以言喻的自我孤独宇宙。在《女儿》里，那些“很久很久以前……”“我们原本可以……”，一个更好的世界、更好的自己，最后总是为大大小小测不准的伤害掠夺去了人生。
女儿，作为爱、文明、救赎的原型，在漫长疲惫的未来里，她们将如何弥散、传播、叠加、干涉，自行演化；直到被观察到的那一瞬间，方塌缩成真？
我们当然是在一个分崩离析，全面启动的伪经验世界。我想《女儿》已不是《雷峰塔》里的女儿了。——骆以军