在比小说还奇怪的老虎主人世界里，有各种古怪和另类的人物，但几乎没有人能比乔·野生更引人注目。他是一个留着胭脂鱼发型、持枪的一夫多妻主义者和西部乡村歌手，管理着俄克拉荷马州的一个路边动物园。魅力超凡但误入歧途的乔和一群令人难以置信的人物（包括毒枭、骗子和邪教领袖）都对老虎以及这种危险动物所获得的地位和关注有着莫大的热情。但卡罗·巴斯金（老虎保护区的动物维权人士和所有者）威胁要关闭他们的动物园时，事情变得可怕起来，他们的争斗最终让乔·野因一场雇凶杀人的阴谋而被捕，并揭露了一个扭曲黑暗的故事，而比老虎更危险的只有老虎的主人。

Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At it’s core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their posionous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.

Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1949 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivors of the 1950's Polio Epidemic in America are rare. Polio victims, like Paul Alexander, who require the assistance of an "Iron Lung" respirator for their life's breath are even rarer. Paul Alexander has crafted his life against all odds and has a courageous and compelling story to share with us all.
Victims of Polio, their families, friends and communities are struggling to cope with this obscure but still dangerous infectious disease. This book is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit and an affirmation of the need to continue efforts to eradicate the pestilence of Polio from the planet....

宇宙对所有人敞开，天文爱好可以让人意识到存在的美、理性和伟大。
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☆ 写给科学与星空的情书：“旅行者号”金唱片制作人、NASA空间探索政策顾问蒂莫西·费里斯经典力作，国际天文年指定读物，获评《纽约时报书评》年度好 书、美国笔会文学奖·年度研究型非虚构类作品。
☆ 细腻优美的星空知识科普：作者如向导一般，带你零障碍游览宇宙，欣赏土星环缝、木星大气层、狮子流星雨、指环星云、室女超星系团、宇宙泡……饱含诗意的笔触令人手不释卷。
☆ 全世界观星者的逸闻趣事集：作者从天文史中钩沉索隐，并亲访各行各业痴迷于星空的人们，勾画出天文爱好者的生动群像。BBC《仰望夜空》节目主持人帕特里克·摩尔爵士、皇后乐队吉他手布赖恩·梅、艺术家詹姆斯·特瑞尔，用精彩故事讲述天文爱好如何改变自己的人生。
☆ 科学与人文并举：全书从天文延伸到历史、社会、文化等多个层面，凝聚着作者对宇宙和人生的思考，视角宏大，文笔隽永。
☆ 对零基础者友好：附录包含天文术语表、四季星图、星表、观测指南、经典书目等丰富信息。
☆ 天文科普名家力荐：天文学家、《星星离我们有多远》作者卞毓麟和天文科普作家、牧夫天文论坛创始人解仁江倾情作序，国家天文台科普工作者、天文摄影师张超审订推荐。
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皇后乐队吉他手布赖恩·梅怎样一边研究行星际尘埃，一边写歌？彗星猎人戴维·列维用什么器材发现23颗彗星？从未上过学的帕特里克·摩尔如何成为英国国宝级天文学家，并通过目视观测到月球东海？……
自古以来，无数观星者用毕生的热情和好奇去测量宇宙、了解自然，奠定了当代天文学的基础。蒂莫西·费里斯在本书中讲述了他们探索星空的故事，并以专业、隽永的笔触，带领读者浏览从太阳系行星到遥远深空的宇宙图景。他将自己与众多观星者的人生经历巧妙地融入篇章结构，既勾画出业余爱好者在天文发展史上扮演的重要角色，也揭示了天文学与更广阔的文化之间的联系。
书后附有星表、星图、观测技巧和天文术语表，为我们欣赏夜空之美提供了入门指南。
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费里斯是天文领域的桂冠诗人，他的这部新作文笔优美、引人入胜，必将被一代代观星者视若珍宝。掩卷之后，你会渴盼夜幕快些降临，好走出家门仰观宇宙，亲眼看看那些闪烁的奇迹。
——《华盛顿邮报》
费里斯带领读者在已知的宇宙中做了一次壮游，从邻近的行星启程，直抵遥远的星系。他的叙述气势磅礴、行文典雅，充满了历史与科学的细节。
——《探索》频道
一位一流的科普作家深入探究了他对观星的毕生热情，结成此书。对于志趣相投的人和未来的天文学家而言，它是必读的经典。
——《科克斯书评》
费里斯拥有令人艳羡的天赋，能够描摹夜空之壮美。你会不由得被吸引到户外，仰望星空并惊叹不已。
——《新科学家》
这本书为新手开启了步入天文学领域的门扉，也俘获了业已痴迷于星空的人们。
——《出版人周刊》
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全书充满引人入胜的故事……这些故事激情洋溢，人文与天文并驾齐驱。
——卞毓麟
无论是蒂莫西的个人感触与畅想，还是他与受访者的对话，都沉浸在散文一般的语境中，文笔优美，情感真挚。
——解仁江
这是一本天文爱好者的情怀之书，喜爱探索夜空的你一定能从中找到共鸣。
——张超

How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class—among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.
Two years before the housing market collapsed in 2008, Donald Trump looked forward to a crash: “I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy,” he said. But our future president wasn’t alone. While millions of Americans suffered financial loss, tycoons pounced to heartlessly seize thousands of homes—their profiteering made even easier because, as prize-winning investigative reporter Aaron Glantz reveals in Homewreckers, they often used taxpayer money—and the Obama administration’s promise to cover their losses.
In Homewreckers, Glantz recounts the transformation of straightforward lending into a morass of slivered and combined mortgage “products” that could be bought and sold, accompanied by a shift in priorities and a loosening of regulations and laws that made it good business to lend money to those who wouldn’t be able to repay. Among the men who laughed their way to the bank: Trump cabinet members Steve Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross, Trump pal and confidant Tom Barrack, and billionaire Republican cash cow Steve Schwarzman. Homewreckers also brilliantly weaves together the stories of those most ravaged by the housing crisis. The result is an eye-opening expose of the greed that decimated millions and enriched a gluttonous few.

一名充满争议的教派领袖在俄勒冈州的沙漠中建起乌托邦之城，他与当地居民的冲突演变为了全球性丑闻。

You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms.
Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.

Jaron Lanier, a Silicon Valley visionary since the 1980s, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. Now, in his first book, written more than two decades after the web was created, Lanier offers this provocative and cautionary look at the way it is transforming our lives for better and for worse.
The current design and function of the web have become so familiar that it is easy to forget that they grew out of programming decisions made decades ago. The web’s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one’s presence anonymous) that have had enormous—and often unintended—consequences. What’s more, these designs quickly became “locked in,” a permanent part of the web’s very structure.
Lanier discusses the technical and cultural problems that can grow out of poorly considered digital design and warns that our financial markets and sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter are elevating the “wisdom” of mobs and computer algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals.
Lanier also shows:
How 1960s antigovernment paranoia influenced the design of the online world and enabled trolling and trivialization in online discourse
How file sharing is killing the artistic middle class;
How a belief in a technological “rapture” motivates some of the most influential technologists
Why a new humanistic technology is necessary.

Controversial and fascinating, You Are Not a Gadget is a deeply felt defense of the individual from an author uniquely qualified to comment on the way technology interacts with our culture.

在比小说还奇怪的老虎主人世界里，有各种古怪和另类的人物，但几乎没有人能比乔·野生更引人注目。他是一个留着胭脂鱼发型、持枪的一夫多妻主义者和西部乡村歌手，管理着俄克拉荷马州的一个路边动物园。魅力超凡但误入歧途的乔和一群令人难以置信的人物（包括毒枭、骗子和邪教领袖）都对老虎以及这种危险动物所获得的地位和关注有着莫大的热情。但卡罗·巴斯金（老虎保护区的动物维权人士和所有者）威胁要关闭他们的动物园时，事情变得可怕起来，他们的争斗最终让乔·野因一场雇凶杀人的阴谋而被捕，并揭露了一个扭曲黑暗的故事，而比老虎更危险的只有老虎的主人。

About the book:
From Publishers Weekly
Cheeky, irreverent and playfully ingenuous, this abbreviated history of democracy is everything one would expect from the writers of Comedy Central's fake news program, which recently (and somewhat scandalously) won the Television Critics Association's award for outstanding news and public affairs series. The book is laid out like a textbook, with "Discussion Questions" ("Why do you think the Framers made the Constitution so soul-crushingly boring?"), "Classroom Activities" ("Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia!") and plenty of amusing graphics, including a board game that resembles the game Life but which follows a presidential term: "Optimistic press release on economy ineffective. Spin again." No one evades the authors' scrutiny, not even the Pilgrims, who came to America "to escape religious persecution... create a society where they could worship as they pleased and one day, God willing, even do some persecuting of their own." The media fares the worst, however. An entire chapter is devoted to telling the "inspirational" story of how the media "transformed itself from a mere public necessity into an entertaining profit center for ever-expanding corporate empires." But if this and other criticisms kindle a few unpatriotic feelings, a section describing how worse off the rest of the world is should buoy spirits. From its dedication ("To the huddled masses—Keep yearnin'!") to its final chapter, which lampoons the 2004 presidential candidates, this humorous sendup of American politics never fails to entertain, poke fun and provoke thought.
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谢丽尔，一位极端敏感的43岁单身女性。独居，患有癔球症：咽部一个想象出来的肿块在持续折磨着她。她在一家女性防身术工作室工作，甜蜜地暗恋一位年长她22岁的同事，相信和他从石器时代起便是生生世世的夫妻。以颇为古怪的方式，谢丽尔井井有条地组织着自己的生活，并且悠然自得。但当老 板夫妇强迫她无限期留宿他们20岁的女儿柯丽时，这一切都宣告结束了……
作为一个自私而残暴的性感金发妞，柯丽像“三只熊”故事里的小女孩那样闯入了谢丽尔的生活。然而正是她日复一日的挑衅和欺凌，将谢丽尔从幻想中驱赶入了真实世界，并且出乎所有人的意料，引领她遇见了一生的爱。
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Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus's children, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.
--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the 'roaring twenties' and a devastating expose of the 'Jazz Age'. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore of the American seaboard in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, Jay Gatsby and the dark mystery which surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 ...more [close] The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of the whole generations, or the power of its admonitions--a power that seem to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Fascinating read for anyone living in the U.S., May 23, 2000
By A Customer in Amazon.com
The American Ways is an easy to read, well-organized, comprehensive book discussing how the U.S. developed its value system. It builds from the history behind the values to how these values are exhibited in today's political system, religion, ethnic assimilation, business, home and family life, education, sports, and leisure time. The reader can easily understand or recognize the value placed on activities in these various areas of American life, both in the past and present.
Excellent references and exercises accompany each chapter.
I have used it with many newcomers to the U.S. and given it to many U.S. born friends. All have enthused over its thought-provoking content. I highly recommend for anyone who wishes to develop a deeper understanding of our great country and all we have to be thankful for.