Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike against an equally relentless, wily, and elusive enemy. From the first chemotherapy developed from textile dyes to the possibilities emerging from our understanding of cancer cells, Mukherjee shapes a massive amount of history into a coherent story with a roller-coaster trajectory: the discovery of a new treatment--surgery, radiation, chemotherapy--followed by the notion that if a little is good, more must be better, ending in disfiguring radical mastectomy and multidrug chemo so toxic the treatment ended up being almost worse than the disease. The first part of the book is driven by the obsession of Sidney Farber and philanthropist Mary Lasker to find a unitary cure for all cancers. (Farber developed the first successful chemotherapy for childhood leukemia.) The last and most exciting part is driven by the race of brilliant, maverick scientists to understand how cells become cancerous. Each new discovery was small, but as Mukherjee, a Columbia professor of medicine, writes, "Incremental advances can add up to transformative changes." Mukherjee's formidable intelligence and compassion produce a stunning account of the effort to disrobe the "emperor of maladies." (Nov.) (c)
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《研究之美》是计算机科学大师、“算法分析之父”高德纳（Donald E.Knuth）在20世纪70年代旅居挪威时撰写的适用于计算机科学的一种全新基础数学结构的情景小品。全书以一对追求自由精神生活的青年男女为主人公，展开了一段对于该种全新结构的发现和构造的对白。在此过程中，本书充分展示了计算机科学的从业人员进行全新领域探索时所必备的怀疑、立论、构造、证明、归纳、演绎等逻辑推理和深入反思的能力。《研究之美》可以看作是读懂高德纳的艰深著作《计算机程序设计艺术》和《具体数学》的钥匙。

这是一本投资实务领域的世界级和世纪级的经典著作，自从1949年首次出版以来，本书即成为股市上的《圣经》。本修订版在完整保留格雷厄姆原著1973年第4版的基础上，由贾森•兹威格根据近40年尤其是世纪之交全球股市的大动荡现实，进一步检验和佐证了价值投资理论。其中大量的注释和每章之后的点评非常有价值。股神巴菲特特为本书撰写的序言和评论是这个版本的又一个亮点。
本书首先明确了“投资”与“投机”的区别，指出聪明的投资者当如何确定预期收益。本书着重介绍防御型投资者与积极型投资者的投资组合策略，论述了投资者如何应对市场波动。本书还对基金投资、投资者与投资顾问的关系、普通投资者证券分析的一般方法、防御型投资者与积极型投资者的证券选择、可转换证券及认股权证等问题进行了详细阐述。在本书后面，作者列举分析了几组案例，论述了股息政策，最后着重分析了作为投资中心思想的“安全性”问题。
本书主要面向个人投资者，旨在对普通人在投资策略的选择和执行方面提供相应的指导。本书不是一本教人“如何成为百万富翁”的书籍，而更多地将注意力集中在投资的原理和投资者的态度方面，指导投资者避免陷入一些经常性的错误之中。

《从理学到朴学:中华帝国晚期思想与社会变化面面观》旨在从清代社会经济的背景考察江南学术共同体的演变过程。这一考据学赖以生存的江南学术共同体后为1850年爆发的太平天国战争摧毁。《从理学到朴学:中华帝国晚期思想与社会变化面面观》还着重讨论了明清时期大运河沿岸的文化中心城市苏州、杭州、扬州、常州，力图透过政区和地方史的视角展示考据学的崛起。与传统著作中俯拾即是的思想研究理路不同，《从理学到朴学:中华帝国晚期思想与社会变化面面观》更注重“哲学的框架”。作者艾尔曼指出，18世纪晚期的中国历史，实际上是17世纪以来政治、学术变革的延续及其发展的极致，其影响甚至播及19世纪乃至2。世纪。18世纪的历史是17世纪满族入关到19世纪西方入侵的漫长历史进程的有机组成部分，因而不应被孤立出来，搁置一边。

Practical and professional, this text bridges the gap between how undergraduate econometrics has traditionally been taught and how empirical researchers actually think about and apply econometric methods. The text's unique approach reflects how econometric instruction has evolved from simply describing a set of abstract recipes to showing how econometrics can be used to empirically study questions across a variety of disciplines. The systematic approach, where assumptions are introduced only as they are needed to obtain a certain result, makes the material easier for students, and leads to better econometric practice. It is organised around the type of data being analysed - an approach that simplifies the exposition and allows a more careful discussion of assumptions. Packed with relevant applications and a wealth of interesting data sets, the text emphasises examples that have implications for policy or provide evidence for or against economic theories.

A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience. -- The New York Times
"[The] most comprehensive saga of how America became involved in Vietnam. It is also the Iliad of the American empire and the Odyssey of this nation's search for its idealistic soul. THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST is almost like watching an Alfred Hitchcock thriller." -- The Boston Globe
"Deeply moving . . . We cannot help but feel the compelling power of this narrative . . . . Dramatic and tragic, a chain of events overwhelming in their force, a distant war embodying illusions and myths, terror and violence, confusions and courage, blindness, pride, and arrogance." -- Los Angeles Times
"Most impressive, superb -- perceptive, literary, multidimensional." -- The New York Times Book Review
"A story which every American should read." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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經濟學人十大好書。
亞馬遜書店百大好書。
紐約時報百大好書。
通過什麼來了解中國？何偉（Hessler）這一次選擇了汽車。嘟嘟——這個紐約客記者租了一部美國產的切諾基吉普車，開始了他的尋路中國之旅。在第一部裡，他選擇了沿古代中國橫貫東西的城牆而行（沒錯，它今天被民族主義和愛國主義者塑造為長城），這裡崎嶇難行，本非道路，古老頹敗的城牆承載了古今殊途的意涵：古代它是中國抵禦胡人的工具，今天抵禦胡人的城堡沒落荒廢，人們沿著新修的路去了南方尋找機會。第二部裡，汽車潮和旅遊熱沿著新開的道路湧向了長城腳下作者居住了二載的一個鄉村，他透過這個叫做三岔的村莊，具體而微地呈現了新興商業力量和傳統政治力量如何左右它，如何左右這裡的村民。第三部裡，他沿著十車道高速公路來到一個個南方雨後春筍般混亂成長的工業城市，圍繞著一台山寨版胸罩調節扣機器發生的諸多有趣故事，他明白了什麼是中國版本的工業革命。還有什麼比這更不可思議呢？一座座山被削平變成了工廠，種植柑橘和小麥的手開始給女人做胸罩，成功就在眼前，如果不沿著路往前走，就無法抵達，而更主要的是，他們已經無法返回。
本書最打動讀者的是對眾生深入到本質的刻畫，何偉真實再現了這個時代裡很多中國人特有的空洞感：周遭變化太快，應接不暇，為之所累，而迅速的變化也帶來了太多的不確定。簡言之，這不是一個關於汽車和道路的故事，而是一部處於瘋狂移動狀態中的國家的浮世繪，更是一部中國如何被莫名快速的力量所驅動和駕馭的深入記錄。是的，在中國，每個人都在路上。
「誰能弄明白這樣一個世界？」
我們向正在努力尋找答案的何偉表示感謝。

《国家的兴衰:经济增长、滞胀和社会僵化》这部伟大著作的主题是：一个社会政治稳定的时间越长，就越可能发展起造成耕地经济效率的强大特殊利益集团。奥尔森一生致力研究的核心问题就是为什么有的国家兴盛发达，有的国家不断衰落？他从分利集团多少、分利集团涉及范围的广泛程度等方面解释了第二次世界大战之后西方发达民主国家一一美国、德国、日本等经济迅速增长的原因。同时，他对国家衰落的原因提出了一个一般性的解释，即大量分利集团、分利联盟的存在。奥尔森认为大量分利集团的存在可能会成为一个国家衰落的充分必要条件，但不存在大量分利集团却似乎不能够成为一个国家繁荣的充分条件，充其量它只能是一个必要条件。

This title is the "New York Times" bestseller - now in paperback. In "America Alone", Mark Steyn uses his trademark wit, clarity of thought and flair for the apocalyptic, Mark Steyn to argue that America is the only hope against Islamic Terrorism. Steyn addresses the singular position in which America finds itself, surrounded by anti-Americanism on all sides. He gives us the brutal facts on these threats and why there is no choice but for America to fight for the cause of freedom - alone.

本書是在探討人與「家屋」之間的牽絆與疏離，其實是反映了自我內在種種隱晦不明的情愫，其中並上演著人生裡的悲歡大戲。|本書共分十章，文未附有練習題，幫助讀者了解對「家屋」的感受、「家」對自己的意義，以及與家中成員的親疏關係。作者以訪談的方式訪問了許許多多的人，並藉由案主的繪圖分析得知其與「家屋」間的關係，每一個案例都是一個家庭、親人、夫妻間的故事。本書不僅提供讀者對於自己為何會成為今日的我，有了更寬廣、更深刻的體認；也可幫助人們重新審視或打開自己長久與家庭間那些糾纏不清的心結。

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with active verb mirrors relations of natural force. But previous editions of the essay represent Pound's understanding - it is fair to say, his appropriation - of the text. Fenollosa's manuscripts, in the Beinecke Library of Yale University, allow us to see this essay in a different light, as a document of early, sustained cultural interchange between North Americaand East Asia. Pound's editing of the essay obscured two important features, here restored to view: Fenollosa's encounter with Tendai Buddhism and Buddhist ontology, and his concern with the dimension of sound in Chinese poetry. This book is the definitive critical edition of Fenollosa's important work. After a substantial Introduction, the text as edited by Pound is presented, together with his notes and plates. At the heart of the edition is the first full publication of the essay as Fenollosa wrote it, accompanied by the many diagrams, characters, and notes Fenollosa (and Pound) scrawled on the verso pages. Pound's deletions, insertions, and alterations to Fenollosa's sometimes ornate prose are meticulously captured, enabling readers to follow the quasi-dialogue between Fenollosa and his posthumous editor. Earlier drafts and related talks reveal the development of Fenollosa's ideas about culture, poetry, and translation. Copious multilingual annotation is an important feature of the edition. This masterfully edited book will be an essential resource for scholars and poets and a starting point for a renewed discussion of the multiple sources of American modernist poetry.

《汉译经典09:中国人的气质》是明恩溥在《字林西报》发表的一组介绍中国人生活、风俗和性格的文章的合集。《汉译经典09:中国人的气质》生动概括、描述了中国人的一些典型性格特点。虽然有一些误解和偏见，但大部分的观点还是客观犀利的，可以让我们对那个时代中国人的生活“真相”有深刻的了解。鲁迅先生生前曾向国人郑重推荐此书。

对于言论自由和信仰自由，几乎每天都有新的议题在共众传递，并且对美国宪法第一修正案内涵的关注从未减弱过，而这当中涉及的核心问题就是良心的自由。如果对于人类个人信念基础上的行动需要有限制，这种限制是怎样的？应该由谁来设定？良心该向谁负责？是制度？国家教会？还是唯独上帝？
本书追溯良心自由这个观念从帕金斯到麦迪逊及《权利法案》这段时期的演变过程。发源于英格兰的良心自由观念，之后在英国的北美殖民地开花结果，最终以美国宪法第一修正案的形式被制度化，在人类历史上奠定了信仰自由的原则。书中作者将注意力特别集中在帕金斯、罗杰•威廉姆斯、威斯敏斯特大会、殖民地政策，以及各州与联邦的法律上，向读者展示了良心自由的观念如何奠定了美国思想的基础，并在随后的岁月中广为传播。到20世纪，它所提倡的原则被《世界人权宣言》接纳，成为普世价值准则。

这是一部有关中国食物的内容广泛且引人入胜的历史学和人种学著作。作者从上古史入手，展示了食物如何从一开始就在中国的官府政策、宗教仪式和身体营卫诸方面占据着中心位置，然后顺着时间线索把笔触一直伸向当代中国，丰富、迷人而又发人深思地描述了中国饮食文化的地区多样性。

In The Blank Slate , Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense.

New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books—including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate—have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important and popular science writers.
Now, in The Stuff of Thought, Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. What does swearing reveal about our emotions? Why does innuendo disclose something about relationships? Pinker reveals how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we give our babies have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society.
With his signature wit and style, Pinker takes on scientific questions like whether language affects thought, as well as forays into everyday life—why is bulk e-mail called spam and how do romantic comedies get such mileage out of the ambiguities of dating? The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of readers of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

从卡耐基到洛克菲勒，从福特到凯洛格，从索罗斯到比尔与梅琳达·盖茨，美国的各大基金会的影响进入了每一个美国人的生活当中。基金会在社区服务、教育、社会福利、科学研究、医药卫生以及有关可持续性发展等多个领域，不但对美国社会有深刻影响，而且其影响遍及全世界。
本书作者搜集了大量的数据、资料和珍贵的图片，在书中评述了美国现代公益事业的历史渊源、兴起的社会背景及其特点，探讨了基金会所代表的思想理念、基金会的动机和效果。书中列举了20世纪初、中、后期约20家各种类型有代表性基金会的发展历程、思想理念和运作方式。作者还集中论述了美国基金会与中国的关系，概述了近年来中国公益事业发展的状况。
本书系《散财之道：美国现代公益基金会述评》（2003）一书的最新版本。

《美国1787 讲疏》内容简介：美国的立国和兴起，是世界现代史的中心事件之一。美国的兴起与其宪政的相关度问题，更是身处现代化漩涡中竭力保全自身文明政教制度的中国知识界的核心关切。如今，离开这一事件、这一问题，中国知识界几近无法“正常”思维——吊诡的是，美国宪政对中国知识界来说迄今仍是未解之谜。
长期以来，我们思考美国宪政的一般路径是：将之拆解为一系列据说可放诸四海皆准而中国自不能不准的宪政“要件”，寻觅这些要件在中国的蛛丝马迹，嗣后有则再接再厉，无则奋起直追。然而，正如循此路径而进的宪法大家张君劢所示：这种路径最终只会得出如下结论：中国人因所谓“民族劣根性”而缺少宪政习惯——这无异于说，除非彻底抛弃中国文明传统，否则永无“宪政”之日。

恐怖炸弹袭击、睾丸激素、1分钟相亲、Facebook、政治诽谤阵营怎样影响其他人？传统的社会心理学教材会列出一列你感兴趣的话题，但是却少将事实与理论有机结合在一起。由《影响力》作者罗伯特•西奥蒂尼领衔编著，本书14章深度剖析涉及了历史上最具影响力的人物和历史事件，用哈佛经典案例式的大案例分析方法，“研究者如同侦探”将方法和应用融入故事。
本书是人们了解自身、了解社会、了解自己与社会关系最佳的指导性书籍。虽然外表厚重，但内容并不晦涩。娓娓道来的故事以及丰富的图片，看过之后，你会重新认识自己与他人及社会的关系。
本书特点：大案例，14章深度剖析了涉及历史上最具影响力的人物或事件。新视野，全书围绕“行为背后的目的到底是什么”和“目的背后的人和环境发挥了怎样的作用”两个主题讨论。新趋势，本书并不是单纯解释心理学的现象，而是探索现象背后的原因，是从解释心理学向预测心理学的转型之作。