数学科普作家顾森（Matrix67）精心审校·倾情推荐
2016《经济学人》年度荐书、《科学美国人》、欧洲数学协会重点推荐
听会说脱口秀的数学家讲一场克服数学恐惧症的数学栋笃笑
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☆计算机如何思考？
如何用函数制作不一样的情人节礼物？
如何构建四维立方体？
☆四维空间 没有你想象的那么抽象，
这本书可以切割、剪裁、折叠，
将带你探索四维空间！
☆自助式的游戏，
与学校课堂所学不一样的数学，
治愈你和孩子的数学恐惧症！
◎ 内容简介
不少人常常觉得数学有时会违背我们的直觉，但本书的作者认为，数学的非凡之处在于，通过数学逻辑推理工具，我们能够处理超过大脑认知能力的事物，掌握越来越多的抽象概念。在本书中，作者用幽默风趣的语言以学校教授的数学基础（数字、几何）为起点，逐章介绍二维图形、三维图形，最后构建四维图形，带领读者理解四维空间中的奇特图形和数学理论。此外，本书还介绍了素数的奥秘、纽结论、图论、优化算法、条形码和苹果手机屏幕背后涉及的数学原理以及大小不同的无穷，这些理论最终又巧妙地与四维空间联系到一起，超乎想象。本书通过各种数字游戏、谜题、魔术和图形操作，介绍蕴藏其中的趣味数学原理，使原本看起来令人望而生畏的理论变得简单易懂，让读者在阅读中享受数学的乐趣。
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《图书馆期刊》、《新科学家》、英国《观察者》报、加拿大广播公司重点推荐。
这是自马丁·加德纳（Martin Gardner）的《最佳数学和逻辑难题》（My Best Mathematical and Logic Questions）之后关于趣味数学的最佳书籍。
——《图书馆期刊》
◎ 名人推荐
该书展示了数学的趣味性和多样性，内容宽泛，从经典的纽结论、尺规作图到一些比较离奇的主题，如啤酒商标的拓扑结构和纠错围巾。
——乔丹·埃伦贝格（Jordan Ellenberg）
古根海姆自然科学奖获得者，《如何不犯错》（How to Not Be Wrong）的作者
马特·帕克集恶作剧者、魔术师和天才于一身——聪明、幽默，又有些淘气。
——亚当·拉瑟福德（Adam Rutherford）
英国遗传学家、《自然》杂志编辑，《创造》（Creation）的作者

中式泡菜、韩式泡菜、德国泡菜、调味酱、酸黄瓜、酸酵面包、发酵粥品、味噌……普通人就能将这些兼具美味和营养的食物在自家的厨房制作出来！需要哪些器具？盐渍还是卤水腌渍？该怎样好好利用发酵中的微生物？……发酵所需的知识尽在此书。本书完整呈现了发酵的概念、器具以及让人跃跃欲试的制作方法，更有来自世界各地的发酵美食及文化。作者还从真菌、细菌等微生物的世界，一路谈到人类、土地与社会的关系，涉及生物学、人类学、社会学等多个领域，展现出宏大的视野。
编辑推荐
★荣获“美食界的奥斯卡”、美国餐饮业大奖——比尔德年度大奖
★《纽约时报》年度畅销书
★《洛杉矶周刊》评价：“关于发酵，你不得不需要的学习资源。”
★《发酵圣经》是一部深具说服力且实际可行的食物独立制作宣言。
★以生物学、人类学、社会学角度缓缓道出发酵的演进，并带领读者一览现今全球各地不同的发酵方式。知识丰富，内容有趣。从五谷根茎、蔬果到豆类发酵，素食发酵手法尽在此书。
各方评价
关于发酵，你不得不需要的学习资源。——《洛杉矶周刊》
包含了你可以想象到的几乎所有食物和饮料的详细发酵指南。——《图书馆杂志》
《发酵圣经》的知识如此丰富，同时又这么实用。这本书到下个千年依然会是经典之作。
——Gary Paul Nabhan，Renewing America's Food Traditions
桑多尔•卡茨在他的新书中证明了自己是发酵之王。这本书于任何对食物和营养感兴趣的人都是必备品。
——Sally Fallon Morell，韦斯顿•普赖斯基金会主席
这是关于发酵最好的一本书。
——Ken Albaia，食物历史学家，The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home
《发酵圣经》呼吁我们将个人的幸福感与天然的、安全的以及未知的微生物充分联系起来。基于理论、科学和实践观察，桑多尔•卡茨在页面上投射了成千上万个点，以促使我们将自己与自己的经验及兴趣联结在一起。
——Charlie Papazian，The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
桑多尔•卡茨在这本新书中抓住了发酵的本质，发酵是人类掌握的第一个生物技术。
——Patrick E. McGovern，Ancient Wine and Uncorking the Past
《发酵圣经》是一本卓越的书，是一部充满激情和学识的令人印象深刻的作品。
——Deborah Madison，Local Flavors

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
Binding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her.
With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth.

本書創作主題反映了現代消費社會五光十色的精神廢墟，與被異化的人的一般處境。新世代小說家直接大膽的宣告；徹底逆反舊世代的影響，重新設定嶄新的書寫圖象。作者簡介
邱妙津
邱妙津，一九六九∼一九九五，台大心理系畢業，劉學法國巴黎第八大學心理系臨床組。曾於張老師心理輔導中心擔任輔導員，後進入《新新聞》雜誌擔任記者。曾獲聯合文學中篇小說推薦獎、中央日報小說獎，著有小說集《鬼的狂歡》、《寂寞群眾》、《鱷魚手記》等。

Zen To Done takes the best aspects of a few popular productivity systems (Getting Things Done, 7 Habits and others) and combines them with the mandate of simplicity. It makes things as simple as possible, and no more. Zen To Done is a simple system to get you more organized and productive, and keep your life saner and less stressed, with a set of habits. ZTD teaches you: * The key habits needed to be productive, organized, and simplified... and no more than that. * How to implement these key habits... tips on forming a habit. * How to organize these habits into a simple system that will keep everything in your life in its place. * How to simplify what you need to do. * Includes an even simpler version called Minimal ZTD. Dozens of readers have written to me with comments about how ZTD has changed their lives, made them more organized and less stressed, and has worked better than other productivity systems. It’s definitely worth a try.

两代学人，跨越北京、牛津、温州、杭州、上海五地，历时三年完成了这场谈话。从项飙教授的个人经验切入，追索一系列超越自我的问题，其中涉及对中国社会半个世纪以来的变化、知识共同体、全球化与民粹主义、人类学方法论等题目的思考。这本书提供了一份对话实录，也给出了一种审视问题、 思维操练的方法——在自我泛滥的潮流中，如何给自己定位，在全球化的年代，如何创造性地建设身边的小世界，在思想受困的社会，如何回答宏大的命题。

In early twentieth-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread public concern. Discussed formerly in terms of friendship and sisterhood, these relationships came to be associated with feminism, on the one hand, and psychobiological perversion, on the other—a radical shift whose origins have long been unclear.
In this first ever book-length study of Chinese lesbians, Tze-lan D. Sang convincingly ties the debate over female same-sex love in China to the emergence of Chinese modernity. As women's participation in social, economic, and political affairs grew, Sang argues, so too did the societal significance of their romantic and sexual relations. Focusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late imperial period (1600-1911) through the Republican era (1912-1949). She ends by examining the reemergence of public debate on lesbians in China after Mao and in Taiwan after martial law, including the important roles played by globalization and identity politics.

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More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, The 4-Hour Workweek is the blueprint.
This step-by-step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches:
•How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per month and 4 hours per week
•How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
•How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
•How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
•How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and frequent “mini-retirements”
The new expanded edition of Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek includes:
•More than 50 practical tips and case studies from readers (including families) who have doubled income, overcome common sticking points, and reinvented themselves using the original book as a starting point
•Real-world templates you can copy for eliminating e-mail, negotiating with bosses and clients, or getting a private chef for less than $8 a meal
•How Lifestyle Design principles can be suited to unpredictable economic times
•The latest tools and tricks, as well as high-tech shortcuts, for living like a diplomat or millionaire without being either

From Inc.com's most popular columnist, a counterintuitive--but highly practical--guide to finding and maintaining the motivation to achieve great things.
It's comforting to imagine that superstars in their fields were just born better equipped than the rest of us. When a co-worker loses 20 pounds, or a friend runs a marathon while completing a huge project at work, we assume they have more grit, more willpower, more innate talent, and above all, more motivation to see their goals through.
But that's not at actually true, as popular Inc.com columnist Jeff Haden proves. "Motivation" as we know it is a myth. Motivation isn't the special sauce that we require at the beginning of any major change. In fact, motivation is a result of process, not a cause. Understanding this will change the way you approach any obstacle or big goal.
Haden shows us how to reframe our thinking about the relationship of motivation to success. He meets us at our level--at the beginning of any big goal we have for our lives, a little anxious and unsure about our way forward, a little burned by self help books and strategies that have failed us in the past—and offers practical advice that anyone can use to stop stalling and start working on those dreams.
Haden takes the mystery out of accomplishment, proving that success isn't about spiritual awakening or a lightning bolt of inspiration --as Tony Robbins and adherents of The Secret believe--but instead, about clear and repeatable processes. Using his own advice, Haden has consistently drawn 2 million readers a month to his posts, completed a 107-mile long mountain bike race, and lost 10 pounds in a month.
Success isn't for the uniquely-qualified; it's possible for any person who understands the true nature of motivation. Jeff Haden can help you transcend average and make lasting positive change in your life.

At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems
In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast?
Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw.
The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

The Instant New York Times best seller!
Riveting. ... [Marsh] gives us an extraordinarily intimate, compassionate and sometimes frighte ning understanding of his vocation. - The New York Times
Shortlisted for both the Guardian First Book Prize and the Costa Book Award
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction
A Finalist for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
A Finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut into the stuff that creates thought, feeling, and reason? How do you live with the consequences of performing a potentially lifesaving operation when it all goes wrong?
In neurosurgery, more than in any other branch of medicine, the doctor's oath to "do no harm" holds a bitter irony. Operations on the brain carry grave risks. Every day, leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh must make agonizing decisions, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty.
If you believe that brain surgery is a precise and exquisite craft, practiced by calm and detached doctors, this gripping, brutally honest account will make you think again. With astonishing compassion and candor, Marsh reveals the fierce joy of operating, the profoundly moving triumphs, the harrowing disasters, the haunting regrets, and the moments of black humor that characterize a brain surgeon's life.
Do No Harm provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital. Above all, it is a lesson in the need for hope when faced with life's most difficult decisions.

本书系一部散文和短论集，收集著名法学者许章润先生近年所作随笔百余篇，基本意象是在时间之维和乡土缅怀中展开思旅，将对于故土、校园的追想，有关人生和人心的感喟，面对世道人心的体味与品评，尽付于落日苍烟般的娓娓追述。全部内容概分为三部分，即“子时•故乡”、“丑时•异乡”、“寅时•梦乡”和“卯时•愿乡”。

<b>A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life.</b><br /><br />In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called <i>döstädning</i>, <i>dö</i> meaning “death” and <i>städning</i> meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In <i>The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning</i>, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.<br /><br />Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.

Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to learn who to do less, but better, in every area of their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

Ali Wong’s heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they were still in utero) cover everything they need to know in life, like the unpleasant details of dating, how to be a working mom in a male-dominated profession, and how she trapped their dad.
In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly that she even became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, Asian culture, working women, and why you never see new mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads.
The sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal single life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories. Though addressed to her daughters, Ali Wong’s letters are absurdly funny, surprisingly moving, and enlightening (and gross) for all.

★梁文道、刘瑜、熊培云、许知远联袂主编——“理想国译丛”（MIRROR）系列之一（033）——保持开放性的思想和非功利的眼睛，看看世界的丰富性与复杂性。掀开拉美百年孤独的历史真相，深入审视拉美的政治经济环境。
★《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》是一本罕见的历史记述与调查。记者出身的加莱亚诺，用大量富有说服力而鲜少被披露的材料，剖析了拉丁美洲自哥伦布发现新大陆之后的五百年来得崎岖历史，揭露了这片大陆贫穷与动荡的根源。这也许是自马克思以来对原始资本积累的最好描述。
★本书自问世以来，曾被拉美数国独裁政府列为禁书，但仍不断再版，并陆续被迻译为二十多种语言，具有世界性的影响力。巴拉圭前总统费尔南多·卢戈、约翰·伯格、法国《世界报》等推荐。
拉丁美洲，这片富饶辽阔的土地，曾孕育出璀璨文明，为何如今却成为一个贫穷而动荡的大陆，沦为附庸？
1971年，受“依附理论”激发，乌拉圭记者、作家兼诗人爱德华多·加莱亚诺出版了这部震撼世界的《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》，试图解剖拉美的病体，探讨大陆的前途。他用难以辩驳的丰富资料，以澎湃有力的悲情笔法，铺陈出这片大陆自哥伦布开启航海新纪元之后的崎岖命运，写下一页页拉美受难史：金银、可可、棉花、橡胶、咖啡、水果、石油、铁、镍、锰、铜、锡……这些“血管”贯穿了整个拉美大陆，延伸到开阔的尽头，在那里它们流入欧洲和美国的宝库。曾经的殖民主义野蛮掠夺这片土地；而自由贸易、经济援助、合资企业、国际组织等现代文明体制同样以不文明的手段参与古老的掠夺战。拉丁美洲是一个血管被切开的地区，是拉丁美洲不发达的历史构成了世界资本主义发展的历史。
本书试图揭开拉丁美洲孤独百年的真相，也让我们聆听失败者的声音：那些追求拉美独立富强的英雄和他们失败的革命。这是整个拉丁美洲悲剧的缩影。与书中所揭示的历史被官方掩盖和篡改一样，本书在出版之后不久即遭到拉美右翼政府的禁令，然而它却以几十种语言的译本走遍世界，被一代人长久地当作叛逆拉丁美洲的象征。它的论断带着时代的烙印，它的命运却已经融入历史。

《试论疲倦》收录了汉德克从上世纪80年代末到2013年创作的5篇独具风格的叙事作品，即《试论疲倦》、《试论点唱机》、《试论成功的日子》、《试论寂静之地》和《试论蘑菇痴儿》。这五部“小说”对传统叙事形式的解构，比之汉德克之前所有的作品都要走得更远，几乎可以说是创造了一种新的文体。它们是内心的独白，也是心灵的旅程。无论叙事形式如何变化，汉德克始终关注是自我与世界的关系。《试论疲倦》中的疲倦是一种重要的感知世界的方式；《试论点唱机》则回忆和召唤逝去的时光；《试论寂静之地》所说的“寂静之地”竟然是厕所，作者以独到的表现风格完全超过了人们习以为常及不言而喻的东西；《试论蘑菇痴儿》塑造了一个虚构的对蘑菇着迷发狂的人物，从好奇、追寻、痴迷、癫狂，再到逐渐冷静、抽离、解脱，汉德克借此对自己的人生进行了回顾和反思。

出版于一九三二年的《美丽新世界》是奥尔德斯•赫胥黎最杰出的代表作，是二十世纪最著名的反乌托邦文学经典之一，与奥威尔的《一九八四》、扎米亚京的《我们》并称为“反乌托邦”三部曲，在国内外文学界和思想界影响深远。这是一部寓言作品，展现了赫胥黎眼中的人类社会的未来图景：通过最有效的科学和心理工程，人类从遗传和基因上就已经被先天设计为各种等级的社会成员，完全沦为驯顺的机器，个性和自由被扼杀，文学艺术濒于毁灭。继《美丽新世界》这部寓言小说杰作之后，赫胥黎又于一九五八年出版了论著《重返美丽新世界》，在这部雄辩的作品中，作者运用其丰富的社会学和人类学知识，比较了现代社会与他在《美丽新世界》中所构想的寓言性图景的方方面面，像人口过剩、宣传和洗脑以及化学劝诱等，认为他早年悲观的预言正在成为现实。本书将赫胥黎这两部最经典的名著全部收入。