Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave?
Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie?
Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take a chance and keep the extra money?
Most people wouldn't expect an economist to have an answer to these questions--or to other questions of daily life, such as who to date or how early to leave for the airport. But those people haven't met Allison Schrager, an economist and award-winning journalist who has spent her career examining how people manage risk in their lives and careers.
Whether we realize it or not, we all take risks large and small every day. Even the most cautious among us cannot opt out--the question is always which risks to take, not whether to take them at all. What most of us don't know is how to measure those risks and maximize the chances of getting what we want out of life.
In An Economist Walks into a Brothel, Schrager equips readers with five principles for dealing with risk, principles used by some of the world's most interesting risk takers. For instance, she interviews a professional poker player about how to stay rational when the stakes are high, a paparazzo in Manhattan about how to spot different kinds of risk, horse breeders in Kentucky about how to diversify risk and minimize losses, and a war general who led troops in Iraq about how to prepare for what we don't see coming.
When you start to look at risky decisions through Schrager's new framework, you can increase the upside to any situation and better mitigate the downsides.

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?
Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

古印度贵族青年悉达多英俊聪慧，拥有人们羡慕的一切。为了追求心灵的安宁，他孤身一人展开了求道之旅。他在舍卫城聆听佛陀乔答摩宣讲教义，在繁华的大城中结识了名妓伽摩拉，并成为一名富商。心灵与肉体的享受达到顶峰，却让他对自己厌倦、鄙弃到极点。在与伽摩拉最后一次欢爱之后，他抛弃了自己所有世俗的一切，来到那河边，想结束自己的生命。在那最绝望的一刹那，他突然听到了生命之河永恒的声音……经过几乎一生的追求，悉达多终于体验到万事万物的圆融统一，所有生命的不可摧毁的本性，并最终将自我融入了瞬间的永恒之中。

而自己這一輩子，
便是一直在等著一場夏雨。
一片墨蘆。
一個人。
－《活受罪》
—— 執傘的人。
潤濕的長衫下襬。
遙似舊夢的雨聲。
－《長相守》

Every day, all over the world, animals and insects set about the purposeful tasks of designing their homes, catching their prey, and attracting their mates. In the process they create gorgeous nests, shelters, and habitats. Capturing 120 of these wonders in all their beauty and complexity, Animal Architecture presents a visually arresting tribute to the intersection of nature, science, function, and design.
Ingo Arndt’s stunning studio photographs and vibrant in-situ shots of nests, forests, and wetlands provide close-up details of these designs, as well as the animals who created them. These compelling images are com­bined with an abundance of fascinating facts about the evolution of animals and insects, as well as their survival methods, mating habits, genetic dispositions, and more.

An expert in the fields of charisma and leadership, Olivia Fox Cabane has lectured at Stanford, Yale, Harvard, MIT and the United Nations. A frequent keynote speaker and executive coach to the leadership of major companies, she helps people increase their ability to influence, persuade, and inspire others. In "The Charisma Myth", Fox Cabane breaks charisma down into its fundamental components, revealing the secrets to what charisma really is and how it works. From a base of thorough behavioral science, Fox Cabane extracts practical tools for business, giving you the charisma-enhancing techniques she originally developed for Harvard and MIT.

《我的爱如此麻辣》讲述了：夏如星是一个不知天高地厚、任性率真二十多岁女孩，父亲在香港铜锣湾经营一家坚持只卖白汤与红汤的传统麻辣火锅店，如星也在父亲的庇荫下无忧无虑地生活，直到某天父亲意外过世，深受打击的她却又在此时发现了父亲埋藏在心底的秘密——原来她还有两个远在异地的姐妹……
为了维持火锅店、为了重新振作面对现实，夏如星与身在非洲的童年的青梅竹马浩山通起信来。在信中，她倾诉了种种与台湾、成都姐妹相认的喜悦、经营家业的困难、心里逐渐增长的对浩山的特殊情感……
两人因天各一方，只能以书信往返于千山万水之间。信纸上有面对困境的诙谐幽默，也有长久以来对彼此的在意与关心。即使无法朝夕相见但感情如此单纯质朴、纯净真挚。原本陌生的三姐妹更因为齐心照料火锅店而产生深厚的情谊。在爱情悄然降临如星身上的同时，又遭逢了更为巨大的变故，但如星无憾，因为她终于体会到，爱不需要繁复的证据，爱可以原汁原味，简单自然。
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n this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than to heroic resistance. He shows how the war left an important imprint on the structure and culture of Chinese business enterprise by encouraging those traits that had allowed it to survive in uncertain and dangerous times.
Although historical memory emphasizes the entrepreneurs who followed the Nationalists armies to the interior, most Chinese businessmen remained in the lower Yangzi area. If they wished to retain any ownership of their enterprises, they were forced to collaborate with the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing. Characteristics of business in the decades prior to the war, including a preference for family firms and reluctance to become public corporations, distrust of government, opaqueness of business practices, and reliance of personal connections (guanxi) were critical to the survival of enterprises during the war and were reinforced by the war experience. Through consideration of the broader implications of the many responses to this complex era, Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order makes a substantial contribution to larger discussions of the dynamics of World War II and of Chinese business culture.

色气是——
和服后露出的雪白颈项
美妙的手，微微弯曲
危险的美，生命的热力
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意气是——
灰色调、冷色调
潇洒身姿，白茶裤裙
意气拥有过去，而生于未来
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“意气”“色气”与“粹”，日本文化中独有的审美理论和身体话语，其初见于江户时代，诞生于町人阶层，脱胎于女性身体美学，可以 说，这种独特的审美理论源自于社会底层在对抗礼教束缚和贵族审美之过程中燃起的一股生命力，是挣脱社会伦理之桎梏，从正统文化之罅隙中破壳而出的一种青春之美、叛逆之美、自由之美。
本书收录九鬼周造《“意气”的构造》与阿部次郎《德川时代的文艺与色道》，两位日本哲学家以横跨美学、语言学、心理学、社会学和文学的跨界研究角度，从江户时代的风俗、衣装、文学，到身体话语与情爱关系，解读日本文化中极具独创性与先锋性的美学观、身体观与情爱论，追溯其在历史文化中的萌芽与发展，从而发掘出“意气”“色气”“粹”等从日本本土文化中滋生而出的独特美学话语，探寻东方文化的生命活力与内在激情，堪称经典的东方美学理论研究。
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编辑推荐
★美之书、爱之书、身体之书，角度另类的经典文化论，从美学关键词看懂日本。
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★日本思想史上两大叛逆哲学家先锋代表作，日本文学知名学者潜心精译，专文导读
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★“大奥”的悲剧，竟源自于 “色道”？《银魂》《恶女花魁》中的吉原究竟是什么地方？全方位解读江户风俗，探寻东方文化的生命活力
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★日本独有的美之理念：先锋性身体美学，颠覆性婚恋观，创新性的哲学注解
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★一部感官体验的哲学书，一次身体美学的历史漫游，写给浪子、恶女、恋人们、魅惑者的美学书
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★九鬼所持有的“意气说”，正是超越既存的男女关系，以自由为根本的概念。
——松冈正刚（日本文化研究第一人）
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★书中九鬼不仅以西方哲学为底，江户时代的风俗、衣装、文学更是信手拈来。正是这些丰富的意象，构成了“意气”“色气”的鲜活形象。对重视美的九鬼周造这个人的魅力，和他艺术力的广博而感到佩服。
——日亚读者评论

四十堂关于爱情的必修课，社会学家、学者李银河为你讲透爱情、婚姻与性的本质。
本书是李银河四十年来婚姻、家庭与性研究领域的集大成之作，是作者对毕生的研究积累和感悟做的一次系统的总结。
书中透彻地探讨了爱情与性、择偶标准、婚外情、性少数群体、生育观念、性教育、女性独立等话题。从柏拉图之恋到更加多元化的性取向，从个人愿望与习俗规范之间的冲突，到感情的流动性和婚姻的固定性之间的紧张关系，作者通过讲述中外婚姻制度、爱情观念、性观念变迁的来龙去脉和变化趋势，一窥世界上不同文化的情爱方式，拓宽了看待两性关系的视野，并且对于当今中国人所面临的婚姻、爱情与性的现实困境，以及相关的社会热点问题，做了极为详细的观察和解读。
这里没有艰涩的学术理论，这里有很多有趣的个案，以及作者传奇的爱情经历，帮助你破解现实中的困惑，更透彻地了解爱情和两性问题，走出认识误区，突破人生格局，获得更加幸福的人生。

Drawing together many histories-of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores-Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

性教育经典入门书
著名性学专家李银河鼎力推荐
美国历史上首部成功的性学教科书
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 经典杰作：美国历史上首部成功的性学教科书，也是性教育领域的一部经典入门书，被世界多所大学广泛采用为性学课程教材，已被翻译成法语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语、汉语等多种文字。
☆ 名家手笔 ：作者贺兰特·凯查杜里安是世界著名的性教育专家，多次被评为“斯坦福杰出教授”，所教学生逾万人，可谓桃李满天下。凯查杜里安教授非常高兴中文版再次来到中国，并承诺将于本书出版后首次访问中国。
☆ 客观翔实：全书以近百万字的篇幅、数百幅清晰图片、千余条参考书目，以及俯拾皆是的研究数据、精辟的分析、中肯的解释，为读者呈现了深邃的性学知识。
☆ 内蕴丰厚：本书的涵盖范围包括从解剖生理到伦理法律，从性行为的始发到历史演进，涉及性的研究、教育和治疗诸方面，又有东西方性文化的回顾和性学研究的**进展，科学与文化经纬交纵，内蕴悠远绵长。
☆ 名家推荐：我国著名性学专家李银河在其《西方性学名著提要》中鼎力推荐此书。协和医院郎景和教授在《中国性科学百科全书》中赞誉此书为“科学与文化的珍品，知识与健康的宝库”，并积极参与推动该书第四版与第六版中文版的出版。中国科学技术史协会副理事长江晓原认为此书影响了许多中国人看待性的视角与眼光，将性学从医学的附属品中解放出来。
☆ 独家授权：作者特为中文读者添加了从未发表过的《东方文化中的性》一章，形成了该书的全新第六版，并授权以中文版的形式全球首发。
◎ 内容简介
1968 年，凯查杜里安教授在斯坦福大学开设了美国高校首批人类性学课程中的一门。本书便是从其课堂讲义脱胎而来，已作为美国第一部成功的性学教材而被奉为经典，被译成法语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语和汉语等多种语言，风行全球。
这部性学大全观察视野开阔、阐述纵深，将性视为生物本能、生理驱动、精神意志、道德观念、法律习俗等元素多元辐射的焦点，并加以科学地探索，更倡导一种正视、理解、不滥用、不利用的性态度。在本书最令人称道的第六部分，作者以近二十万字的篇章，综合运用考古学、人类学跨文化比较手法，探讨性与文化、历史、道德、法律之间千丝万缕的联系，揭示性的历史文化内涵和哲学美学意蕴（其中包括作者为本次中译本独家贡献的一章从未公开发表过的《东方文化中的性》），其用力之深、手法之新、涵盖范围之广，可谓观止。
这是一部公认的性学经典读本，被认为无论在清晰程度、说服力和材料的翔实可靠诸方面，均没有同类书可与之相媲美。
◎ 名人推荐
《性学观止》在范围、深度和科学性上都是美国第一部最佳的性学教科书。
——《中国性科学百科全书》
在我所知道的关于人类性学的书籍中，没有第二本书——无论在清晰程度、说服力和材料的翔实可靠诸方面能够与这部教科书相媲美。毫不夸张地说，这的确是一部堪称"观止"的性学大全，无论是学者抑或百姓，都会从中受益。……形式美轮美奂，文字亦谐亦庄。我甚至愿意把它称为性学传播的"圣火"……
—— 郎景和，北京协和医院前副院长
凯查杜里安是世界著名性教育家，其名著《性学观止》已被公认为性教育领域的一部经典入门书。
——《西方性学名著提要》，李银河主编
作为一部优秀的性学读物，《性学观止》中“临床”与“文化”穿插交错、融为一体，对于中国性学界来说，是相当有新意的。
—— 江晓原，中国科学技术史协会副理事长

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我们只是想以此来寓意沉溺于故纸堆的惊讶及过程，
期待与你分享这份感受。
100年
249位插画师、艺术家、设计师
450余幅图像
10篇口述
以年代为序勾勒上海百年插画艺术的视觉历程，
与《上海字记》共同集成“字与画”的城市文化图像简史。
从清末小说绣像、西人引入的科技铜版画，
到朵云轩木版水印、民初西式美术教育带来的审美格调，
国货运动的商业 广告包装 ，战时的红色印迹，
至新中国工业腾飞、改革开放掀起的流行风尚……
插画于各个年代及各个领域的表现形式，
在本书中悉数展陈在读者面前。
本书出版获上海文化发展基金会图书出版专项基金资助

本书问世之后轰动美国，成为人们茶余饭后议论的焦点。
“新新闻主义之父”汤姆·沃尔夫以他一贯尖刻而幽默的笔触，无情地嘲弄了背离自然与传统的现代建筑及建筑师们。沃尔特·格罗皮厄斯、密斯·范德罗、勒·柯布西埃、弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特、菲利浦·约翰逊……所有这些建筑大师，都逃不过沃尔夫的调侃。
第一次正式推出中文版本，中国工程院院士关肇邺教授心血译作。
本书对于今天我们探讨和思索现代建筑的得失和未来，极富参考价值。
本书作者通过对西方现代建筑近六十年的梳理和分析，引经据典，对于以“包豪斯”风格为代表的现代派建筑艺术的理论及作品，进行了追根溯源式的点评。在机智幽默的笔触下，包豪斯的霸道和刻板被喻为“殖民”、“盒子”、“密教”等，既形象又尖刻，而作者所持的观点也是中肯而不失偏颇，显示了他深厚的审美素养，以及对建筑文化的深刻洞察。

"The seminal guide to the new morality of personal money management" ( Los Angeles Times (on the first edition))
In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have, this new edition of the bestselling Your Money or Your Life is an essential read. With updated resources, an easy-to-use index, and anecdotes and examples particularly relevant today-it tells you how to:
• get out of debt and develop savings
• reorder material priorities and live well for less
• resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyle
• save the planet while saving money
• and much more
In Your Money or Your Life , Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living.

A fresh twist on assertiveness to help those who feel trapped, suffocated, and oppressed by the weight of others' expectations to break free and live life on their own terms
Many people's lives, relationships, careers, and well-being are marred by the belief that to be liked, loved, and accepted, they have to limit themselves to the behaviors they believe are approved of by others. This might mean always being polite, nice, helpful, charming, fun, making people feel good about themselves, not letting people down, never saying "no," avoiding conflict, or putting others' needs before their own. In her 15 years of clinical experience as a psychologist the author has coined the phrase "the curse of lovely" to describe this growing trend. Many people would like to be known as lovely, but for a growing number of people it can feel like a curse. This highly practical and motivational book shows readers how to break the curse of lovely to live a more complete, fulfilling life. It helps readers identify when "lovely" turns into a curse; examines the lovely child and how it all begins; and discusses the different types of "lovely." It then discusses how to move from curse to gift, remaining lovable yet getting our needs met; details how to tune in to what your body is telling you; teaches the reader to re-evaluate anger; and explores how to say "no" and survive, how to instigate scary conversations, and how to replace the personal rules that put you at the bottom of the pile.

對設計創意人來說，直覺就像是一條隱藏在黑暗中的小巷，
儘管看不見，但它一直在那裡，而且隨時準備好讓人抵達目的地。
@本書收錄了Marimekko歷年來最受歡迎的經典圖案，眾所期待的典藏保存版設計集！是喜歡北歐設計的讀者不容錯過的專書！
@芬蘭不只有NOKIA，時裝品牌Marimekko同樣是芬蘭人的驕傲，罌粟花Unikko圖樣便是產品的正字標記。
@北歐設計美學裡的獨特溫暖詩意，在以藝術印花為主題的Marimekko品牌精神裡表露無遺。
@「我們需要黑暗才能看見光，要有黑白才能看出色彩，工作才知道玩樂，欠缺之後才懂得感恩」──對立元素的產生的視覺衝擊，一直就是Marimekko的內涵之一。對立激發的衝擊才能讓Marimekko走過這六十年。
@Marimekko每款花案圖紋都是不同藝術家創作的，在他們自己的印花工廠開版印製，所以──所有圖案都是獨一無二的藝術品。
Strong, delicate, minimalistic,
graphic, painterly…
Marimekko的設計是否會引發某種情感？
在人類生活的循環中，新的設計應該歸屬何處？會如何被人使用？在何種情況下、何種場合中使用？而誰會使用並且喜愛這樣的設計？
時至今日，Marimekko的設計作品及設計哲學，已經超越了製作印刷圖樣，他們的設計已然和人們的日常活動、生活環境密不可分。
「成為每日生活的一部分，並實現我們所有祕密的心願，這就是我對Marimekko未來的願景，不多也不少。」
Marimekko的創辦人艾米・瑞夏（Armi Ratia）曾經如此簡單又高瞻遠矚地形容她的公司。今天，她的思維依然走在時代前端，與當時並無二致。比起以往尤有甚者，為了趕上現代生活的高速步調，我們每天都與「設計」脫離不了關係；同時，「設計」也以嶄新、多彩多姿的樣貌，實現了我們的夢想。
Marimekko為餐桌、起居室、臥室、浴室和休憩空間帶來色彩和圖樣，已經超過一甲子；也以各式各樣的方式，成就了無數特立獨行的思想家。從過去到現在，Marimekko的顧客享有各式各樣的選擇：條紋或格子、花朵圖案或色塊、正式服裝或休閒。但在這一切目不暇給的樣式中，Marimekko總是專注在最重要的一件事上，就是幫助人們表達他們獨一無二的個性。〔…〕設計這些圖樣的男男女女，他們一路走來，必須與形形色色憤世嫉俗、充滿懷疑的人相抗，並付出一切努力，才得以實現他們心中的願景。
Marimekko蘊藏著數以千計的故事。這本書中流竄著創造力的電流，在當今Marimekko的設計師與過往的大師們之間激出火花。這股創新和靈感的噴泉，至今仍然持續不斷地為平凡的日常物品帶來富饒的生趣：杯子和碗盤、桌巾和餐具、洋裝和外套、提包和帽子等等。發自內心的直覺和想像力就是為他們指路的燈，豐富的經驗和務實技術就是他們穩穩立在地上的兩隻腳。思想和精神在現實的渠道中自由流淌，而由樂趣和體驗而生的創造力，則永遠都會將我們安全地引導到下一個目的地。
Marimekko，就是圖樣世界的各種面向。