Beautiful, brainy Tsuda Akane is indispensable at the robotics manufacturer where she works, but her colleagues never saw her private side. At home, Akane's a hot mess with an apartment that looks more like a landfill than a living space. When she drunkenly orders a maid to help her tidy up, the lady android who arrives is a horny hottie who's about to give Akane more service than she bargained for!

丰子恺艺术启蒙系列：正如钱锺书先生在《围城》中所言，“教授成为名教授，有两个阶段：第一，讲义当著作；第二，著作当讲义”，丰子恺先生的教学和创作生涯亦是如此。从1919年到1943年，丰子恺先生先后任教于上海专科师范学校、浙江上虞春晖中学、上海艺术大学、重庆国立艺专、浙江大 学，从图画教师逐步成为美术教授、知名画家，其讲义先后出版为艺术专著——《西洋美术史》(开明书店/1928)、《绘画与文学》（开明书店/1934年）、《西洋建筑讲话》（开明书店/1935）、《艺术丛话》（上海良友/1935年）、《艺术漫谈》（上海人间书屋/1936年）、《艺术修养的基础》（桂林文化供应社/1941年）——对当时的青年学生是极好的艺术启蒙。
为什么古埃及帝王要耗费巨大心力来建造庞大而笨重的金字塔？
为什么希腊神殿的柱子上有一道道细沟？
为什么早期的基督教堂都建在地下？
为什么现代建筑越建越高，却越来越不适宜人类居住？
……
在丰子恺先生看来，伟大的建筑，往往能从直感上给人一种启示，使人心暂时远离颠倒梦想的苦恼，而回顾生命的本源。
这一次，丰子恺先生凭借自己深厚的艺术积淀，将建筑的发展与经济、政治、宗教、文化的发展关系细细分析，娓娓道来。从中，我们可以领悟古今建筑艺术的魅力，更能窥察其间人心的变化，所以是一件很有兴味的事。
本书在《西洋建筑讲话》（开明书店/1935）的基础上编辑而成，新版增添图片百余幅，更好地展现了丰子恺眼中的“建筑世界”。

父母与孩子之间的关系，对孩子一生有着深远的影响。然而，在很多家庭中，这种关系经常出问题，令人痛苦，甚至很难再回归正常。
这是一个从业20年的资深心理治疗师的畅销儿童心理学巨著，在英国掀起巨大轰动，全英家长热烈讨论，甚至没有孩子的人都迫不及待地买来，用于改善自己的人际关系。
这到底是一本什么样的书呢？简单一句话：它用育儿理论讲透了亲子关系，以及围绕着我们的家庭成员关系，所有人际关系，让我们更自在地活在关系里。这是一本关于“关系”的书——我们与孩子的关系，与自身的关系，与过去的关系，与周围世界的关系。
也许你是一位工作忙碌的父母，你的孩子仿佛从不入睡，总是在哭闹或尖叫，敲打平底锅，戳插座，喊着要更多的糖，看更多的电视。这些让你感到疲倦和绝望，很难保持冷静和理智。你是一位好家长，但还可以变得更好：菲利帕·佩里的这本畅销书，将帮你打开育儿的新视野。
与一般的“亲子教养书”不同，这本书并没有把养育孩子当作令人生畏的杂事。孩子不是一堆有待处理的麻烦，也不是一个需要精益求精的项目。育儿是一种关系，孩子是要被理解和支持的个体。归根结底，在孩子身上的投入，不仅会使他们以后成为更优秀的人，而且也会使你自己变得更好。
它的阅读体验并不轻松，正如作者所说，书里的内容会让你觉得很难受，很不舒服，甚至很生气，要牺牲你的自尊来阅读。因为它会让你直面自己在陪伴孩子的过程所犯下的种种错误。
任何父母都会为了孩子奉献自己，但美好的愿望也许不会带来理想的结果。父母的心愿就是让孩子幸福快乐，让他们过上美好的生活，但我们往往意识不到，自己是如何在无心之中伤害了孩子。
这本书会剖析我们在亲子教养方面犯下的错误，尤其是那些我们从来不想犯的错，这些错误的深层心理根源，以及有了过错之后我们如何弥补，修复裂痕。
这本书将帮你：
了解自己的成长经历如何影响了你的亲子教养方式。
看清亲子关系是如何变质的，以及如何让它恢复正常。
与孩子建立真正的联结，学会用心倾听，培养情绪稳定的孩子。
打破恶性循环，及时补救与修复裂痕，避免把你以前吃过的苦复制到孩子身上。
学会处理自己与孩子的感受，让孩子在和谐的关系中成长。
学习如何与婴儿、儿童、青少年和长大成人的孩子相处，让亲子关系变成孩子一生的力量之源。
这本书充满了睿智和明智的建议，是每个父母都想读的书，也是每个孩子都希望自己的父母拥有的书。

Git is the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It took the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and is used by small development shops and giants like Google, Red Hat, and IBM, and of course many open source projects.
* A book by Git experts to turn you into a Git expert
* Introduces the world of distributed version control
* Shows how to build a Git development workflow
What you’ll learn
* Use Git as a programmer or a project leader.
* Become a fluent Git user.
* Use distributed features of Git to the full.
* Acquire the ability to insert Git in the development workflow.
* Migrate programming projects from other SCMs to Git.
* Learn how to extend Git.
This book is for all open source developers: you are bound to encounter it somewhere in the course of your working life. Proprietary software developers will appreciate Git’s enormous scalability, since it is used for the Linux project, which comprises thousands of developers and testers.

The Celestine Prophecy is one of the most widely read books of our times. It's insights have proven to strike deep and universal chords. Now those insights have inspired this breathtakingly handsome illustrated book.
Grounding her poetic story in the tenets found in James Redfield's remarkable work, Dee Lillegard tells the story of Celestine, a young boy, who "finds his path but loses his way" while wandering in the woods. How he uses the insights that he finds on his journey to find his way back to the safety of his own home and bed is the core of this intriguing tale. Magnificent illustrations by Dean Morrissey not only depict the action but help readers understand the meaning of the song of Celestine.
Here then is a new and enriching treatment of James Redfield's themes that can be understood and relished by perceptive readers of all ages.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks.
Nobody needs telling there isn’t enough time. We’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and “life hacks” to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks.
Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we could do things differently.

***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021***



"Horgan's suggestions will appeal to anyone who has ever done a job they hated..."--The Guardian



"Work hard, get paid". It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie - at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation.



Amelia Horgan poses three big questions here: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it? While abolishing work altogether is not the answer, Lost in Work shows that when we are able to take control of our workplaces, we become less miserable, and can work towards the transformative goal of experimenting with 'work' as we know it. Chapters include:



*Work, capitalism and capitalist work

*Contesting 'work'

*The paradox of new work

*What does work to do us as individuals

*What does work to do society

*Phantoms and slackers: Resistance and work

*Time off: Resistance to work



For a new generation of workers dealing with Covid19, work from home, hybrid work, burnout, anxiety, and more, author Amelia Hogan offers a clear-eyed look at the work we do and suggests that in a new work in which work as we know it has changed dramatically, "we might think that something needs to change." Maybe change begins with reading this remarkably revelatory book, because Hogan articulates that gnawing feeling that we have at the office that something isn't right and that the systems of our civilization are designed to chain and subdue us.

From Haifa, Israel to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brought delicious Chinese food to cities across the globe. Unravelling the complex history of cultural migration and world politics, Cheuk Kwan narrates a fascinating story of culture and place, ultimately revealing how an excellent meal always tells an even better story. Dotting even the most remote landscapes, family-run Chinese restaurants are global icons of immigration, community and delicious food. The cultural outposts of diasporic peoples, bringers of dim sum, fortune cookies and creative culinary hybrids like the Madagascar classic, hot soupe chinoise, Chinese restaurants are a microcosm of greater social forces—an insight into time, history and place. From Africa to South America, the Jade Gardens and Golden Dragons of Chinatowns and beyond reveal the intricate tangles of social schisms and political movements, offering insight into global changes and diasporic histories, as the world has moved into the 20th and 21st centuries. Author and documentarian Cheuk Kwan, a self-described “card-carrying member of the Chinese diaspora,” weaves an unexplored global narrative by linking the myriad personal stories of chefs, entrepreneurs, labourers and dreamers who populate Chinese kitchens world wide. Behind these kitchen doors lies an intriguing paradox which characterizes many diasporic communities—how Chinese immigrants have resisted—or often been prevented from—complete assimilation into the social fabric of their new homes, maintaining strong senses of cultural identity, while the engine of their economic survival—the Chinese restaurant and its food—has become seamlessly woven into cities all around the world. An intrepid travelogue of grand vistas, adventure and serendipity, Have You Eaten Yet? charts a living atlas of the Chinese diaspora, revealing the synergies of politics, culture and family.

Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.
Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale has long been a global phenomenon. With this stunning graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, beautifully realized by artist Renee Nault, the terrifying reality of Gilead has been brought to vivid life like never before.

Build an iconic shopping experience that your customers love—and a work environment that your employees love being a part of—using this blueprint from Trader Joe’s visionary founder, Joe Coulombe.Infuse your organization with a distinct personality and culture that draws customers in a way that simply competing on price cannot.Joe Coulombe founded what would become Trader Joe’s in the late 1960s and helped shape it into the beloved, quirky food chain it is today. Realizing early on that he could not compete and win by playing the same game his bigger competitors were playing, he decided to build a store for educated people of somewhat modest means. He brought in unusual products from around the world and promoted them in the Fearless Flyer, providing customers with background on how they were sourced and their nutritional value. He also gave the stores a tiki theme to reinforce the exotic trader ship concept with employees wearing Hawaiian shirts. In this way, Joe laid down a blueprint for other business owners to follow to build their own unique shopping experience that customers love, and a work environment that employees love being a part of. In Becoming Trader Joe, Joe shares the lessons he learned by challenging the status quo and rethinking the way a business operates. He shows readers of all types:How moving from a pure analytical approach to a more creative, problem-solving approach can drive innovation.How finding an affluent niche of passionate customers can be a better strategy than competing on price and volume.How questioning all aspects of the way you do business leads to powerful results.How to build a business around your values and identity.

A gorgeous visual celebration of America's public libraries including 150 photos, plus essays by Bill Moyers, Ann Patchett, Anne Lamott, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, and many more.

Many of us have vivid recollections of childhood visits to a public library: the unmistakable musty scent, the excitement of checking out a stack of newly discovered books. Today, the more than 17,000 libraries in America also function as de facto community centers offering free access to the internet, job-hunting assistance, or a warm place to take shelter. And yet, across the country, cities large and small are closing public libraries or curtailing their hours of operation. Over the last eighteen years, photographer Robert Dawson has crisscrossed the country documenting hundreds of these endangered institutions. The Public Library presents a wide selection of Dawson's photographs— from the majestic reading room at the New York Public Library to Allensworth, California's one-room Tulare County Free Library built by former slaves. Accompanying Dawson's revealing photographs are essays, letters, and poetry by some of America's most celebrated writers. A foreword by Bill Moyers and an afterword by Ann Patchett bookend this important survey of a treasured American institution.

「我跟你討論這些東西，其實不是想解決世界的問題，而是想解決我自己的問題。」
《生於1984》是郝景芳尋找自我的紀錄，也是初次對於純文學的嘗試。內容講述三十年裡兩代人的心路歷程和人生選擇。
1984年，正是中國經濟狂飆的時代；經歷文革、上山下鄉的父親，本應重享天倫之樂，卻捲入一場黑市外匯交易的危機，在內心負疚的驅使下，前往世界各地，尋求精神出路。1984年，女兒出生，被歸類為「八零後」；她從小按部就班上學讀書，生活平穩，卻在大學畢業那年面臨人生方向的選擇，陷入迷茫，試圖從紛雜的現實中尋找自己，以及內心疑問的答案，經歷了公務員生活、北漂生活、精神崩潰的痛苦，最終獲得領悟，找到內心的清明安寧和一生志向。全書部分內容暗合喬治•奧威爾的作品《一九八四》，從1984年出發，是平行宇宙的一個分岔口，Y字型的歷史走到這一點，和小說終於在陌路的兩端彼此相望。

Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thinking in Bets will train you to combat your own biases, address your weaknesses, and help you become a better and more confident decision-maker.
What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut.
What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive?
Making good decisions doesn't have to be a series of endless guesswork. Rather, it's a teachable skill that anyone can sharpen. In How to Decide, bestselling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions. You'll learn:
• To identify and dismantle hidden biases.
• To extract the highest quality feedback from those whose advice you seek.
• To more accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions.
• When to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance.
• To make decisions that more effectively help you to realize your goals and live your values.
Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this book helps you analyze key decisions you've made in the past and troubleshoot those you're making in the future. Whether you're picking investments, evaluating a job offer, or trying to figure out your romantic life, How to Decide is the key to happier outcomes and fewer regrets.

Marvel's newest recruit shares his own inspiring and unexpected origin story, from China to the bright lights of Hollywood. An immigrant who battles everything from parental expectations to cultural stereotypes, Simu Liu struggles to forge a path for himself, rising from the ashes of a failed accounting career (yes, you read that right) to become Shang-Chi.
Our story begins in the city of Harbin, where Simu's parents have left him in the care of his grandparents while they seek to build a future for themselves in Canada. One day, a mysterious stranger shows up at the door; it's Simu's father, who whisks him away from the only home he had ever known and to the land of opportunity and maple syrup.
Life in the new world, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be; Simu's new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to - although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language, and values.
As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious son well; he gets A's, crushes national math competitions, and makes his parents proud. But as time goes on, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the expectations placed on his shoulders, and finds it harder and harder to keep up the charade.
Barely a year out of college, his life hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Unemployed, riddled with shame and with nothing left to lose, Simu finds an ad on Craigslist that will send him on a wildly unexpected journey, into the mysterious world of show business.
Through a swath of rejections and comical mishaps, it is ultimately Simu's determination to carve out a path for himself that leads him to not only succeed as an actor, but also open the door to reconciling with his parents. After all, the courage to pursue his ambitions at all costs is something that he inherited from his parents, who themselves defied impossible odds in order to come to Canada.
We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir - it's a story about growing up between cultures, finding your family, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.

What if we could learn to accept I don't know and embrace the possibility that the future is full of mystery, excitement, and unlimited opportunity?

The Art of Uncertainty is an invitation to the reader to consider its essential message: learning to love the unknown by staying present in the moment. If the difficulties of recent years have taught us anything-particularly those who "did everything right" and still saw it all fall apart-it's that none of us has as much control over our lives as we believe. The only thing we can control is our next thought.

What if we could learn how to be at peace with uncertainty and embrace the possibility that the future is full of mystery, excitement, and unlimited opportunity? What if we discovered that a new paradigm can be more fulfilling, more rewarding, and more peaceful than what we have known? Living in the I don't know and loving it is an art form we can all master, and The Art of Uncertainty is the perfect guidebook.

本书为中国大百科全书出版社“外国法律文库丛书”的一种，此为第二版。
本书是1974年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者、本世纪最重要的自由主义理论家弗里德利希•冯•哈耶克历经17年的思考而分别于1973年、1976年和1979年发表的最后一部系统性的学术著作。这部重要著作大体上依据“法律、立法与自由 ”这个总标题所关涉的庞大主题而相应地被分成三卷：第一卷为“规则与秩序”，第二卷是“社会正义的幻象”，第三卷则是“自由社会的政治秩序”。哈耶克在这部著作中详尽讨论了法律与立法之间的关系，并阐明了“进化论理性主义”的法治观；他经由法律理论的阐发和建构，最终完成了他从社会理论到自由理论再到法律理论这一宏大的自由主义社会哲学体系。

《通往奴役之路》一书在哈耶克的学术生涯中占有极其重要地位，这本书为他赢得广泛的注意，他的世界性声誉就是由此奠定的。他在这本书中论证道，当时正在计划中的福利国家不是为个人自由的战斗在和平时期的继续，倒是朝着专制的方向迈出了一步。因此，他认为追求计划经济，其无意识后果必然是极权主义。为了反对这种计划经济，哈耶克有力地重申了他一贯坚持的古典自由主义观点，同时，也允许适度的政府活动，但这仅限于符合他的法治概念的那些活动形式。应该强调的是，哈耶克的自由主义包括对许多有用的社会制度的赞赏，但这些制度只能是人的自发行动的后果，而不能是人设计的结果。这一论点是从休漠、亚当・斯密和苏格兰历史学派那里继承过来的，它在哈耶克的著作中占据了重要位置。由此出发，哈耶克认为，良好的社会不是简单地依赖于在政府所提供的法律框架内追求私利，相反，它应依赖于一套复杂的法律、道义传统和行为规则的框架，这套框架的特点应该为大多数社会成员所理解和认同。<br />这部著作从问世直到今天，一直在学术界中存有争议。其中，一个重要原因在于这本书本身的内在悖论。我们知道，哈耶克这本书的观点来源于关于市场和其它非主观设计的制度所具有的“自发秩序”的特性的思想。这种思想使哈耶克遇到一些难以解决的问题，使他不可避免地陷于社会进化和团体选择的争端之中。他对选择机制特点的论述与自由主义的关系并不总是清楚的。这些论点的非理性特征与其高度理性的几近乌托邦的新自由主义思想，形成鲜明的对照。《通往奴役之路》一书所存在的这种缺陷，日后也为作者本人意识到，他在后来出版的《自由宪章》和《法律、立法和自由》三部曲中，多处涉及这个难题，试图将古典自由主义与“进代”的主题结合起来。至于这一尝试成功与否，尚有待评说，但哈耶克及其著作无疑对学术界产生了重要影响，并对政治思想领域中古典自由主义的复兴发挥了极大的作用。

"A charming manifesto—as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book."—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every day.
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.