These arresting studio portraits capture the beauty, power, and even humor of 150 furry and feathered species - a delight for any animal or bird lover.
Acclaimed photographer Randal Ford celebrates our fascination with and love of animals through his engaging portraits of the animal kingdom. A young male lion cub seems to sport a rebellious mohawk; a chimpanzee adopts a pensive pose; a curious duckling cocks his head at the camera lens and flaps his wings. The featured animals cover a wide range, from birds such as the African crane, cockatoos, flamingos, and roosters, to big cats such as tigers, cheetahs, and leopards, to Arabian horses, bulls, and Longhorn sheep, among many others. Bird and animal lovers will be drawn to the powerful and emotionally engaging images that seem to reveal the individual character of the other animals that share the Earth with us. Elegantly designed and packaged, this book will be the perfect gift and addition to the home of any lover of animals or fine photography.

梁实秋先生是公认的华语世界中的一代文化宗师之一。他的许多文学作品都流播海内外，被人们赞为经典。其中“雅舍小品”更是他的代表作，先后印行了三百多版。《雅舍谈吃》是梁实秋先生一生在饮食文化方面才华的集中展示，如果您也喜欢吃，就和这位美食家一起去大饱口福吧！

This book presents a powerful model for career reinvention that reverses conventional wisdom. It includes fascinating case studies of personal and professional reinventions - from literature professor to stockbroker, from psychiatrist to Buddhist monk, and from investment banker to fiction writer, among others. It gives readers a new way to understand change in their lives. Career change is not a step-by-step linear process - it's crooked and takes much longer than we think. Nor is change the result of one big event. Rather, many small steps add up to a successful change.

A conceptual update of affordance theory that introduces the mechanisms and conditions framework, providing a vocabulary and critical perspective.
Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies—but, Jenny Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, which offers both a vocabulary and necessary critical perspective for affordance analyses.
The mechanisms and conditions framework shifts the question from what objects afford to how objects afford, for whom, and under what circumstances. Davis shows that through this framework, analyses can account for the power and politics of technological artifacts. She situates the framework within a critical approach that views technology as materialized action. She explains how request, demand, encourage, discourage, refuse, and allow are mechanisms of affordance, and shows how these mechanisms take shape through variable conditions—perception, dexterity, and cultural and institutional legitimacy.
Putting the framework into action, Davis identifies existing methodological approaches that complement it, including critical technocultural discourse analysis (CTDA), app feature analysis, and adversarial design. In today's rapidly changing sociotechnical landscape, the stakes of affordance analyses are high. Davis's mechanisms and conditions framework offers a timely theoretical reboot, providing tools for the crucial tasks of both analysis and design.

本书结合历史文献资料和作者多年来所做的田野调查，对明清以来淮北社会生态变迁的历程及其原因进行了深入探讨。分析了治水、漕运和盐务等政策对淮北的地理、河道、水文、物产、民性及经济结构与社会结构等的塑造乃至扭曲作用。认为淮北地区之所以从唐宋时代的鱼米之乡演变为穷乡瘠壤，主要是封建中央政府以“顾全大局”的名义而有意牺牲这一“局部利益”的结果。

Do You Have An Aging Parent Who --Blames you for everything that goes wrong?Cannot tolerate being alone, wants you all the time?Is obsessed with health problems, real, or imagined?Make unreasonable and/or irrational demands of you?Is hostile, negative and critical? Coping with these traits in parents is an endless high-stress battle for their children. Though there's no medical defination for "difficult" parents, you know when you have one. While it's rare for adults to change their ways late in life, you can stop the vicious merry-go-round of anger, blame, guilt and frustration.For the first time, here's a common-sense guide from professionals, with more than two decades in the field, on how to smooth communications with a challenging parent. Filled with practical tips for handling contentious behaviors and sample dialogues for some of the most troubling situations, this book addresses many hard issues, including: How to tell your parent he or she cannot live with you. How to avoid the cycle of nagging and recriminations How to prevent your parent's negativity from overwhelming you. How to deal with an impaired parent who refuses to stop driving. How to asses the risk factors in deciding whether a parent is still able to live alone.

A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities — both mundane and life-changing — in which money may play little or no role.
If you’ve ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you’ve participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of “goods,” like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google? This is the territory of matching markets, where “sellers” and “buyers” must choose each other, and price isn’t the only factor determining who gets what.
Alvin E. Roth is one of the world’s leading experts on matching markets. He has even designed several of them, including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients. In Who Gets What — And Why, Roth reveals the matching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions.

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential.
When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it’s necessary to do good work.
But daring leadership in a culture defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start.
Four-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question:
How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?
In this new book, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions of readers have come to expect and love.
Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”
Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this book is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.

《中國佛教通史》第一卷，以東瀛學者的眼光識見，來觀照中國佛教發展的史乘，對於中國佛教在各朝各代的興衰遞變，頗有中肯的敘述。
本卷包含東漢明帝感夢求法、早期的佛典舊譯時代，從安世高、支婁迦讖到竺法護的譯經事業，及探討華北胡族國家的佛教發展情況，乃至東晉中國佛教開拓者──道安大師的偉大功績等。

Sheryl Sandberg's business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.
In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in contemporary culture. It looks at the rise of a corporate '1% feminism', and at how feminism has been defanged and depoliticised at a time when women have borne the brunt of the financial crash and the gap between rich and poor is widening faster than ever.
Surveying business, media, culture and politics, Foster asks whether this 'trickledown' feminism offers any material gain for women collectively, or acts as mere window-dressing PR for the corporations who caused the financial crash. She concludes that 'leaning out' of the corporate model is a more effective way of securing change than leaning in.

▶实力作家、汪曾祺文学奖获得者姚鄂梅最新小说，以机巧布设家庭新序，平凡中捏塑伦常奇情。
▶《家庭生活》是一本鲜活的描写当代家庭生活的小说，围绕这家庭这个社会里最小的基本单位，探讨人性与命运的流转。家庭是文学书写中的常见母题，姚鄂梅却写出了新意。小说语言朴素，却拥有统摄人心的力量。
▶突然做出过激行为的儿子，买卖婴孩的男人，介入别人家庭的第三者，社交网络时代下的新家庭关系，这些故事源自我们的经验范畴，又延伸出了新的思考，金钱与情感、欲望与责任等，而读者得以在重审家庭的过程中定义自己。
▶从姚鄂梅所写的诸多故事里，读者看到了在社会剧烈转型的过程中，社会矛盾的尖锐、多样，似乎“无论男女，都被各种各样的焦虑和困苦包围着”，姚鄂梅作为写作者，总是比普通人更敏感、更容易发现生活中无处不在的困惑，她把这种困惑表现出来，给人一些教训，有时是通过很刁的角度进行的。——梁鸿鹰（评论家）
▶作为一位实力派小说家，姚鄂梅的创作特点显而易见：注重讲故事，不搞叙事圈套；顺着人性这根藤蔓，将悲惨命运一捋到底，黑色阴影笼盖四野；把理想主义冲动和悲悯情怀深深埋藏，将现实的严酷呈现到不尽人情的地步；寓历史意识于小故事之中。——师力斌（《北京文学》杂志副主编）
▶姚鄂梅身为女性在如此一种情节设计的背后，我们可以真切感觉到作家对于女性不幸命运的强烈同情与悲悯。与这种同情悲悯相比较，尤其不容忽视的，借助于这种别出心裁的情节设计，姚鄂梅对于当下社会不合理的性质提出了殊为激烈的文学抗议。——王春林（评论家，山西大学文学院教授）

★日本奇幻、科幻小说大奖得主，直木奖多次入围，《达·芬奇》杂志2017年度白金之书，日本奇幻文学作家森见登美彦出道十四年的散文收录。
★《春宵苦短，少女前进吧！》《有顶天家族》《企鹅公路》《四叠半神话大系》等脑洞神作的诞生笔记。作者用可爱诙谐的笔调，记录着周围发生的一切事情——在鸭川的堤坝散步，感受京都之美，品尝波子汽水的清甜，回到四叠半的公寓创作小说……每一篇文章都是清新的生活体验。
★篇幅短小，言辞诙谐，幽默可爱，畅聊人生与创作。从影响自己的书籍电影，到每部小说的创作初衷，再到童年时和成人后的一些记忆片段，这一次聊个痛快！
★在小小四叠半公寓产生的神话脑洞，以及因此对父亲的回忆与感谢，森见登美彦的文字，温暖又奇异，将人不知不觉带入一个现实与奇幻交织的世界。
内容简介：
《春宵苦短，少女前进吧！》《有顶天家族》《太阳之塔》……这些脑洞大开、萌动生趣的故事是如何诞生的？
四叠半（约七平方米）的公寓里能创作出怎样天马行空的神作？
日本奇幻天才作家森见登美彦出道十四年以来全部随笔收录，畅聊人生与创作——
·影响过森见登美彦的书：《内田百闲全集》、樋口一叶的《一叶恋爱日记》、中岛敦的《山月记》、柯南·道尔的《五个橘核》《福尔摩斯探案全集》……
·影响过森见登美彦的电影：《岸和田少年愚连队》《千与千寻》《砂之器》……
·森见笔下绝美京都的秘密、充满了回忆时光的四叠半公寓……
除此之外，本书还收录了作者从未出版过的连载专栏《空转小说家》，并且初次公开了特别写下的、之前绝未公之于众的秘藏版《森见登美彦日记》。
如何从一个普通大学生成长为奇幻名家，森见登美彦用可爱、诙谐、举重若轻的笔调，全部记录在这本书中！

★近代日本建筑学科的创始者、亚洲建筑研究的先驱性人物伊东忠太的中国建筑手绘笔记。
★四色印刷，900余幅手绘图片记录中国古代建筑以及风土人情，图像细致入微、精美丰富。
★北京天津、河北河南、山西陕西、四川重庆、湖北湖南、贵州云南，120年前的中国，你家乡的样子。
本书是对伊东忠太1902年4月至次年6月在中国进行历访调查时所保存的5册野外笔记原书进行了拍摄、整理、附加图注以及解说等编纂而成。900余幅手绘图片，包含建筑文物、风俗古迹，其中大部分为彩图。其中所绘建筑，因战乱及自然灾难，有的已损毁，有的已不复旧时模样，伊东忠太的手绘笔记是中国建筑文物难得的历史记录。

In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success... And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing.
Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely.
And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass – “servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since.
Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.
With over 150 pages of metaphysical illustrations, practical advice on how to implement a yogic regiment, and a chapter dedicated to quotes and book recommendations, Be Here Now is sure to enrich your emotional, physical, and spiritual life.

为加强社会治安、防患于未然，日本警方特设立“安全地区”，并派“和平警察”驻守。同时在多处安置摄像头，监管地区内居民的衣食住行，一旦发现可疑人物，便立刻实施逮捕，甚至处刑。
此法令一出，普通百姓顿觉安心。
然而，当有一天，和平警察深夜来访，抓走了你信赖的邻居、朋友或亲人，你心中会不会产生怀疑？
正义的天平从来没有平衡过；助人为乐终害己；流言总比实话传得快。这样的世界是不会变好的，如果你不爽，那不然……你搬去火星住啊。

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band–and meeting the man who would become her husband–her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.
Vivacious and plainspoken, lyrical and honest, Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, and complete with family photos, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world.
Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected.
In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind’s experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity’s achievements and an acute witness to its frailties.
The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

蕨类植物是一类特殊类型的植物，它们和种子植物不同，不依靠种子而是靠孢子繁殖。正因如此，它们的成长周期中存在两个世代，有着两种形态。蕨类植物的栖息范围广泛，从热带一直到极地都有；蕨类植物的种类也极其多样，除了生长于地面，还有攀爬或附生在树上，以及本身就是大树形态的蕨类；有些蕨类有毒，有些颜色艳丽，有些蕨类能在如沙漠般的炎热和干旱中死而复生。在这本综合了蕨类植物的生活史、分类学、适应性、地理学及生态学、演化历史的书中，作者还强调了蕨类植物和人类的关系——文学和电影中扮演的角色，以及蕨类植物名字的由来。

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.