二战期间的英国伦敦，作家莫里斯爱上公务员亨利的妻子萨拉。一次意外事件导致萨拉不辞而别， 莫里斯在恨和嫉妒中度过了两年。两年后 ，他们再次相遇，当初那段感情中炙热的 爱、恨、猜疑、嫉妒、信仰，再度折磨着莫里斯。这段恋情最终如莫里斯所言：变成了一桩有开始也有结束的风流韵事。莫里斯记述了爱情开始的时刻，以及最后的时刻。这本书里有狂热的爱、狂热的恨、狂热的猜疑、狂热的嫉妒、狂热的信仰，有爱情中所有狂热的情感。

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip ofMount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned.

In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based on more than a decade of prodigious research in British, Canadian, and European archives, and months in the field in Nepal and Tibet, Wade Davis vividly re-creates British climbers’ epic attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s. With new access to letters and diaries, Davis recounts the heroic efforts of George Mallory and his fellow climbers to conquer the mountain in the face of treacherous terrain and furious weather. Into the Silence sets their remarkable achievements in sweeping historical context: Davis shows how the exploration originated in nineteenth-century imperial ambitions, and he takes us far beyond the Himalayas to the trenches of World War I, where Mallory and his generation found themselves and their world utterly shattered. In the wake of the war that destroyed all notions of honor and decency, the Everest expeditions, led by these scions of Britain’s elite, emerged as a symbol of national redemption and hope.

Beautifully written and rich with detail, Into the Silence is a classic account of exploration and endurance, and a timeless portrait of an extraordinary generation of adventurers, soldiers, and mountaineers the likes of which we will never see again.

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles.

The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise which operate at the heart of modern marriages.

In Towles’s novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938, with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, “Eve in Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in the midst of Hollywood’s golden age.

Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next.

Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

我们在浪漫关系中焦虑难安，让爱情变得更加困难。资深心理治疗师、亲密关系咨询师杰西卡·鲍姆，用心理学领域的突破性研究，引导我们在亲密关系中为自己画像，了解恐惧、嫉妒和不适当的依赖，帮助我们建立边界，建立内在力量，建立更富有安全感、更令人满意的关系。
她对中国读者说：“我想感谢你拥抱好奇心，允许我通过这本书为你提供促成改变所需的安慰、支持和智慧，与我一同开启疗愈之旅。”

Two lovers in Belgrade, one from the 1700s, the other from the 1900s, reach out to each other across a gulf of time, in a story that parallels the myth of Hero and Leander. By the author of Dictionary of the Khazars.

《荆棘鸟》是一部世界著名的家世小说。家庭秘密、禁爱、新大陆的繁重劳作交织在考琳·麦卡洛这部畅销传奇之中。小说以女主人公梅吉和神父拉尔夫的爱情纠葛为主线，描写了克利里一家三代的故事。克利里家族在20世纪早期来到了澳大利亚，在广袤的德罗海达牧场谋生。小说的时间跨越两次世界大战和经济大萧条，麦卡洛在这广阔的历史大背景下，让主人公轮流登场，上演从1915年至1969年间发生的故事。然而全书的核心还是菲和帕迪·克利里的独生女梅吉和英俊的教区神父拉尔夫之间不可能实现的爱情：拉尔夫一心向往教会的权力，却爱上了克利里家的美丽少女梅吉。为了他追求的“上帝”，他抛弃了世俗的爱情，然而内心又极度矛盾和痛苦。本书问世时引起轰动，在世界各国畅销不衰，并被多次搬上银幕和荧屏。如今，它对新老读者的影响力依然如缕不绝。

★ 一部百科全书式的文化人类学和性学经典著作
★从文化和生物进化的大视角探求性的过去、现在和未来，及其神圣性
★ 破除性史中令人迷惑不解的神话
★ 帮助人们找回失去的对性关系、至上快乐和爱的奇迹的美妙感觉
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本书集中讨论伙伴关系和统治关系两种模式下的性行为。作者雄辩地指出，男女关系只有完成从传统统治关系向伙伴关系的复归，才能恢复性行为美好、高贵、纯洁和快乐的本真特征；在伙伴关系下，性行为不再低贱、肮脏和痛苦，爱情、性爱、生育将成为人类幸福的最重要部分。
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【编辑推荐】
全书纵然是详细谈及从古到今，从动物到人，从西到东，从北到南，全球和全人类性事的各个方面，直至细枝末节，但绝无任何一点以低级趣味取悦读者的迹象。作者立意高远，她要说明的是：人类两性的性-肉体关系同他们的家庭关系、社会人际关系、经济关系和政治关系是同构的，性学是社会学、经济学和政治学的基础。这就是为什么本书的副标题用了这么一句话：“性、神话与女性肉体的政治学”。进一步说，人类只有首先完成性-肉体关系上从统治关系向伙伴关系的复归，才能进而实现家庭关系、社会人际关系、经济关系和政治关系从统治关系向伙伴关系的文化转型。
这是一部高水平的文化人类学著作，也是一部百科全书式的性学著作，它展现了一幅西方意识革命、女权运动和性解放的全景画卷；是一本使读者在“性”特别是女性的“性”方面增长见闻，拓宽眼界，丰富学识，改变观念，提高境界和明辨方向的好书。它注定要成为性学领域传世的经典著作。
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【媒体评价】
一部高瞻远瞩和热情洋溢的学术著作，从性心理学角度揭示了性爱同权力的关系。
——《出版商周刊》（Publishers Weekly）
关于性、爱情、痛苦、快乐、灵性和社会……所有你想了解或应当了解的，这本书里应有尽有。这是一部不朽的杰作，既引人入胜，又极其重要。
——欧文•拉兹洛（Ervin Laszlo），国际智库布达佩斯俱乐部的创始人
……一部富有启发性的著作，从根本上瓦解了原先继承下来的侵犯和统治关系，代之以完全有可能实现的动态的伙伴关系社会的美好前景。
——阿瑟•阿伦（Arthur Aaron），《爱情和自我的拓展》（Love and the Expansion of Self）一书作者
对肉体的直言不讳的、学术性的，又是令人震撼的巡礼……为两性的愈合奠定了基础。
——琼•博瑞申科（Joan Borysenko），《修身养性》（Minding the Body, Mending the Mind）一书作者
……改变的蓝图和希望的宣言。这是所有恋爱者的“必读书”。
——斯图尔特•A. 施莱格（Stuart A. Schlege），美国加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁兹分校人类学名誉教授

This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.
Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.
A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints. They have a passion for food, progressive politics, sexual experimentation and Berlin's twenty-four-hour party scene. Their ideal existence is also that of an entire generation, lived out on Instagram, but outside the images they create for themselves, dissatisfaction and ennui burgeon. Their work as graphic designers becomes repetitive. Friends move back home, have children, grow up. An attempt at political activism during the refugee crisis proves fruitless. And in that picture-perfect life Anna and Tom feel increasingly trapped, yearning for an authenticity and a sense of purpose that seem perennially just out of their grasp. With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, translated by Sophie Hughes, is a sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, brilliantly scathing.

来自《纽约时报》畅销书《美国心灵的溺爱》的合著者，对青少年心理健康崩溃的重要调查，以及一个更健康、更自由的童年的计划
经过十多年的稳定或改善后，青少年的心理健康状况在 2010 年代初期急剧下降。 抑郁、焦虑、自残和自杀的比率急剧上升，在大多数指标上都增加了一倍多。 为什么？
在《焦虑的一代》一书中，社会心理学家乔纳森·海特阐述了同时席卷许多国家的青少年精神疾病流行的事实。 然后，他研究了童年的本质，包括为什么孩子需要玩耍和独立探索才能成长为有能力、茁壮成长的成年人。 海特展示了“以游戏为基础的童年”如何在 20 世纪 80 年代开始衰落，以及如何因 2010 年代初“以手机为基础的童年”的到来而被消灭。 他提出了十多种这种“童年的伟大重塑”干扰儿童社会和神经发育的机制，涵盖从睡眠不足到注意力分散、成瘾、孤独、社会传染、社会比较等各个方面。 他解释了为什么社交媒体对女孩的伤害比男孩更大，以及为什么男孩从现实世界退缩到虚拟世界，给自己、家庭和社会带来灾难性后果。
重要的是，海特发出了明确的行动号召。 他诊断了困扰我们的“集体行动问题”，然后提出了四个可能让我们自由的简单规则。 他描述了家长、教师、学校、科技公司和政府可以采取的措施，以结束精神疾病的流行并恢复更加人道的童年。
海特的职业生涯一直在困难的环境中以数据为依据讲真话——政治两极分化的社区、文化战争的校园，以及现在 Z 世代面临的公共卫生紧急情况。我们不能忽视他关于保护我们孩子的发现—— 以及我们自己——免受基于手机的生活所造成的心理伤害。
From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind,an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health—and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.
Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.
Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the difficult landscapes—communities polarized by politics , campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children—and ourselves—from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

The first book to tell the story of the ways in which design is reshaping life in the twenty-first century
User Friendly opens with two very different stories. In 1979, a series of failures leads to the catastrophic accident at Three Mile Island; one of the most critical of these failures is a design flawa key indicator in the plants control room is hidden from the operators sight line. In 2018, a giant, futuristic Apple campus is built on the back of sales of the iPhone, the most user-friendly device ever made. The two stories are part of one larger narrativethe story of the surprisingly recent innovation of putting users at the center of design.
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of a relatively obscure discipline: user experience design. Its spread is intertwined with the sweeping changes of the last century, from womens rights to the Great Depression and World War II and the rise of the digital era. Its ideals have shaped the world around us, from washing machines to self-driving cars to social media.
Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first timeand youll never interact with technology the same way again.

Barrington Jedidiah Walker.
Barry to his friends.
Trouble to his wife.
Seventy-four years old, Antiguan born and bred, flamboyant Hackney personality Barry is known for his dapper taste and fondness for retro suits.
He is a husband, father and grandfather.
And for the past sixty years, he has been in a relationship with his childhood friend and soulmate, Morris.
Wife Carmel knows Barry has been cheating on her, but little does she know what is really going on. When their marriage goes into meltdown, Barrington has big choices to make.
Mr Loverman is a groundbreaking exploration of Britain's older Caribbean community, which explodes cultural myths and fallacies, and shows how deep and far-reaching the consequences of prejudice and fear can be. It is also a warm-hearted, funny and life-affirming story about a character as mischievous, cheeky and downright lovable as any you'll ever meet.

What forces lead to democracy's creation? Why does it sometimes consolidate only to collapse at other times? Written by two of the foremost authorities on this subject in the world, this volume develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. It revolutionizes scholarship on the factors underlying government and popular movements toward democracy or dictatorship. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Their book, the subject of a four-day seminar at Harvard's Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, was also the basis for the Walras-Bowley lecture at the joint meetings of the European Economic Association and Econometric Society in 2003 and is the winner of the John Bates Clark Medal.

在《试毒小组》一书中，黛博拉•布卢姆为读者讲述了19世纪末20世纪初，发生在美国，为争取食品安全立法，为完善食品监管，为保护消费者权益和公民利益而进行的一系列斗争，这些斗争的发起者和引领者是站在消费者一边的化学家哈维•威利。威利原本在普渡大学任教，于1883年被农业部任命为首席化学家。此后，威利就推动该机构有条不紊地调查食品和饮料欺诈行为，调查涵盖了从黄油、香料到葡萄酒和啤酒等五花八门的食品饮料，对美国食品供应情况进行了详尽的描绘，有些内容骇人听闻。为了测验添加剂的危害性，威利甚至招募志愿者，在农业部化学局进行人体试验，因此被称作“试毒小组”，这也是本书书名的由来。
威利对食品和饮料的调查以及对这些危害人身行为的批评谴责，既激怒了食品制造商，也惊动了那些极具商业头脑的监管者们。尽管饱受压力，但他拒绝停止研究，哪怕其所得出的结论让强大的公司和政治利益方蒙羞。在呼吁纯净食品的运动中，正是通过以威利为首的各界人士的不断努力，美国首部《纯净食品药品法》才得以诞生。威利等人的不屈抗争，则无愧于消费者保护这场漫长战役的先驱称号，而至今，这场战役仍然没有结束。
19世纪末，美国的食物变得愈加危险甚至致命。牛奶和肉类常用甲醛来保存，而后者通常用于尸体防腐；啤酒和葡萄酒用水杨酸来保存，那是一种药用化学物质；罐装蔬菜用硫酸铜来绿化保鲜，可它本身是一种有毒的金属盐；腐臭的黄油经由硼砂处理可以继续食用，而后者本来是一种广为人知的清洁用品。食品制造商则明目张胆出售有害产品，却不会受到监管，也无需接受检查，在他们眼里，利润比顾客的健康更为重要。
为检验这些添加剂和防腐剂的危害，为推动食品安全立法，为完善食品监管，为保护消费者权益，农业部化学家哈维·威利进行“试毒小组”试验，领导了长达30年的食品安全征战，本书讲述了这个精彩绝伦的故事，还原了一段几乎已被遗忘的历史。有两个因素促使我们认真阅读这本书，一是食品安全问题具有普遍性，它不分国界，关系到我们每个的切身利益，了解食品监管的历史至关重要；二是威利的故事具有普遍性，惠及公众的一项改革事业要想成功，是极为艰难的，威利遇到的阻碍，遭遇的挫折，收获的支持，取得的成功，可以作为一面镜子，既昭示未来，也给后继者以经验和启发。
充满了激动人心的细节…..对理解食物政治颇有价值。
——《自然》（Nature ）
1906年《纯净食品药品法》结束了长达一个世纪的丑闻和严酷的政治操控，这与无名英雄哈维·华盛顿·威利的推动密不可分。在《试毒小组》中，布卢姆生动叙述了威利的卓越成就。
——《柯克斯评论》（Kirkus）
布卢姆文笔优雅，书中充满了栩栩如生又令人坐立不安的细节……《试毒小组》给读者以有力警醒，即真理能够战胜谎言，政府可以保护消费者，正直的公仆必会克服私欲和私利。
——埃里克·施洛瑟（Eric Schlosser）
《纽约时报书评》（New York Times Book Review）
细节丰富又极具可读性的美国食品饮料监管历史……《试毒小组》展现了互相竞逐的经济、政治和社会利益团体之间的明争暗斗。了解这个国家食品、饮料和药品规范的确立至关重要，因为这一过程仍在持续。
——《华尔街日报》(Wall Street Journal)
引人入胜……布卢姆讲述的不仅仅是一个科学家的故事，而且是迫在眉睫的，关于科学与社会的关系，关于科学家与普通公民如何携手致力于意义深远的消费者保护的故事。
——《科学杂志》（Science Magazine ）
趣味盎然……布卢姆的广博叙述——包括工业游说团体与科学家联盟、纯净食品倡导者及妇女团体之间错综复杂的斗争——揭示了现代国家监管的诞生，及其与改革主义者的热情、政策纷争和偶尔弄巧成拙之间的纠缠。
——《出版人周刊》(Publishers Weekly)
你可能从来没听说过哈维·华盛顿·威利，但他可能是你现在不会生病的理由……普利策奖得主布卢姆在这本激动人心的书中讲述了威利的全部故事。
——Lit Hub
今时今世，在我们眼里，先祖们的食物上往往笼罩着浪漫的光圈。在如此美好的瑰色中，我们也许想象着祖父母或曾祖父母们吃着——且只吃——农场里青翠欲滴的瓜果蔬菜和牧场上食草放养的牲畜家禽，既满足口腹之欲，又塑造强健体格。我们甚至可能认为，那时的食物饮品纯属天然，当今这种用化学进行改良、欺世惑众的食物制造手段彼时尚未问世。
这一点，我们都错了。
事实上，到了19世纪中期，美国国内售卖的多种食品饮料已经声名狼藉，难以令人信任，有时甚至置人于危境。
牛奶便是很好的例子。奶牛场主们，特别是19世纪向美国拥挤繁华的城市供应牛奶的商人们，知晓可以通过脱脂或者掺水的方式获利。标准做法是在牛奶脱脂后，往每夸脱牛奶中加一品脱温水（译者注：1夸脱=2品脱），这种混合液体呈现浅蓝色。为改善外观，牛奶生产商学会了添加增白剂，如熟石灰或者白垩（译者注：粉笔的主要成分）。有时，他们添加一勺黑糖蜜，使液体偏金黄，呈奶油色。为了模仿液体表面应该出现的奶油层，他们最后可能还会细细浇注一些淡黄色的东西，间或是浓稠的小牛脑浆。
“警察哪去了？”纽约记者约翰·穆拉利质询道，在1853年出版的《纽约及周边区域的牛奶贸易》（The Milk Trade in New York and Vicinity）一书中，他详细描述了这一类——甚至更糟的——制作方法。其证据出自医生们的报告，他们灰心沮丧，直言在纽约每年有成千上万的儿童死于肮脏污浊(细菌滋生)且有意为之的牛奶。他的控诉有点戏剧化——尽管他和很多人都义愤填膺、一心求变，但没有任何法律规定这种掺假行为是非法的。穆拉利还是继续质问：什么时候住手呢？
造假和掺假在其他美国产品中也大行其道。“蜂蜜”通常是增稠的有色玉米糖浆，而“香草”汁则是酒精和综合食用色素的混合物；将草籽混入捣碎的苹果皮酱液，染红并加糖，“草莓”果酱就制成了。“咖啡”主要成分可能是木屑，或小麦、豆类、甜菜、豌豆和蒲公英的种子，它们被烧成焦黑再经研磨就足够以假乱真了。盛有“胡椒”、“肉桂”或“肉豆蔻”的容器中经常被加入更低廉的充数材料，如椰子壳粉、烧焦的绳子，偶尔夹杂地上的垃圾。“面粉”通常以碎石或石膏作为廉价的添加剂。碾碎的昆虫可以混入红糖，往往难以被人察觉——它们的使用常会导致“杂货痒”（译者注：一种经常接触面粉和糖引起的手部皮炎），令人极其不舒服。
到19世纪末，大规模的工业革命——以及工业化学的兴起——也为食品供应带来了许多新的化学添加剂和合成化合物。食品和饮料制造商仍然不受政府法规管束，无须通过基本安全测试，甚至不用在标签上标注成分，他们因而热情地拥抱新材料，将它们混进食物在食品杂货店售卖，有时这些食品是致命的。最受欢迎的牛奶（它在缺乏有效制冷的时代非常容易腐烂变质）防腐剂——甲醛，其使用灵感源于殡仪馆最新的防腐实践。加工商采用甲醛溶液——标上温良无害的名字如“储存剂”（Preservaline）进行售卖——浸泡腐烂的肉类以去味。其他受欢迎的防腐剂包括水杨酸（一种药用化合物）和硼砂（一种以矿物为主的材料，作为清洁产品而广为人知）。
食品制造商也采用提炼自煤炭副产品的新型合成染料，使原本黯淡无光的产品诱惑力大增。他们找到了廉价的合成化合物，可以作为替代品秘密添加进食物和饮料——糖精来代替糖；醋酸代替柠檬汁；实验室制造的醇类或者酒精，经过染色和调味，摇身一变成为陈年威士忌和优质葡萄酒。正如威斯康星州进步党（译者注：19世纪末20世纪初美国历史上掀起了进步主义运动，其中拉福莱特在威斯康星州领导的进步运动，堪称各州进步运动的典范。）参议员罗伯特·马恩斯·拉福莱特（Robert M La Follette）在1886年所描述的那样：“聪明才智携手阴谋诡计，复合制造出新物质进行食物制假。造出看起来像、吃起来像、闻起来也像，但就是与真货本质迥异的东西；并挂羊头卖狗肉，欺骗买家。”
难怪，当惊恐不安的民众开始寻求联邦政府的帮助来制止这种欺诈欺骗行为时，他们是高举“纯净化”的大旗行动的。他们认为自己是“纯净食品运动”的十字军战士，不仅在努力净化被污染的食品供应链，而且在努力清理一个腐烂到根源的体系（有政客因亲善该行业而出手进行保护）。正如穆拉利几十年前所做的那样，新的十字军队伍——由科学家、记者、州卫生官员和妇女团体领导者们组成——强烈谴责他们国家的政府居然愿意让这种腐败行径延续下去。
“纯净食品运动”的领导者们一致认为监管监督是唯一现实的解决方法。他们曾多次看到，美国国内的食品加工商和制造商们对于保护食品供应几乎或者根本没有责任感，尤其当承担责任可能会威胁其利润时。例如，甲醛已经会直接导致死亡——特别是不少孩子死于饮用所谓的防腐牛奶——生产者却毫无所动，继续使用该防腐剂。防腐剂在避免牛奶变质方面的确非常有用——否则牛奶是难以卖出去的——因此，难以舍弃。
当时美国公司已经多次成功阻止了多方试图通过食品安全立法（哪怕是最温和的立法）的努力。这尤其激怒了那些倡导保护消费者安全的人，因为此时欧洲各国政府正在制定措施保障食品安全;一些在美国能随心所欲销售的食品饮料现在被其他国家查禁了。与美国同行不同，欧洲啤酒和葡萄酒生产商是不允许在这些饮品中添加危险防腐剂的（哪怕他们可以将这些添加剂加入售往美国的产品中）。
在1898年于华盛顿举行的第一届“全美纯净食品和药物大会”上，代表们指出，自从大约13年前拉福莱特在参议院发言以来，美国食品行业中的欺诈行为猖獗不休。如果不制定相关政策或计划来处理工业化的食品，这个国家还会持续多久？没有人知道。当然，有位代表满怀希望地表示，“这个伟大的国家（最终必须）在文明国家中占有一席之地并保护其国民。”
在参会的数百名纯净食品倡议者中，许多人在这看似不太可能产生英雄事迹的地方和人物身上，看到事情取得进展的最佳机会：美国农业部的一个小型化学单位及其首席科学家——一位在哈佛大学接受化学专业培训的中年印第安纳州土著。
但实际上，那是明智之选。
在美国联邦政府考虑创建类似于食品药品管理局之类机构之前的数十年，农业部(1862年由亚伯拉罕·林肯总统设立)的任务是分析国内食品和饮料的成分。它是唯一开展这项工作的机构，旨在回应某些农夫的诉求，他们因人工制造食品削弱了其市场而深感不悦。19世纪70年代，来自明尼苏达州农业协会的一份投诉要求该部门调查“科学的错误应用，如给臭鸡蛋除臭、把酸腐黄油去味和将豌豆染绿等”。
但直到1883年农业部任命哈维·华盛顿·威利〔他原本在普渡大学(Purdue University)任教〕为首席化学家后，该机构才开始有条不紊地调查食品和饮料欺诈行为。尽管威利是知名糖化学专家，但他在印第安纳州时就研究过食品制假，并警告过，“假冒”产品对公众健康会产生威胁。抵达农业部后，他立即开展一系列调查，涵盖了从黄油、香料到葡萄酒和啤酒等五花八门的食品饮料，对美国食品供应情况进行了详尽的描绘，有些内容骇人听闻。这些报告促使他于20世纪初在志愿者身上进行人体试验，检测部分最可疑的化学添加剂，这一系列试验被美国报纸称为“试毒小组”研究。
威利对食品和饮料的调查——以及调查结果中的翔实批评——既激怒了制造商，也惊动了那些极具商业头脑的监管者。尽管饱受压力，但他拒绝停止研究。正如纯净食品拥护者们钦佩地指出，威利——及其研究人员——坚持自己的研究，哪怕他们所得出的结论让强大的公司和政治利益方蒙羞。
在这些利益方看来，更糟糕的是，他公布了调查结果。威利坚定地向政府官员和立法者，以及广大公众——包括纯净食品运动人士——通报调查结果。他告知国会某委员会，多年来的研究结果使他确信，礼貌地退让是不可接受的。
无论如何，威利总会脱颖而出。他个头高大，身形魁梧，黑头发黑眼睛，私下里幽默迷人，公共场合时而威严，时而夸张。他将成为20世纪之交全美食品安全监管之战中最闻名遐迩的人物，他建立起一个消费者保护联盟，面对预想中的挫折时集结并号召他们坚持抗争。威利是美国第一位伟大的食品安全化学家，但他对这项事业的最大贡献——甚至超越了他所从事和监管的科学任务，甚至还超出了他能令此项事业引人注目的能力——是“他卓绝的指挥才能”，公共卫生历史学家奥斯卡·安德森·小威利（Oscar Anderson Jr Wiley）写道，并补充说：“他是一个领导者，始终保持全局观”，即强烈的消费者保护意识这一长远目标。
威利也有他的不足之处。作为一个业余牧师的儿子，他很大程度上只是因为自己同盟的要求而站上道德高地。面对敌意，他的立场变得更加强硬，即使在某些细节上，他也常常拒绝妥协。因为烘焙食品中的有毒化合物，他与人争吵，因为标签上的图片，也吵得一样凶。哪怕在吹毛求疵时，他也未能释放善意，这使他的同盟关系紧绷。有些人认为，这降低了他行动上的有效性。而这点他自己也清楚。
威利自己认为，他未能为他的国家实现一种无畏而严厉的监管保护，这种保护才是他孜孜以求的。他无法忘记，也无法原谅：自己曾独自挺立在——有时甚至败于——反对公司干预法案的斗争中。对于自己所取得的伟大成就——1906年具有里程碑意义的《纯净食品药品法》的通过并生效，他进行了自我批判，这很可能削弱了我们对其成就的感知，并让大家低估了其做出的伟大贡献。
要是那样，我们就又错了。
是的，我们现在依然在为纯净食品而战。但是，请大家认识到，我们已经从19世纪食物、饮料和药品全然不受管制的恐怖境地中走出来，跋涉了漫漫长路。在当下，当商业利益方——就像在威利所处的时代那样——抱怨政府过度干预并宣称取消监管的必要性时，我们要记住，威利付出了多大的努力才为我们奠定了基石，使我们能抵抗住各种压力。他改变了我们的监管方式，也改变了我们对食品、健康和消费者保护方面的看法。
也许这并不能总是帮助我们给过去的岁月——甚至那时的英雄们——镀上一层瑰色光辉。但我们应该谨记且不可忘却早期在保护我们国家和个人时所经历的那些教训。当我们回顾全美消费者保护战役中的首场战斗时，我们最好记住它有多么激烈。这是一个引人注目且极富启发意义的故事——它照亮我们脚下的路——故事源自一个简单的事实：我们现在所说的《纯净食品药品法》，曾经被全美上下称为《威利博士法》。

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZE A wondrous and wise coming-of-age love story from the celebrated author of Conversations with Friends At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a story that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the complex entanglements of family and friendship.

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another.
From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year.
Conversations with Friends is about Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and, of course, one another. Twenty-one-year-old Frances is at the heart of it all, bringing us this tale of a complex menage-a-quatre and her affair with Nick, an older married man.
You can read Conversations with Friends as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text. You can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies. However you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.
'Fascinating, ferocious and shrewd. Sally Rooney has the sharpest eye for all of the most delicate cruelties of human interaction.' (Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies)
'Sally Rooney is a writer going all the way to the top. Conversations with Friends features the twenty-first century Irish descendents of Salinger's guileless wiseasses brought to life in prose as taut and coolly poised as early Bret Easton Ellis.' (Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins)
'Written with such precision and perceptiveness, full of arid humour and reckless despair, a novel of spine-tingling salience.' (Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither)
'Forensically smart and pin-sharp witty, this is a book to cherish and a writer to fall in love with.' (Thomas Morris, author of We Don't Know What We're Doing)

When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishin...

本书作者阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德是美国知名社会学家和作家，其所创作的书籍皆与当下美国社会中备受人关注的议题相关，而本书则是她对极化政治现象越来越明显的美国保守派人士的一次深入调查，是一本社会学家所谓的“探索性”及“假设生成”的研究性著作。
霍赫希尔德在路易斯安那州选取了60个人进行交流与访谈，又在其中40个核心访谈对象中选出了6人做了深入剖析，在4000多页访谈记录的基础上写成了此书，通过展现他们生活的多个方面，以及对环保问题的不同看法，挖掘了当下美国社会中保守派人士内心的深层故事，对我们深入了解今日之美国社会尤其有帮助，向我们展示了此前不太为人所知的美国社会的一个面向。
【内容简介】
2016年，唐纳德·特朗普以共和党总统候选人的身份赢得美国总统大选之际，困惑不已的美国国民翻开《故土的陌生人》，试图了解保守派的阶级、种族、教育背景、宗教环境，以及工业、政府、媒体等社交领域对其政治之下的情感所产生的影响。作为当代最具影响力的社会学家之一，阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德在大选前五年深入茶党大本营——路易斯安那州莱克查尔斯一带的社区，以环境污染为锁孔问题，探索保守派人士的一个个深层故事，寻找攀越美国保守派与自由派间“同理心之墙”的可能性。
【本书获誉】
★2016年美国国家图书奖入围作品
★2016年《纽约时报》最值得关注作品
★2016年《新闻日》十大好书
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★《纽约时报》所评“理解特朗普胜选的六本书”之一
所有对政治感兴趣且还未准备好放弃的美国人的必读之书。
——琼·布莱兹，起居室对话组织、天下母亲组织及前进组织共同创始人
堪称典范……迄今对特朗普背后对抗情绪的社会基础及右翼平民主义整体最清晰的记叙性说明文。
——罗伯特·库特纳，《美国展望》
在这个仿佛世界末日将近的时刻，阿莉·拉塞尔·霍赫希尔德的《故土的陌生人》无疑是场及时雨……值得一读。
——肖恩·麦卡恩，《洛杉矶书评》
《故土的陌生人》……为了解一些选民如何感到疏离和脱节提供了极佳视角。
——米奇·兰德里欧，新奥尔良市市长，《政客杂志》
一本令人震惊而眼界大开的书。
——海伦·刘易斯，《新政治家》
《故土的陌生人》的非同寻常之处在于其始终如一的同理心及对政治中情感领域的关注。它被称为应景之作，却能经得住时间的考验。
——加布里埃尔·汤普森，《新闻日报》
霍赫希尔德超越了老生常谈，即支持小政府和减税而不那么富裕的选民的投票不符合自身的经济利益……《故土的陌生人》颠覆了对红脖子的漫画式描绘，展现出一群尊严常常遭忽视之人。
——多顿·阿金多耶，《奥普拉杂志》
霍赫希尔德对人们如何认识自己的生活有浓厚兴趣……这些细致详尽的描述……揭示了霍赫希尔德笔下的‘故土的陌生人’与新一代精英间的巨大分歧。
——杰迪戴亚·珀迪，《新共和》
霍赫希尔德怀着同情心和同理心找到了一种叙述，给（这些人的）生活赋以意义，令他们的经历为人所知——同时解释了他们的政治信念及其他许许多多。想要了解当代美国的人都应该读读这本引人入胜的书。
——罗伯特·莱希，加州大学伯克利分校公共政策学院教授
在当今美国政治中，没有更重要的话题，亦无人能剖析得更为透彻。每一页——每个故事和人物——都让人着迷，书中的分析令人深受启发。
——芭芭拉·埃伦赖希，《我在底层的生活》、《我的失序人生》作者
极富同情心……如今，关于政策、立法乃至事实的问题几乎都从公众话语中消失不见，取而代之的是对候选人‘气质’及品牌的辩论，在这样一个时代，（霍赫希尔德的）分析可谓姗姗来迟。
——纳撒尼尔·里奇，《纽约书评》

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSet against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world—perfect for readers of Behold the Dreamers, White Ivy, and The Leavers.Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she’s never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva’s hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please.1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country’s harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang’s world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough.In a stunning reversal of the east-to-west immigrant narrative and set against China’s political history and economic rise, River East, River West is an intimate family drama and a sharp social novel. Alternating between Alva and Lu Fang’s points of view, this is a profoundly moving exploration of race and class, cultural identity and belonging, and the often-false promise of the American Dream.

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From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.

“Magical thinking” can be broadly defined as the belief that one’s internal thoughts can affect unrelated events in the external world: think of the conviction that one can manifest their way out of poverty, stave off cancer with positive vibes, thwart the apocalypse by learning to can their own peaches, or transform an unhealthy relationship to a glorious one with loyalty alone. In all its forms, magical thinking works in service of restoring agency amid chaos, but in The Age of Magical Overthinking, Montell argues that in the modern information age, our brain’s coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to an eleven.

In a series of razor sharp, deeply funny chapters, Montell delves into a cornucopia of the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, from how the “halo effect” cultivates worship (and hatred) of larger-than-life celebrities, to how the “sunk cost fallacy” can keep us in detrimental relationships long after we’ve realized they’re not serving us. As she illuminates these concepts with her signature brilliance and wit, Montell’s prevailing message is one of hope, empathy, and ultimately forgiveness for our anxiety-addled human selves. If you have all but lost faith in our ability to reason, Montell aims to make some sense of the senseless. To crack open a window in our minds, and let a warm breeze in. To help quiet the cacophony for a while, or even hear a melody in it.