本书是一部科幻中、短篇小说选集。全书共遴选了《脸上的门 口中的灯》《爱的虚数》《暴风雨来临的时刻》《法利奥的爱人》《光明之神》《灵山》《魔车》《收藏家的狂想》《一件展衣》等十二篇优秀的科幻小说作品。作品故事离奇，情节生动、人物性格特征丰富、语言流畅，翻译水平较高。

Once the sole possession of fans and buffs, the SF author Philip K Dick is now finding a much wider audience, as the success of the films "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report" shows. The kind of world he predicted in his funny and frightening novels and stories is coming closer to most of us: shifting realities, unstable relations, uncertain moralities. "Philip K Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern" examines a wide range of Dick's work, including his short stories and posthumously published realist novels. Christopher Palmer analyzes the puzzling and dazzling effects of Dick's fiction, and argues that at its heart is a clash between exhilarating possibilities of transformation, and a frightening lack of ethical certainties. Dick's work is seen as the inscription of his own historical predicament, the clash between humanism and postmodernism being played out in the complex forms of the fiction. The problem is never resolved, but Dick's ways of imagining it become steadily more ingenious and challenging.

Why do we do the things we do?
More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky’s genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.
And so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. A behavior occurs–whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. What went on in a person’s brain a second before the behavior happened? Then Sapolsky pulls out to a slightly larger field of vision, a little earlier in time: What sight, sound, or smell caused the nervous system to produce that behavior? And then, what hormones acted hours to days earlier to change how responsive that individual is to the stimuli that triggered the nervous system? By now he has increased our field of vision so that we are thinking about neurobiology and the sensory world of our environment and endocrinology in trying to explain what happened.
Sapolsky keeps going: How was that behavior influenced by structural changes in the nervous system over the preceding months, by that person’s adolescence, childhood, fetal life, and then back to his or her genetic makeup? Finally, he expands the view to encompass factors larger than one individual. How did culture shape that individual’s group, what ecological factors millennia old formed that culture? And on and on, back to evolutionary factors millions of years old.
The result is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted, a majestic synthesis that harvests cutting-edge research across a range of disciplines to provide a subtle and nuanced perspective on why we ultimately do the things we do…for good and for ill. Sapolsky builds on this understanding to wrestle with some of our deepest and thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, morality and free will, and war and peace. Wise, humane, often very funny, Behave is a towering achievement, powerfully humanizing, and downright heroic in its own right.

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible.
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers . . .
Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away . . .
By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.

The Definitive Guide to Java Platform Best Practices—Updated for Java 9
Java has changed dramatically since the previous edition of Effective Java was published shortly after the release of Java 6. This Jolt award-winning classic has now been thoroughly updated to take full advantage of the latest language and library features. The support in modern Java for multiple paradigms increases the need for specific best-practices advice, and this book delivers.
As in previous editions, each chapter of Effective Java, Third Edition, consists of several “items,” each presented in the form of a short, stand-alone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and updated code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why.
The third edition covers language and library features added in Java 7, 8, and 9, including the functional programming constructs that were added to its object-oriented roots. Many new items have been added, including a chapter devoted to lambdas and streams.
New coverage includes
Functional interfaces, lambda expressions, method references, and streams
Default and static methods in interfaces
Type inference, including the diamond operator for generic types
The @SafeVarargs annotation
The try-with-resources statement
New library features such as the Optional<T> interface, java.time, and the convenience factory methods for collections

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short stories
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of reality. And in "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," a woman cares for an artificial intelligence over twenty years, elevating a faddish digital pet into what might be a true living being. Also included are two brand-new stories: "Omphalos" and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom."
In this fantastical and elegant collection, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on earth--What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human?--and ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.

“有些时光就像深吸一口气然后憋住。有些夏日拒绝结束。”
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★ 《华氏451》作者、科幻大师雷•布拉德伯里成长小说收官之作
★ 那些一夜长大的故事，有笑有泪永不消逝的夏天
★ 每个老人的身体里都困着一个彼得·潘式的年轻人
★ 他的童年，也是我们每一个人的童年
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《夏日永别》是《华氏451》作者、科幻大师雷•布拉德伯里生前出版的最后一部小说，一部关于童年夏天、时间与死亡的奇妙物语。这个故事花了漫长的五十五年成形，是成长小说代表作“绿镇三部曲”的完美收官，也回到了作者一生创作的原点。故事发生在1929年夏末，昔日慵懒平静的美国小镇迎来了一场战争：为了争夺对“时间机器”的控制权，一群少年组成军队，向老人们发起进攻，拒绝被时间困住，拒绝变成一个无聊的大人。在男孩们抗拒长大的同时，老人们则躲避着逃也逃不掉的死亡。这部小说如诗歌寓言般，穿梭于现实与梦幻之间，时缓时急地抓拍到了各种让人一夜成长、到老年都不敢承认的难忘时刻：重访绿镇，凝视鬼宅，聆听悠远的钟鸣，在河谷中奔跑，在墓地上舞蹈，第一次被女孩亲吻，感受已逝之人的智慧……那夏末空气中特有的气息和画面，是每一个人的童年。

一组相互间有系统联系的个人回忆文集，时间跨越三十七个年头（从1903年8月到1940年5月），是纳博科夫本人最重要和最著名的作品之一，也是古往今来以时间和记忆为主题的作品中，为数不多的非常奇特而优秀的一本。它的语言带着一种坦率的清澈和解剖学一般的精确——以一位鳞翅目昆虫学家透过高倍放大镜观察蝴蝶翅翼上美妙的花纹，并将之描绘下来的那种精确，给读者带来不一般的阅读感受。记忆和对往昔的回顾往往主宰着纳博科夫的小说，故而这本自传正是解读他的小说的绝好密码，因为回忆本身即是幻想和现实之间的某种隐蔽的桥梁，作家在其中发挥了自己独特的想象力。纳博科夫忠实读者的必读书，为深入解读《洛丽塔》、《微暗的火》、《防守》和《玛丽》等纳博科夫重要小说提供了第一手资料。

A companion volume to Illuminations , the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.

Sold into slavery to the Northmen in the tenth century, a young Englishman becomes involved in a blood feud which leads him to Constantinople and a totally different way of life.

这是一本薄薄的小书。首版于1918年由纽约一家出版社出版。作者William Strunk,康耐尔大学英语教授，E.B.怀特对此书加以了修正。此书短小精悍，容量巨大。涵盖了母语英语的人写作和用法上常出的错误，也清晰地解释了一些语法书中很难找到的语言现象。虽然是为说英语的学生所写,但对于任何需要进一步了解英文用法，进而学习书写英文的人，这本书必不可少的。

"信任和爱的生物学基础是什么？为什么我们的大脑对评价他人的外貌和性吸引力有一种根深蒂固的兴趣？优秀的基因确实意味着互补的基因？母亲的行为会影响孩子的情绪发展，为什么可以持续到第三代？感情给我们的记忆涂上了哪些本来不存在的色彩？……这些问题并非新近才提出，但只有掌握了神经科学和遗传学的工具后，科学家才找到解答的门路。而他们得到的答案，向我们展示了隐藏在看似熟悉的心灵背后全新的生物学——有关“正常”的生物学。
名人及媒体推荐：
一拿起这本书，我就放不下了！本书极具开创性，且风趣机智，信息量大；它告诉我们：我们为什么会如此行事，生物学何以能对我们的情绪组成造成如此大的影响！斯莫勒又睿智又会写，他将彻底改变你看待日常生活的视角。
——蔡美儿，耶鲁大学法学院教授，《虎妈战歌》作者
作者将演化心理学、生物生理学、动物行为学，以及其他相关领域“打包”奉上，清晰简洁，连贯自然；如此功力，实在少见。
——美国出版人周刊
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★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（025）——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。本书由张建华专文导读，精辟地点出了俄国文化中“文学中心主义”的特质及“娜塔莎之舞”代表的俄罗斯民族性格和民族心理，以及作者费吉斯如何结合史学与文学呈现俄罗斯文化的复杂多变。
★《娜塔莎之舞》通过托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》探索俄罗斯文化深刻复杂的多重面向，展现上层阶级的欧洲文化与农民的俄罗斯文化之间的分歧和复杂互动，以及“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗如何对19世纪以降的民族意识和文学艺术起到了至关重要的影响。
★《娜塔莎之舞》从俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧、音乐，到托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基等文豪绚烂的作品中，描绘出浓厚的俄罗斯情感，展现“俄罗斯灵魂”的建构，以及在西化的冲击下，俄国人“文化认同”和“身份认同”的创伤。
★《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《每日电讯报》等媒体年度瞩目好书，入围“萨缪尔·约翰逊奖”“达夫• 库珀奖”决选名单。
【内容简介】
在托尔斯泰的名著《战争与和平》里，娜塔莎，这位自小接受法国教育的贵族小姐，爱唱歌、跳舞，不论苏格兰舞、英吉利茲舞，还是俄罗斯民间舞，她都能翩翩起舞，展现婀娜多姿、优雅动人的俄罗斯风情。奥兰多•费吉斯通过“娜塔莎之舞”，重新诠释《战争与和平》这部巨作，介绍托尔斯泰、普希金、陀思妥耶夫斯基、柴可夫斯基、契诃夫、斯特拉文斯基、肖斯塔科维奇等伟大的作家和艺术家，以散文般的优美笔触再现广袤质朴、包容一切的俄罗斯。
《娜塔莎之舞》通过对18世纪兴起的俄罗斯芭蕾、绘画、诗歌、戏剧和音乐等讨论，探索俄罗斯文化中欧洲文明与民间元素之间的分歧，“文明”和“本土”两个俄罗斯之间的对抗，以及贵族上流社会和底层农村民众间的分裂。书中更进一步讨论“俄罗斯灵魂”和“俄罗斯性”的建构与表现，揭示政治、国族认同、社会观念、风俗習惯、民间艺术、宗教等对俄罗斯文化的形成和发展所产生的影响，呈现出一幅充满戏剧性的细节、辉煌炫丽的文化长卷。
【名家推荐】
有关俄国的一切都需要是最优秀的，费吉斯写的俄国历史也一样，而他也再一次做到了这一点。他的书写流畅优美，充满令人拍案的智慧和生活气息。他对大量文献做了轻松、恢宏而广泛的研究，所涉范围从贵族的信件到斯大林的档案，分析简洁而充满才情。这一对俄国文化卓越、炫丽而高明的导览，生动有趣、故事性强，令人着迷。——西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里，《耶路撒冷三千年》作者
费吉斯对这一主题的写作与众不同。他取材广泛，语言生动、紧凑，充满戏剧性的细节，对私人生活的书写尤其别具一格。——约瑟夫·弗兰克，《伦敦图书评论》
内容详实，包含大量插图，阐释了作者对这个既野蛮又智慧，拥有高度艺术成就的文明的深刻洞见。这本书为我们展现了一个神秘与理性、“东方”与“欧洲”之间的俄罗斯。——丽莎•雅丁，《观察家新闻报》
这是一部非常有趣，同时又让读者几乎能切身闻到“俄国泥土的气息”，这个不可能的任务被费吉斯教授完成了……他为我们讲述了俄国大地下的文化根源、它的荒谬和天才，它的人性与残酷。这是一个令人肃然起敬的成就。——乔弗里•古德曼，《论坛报》
奥兰多•费吉斯成功地描述了俄国文化的无比深厚和强大力量，概述了俄国历史上的重要问题和事件。他以一种让读者更深刻理解俄国的方式来书写，这种方式比仅仅去叙述统治者如何专制、征服者如何残暴和战争如何残酷更高明。用俄国人自己的话谈“俄罗斯问题”，如何寻找亚洲之根，探求俄国农民之谜，如何养育出如此多的伟大作家、诗人、画家和作曲家，是其著作的过人之处。——谢尔盖•施梅曼，《纽约时报》
对俄国文化史的全面描写，主题广博，观点宏大。——安妮·阿普尔鲍姆，《标准晚报》年度图书
内容极为丰富，读来引人入胜……随处可见闪光的情节，以及犀利、动人，有时还带有几分诙谐的描写……是一部关于大国俄罗斯之性格的无可匹敌的洞见之作。——皮尔斯·布伦登，《老骨头》年度图书
绝妙地丰富……恢宏且深具说服力……一次愉悦无比的阅读体验。——安东尼·比弗，美国作家
奥兰多•费吉斯的故事……涉猎广泛并且讲的漂亮。带着他对生动散文的精妙目光，他描绘的世界变得栩栩如生。书中收录的彩色插图非常漂亮，而批判性的文献目录也是一个有用的补充，它收录了俄国文化史不同领域中许多新近出版的（英语）专著。……阅读这本书完全是一种享受，它也同样值得收藏。——卡洛琳•布鲁克，英国伦敦国王玛丽学院俄国史教授
激动人心……这部优秀的史学著作的题目取自《战争与和平》，贵族女主角娜塔莎·罗斯托娃下意识地跳起了农民的披肩舞……一本令人相见恨晚的书。——《星期日独立报》

What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?
How can one think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary civil war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audience is pumped for tweets to a future of "neurocurating," in which paintings surveil their audience via facial recognition and eye tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity.

In Duty Free Art , filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age.

What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures market detached from productive work? Can we distinguish between information, fake news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects as diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.

It began with a blinding light.
A divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System). And with that, the fabric of reality was torn apart and laid bare so that anything seemed possible but nothing seemed quite right.
It was madness, pure and simple.
But what if it were true?

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands.
Who was Nescio? Nescio—Latin for “I don’t know”—was the pen name of J.H.F. Grönloh, the highly successful director of the Holland–Bombay Trading Company and a father of four—someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature.
This is the first English translation of Nescio’s stories.

《危险的愉悦》是一部上海娼妓业史话，但它是产生于后结构主义时代的史学著作，得益于20世纪后半叶丰富的理论探索、思想对话与多重视角，作者尤其受到马克思主义、女性主义与社会性别研究、后结构主义、后殖民研究中“下属群体”概念等的影响，将“史料”和自己所生产的“历史”都看作是无比生动的、复杂的、开放的“过程”中的对话、商谈、记忆、建构、创造活动。《危险的愉悦》分五大部分，共15章，论述从晚清到20世纪90年代初100年间，“娼妓”问题在各个层面上如何扭结了民族意识、政治权力关系、商业和经济利益、强国方针、社会改革、民族心理、欲望和恐惧、社会性别构造等等的丰富的语义场，成为相当核心的中国政治、经济、历史和精神文化的象征符号。《危险的愉悦》获得美国历史学会琼·凯利妇女史著作纪念奖，这是历史学会首次将此奖项授予写美国以外地区妇女历史的作者。