This timeless poem-more than 2,700 year old-still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction as it moves inexorably to its wrenching, tragic conclusion. Readers of this epic poem will be gripped by the finely tuned translation and enlightening introduction.
Translated by Robert Fagles
Introduction and Notes by Bernard

How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and pre-Meiji Japan. </p>
Ancient Greek culture celebrated same-sex love in history, literature, and art, making high claims for its moral influence. By contrast, Jewish religious leaders in the sixth century <font size="-1">B.C.E.</font> branded male homosexuality as a capital offense and, later, blamed it for the destruction of the biblical city of Sodom. When these two traditions collided in Christian Rome during the late empire, the tragic repercussions were felt throughout Europe and the New World. </p>
Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of "sodomites" in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition. But Protestant authorities were equally committed to the execution of homosexuals in the Netherlands, Calvin's Geneva, and Georgian England. The root cause was religious superstition, abetted by political ambition and sheer greed. Yet from this cauldron of fears and desires, homoerotic themes surfaced in the art of the Renaissance masters--Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Sodoma, Cellini, and Caravaggio--often intertwined with Christian motifs. Homosexuality also flourished in the court intrigues of Henry III of France, Queen Christina of Sweden, James I and William III of England, Queen Anne, and Frederick the Great. </p>
Anti-homosexual atrocities committed in the West contrast starkly with the more tolerant traditions of pre-modern China and Japan, as revealed in poetry, fiction, and art and in the lives of emperors, shoguns, Buddhist priests, scholars, and actors. In the samurai tradition of Japan, Crompton makes clear, the celebration of same-sex love rivaled that of ancient Greece. </p>
Sweeping in scope, elegantly crafted, and lavishly illustrated, Homosexuality and Civilization is a stunning exploration of a rich and terrible past. </p>

我们可以设想，所有关于主体的理论总是适合男性的。当女性屈从于这种理论时，女性就陷入了这样一种境地：她不能意识到她这样做的同时，其实是放弃自己与自身想象之间的关系的特性，通过成为“女性”，在话语中使自己屈从于客体化。一旦她宣称她认同男性主体时，她便再度将自身客体化为男性主体。这是否是一种在自身内重新将自身认做缺失的（母亲—女性 ）客体的主体？
主体性拒绝接受女性，作为表现、话语及欲望的客体。这无疑为每个无法精简的政体提供了财政支持。女性在可能的想象中失去自身固有的特征，这一情况是可以想见的。另一方面（客体）作为水准基点较之于主体更具*终的决定意义。因为男人可以借着反弹冲开一些客体目标而保存自身。如果没有“大地”供其压迫、压抑，供其劳作，供其表达无尽的（为己的）欲望，如果没有（女性）自身在理论中的晦暗不明的麻烦，那么“主体”的“先在”还剩下什么呢？如果大地自行旋转，尤其转向自身，也许会挫败主体的勃起，并且有可能使其丧失高度和穿透力。那么，从什么开始暴动呢？在什么之上演练他的权利呢？并且从哪里开始切入呢？

In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.
Among the topics she treats are the implications of the thought of Freud and Lacan for understanding womanhood and articulating a feminine discourse; classic views on the significance of the difference between male and female sex organs; and the experience of erotic pleasure in men and in women. She also takes up explicitly the question of economic exploitation of women; in an astute reading of Marx she shows that the subjection of woman has been institutionalized by her reduction to an object of economic exchange. Throughout Irigaray seeks to dispute and displace male-centered structures of language and thought through a challenging writing practice that takes a first step toward a woman's discourse, a discourse that would put an end to Western culture's enduring phallocentrism.
Making more direct and accessible the subversive challenge of Speculum of the Other Woman, this volume―skillfully translated by Catherine Porter (with Carolyn Burke)―will be essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with contemporary feminist issues.

Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

本书是一部研究小说魔力的神奇之作——分析其主要元素，颂扬其持久动力。书中对我们这个时代最显著、最时髦的批判深入到了讲故事时的机械设定，由此提出一些基本的问题：当我们说”认识”某个虚构的人物时，这意味着什么？生动的细节由什么构成？何谓成功的隐喻？现实主义是现实的吗？为什么有些文学惯例变得过时，而另一些却保持活力？
从荷马到《给小鸭子让路》，从圣经到约翰·勒卡雷，詹姆斯·伍德广泛取材。本书既是一部虚构手法的研究佳作，也是一部小说的另类史。它幽默、深刻，无论你是作者还是读者，甚或是对此书该兴趣的路人甲，它都将对你有所启迪！

National Bestseller The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision. Atul Gawande, the "New York Times" bestselling author of Complications, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession. At once unflinching and compassionate, "Better" is an exhilarating journey, narrated by "arguably the best nonfiction doctor-writer around" ("Salon.com").

Research made relevant through a storytelling approach. This renowned text maintains its acclaimed storytelling approach, teaching the science of psychology through an engaging narrative that makes research relevant to students. Drawing upon their extensive experience as researchers and teachers, Elliot Aronson, Tim Wilson, and Robin Akert present the classic research that has driven the field and introduce cutting-edge research that is the future of social psychology. Significantly updated to reflect advances in the discipline, the 8th edition provides a firm foundation for students to build their understanding of this rigorous science in a way that engages and fascinates. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience- for you and your students. Here's how: *Personalize Learning - The new MyPsychLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. *Improve Critical Thinking - The authors emphasize this rigorous science through research examples that encourage students to think twice about their preconceived notions of what social psychology is - and isn't. *Engage Students - Through real-life vignettes, which open each story chapter, and "mini-stories" throughout each chapter, the eighth edition provokes student interest by focusing on real-life examples. *Explore Research - The authors present a balance between the latest findings in the field with classic research in social psychology. Noting that some older studies deserve their status as classics and are important cornerstones to the discipline, this text encourages students to experience the continuity and depth of the field versus regarding it as a collection of studies published in the past few years. *Support Instructors - This program provides instructors with unbeatable resources, including state-of-the-art PowerPoints embedded with videos, the NEW MyPsychLab with ABC's What Would You Do videos, an easy to use Instructor's Manual, a robust test bank, and an online test generator (MyTest). All of these materials may be packaged with the text upon request. Note: MyPsychLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyPsychLab, please visit www.mypsychlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyPsychLab (at no additional cost). ValuePack ISBN-10: 020591201X / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205912018.

Social Psychology 7/e by renowned author David Myers continues to set the standard by which other Social Psychology texts are judged. The author’s engaging writing style and unique, intimate voice make the text both compelling and readable, without being overly simplistic. The organization logically moves the student through the study of how people think, influence, and relate, including an appropriate balance of basic research and applied material for the course. This edition includes a greater emphasis on social psychology’s applications to both work and in life, and uses video clips and vignettes to emphasize the relevance of social psychology research. This edition of Social Psychology also marks the introduction of the Social Connection video series, which follows Myers’ organization and brings classic research to life.

你梦到：需要重考一门早已通过的考试，匆匆忙忙去赶火车却没有赶上，路上遇见一些早已过世的人……梦大多在你醒来前才浮现，留下的却是一串疑问。
在梦中，你为何会觉得那些怪诞的情景合乎情理？为什么梦中会有飘荡的感觉？梦是否预示着什么？以及最难解答的问题——梦有没有含义？
本书中，通过半个世纪以来不同的科学家做的各种与梦相关的实验，杜威•德拉埃斯马向读者展示了关于我们的梦境在心理学和神经学领域中一些已经得到澄清的事实，用优美而通俗易懂的语言讲述了关于做梦和记忆的科学联系……

最受昆德拉推崇的捷克诗人——诺贝尔文学奖得主赛弗尔特苦涩人生的唯美追忆
世界文坛最经典的回忆录之一
这是一部别致的回忆录。诗人透过一则则动人故事，诉说童年、爱情、友谊、艺术、奇遇……缅怀他一生中遇到的人和事。在故事中，遗失在时光中的美好瞬间一一重现，逝去的人一个个回来，他们身影晃动，笑语如昔。其中有令诗人感动和怀念的平凡人，更有可敬可爱的文学艺术名家，如《好兵帅克》作者哈谢克、受昆德拉推崇的作家万楚拉、世界摄影大师苏代克等。
诗人的语言朴素而深情，带一丝透明的忧伤，适可描绘艰难人世之美丽如斯。

There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in between—not to use -ly adverbs like “quickly” or “fitfully.” It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we were to count all the -ly adverbs these authors used in their careers, do they follow their own advice compared to other celebrated authors? What’s more, do great books in general—the classics and the bestsellers—share this trait?
In Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world’s greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors’ favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichés? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?
Blatt draws upon existing analysis techniques and invents some of his own. All of his investigations and experiments are original, conducted himself, and no math knowledge is needed to understand the results. Blatt breaks his findings down into lucid, humorous language and clear and compelling visuals. This eye-opening book will provide you with a new appreciation for your favorite authors and a fresh perspective on your own writing, illuminating both the patterns that hold great prose together and the brilliant flourishes that make it unforgettable.

A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Thrown into a profession of gallows humor and vivid characters (both living and very dead), Caitlin learned to navigate the secretive culture of those who care for the deceased.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes tells an unusual coming-of-age story full of bizarre encounters and unforgettable scenes. Caring for dead bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, Caitlin soon becomes an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. She describes how she swept ashes from the machines (and sometimes onto her clothes) and reveals the strange history of cremation and undertaking, marveling at bizarre and wonderful funeral practices from different cultures.
Her eye-opening, candid, and often hilarious story is like going on a journey with your bravest friend to the cemetery at midnight. She demystifies death, leading us behind the black curtain of her unique profession. And she answers questions you didn’t know you had: Can you catch a disease from a corpse? How many dead bodies can you fit in a Dodge van? What exactly does a flaming skull look like?
Honest and heartfelt, self-deprecating and ironic, Caitlin's engaging style makes this otherwise taboo topic both approachable and engrossing. Now a licensed mortician with an alternative funeral practice, Caitlin argues that our fear of dying warps our culture and society, and she calls for better ways of dealing with death (and our dead).

An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem.
For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.
In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries-from the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
"Uproariously funny ...informative and respectful...irreverent and witty...impossible to put down." ~ Publishers Weekly
"Not grisly but inspiring, this work considers the many valuable scientific uses of the body after death." ~ Library Journal
"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year." ~ Entertainment Weekly
New York Times National Best-Seller

【内容简介】
汽车后座杀手、消失的末班公交、幽灵客机、快餐里的油炸鼠、车厢里的裸男、吊死的男友、钩子杀手、下水道里的鳄鱼……103个头皮发麻的故事，你最少听说过5个！
这是一本关于美国“都市传说”的著述。书中融会了有关广受欢迎的著名、搞笑、离奇、惊险的美国都市传说的发现，试图揭示这些当代民间叙事的诸多模式和可能包含的意义。本书可以给喜欢讲惊险、鬼怪、恐怖故事的嬉皮读者提供说不尽的故事素材，是绝佳的培养和刺激读者幽默感的教材。
本书作者暨“都市传说先生”“民间侦探”“对20世纪传媒影响最大的传奇学者”布鲁范德教授热情撰写“新版致辞”，本书译者、香港大学哲学博士、中国海洋大学文学院教授李扬全面修订译文，并作“译后记”和“再版补记”，向中国读者全面开阔地介绍本书。
【编辑推荐】
★ 汽车后座杀手、消失的末班公交、古宅魅影、头发里的蜘蛛、幽灵客机、快餐里的油炸鼠、车厢里的裸男、朝内81号、吊死的男友、钩子杀手、无脸男、下水道里的鳄鱼、毛毯里的蛇、阁楼上的男人……103个头皮发麻的故事，你最少听说过5个！
★ 风靡美国的学术畅销书，“都市传说先生”“民间侦探”“对20世纪传媒影响最大的传奇学者”布鲁范德教授的代表作！
★ 让美国都市传说风靡于世的开山之作，洞悉社会与都市心灵的哈哈镜
★ 三联生活书店×魔宙文化 2018重磅策划推荐
★ 百万“魔宙”粉丝、都市传说爱好者共同的期待！美国威拉姆特大学东亚系主任张举文，中国社会科学院文学研究所研究员、中国民俗学会副会长施爱东，“魔宙”主笔、《北洋夜行记》作者金醉诚意推荐！
★ 本书是经典美国都市传说与发现的集锦，集惊悚、悬疑、诙谐于一体，同时引入民俗学专业视角，剖析都市传说的里里外外，满足专业学术和大众娱乐等多维度阅读需求。
★ 本书融会了学者们围绕为人们津津乐道的美国都市传说的发现，辅以作者个人搜集的资料和学生们的作业，生动揭示当代民间叙事的诸多模式和潜在意义。
★ 新版重制，诚意满满。
【媒体推荐】
本书以八章的篇幅概述了八大类都市传说及其诸多异文。对每一类，作者不但从民俗学的视角加以搜集、分类和分析，更重要的是进行了结合社会背景的阐释，“大致反映了民众们在其生活中关注和幻想的种种事件和现象”，为都市传说的研究提供了极佳的样本。
——张举文（美国威拉姆特大学东亚系主任、亚洲研究中心教授、北京师范大学社会学院兼职教授）
本书既是当代都市传说的开山之作，也是美国最成功的“学术畅销书”。从中我们可以看到，令人沮丧的现代都市生活中，积极向上的文化力量日渐消退，人们总是处在焦灼不安的情绪当中，传说则成为都市人排泄负面情绪的下水道。
——施爱东（中国社会科学院文学研究所研究员、中国民俗学会副会长）
我很乐意说自己写的是“都市传说”类型故事。因为都市传说的核心特点是：看完就想讲给人听。这些传说的形成和演化，是人对生存环境的心理反应：恐惧、紧张，或窘迫、搞笑，更是人们最接地气儿的想象——好故事不就得这样吗？因此，《消失的搭车客》就是我的师承。
——金醉（公众号“魔宙”主笔、《北洋夜行记》作者、都市传说研究者）
布鲁范德的写作手法，以一种可读性很强且十分有效的方式，使读者对城市环境中的动态叙事过程，以及民俗学和民众生活研究有所了解。
——珍妮特•L.兰洛斯（批评家）