エクソフォニーとは，ドイツ語で母語の外に出た状態一般を指す．自分を包んでいる母語の響きからちょっと外に出てみると，どんな文学世界が展けるのか．ドイツ語と日本語で創作活動を行う著者にとって，言語の越境は文学の本質的主題．その岩盤を穿つ，鋭敏で情趣に富むエッセーはことばの世界の深遠さを照らしだす．（解説＝リービ英雄）
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本書の書名は耳慣れない言葉です．英語やドイツ語の辞典に掲載されているわけではありませんが，母語の外に出た状態一般を指す言葉であると言えます．このエクソフォニーという言葉は，ドイツ語と日本語の双方で旺盛な創作活動を続けてきた著者にとって，極めて重要な意味を持っています．なぜなら言語の越境とは著者の文学の本質的主題であるからです．
本書第一部は，世界各地の都市を歩きながら，越境する言語について深められてきた思索の一端が平明でみずみずしいことばによって，開陳されています．世界の多くの街で著者は母語の外へ出る楽しみを語り続けています．ただそれは単なる楽しみだけではありません．
たとえばソウルを訪ねた際には「日本人のせいでエクソフォニーを強いられた歴史を持つ国に行くと，エクソフォニーという言葉にも急に暗い影がさす」と著者は書いています．
また日本語とドイツ語で小説を書く著者を苛立たせるのは，「夢を見る時は何語で見るのか」と質問された時だといいます．なぜなら日本語とドイツ語だけでなく，（全くできない）スペイン語の悪夢さえも見ることがあるからだそうです．（あなたは本質的にはドイツ人になってしまったのではないかとか，魂はやっぱり日本人なのではないかというよくありがちな問いかけを一蹴しながら），著者は夢の中でもたくさんの舌を使って，多様な言葉を話そうとしているのだと言いたいのでしょう．
本書は，異言語の内部で，書き言葉の表現の可能性について鋭く問い続けている著者ならではの鋭くやわらかいエッセイです．言語の越境によって何が見えてきたのか．それは自らの文学をいかに規定したのか．自己の立脚点に真摯に向き合った文章は，言葉に正面から向き合おうというすべての読者にとって，多くの発見をもたらしてくれそうです．
本書は2003年小社より刊行された単行本の復刊で，解説を同じく越境の作家であるリービ英雄氏が執筆しています．

Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of communication.

What started as fun soon became currency, something vital to finding friends, work, and love. Then, as 'meatspace' job security eroded, online creativity became work itself. Now an internet presence is no longer optional, platforms increasingly charge users. Whatever it is we're creating online, it isn't amateur anymore. But is it art?

In this scintillating philosophical history of the internet, Joanna Walsh, author of Girl Online, examines how and why creativity became the price of digital existence.

太平洋战争爆发，新加坡沦陷，郁达夫被迫出逃至印尼，辗转定居于苏门答腊。他掩藏身份，在当地开办酒厂并娶妻生子，被日本宪兵征用为翻译，因而掌握了日本宪兵的大量罪证。日本投降后，郁达夫失踪。 日本郁达夫研究家铃木正夫用半生心血追查郁达夫烈士的殉难真相，近距离接触曾于太平洋战争期间驻守印尼的多名宪兵，查明并访谈了下令杀害郁达夫的宪兵队长，解开了郁达夫失踪之迷。 本书被认为是研究郁达夫在印尼期间活动的重要著作，于1996年获得首届郁华、郁达夫烈士文艺奖。本次重新修订翻译，并甄选珍贵影响资料70余张首度公开。

We use water, electricity, and the internet every day--but how do they actually work? And what’s the plan to keep them running for years to come? This nonfiction science graphic novel takes readers on a journey from how the most essential systems were developed to how they are implemented in our world today and how they will be used in the future.

What was the first message sent over the internet? How much water does a single person use every day? How was the electric light invented?

For every utility we use each day, there’s a hidden history--a story of intrigue, drama, humor, and inequity. This graphic novel provides a guided tour through the science of the past--and reveals how the decisions people made while inventing and constructing early technology still affect the way people use it today.

Full of art, maps, and diagrams, Hidden Systems is a thoughtful, humorous exploration of the history of science and what needs to be done now to change the future.

Games are often a fun perk of a tech company job, and employees can “play to win” in the competition to succeed. But in studying “Behemoth” (a pseudonym for a top American tech company), Tongyu Wu discovered that gaming work culture was far more insidious.

Play to Submission shows how Behemoth’s games undermined and manipulated workers. They lost their work-life balance and the constant competition made labor organizing difficult. Nonetheless, many workers embraced management’s games as a chance to show off their “gamer” identities and create a workplace culture with privileged insiders and exiled outsiders, with female and migrant workers usually in the latter group. Moreover, Wu indicates this may be the future of work for high- and low-skilled and, creative workers in an environment where capitalists have heightened demands for technology and creativity.

Drawing from 13 months of ethnographic work, Wu presents a persistent reality in which the company reaps the reward of surplus productivity, leaving employees themselves in a highly competitive and sometimes precarious work position.

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism. Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs - that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes 'Anarca-Islam'. Constructing a decolonial, non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist, sexist, racist, ageist, queerphobic and ableist inequalities in the entwined imperial context of societies like Egypt, and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.

Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us.

Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (over 3 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers.

Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them approachable and understandable to non-engineers. It transforms readers' perspectives of the built environment, converting the act of looking at infrastructure from a mundane inevitability into an everyday diversion and joy.

Each section of this accessible, informative book features colorful illustrations revealing the fascinating details of how the human-made world works. An ideal road trip companion, this book offers a fresh perspective on the parts of the environment that often blend into the background. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more. Engineering in Plain Sight inspires curiosity, interest, and engagement in how the infrastructure around us is designed and constructed.

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of an autistic person is hugely significant. In this widely expanded second edition, Sarah Hendrickx combines the latest research with personal stories from girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their feelings, thoughts and experiences at each stage of their lives.
Outlining the likely impact will be for autistic women and girls throughout their lifespan, Hendrickx surveys everything from diagnosis, childhood, education, adolescence, friendships and sexuality, to employment, pregnancy, parenting, and aging.
With up-to-date content on masking, diagnosis later in life, and a new focus on trans and non-binary voices, as well as a deeper dive into specific health and wellbeing implications including menopause, PCOS, Hypermobility/Ehlers-Danlos, autistic burnout, and alexithymia, this is an invaluable companion for professionals, as well as a guiding light for autistic women to understand and interpret their own experience in context.

本书从以工作为中心的现实出发，前半部分梳理马克思以降的工作理论，包括重要但未充分得到中国学界译介的法国理论家安德烈·高兹。后半部分是采访，作者采访了一些因各种理由、主动或被动地处于不工作状态的人。他们中有的为了寻觅一份有足够价值感的工作，而暂时不工作；有的因为工作损害了他们的健康而不得不停止工作或减少工作时长。作者从理论与实际出发，认为社会进步的方向是：一方面改变工作伦理，另一方面通过基本收入来保障人们有尊严地工作；每个人少工作一些，那么会有更多的人得到工作。

“Instead of trusting kids with choices . . . many parents insist on micromanaging everything from homework to friendships. For these parents, Stixrud and Johnson have a simple message: Stop.” —NPR

“This humane, thoughtful book turns the latest brain science into valuable practical advice for parents.” —Paul Tough, New York Times bestselling author of How Children Succeed

A few years ago, Bill Stixrud and Ned Johnson started noticing the same problem from different angles: Even high-performing kids were coming to them acutely stressed and lacking motivation. Many complained they had no control over their lives. Some stumbled in high school or hit college and unraveled. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist who helps kids gripped by anxiety or struggling to learn. Ned is a motivational coach who runs an elite tutoring service. Together they discovered that the best antidote to stress is to give kids more of a sense of control over their lives. But this doesn't mean giving up your authority as a parent. In this groundbreaking book they reveal how you can actively help your child to sculpt a brain that is resilient, and ready to take on new challenges.

From the authors of Seven Principles for Raising a Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say, The Self-Driven Child offers a combination of cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioral therapy, and case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens Bill and Ned have helped over the years to teach you how to set your child on the real road to success. As parents, we can only drive our kids so far. At some point, they will have to take the wheel and map out their own path. But there is a lot you can do before then to help them tackle the road ahead with resilience and imagination.

作为一名大学老师，本书作者以本科课程讲义的形式将亚文化的发展史呈现给读者，内容覆盖面广，内在逻辑清晰，通俗易懂，生动有趣。从二次元动漫的成长讲到三次元偶像的成长，同时还探讨了亚文化在未来可能的发展方向。书中谈及了很多与宅文化相关的热门话题，在带领读者回顾热血青春的同时，也探索了亚文化发展背后的深意。

这是一本介绍力量训练的经典书籍，确切地说，它是一本介绍杠铃训练方法的经典之作。《力量训练基础》只介绍了五种主要的杠铃训练动作——五种被认为*有用的杠铃动作，深蹲、推举、卧推、硬拉和力量翻。作者以科学的态度和精益求精的精神，把这五种基本动作和杠铃训练的体系以正确的方式讲解得淋漓尽致。自从2005年出版以来，《力量训练基础》成为了有关举重训练的畅销的书籍之一，获得了读者的高度认可。此外，健身领域的专家同样给予了这本书高度的评价。

　　________就是信仰！
　　讀完這本書，你會發現異教語（Cultish）可能是世界上最多人說的語言。
　　如果你是「個人」，這本書提醒你該保持警戒心；如果你是社群經營者，這本書教你如何引起狂熱。

　　每隔一段時間，我們就會聽說一些「邪教」的故事，比如1995年在東京地鐵放出沙林毒氣的奧姆真理教、1978年在南美洲瓊斯鎮，逼迫近千人自殺的「人民聖殿」，近期《以神之名：信仰的背叛》也引起大眾忿忿不平的情緒。我們一方面氣憤這些組織的所作所為，另一方面又有點好奇——他們如何吸引這麼多「信眾」？

　　亞曼達．蒙泰爾（Amanda Montell）將「cult」這個有時被翻譯成「異教」，有時被翻成「邪典」的詞彙視為社會普遍現象。「cult」不只在宗教領域，有時候人們會沉迷於特定品牌、被說服加入直銷公司，甚至是運動，都可能有著「cult」成份。

　　這些宗教與非宗教事件的「異教」都有許多共同點，這本書將著墨於其中語言的運用。例如建立新詞彙，讓「信徒」可以區分人／我。一旦理解這些語言，你會發現身邊充滿語言陷阱，處處都是召喚你入「教」的呼號。

　　作者亞曼達．蒙泰爾擁有語言學背景，並且長年在時尚雜誌工作。從她豐富的生活經驗與實際訪談出發，以語言為切點，幽默又深入討論各種不同程度的「異教」。

　　本書每一部分各聚焦一種異教類型，探討充斥於我們日常生活的異教式措辭。第一部闡明異教其實無所不在；第二部探討「自殺異教」（如瓊斯鎮、天堂之門）；第三部關注爭議性宗教（如山達基、上帝之子等）；第四部至第六部延伸異教的定義，異教就存在你我身邊，首先是多層次傳銷公司、再來到「異教健身」工作室、最後深入研究社群媒體上的大師（KOL），異教做為一種行銷策略，似乎非常有效。

　　讀到這裡你可能會覺得「異教好壞」或是「被騙好笨」，可是這不是本書的主旨。從不同的異教類型，我們可以發現語言的無窮魔力，小則被話術，嚴重一點，搞不好某一天你會很相信__________。

　　在詐騙盛行的當代，辨識說話者話語的本質是必須與時俱進的技能。本書提供許多有趣而實用的觀點，在閱讀故事的同時也練習批判思考。

他从中国乡村走向世界顶尖学府，成为哈佛博士，麻省理工学院博士后。
他是第一个在哈佛毕业典礼上演讲的中国人、知名生物科技公司Vizgen联合创始人兼研发总裁。
何江的成长经历让我们看到了教育的另一种可能。
他的童年没有上不完的补习班，没有昂贵的精英夏令营，也没有虎爸虎妈式的严苛的家庭教育。
星夜里母亲编织渔网补贴家用，父亲在外捕鱼谋生，村里神秘的算卦先生老丁、远道而来却充满人情味的养鸭人、游走的小贩、木匠……这些质朴、鲜活的生命构成他童年生活的全部。
看似匮乏的过去，因爱和陪伴显得细腻、丰满，成为比上哈佛更重要的事。
《过往皆为力量》是何江的自传散文集。它不仅仅是一个人的成长励志故事，而是一个乡村的变迁史，更记录了一个逝去的时代。
让所有正在经历时代变迁的人，看到来时的自己。

当今社会，烦恼“感觉不到生存的意义”的人越来越多。能在工作和生活中感到幸福的人更少。那么，我们该怎么活呢？
拥有20年临床经验精神心理专科医生，从心理、社会等多维度剖析无意义感的根源，并带你探访尼采、弗兰克尔等哲人的精神世界，引导大家正确认知无意义感，并从经典中人生处方 ，寻找新的人生意义。

◎ 内容简介
中东拥有着古老、璀璨的历史和文明，也是一片时常被战火和纷争阻隔的神秘土地。
在山呼海啸般的历史进程中，在政治、文化、习俗的高压背后，一个个具体的人如何在夹缝中维系日常生活？他们的人生如何被时代左右？他们如何看待那些改写历史和命运的重大事件？
在性别极度不平等的国度，女人过的是怎样一种生活？她们的人生多大程度上受制于性别？她们如何看待自己的生存现状？
带着诸多好奇和疑惑，作者姚璐用四年时间（2016—2020），克服各种困难，独自前往几乎所有的中东国家——伊朗、土耳其、黎巴嫩、以色列、巴勒斯坦、约旦、埃及、伊拉克、叙利亚、沙特。同时她以女性身份的便利，以“沙发客”这种独特的旅行方式，深入31个陌生的中东家庭内部，融入他们的日常生活，尤其难得的是她得以与当地的许多女性密切地相处、交流。
经过四年扎实的旅行和深度的观察，作者用这本《看不见的中东》，为我们揭开一个新闻之下长期被硝烟和纱袍遮掩着的更为鲜活、丰富的中东世界，以及这个动荡、神秘的世界里个体的命运、普通人的生活日常和女性的生存状态。
作者姚璐也是一名摄影师，书中配有70多幅高质量的纪实与风光摄影作品，与文字互为补充、交相辉映。
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◎ 编辑推荐
★ 日常生活视角，更为真实、丰富的中东。不同于聚焦中东的政治、战争、难民等新闻热点，本书作者更关注长期被硝烟和纱袍遮掩的普通中东人的日常生活，因此她住进一个个中东人家里，深度参与中东人民的日常生活——参加家庭聚会、婚礼，在伊拉克过开斋节，在叙利亚看足球赛，在沙特阿拉伯的沙漠里露营，等等，呈现出一个更内部，因而也更为鲜活、丰富的中东世界。
★ 女性视角下的中东，女性视角下的中东女性群体。涉足中东高风险地区的游客几乎都是男性，但受制于中东的宗教、文化和习俗，男性很难深入当地人家庭，几乎无法与当地女性相处并深入访谈。作者作为极具亲和力的女性，用“沙发客”的方式住进中东家庭，非常罕见而难得地展现了女性视角下的中东和中东的女性群体，关注中东女性的受教育权、工作权、家庭暴力等问题，既揭开了一层颇有些神秘的面纱，也呈现了跟我们既不同也有几分相似的生活和内心。
★ “高难度旅行”与深度的解析和思考。近年以游客身份走遍中东的人极少，尤其是叙利亚、伊拉克等国。四年间，受制于战争，受制于糟糕的邻国关系和签证互斥政策，作者不得不根据局势频繁调整计划。本书记录了作者旅行过程中种种意想不到的问题，也通过一个个真实、生动的故事，对中东的历史、战争、女性等问题做出了深入解析和思考。
★ 高质量的风光和纪实摄影作品。作者也是一位知名风光和人文摄影师，书中配有70多幅高质量的纪实与风光摄影作品，与文字互为补充、交相辉映。
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◎ 评论
姚璐撞进了中东，“中东”便不再是一个宏大、模糊的概念。
她看见一个一个迥然不同的个体，一个一个鲜活生动的生命。因为相似的经历，读她的文字，我常常会笑，完全明白她在说什么，但她有时比我靠得更近。我们介入中东的初衷不同，她的动机是对性别议题的探究。不过殊途同归，一个女孩子走过世界才认识自己。
——周轶君 [资深国际记者，《走出中东》《中东死生门》作者]
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这是一本读来令人感动的书，对我个人来说，也是等待已久——终于能有中国人也可以写出这样的作品来了！
一个中国姑娘，通过“沙发客”的方式进入多个中东国家的普通家庭。她不只是旅行，更是去生活和感受。她以既细腻又开阔的笔触，尤其是通过她深度了解的不同中东女性的视角，把历史与现实、政治与家庭、挣扎与希望、生活与梦想……生动地呈现给了我们。这是一般的阅读无法得到的知识与感受。我曾读过多种西方女性作家、人类学家的类似作品，虽然也是很好的阅读体验，但总感觉缺了点什么。姚璐的这本《看不见的中东》弥补了那种缺憾，也就是，她是带着中国人的视角，用比较讲究的文笔来写作，这种观察和记录，是真正对中国读者友好的作品。
——昝涛［北京大学土耳其研究中心主任，中东研究学者］

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election. She experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, all while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in.”

Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.

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Few people outside certain scholarly circles had heard the name Robert D. Putnam before 1995. But then this self-described "obscure academic" hit a nerve with a journal article called "Bowling Alone." Suddenly he found himself invited to Camp David, his picture in People magazine, and his thesis at the center of a raging debate. In a nutshell, he argued that civil society was breaking down as Americans became more disconnected from their families, neighbors, communities, and the republic itself. The organizations that gave life to democracy were fraying. Bowling became his driving metaphor. Years ago, he wrote, thousands of people belonged to bowling leagues. Today, however, they're more likely to bowl alone:
Television, two-career families, suburban sprawl, generational changes in values--these and other changes in American society have meant that fewer and fewer of us find that the League of Women Voters, or the United Way, or the Shriners, or the monthly bridge club, or even a Sunday picnic with friends fits the way we have come to live. Our growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.
The conclusions reached in the book Bowling Alone rest on a mountain of data gathered by Putnam and a team of researchers since his original essay appeared. Its breadth of information is astounding--yes, he really has statistics showing people are less likely to take Sunday picnics nowadays. Dozens of charts and graphs track everything from trends in PTA participation to the number of times Americans say they give "the finger" to other drivers each year. If nothing else, Bowling Alone is a fascinating collection of factoids. Yet it does seem to provide an explanation for why "we tell pollsters that we wish we lived in a more civil, more trustworthy, more collectively caring community." What's more, writes Putnam, "Americans are right that the bonds of our communities have withered, and we are right to fear that this transformation has very real costs." Putnam takes a stab at suggesting how things might change, but the book's real strength is in its diagnosis rather than its proposed solutions. Bowling Alone won't make Putnam any less controversial, but it may come to be known as a path-breaking work of scholarship, one whose influence has a long reach into the 21st century. --John J. Miller --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
"If you don't go to somebody's funeral, they won't come to yours," Yogi Berra once said, neatly articulating the value of social networks. In this alarming and important study, Putnam, a professor of sociology at Harvard, charts the grievous deterioration over the past two generations of the organized ways in which people relate to one another and partake in civil life in the U.S. For example, in 1960, 62.8% of Americans of voting age participated in the presidential election, whereas by 1996, the percentage had slipped to 48.9%. While most Americans still claim a serious "religious commitment," church attendance is down roughly 25%-50% from the 1950s, and the number of Americans who attended public meetings of any kind dropped 40% between 1973 and 1994. Even the once stable norm of community life has shifted: one in five Americans moves once a year, while two in five expect to move in five years. Putnam claims that this has created a U.S. population that is increasingly isolated and less empathetic toward its fellow citizens, that is often angrier and less willing to unite in communities or as a nation. Marshaling a plentiful array of facts, figures, charts and survey results, Putnam delivers his message with verve and clarity. He concludes his analysis with a concise set of potential solutions, such as educational programs, work-based initiatives and funded community-service programs, offering a ray of hope in what he perceives to be a dire situation. Agent, Rafe Sagalyn. 3-city tour; 20-city radio satellite tour. (June)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual is a unique guide, offering techniques and practices for a more satisfying life as a professional software developer. In it, developer and life coach John Sonmez addresses a wide range of important "soft" topics, from career and productivity to personal finance and investing, and even fitness and relationships, all from a developer-centric viewpoint.