"In this dynamic and incisive overview of the European project from its beginnings, Ashoka Mody convincingly demonstrates that the tensions and flaws of the European project were both baked-in and foreseen from the beginning. He focuses on personalities whose ambitious and relentless push for integration led them to choose facts and analysis consistent with their visions and to dismiss warnings of turbulence. They thus laid the seeds for disappointment. Mody examines key moments when contradictions were papered-over, compromising the integrity of integration and compellingly shows how monetary union impaired European integration rather than enhancing it. European countries have always has vastly different economic conditions, and the common currency increased divergences rather than smoothing them, as many analysts warned at the time. The economic, financial, and political pathologies of the euro were there from the beginning, even if the global economic boom hid them. With political and economic elites benefitting, they could ignore the growing the discontent of those who suffered and the growing antipathy to the European project in national heartlands. When crisis inevitably hit, leaders denied, delayed, and took half-measures that only further alienated people. And if once the inability to deliver on the economic promise caused the political handicaps to worsen, now the political splintering is making it harder to mount an economic response"--

From the moment it was published almost ten years ago, Elements of User Experience became a vital reference for web and interaction designers the world over, and has come to define the core principles of the practice. Now, in this updated, expanded, and full-color new edition, Jesse James Garrett has refined his thinking about the Web, going beyond the desktop to include information that also applies to the sudden proliferation of mobile devices and applications. Successful interaction design requires more than just creating clean code and sharp graphics. You must also fulfill your strategic objectives while meeting the needs of your users. Even the best content and the most sophisticated technology won't help you balance those goals without a cohesive, consistent user experience to support it. With so many issues involved--usability, brand identity, information architecture, interaction design-- creating the user experience can be overwhelmingly complex. This new edition of The Elements of User Experience cuts through that complexity with clear explanations and vivid illustrations that focus on ideas rather than tools or techniques. Garrett gives readers the big picture of user experience development, from strategy and requirements to information architecture and visual design.

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba―the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people―and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.
Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio.
Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book.
Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame thanks to his company’s eye-popping success, coupled with a mystique he encouraged with frequent media appearances, celebrity hobnobbing, and his bestselling book, Principles. In The Fund, award-winning New York Times journalist Rob Copeland punctures this carefully-constructed narrative of the benevolent business titan, exposing his much-promoted “principles” as one of the great feats of hubris in modern memory―in practice, they encouraged a toxic culture of paranoia and backstabbing.
The Fund is a page-turning, stranger-than-fiction journey into a rarefied world of wealth and power. It offers an unflinching look at the pain so often caused by the “radical transparency” Dalio has described as a core tenet of his recipe for business success and a meaningful life. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with those inside and around the firm, Copeland takes readers into the room as former FBI director Jim Comey kisses Dalio's ring, recent Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick drinks the Kool-Aid, and a rotating cast of memorable characters grapple with their personal psychological and moral limits―all under the watchful eye of their charismatic leader.
This is a cautionary tale for anyone convinced that the ability to make lots of money has anything at all to do with unlocking the principles of human nature.

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.

费滢最新作品集，包含三个中篇：《行则涣》《反景》与《天珠传奇》。
从里下河流域到巴黎十三区，从现代文学意象剧场到珠子科学家的研究所，一个“小小的古玩商”及其晃膀子所见。
《行则涣》
【我和故乡的联系非常松散，除了知道它处于里下河地区和零星的几个地名以外，相关记忆也所剩无几，很像偏头痛发作时在前额某个区域里窜动的电流，一闪而过，难以捕捉。痛是种泛泛之感，电流处于痛的下一层，让痛的质地反而显得遥远，甚至与我无关。电流过处好似微风拂过，回过头什么都没有，的确，我所追赶的虚有之物已被我轻易超过了。傍晚时分我走上里下河村庄由南向北的一条小路，家家户户都生火做饭了，黄豆秸在炉灶里噼啪作响，收黄豆的季节未过，砖路上仍铺着一些带豆荚的枝子，等待行人与车辆压过，豆子跳落于缝隙中，人们再把它们收扫到簸箕里。这噼啪的火也香，可能是遗在豆荚中的零星豆子炸开了。我向前看，复又向后张望，夏末红彤彤的空气是火的聚落，到处都是火，田正中的坟包，树影，沟渠，渠中的水葫芦笼在影中，颜色变得极深，也摇晃得更厉害，我晓得天要黑了，天空一角已落。这时走来了数来宝的人。他嘴里唱着词，见我在路中间走着，便立于一旁，再走一里路有火，他说，火在我后面，在你前面呐。】
《反景》
【有人爬着一座崇峻的山，说是爬，其实是在石中踩着步子；说是山，其实是空中一座云的固体。说是倒影，由最微小的一粒凝结核冻硬了滚动成一颗小石子，再极缓慢地落下，大概每闭一千次眼睛落一两厘米，再看一看的时候，啊呀，已经变成山了。重力作用下，尖尖的山头冲着地，却不像利刃，只能说是一支长长的锥子，足可以脱颖而出了。不过从哪儿脱出呢，这个人边踩着步子边想着，他的眼睛也是倒着的，看向头下面的水面。尖尖的山像是从水中长出来似的，所以我们可以说，他是在倒影中踩着山石，踩得腻了，他便要拽住一根垂柳枝子跳出来，到那真的地上去，走在坚硬的冬天的泥土上，一些黄草紧紧扒住泥，每一节草茎上都生了根，如果不是这样，它们也会被风吹到天上去，会被落下的乌老鸦用嘴翻起来，一团团滚动，落到不远的河里，绕住山的尖尖顶，让它变成一根鸡毛掸子或打狗棒了。远处还有许多坚硬的地，还有更多的人，在地上耕种劳作，腰弯得很低，膝盖也弯着，先用钉耙把黄草扒拉开，再用铁锹扒开泥，泥中又有许多含着根睡觉的地老虎，肥肥白白的，扔进火堆里一股香味，再往下挖，叮当一响，有可能是一枚钱，一片碎瓦或瓷片，擦去土，亮晶晶的，不像骨头早也就化成灰泥了，放在水仙盆里压须根好得很，一般捡到了是舍不得扔的。还有什么？去年埋着的鼠牙，夜里它还飞出来，和屋顶上别人家的猫打架。这附近立着一座舍利塔，无名无年代，据说里面也有一个舍利子，是某高僧的牙，这个牙就很温和了，只会转出来喷水，浇一浇墙角的花；还会发光，混在萤火虫堆里当那最亮的一个，转腻了飞回去藏在塔里了。不知道哪个脑子糊涂的要重修舍利塔，将舍利牙和泥灰弄混了，砌入石缝里，从此便被那鼠牙嘲弄，啊呀呀，你想打架也打不到，想打架也打不到。鼠牙笑完它，也转转转，去咬猫的屁股，大抵什么猫都咬的，猫们搞不清楚怎么回事，互相追打了，从王家屋顶追到李家屋顶，夜里很是喧闹。鼠牙这下子被铁锹翻出来，它只敢低低地吱吱，随即被抛入水中。他刚拉住光秃秃的柳枝，一下子看到这副牙咬在山的尖尖顶，回形针般别住了，在水中咯咯咯上下震动，水里好多骷髅也咯咯咯想咬尖尖顶，小孩都这样的嘛，端午节吃粽子只咬个尖儿。水波漾开。冬天的一轮黄日往下掉，耕种的人再往下挖，又“当”的一声，这次只有岩石，长在地里的，我们看是一粒石头，却不知道，在地下它也是崇峻的。黄日落在水中的尖山上，这时他已经跳出来，盯着水看，又扭头看舍利塔，舍利塔头也刺着黄日，它们俩一个是另一个的倒影了。】
《天珠传奇》
【小公园赌场，其实是一个个桌。天暗折叠桌撑开，每一个放一只装电池的白灯，铺上赌纸，一人摇骰子，一人算赌账。由外面马路往里看去，似白水母漂浮，本该透明的白水母又伸出一些黑色的触手，是围住桌的赌客。又似高楼间的亮蘑菇，吸引一群大蚂蚁，包裹住它吮吸汁液。大蘑菇发射菌丝，笼罩巨人超市红蓝霓虹与日式烧肉绿色自助餐广告牌的射线，大家忽而在海底，忽而在林中，赌到晕头。突然地，白水母亮蘑菇花花赌纸骰子声硬币响人的喊叫瞬时消失，众人立于昏暗，头顶数千户密密灯光如星星复又显现，是警察来了。警察摸黑在小公园中巡察，一个个桌早已折叠藏在草中，遂装样喝问，你等这许多人在做咩事？赌摊老板答，晚餐后散步啦。赌客答，练咏春啦。警察拿警棍拨弄一下白灯与五福捧寿塑料碗盘，再喝问，这是何物？赌摊老板答，晚餐后散步又聚餐啦。十分钟后，警车开走。闪出放哨小童，要二十欧报酬。二十欧去舒瓦西路桥下的废弃铁轨处可买两副偷来的雷朋墨镜。怕警察杀回头，大家仍要站立片刻，却已没那么紧张，相互聊起天来。一个穿黑皮夹克的用手肘捣捣我，喂，我见过你。我正欲辨认，白灯亮，骰子声一响，“开”，他便再也无心交谈，拿刚刚还没来得及押的十欧，摆在十一点（也就是三个骰子点数加起来为十一，一赔十一），只十秒，钱便被收走了。】（第一章 中国城）
【柜台射灯已关闭，附近有带狗的女人徘徊。巴基斯坦佬悄悄讲，仔细瞧，她马上便拉狗绳，狗一旦觉得脖子被勒，就要吠起来。你一定想不到这女人是小偷吧。大集就要结束，这是她最后的机会。说罢，我等一齐佯装聊天，一面腾出一只眼斜盯住她。那狗已颇老，狗耳朵与嘴处生出许多白毛，不太乐意似的，贴着地面哧哧嗅了一阵子。不知女人手上使了什么动作，狗果然嘶声大叫。附近有几家不太有经验的皆伸头看，女人遂往那处去了。托马招手叫我入柜台里，瞧他近几个月新得的一部分珠子，有一两颗极为有趣的，倒不是大众意义上的有趣，只有玩家才会认可其价值。比如这粒Harappan成熟期（1500BC）利蛇纹石材质打磨精细的纺锤形珠，呈淡黄偏绿色，孔道未打磨，若用放大镜看，能见到当中残留有金属丝；另有一颗半成品，顶端重叠半圈弧线，说明不知何故，数次选择钻研位置皆未有决定。我与托马有个共同点：总爱研究这些不值钱的小玩意，尽可能地解读其中的信息。不知托马由何处批发了十大箱垃圾珠，各个时期的都有，只是需要大量时间精力将它们拣选，整理出来。巴士底大集共有七日，我便共有七日时间，从早到晚拿放大镜看，希望能碰到半颗，甚至只三分之一颗与印度佬的Idar-Oberstein制品类似的珠子。我如今得知，Idar-Oberstein是一处德国地名，托马告诉我，那儿十八十九世纪即是矿石与玛瑙加工中心。这颗珠子十足奇怪，珠体为印度河谷系的玛瑙珠，大概是公元前一百五十年左右制作的，然而线条过于规整，乃是经过碱性物质白化，二次染为深色，又再次使用碱性物质腐蚀刻画图腾。我问托马能否化验出使用了工业革命之后的化学制剂，托马认为是天方夜谭。他说，信息太少，只有凭直觉。他第一眼看就觉得这珠子携有不同时代的工艺。我们倚靠在柜台上谈了颇久，吃了不少糖姜，喝了好几杯咖啡，他又取出一粒蓝玉髓印章，形状规则，为少见的圆锥形，印面却做得极为马虎。放大镜看表面打磨痕迹—极细的牛毛纹。坠顶有一孔，因长期佩戴，也被磨至水亮状态。灯光下，材质尤显纯净，印面线条中的金刚砂磨制反光清晰可见。我说，真是可惜。托马亦颔首。印面图案是随意的交叉线与米字形，两者组合，通常指猎户星。我二人皆想起莱亚德夫人的项链，认为可利用原有的图案，添加为更复杂的萨珊图章，只要以手工加工做旧，除出行家，便没人能看出修改。我们凑近灯，光圈印在眼中，一环环套住珠子，反而看不清楚，却始终围绕着手工技巧，回回避避地讲了不少话。此时，狗又吠，托马使巴基斯坦佬仔细装箱，但别要赶走这女人。】（第二章 研究生涯）
【我在德国托马处偶然听说过纳粹天铁佛，当时未有留心，百元热炒店里，里加又提起，到时约你见台北的某个知情者。这尊纯属西方人臆造的佛像为何会与台北有关？我百思不得其解。早就有论文揭露出它并非早期造像：比例现代，连佛的裤脚也开衩，早期佛像怎么会有裤脚？等等，这分明是二十世纪初的裤子。而它被捏造为纳粹西藏考察时带回的样品之一：“与当地人的头骨，画像一道，它的开脸也证明着雅利安民族的喜马拉雅起源。”托马提及此事，是由于至纯天珠的某些图腾具有某种难以言说的现代感。我二人一时无话。很奇怪，当你接触过一些世界各地从古到今的珠子，就会产生直觉，这直觉也是几何的，图腾的几何形状带有极度压缩感，它不仅仅是简单的符号，更是经验的抽象体现；任何现代人将抽象再复原为经验皆为徒劳；它的排列，正如街道两侧的房屋剪影与月牙儿的相对位置，你一抬眼见到，反复见到，遂产生它本该如此的道理。每一年新生入学时，我的老师都会照例解说袒荼罗与陀罗尼的定义，但我总是不能理解，这些咒语，所谓抽象的语言，何以对具体世界产生作用力，尤其一些音转为汉语的陀罗尼早已不可译，无法追寻到它的原文，即，只因念诵者的“音”产生力。如果抓住一粒珠虫，等同于抓住一段符号，等同于童年时手握果核如同皱缩的世界。那么，当时你双眼所捕捉到的，是否转化为同样的“抽象”事实？如果有人相信特定的声音在特定的环境中，可以呼召来什么。而我又如何抓住这些逃逸的微妙，哪怕它们并无半分启示？托马讲，现代人发展的纹饰永远是对最初经验凝结的某种拙劣解释，事实上，真的天珠永远不会超出某些线条的特定范畴。
以上是大脑试着为眼睛解释所自动产生的话语。我躺在圆床上，眼睛已闭上了，不再凝视头顶镜中的思绪。】（第三章 天珠传奇）

进入社会工作至今的十年间，胡安焉走南闯北，辗转于广东、广西、云南、上海、北京等地，做过快递员、夜班拣货工人、便利店店员、保安、自行车店销售、服装店导购、加油站加油工……他将日常的点滴和工作的甘苦化作真诚的自述，记录了一个平凡人在生活中的辛劳、私心、温情、正气。
在物流公司夜间拣货的一年，给他留下了深刻的生理印记：“这份工作还会令人脾气变坏，因为长期熬夜以及过度劳累，人的情绪控制力会明显下降……我已经感到脑子不好使了，主要是反应变得迟钝，记忆力开始衰退。”在北京送快递的两年，他“把自己看作一个时薪30元的送货机器，一旦达不到额定产出值就恼羞成怒、气急败坏”……
但他最终认识到，怀着怨恨的人生是不值得过的。这些在事后追忆中写成的工作经历，渗透着他看待生活和世界的态度与反思，旨在表达个人在有限的选择和局促的现实中，对生活意义的直面和肯定：生活中许多平凡隽永的时刻，要比现实困扰的方方面面对人生更具有决定意义。

A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging networks effects to launch and scale towards billions of users.
Although software has become easier to build, launching and scaling new products and services remains difficult. Startups face daunting challenges entering the technology ecosystem, including stiff competition, copycats, and ineffective marketing channels. Teams launching new products must consider the advantages of “the network effect,” where a product or service’s value increases as more users engage with it. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants utilize network effects, and most tech products incorporate them, whether they’re messaging apps, workplace collaboration tools, or marketplaces. Network effects provide a path for fledgling products to break through, attracting new users through viral growth and word of mouth.
Yet most entrepreneurs lack the vocabulary and context to describe them—much less understand the fundamental principles that drive the effect. What exactly are network effects? How do teams create and build them into their products? How do products compete in a market where every player has them? Andrew Chen draws on his experience and on interviews with the CEOs and founding teams of LinkedIn, Twitch, Zoom, Dropbox, Tinder, Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest — to provide unique insights in answering these questions. Chen also provides practical frameworks and principles that can be applied across products and industries.
The Cold Start Problem reveals what makes winning networks successful, why some startups fail to successfully scale, and most crucially, why products that create and compete using the network effect are virally important today.

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☆ 二十四位日本文学大家的另类解读与珍本故事
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《给作家标个价：旧书店的文学论》作者出久根达郎自少年时便就职于旧书行业，而后创立旧书店；曾获直木奖、讲谈社散文奖。既是经验老道的古书店老板，又是品味独到的文学读者。在本书中，作者以沉潜旧书行业五十余载的深厚阅历和平实晓畅的文风，融合个人体悟，与读者探讨：什么样的文学应该保留，什么样的文学消失？作家、读者、旧书商，究竟是谁决定了旧书的价格？
★ 二十四位日本文学家：
本书涉及司马辽太郎、三岛由纪夫、山本周五郎、川端康成、太宰治、寺山修司、宫泽贤治、永井荷风、乱步江户川、樋口一叶、夏目漱石、直木三十五、野村胡堂、泉镜花、横沟正史、石川啄木、深泽七郎、坂口安吾、火野苇平、立原道造、森鸥外、吉屋信子、吉川英治、梶井基次郎，共二十四位日本文学家珍本的书店际遇。每位作家各成一章，各有侧重。
★ 近百帧珍本书影，二十四张Q版人像：
作者挚友、资深旧书店经营者友情提供精美插图，涵盖初版书、禁书、知名设计师作品，为读者拂去岁月尘埃，揭示旧书之美。
★ 业界名人诚意推荐：
李长声、谢其章、止庵、韦力、史航、胡同、苏枕书等作家、学者、藏书家、旧书业从业者真诚推荐。
◎ 内容简介
《给作家标个价：旧书店的文学论》是作者出久根达郎以旧书店经营者和文学爱好者的双重视角审视文学作品的一本小书，从司马辽太郎、三岛由纪夫、川端康成、太宰治、寺山修司、宫泽贤治等二十四位日本著名作家的珍本在旧书市场的行情切入，讲述了丰富的文坛掌故、书店逸闻和个人阅读体悟，并思索了文学的市场价值与艺术价值的关系。
◎ 名人推荐
★ 文学有价格，表现在市场的旧书上，甚而越来越贵。价格不是凭官方所赐，一级作家、二级作家，全由好书者认定。
——李长声（旅日作家、日本出版文化史研究专家）
★ 我读出久根达郎的《给作家标个价》，每每联想到大名鼎鼎的爱德华·纽顿，纽顿的两个题目“搜书之乐”“藏书之道”，正好用来形容出久根这本有趣的书。
——止庵（文化学者、作家）
★ 能在旧书店里被一再探问搜寻的作家，才是此生无憾的作家。然而阅读这本书就是在累积遗憾，那么多惊鸿一现的销魂版本，你只能望梅止渴了。
——史航（编剧、策划人）
★ 妙笔生花的《给作家标个价》与我们琉璃厂旧书店老板孙殿起的名著《贩书偶记》之间，隔着一个叫“趣味”的家伙。
——谢其章（藏书家）
★ 出久根达郎因写作而爱书，因爱书而到旧书店工作，进而自开店，然后继续搞创作。实现了爱书人的完美人生。
——韦力（藏书家）
★ 旧书业前辈的市场文学史。
——胡同（布衣书局老板）
★ 热爱旧书店与日本文学的人们一定不要错过这部日本的《贩书偶记》。出久根达郎在古本屋经营现场浸淫多年，在文坛也活跃有时。此书既涵括丰富的日本古本屋知识，也对日本近现代作家有独到深刻的解读，还记录了与人、书的种种邂逅，是属于书蠹们的盛宴。
——苏枕书（青年作家）

Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, "Almost No Memory," In each of these stories, Davis reveals an empathic, sometimes shattering understanding of human relationships.

“原来的做事方式全部失效，新的方式却没有被发明出来。这就是我们今天的处境。”
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◎ 《工作、消费主义和新穷人》作者，鲍曼在世最后访谈。
◎ 当代极具影响力社会学家 × 知名犀利记者，智力交锋，献给我们一代人的思想小书。
◎ 一份写给当代人的睿智生存指南：关于今天人的境 况，关于我们当下的生活。
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【编辑推荐 】
※ 一场精彩智趣的“世界级播客”，“当今用英文写作的最伟大的社会学家”鲍曼生前最后的对谈__ 思想碰撞，棋逢对手，从不同侧面描写人类的生存境况：新中产的不稳定感、互联网同温层……
※ 畅聊当今生活的方方面面：工作、爱情、家庭、身份、权力、当下与未来……记录1933—2016年重要事件，“二战”“经济危机”“数字时代”“新穷人”……以冷静的局外人与炽热的参与者双重视角，洞察这一流动、变化的世界。
※ 一本小书，关于鲍曼毕生工作的珍贵谈话 __ 从军队少校到大学教授，从实践者到思想者，鲍曼从未停止思考。他并不直接提供解决方案，而是鼓励我们更好地认识已经发生、正在发生，以及将要发生的事实和真相。
※ 辛辣的幽默感，史诗般的世界观，化阴郁为光明的罕见天赋 __一直活泼敏锐，始终心怀希望，做悲观的乐观主义者，这是鲍曼通过文字传达给我们的力量。“即使知道明天世界会毁灭，我还是会种我的苹果树。”
※ 卡夫卡、弗洛伊德、莱姆、昆德拉、艾柯 在对谈中纷纷现身冒泡
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【内容简介】
◎我们为什么正在失去爱的能力？疯狂消费后，欲望为什么始终得不到满足？每个人为什么都成为其他人的敌人？
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齐格蒙特•鲍曼去世前，曾与瑞士记者彼得•哈夫纳交谈了几天，在他英国利兹的家中，就他毕生的工作进行了四次长谈。
在这场谈话中，他继续以“流动的现代性”来描述我们的时代，涉及当前生活的方方面面：爱与亲密关系、身份、工作与休闲、家庭、犹太性、道德、幸福、社会、宗教、政治。从经济危机到新型穷人，从社会责任到公民权利，从战争阴影到幸福日常，从偶像作家到人格类型……并就这些话题，深入思考，为我们这代悬浮在不安全感的人提供对自己境况的新认知，改变了我们对现代世界的思考方式。
这场最后的对谈，让我们对21世纪最伟大的社会学家、思想家之一鲍曼有了新的了解：他从不回避我们这个时代的重大问题，总是努力质疑公认的智慧和常识，让熟悉的东西变得陌生。
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【媒体及学者推荐】
鲍曼用非凡的才华和创造力，建立了一个任何人都必须认真对待的立场 ——社会学家吉登斯
如果鲍曼能活得足够久，继续他与瑞士记者的对话，让熟悉变得陌生，那这可能会成为世界上最伟大的播客的开篇。 —— Shepherd Express

“韩国八零后天才女作家”金爱烂
第二十七届申东晔创作奖获奖作品
未来文学家奖得主 张怡微 作序《“我想抓住那道光”》
“喜欢金爱烂的读者，很容易就会捕捉到千变万化的文学创造背后那双犀利的女性冷眼……现实冷峻如雪，作家将这些体验都划归为生活本来的样子，它是有温度的，是寒冷的。与此同时，它也是有光芒的。”
《滔滔生活》是金爱烂的第二部短篇小说集，共收入八篇作品。这些故事写成长于饺子馆的女孩在雨水倒灌的首尔半地下出租屋里肆意弹琴，写都会女性极度疲惫而辛劳的职场生涯，有城市青年囿于物质的缺乏无法体面过圣诞节，写丈夫出轨与负债的妈妈靠开面馆养大女儿……它们聚焦了城市中那些看似平常、边缘，实则每天都在与生活无声抗争的可敬的普通人；这些充满想象力和智慧的文字就像在平淡无奇的日常生活中积聚起来的一汪水，读者映照出自己，辨认出生活的重压之下个人的内心曲折。

Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever.

Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but also raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge, yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity.

Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in the globalized world of the Internet, English is fast becoming the sole common language of humanity. The process is unstoppable, and striving for total language equality is delusional--and yet, particular kinds of knowledge can be gained only through writings in specific languages.

Mizumura calls these writings "texts" and their ultimate form "literature." Only through literature, and more fundamentally through the diverse languages that give birth to a variety of literatures, can we nurture and enrich humanity. Incorporating her own experiences as a writer and a lover of language, and embedding a parallel history of Japanese, Mizumura offers an intimate look at the phenomena of individual and national expression.

Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and challenges of translating from a language relatively new to her. She also extols Snijders’s “straightforward approach to storytelling, his modesty and his thoughtfulness.”
      Selected from many hundreds in the original Dutch, the stories gathered here―humorous, or bizarre, or comfortingly homely―are something like daybook entries, novels-in-brief, philosophical meditations, or events recreated from life, but―inhabiting the borderland between fiction and reality―might best be described as autobiographical mini-fables.
This morning at 11:30, in the full sun, I go up into the hayloft where I haven’t been for years. I climb over boxes and shelving, and open the door. A frightened owl flies straight at me, dead quiet, as quiet as a shadow can fly, I look into his eyes―he’s a large owl, it’s not strange that I’m frightened too, we frighten each other. I myself thought that owls never move in the daytime. What the owl thinks about me, I don’t know.

中国经济增速下滑是必然的？
宏观政策的当务之急是减税？
政府拿走的比我们的可支配收入还多？
中国的货币政策已经失效？
继续刺激将导致中国经济长期萧条？
要回答这些与我们息息相关的宏观经济问题，就必须真正理解中国经济增长背后的真实逻辑。
复旦大学经济学院韦森教授是宏观经济研究领域非常活跃的一位学者。近年来，韦森教授将他对中国经济的观察和研究形诸笔墨，撰写了大量观点鲜明的文章。本书是相关文章和访谈报道的结集，按照时间顺序编排，分成上、中、下三篇，分别对应中国经济的现状、应该采取的宏观政策以及背后的理论依据。
自2012年开始，中国的实际和潜在GDP增速都在下降。如何看待中国经济近40年高速增长之后的下行？韦森教授认为，从世界经济的发展规律来看，中国经济增速的逐步下行是一个自然趋势，不必也没有办法强行改变。为了维持GDP的增速而盲目投资，只会使问题更加严重，并最终将中国经济推向大萧条。
在这种形势下，最重要的宏观政策就是减税富民，减轻企业负担。中国政府有减税空间，考虑到中国企业税负之重在世界上名列前茅，应该总量减税，而不是结构性减税。宏观政策的第一要务是救企业。
中国经济过去四十年的高速增长，得益于不断推进的市场化改革，以及华人所具有的强烈的企业家精神。处于当前大转型阶段的中国，未来的增长动力应该是发展服务业，尤其是金融服务业，这是被世界各国经济发展的成功经验所证明的。
值得一提的是，虽然当代中国已经进行了近40年的市场化改革，中国经济到今天为止从整体上来说基本上已市场化了，但是，中国的体制改革和社会转型还远远没有结束。故本书所论，虽然看起来是研究和评论当下中国经济运行的现实和理论问题，实际上也是在反思未来中国应该走的社会发展道路。

In 1965, a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. Nobody, including the lawmakers who passed the bill, expected it to transform the country’s demographics. But over the next four decades, millions arrived, including Jay Caspian Kang’s parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. They came with almost no understanding of their new home, much less the history of “Asian America” that was supposed to define them.
The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast. Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. At the same time, upwardly mobile urban professionals have struggled to reconcile their parents’ assimilationist goals with membership in a multicultural elite—all while trying to carve out a new kind of belonging for their own children, who are neither white nor truly “people of color.”
Kang recognizes this existential loneliness in himself and in other Asian Americans who try to locate themselves in the country’s racial binary. There are the businessmen turning Flushing into a center of immigrant wealth; the casualties of the Los Angeles riots; the impoverished parents in New York City who believe that admission to the city’s exam schools is the only way out; the men’s right’s activists on Reddit ranting about intermarriage; and the handful of protesters who show up at Black Lives Matter rallies holding “Yellow Peril Supports Black Power” signs. Kang’s exquisitely crafted book brings these lonely parallel climbers together amid a wave of anti-Asian violence. In response, he calls for a new form of immigrant solidarity—one rooted not in bubble tea and elite college admissions but in the struggles of refugees and the working class.

Now in paperback, The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.

Olga Ravn's prose is chilling, crackling, exhilarating, and foreboding. The Employees probes into what makes us human, while delivering a hilariously stinging critique of life governed by the logic of productivity.

經歷1949江與海的離散與創傷，從記憶與書寫探尋外省移民的在地群體認同感。
1949年前後，蔣介石政權遷移至臺灣，百萬人流離失所、飄洋過海，引發被迫流亡的「外省人」與被迫接納的「本省人」，雙方各自歧異卻又彼此相連的衝突與動盪。
本書運用三大理論支柱──創傷、記憶與離散，闡述近代最龐大卻也最不被理解的一段東亞人口大遷徙，但並非深究國共內戰的勝敗，而是藉由書寫平民百姓逃難的苦難回憶，說明他們如何受到影響。作者透過口述訪談及文獻檔案，探討這段歷史軌跡所衍生的四種社會創傷──逃離中國的社會創傷、希望消散的社會創傷、中國返鄉的社會創傷、返回臺灣的社會創傷，以及事件四十年後，他們的後代如何以家族親身經驗為中心，利用共享記憶復原且創造出懷舊文化產物，進而建構一套與離散完全相反的臺灣外省群體在地化與認同感。最終希望讀者由此體會「同理、和解與正義」。