A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store
Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book online. Uber and Airbnb have ushered in a new era: redefining neighborhoods, challenging the way governments regulate business, and changing the way we travel.
In the spirit of iconic Silicon Valley renegades like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, another generation of entrepreneurs is using technology to upend convention and disrupt entire industries. These are the upstarts, idiosyncratic founders with limitless drive and an abundance of self-confidence. Led by such visionaries as Travis Kalanick of Uber and Brian Chesky of Airbnb, they are rewriting the rules of business and often sidestepping serious ethical and legal obstacles in the process.
The Upstarts is the definitive story of two new titans of business and a dawning age of tenacity, conflict and wealth. In Brad Stone's riveting account of the most radical companies of the new Silicon Valley, we discover how it all happened and what it took to change the world.

Engage young readers in real science with these informative, fun, fact-filled books. This series is aligned with the standards, "The Earth" and "Forces of Nature" as required by Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Project 2061.

Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it does? Why our hands have five fingers instead of six? Why we walk on two legs instead of four?
It took more than 350 million years for the human body to take shape. How did it become the complicated, quirky, amazing machine it is today?
Your Inner Fish delves deep into the past to answer these questions. Premiering Wednesday, April 9, 2014, the three-part series reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth.
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Walking through this park-like area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole...
So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the unashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architechture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age.
Boundaries is her first book; an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original design are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist." (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

李小龙诞辰80周年纪念版
15年鼎盛时光，138封珍藏信札，让李小龙亲笔告诉你……
东方、西方的碰撞与结合 │ 传统、现代的冲突与创新
离不开爱情、亲情和友情 │ 放不下功夫、表演和生命
◎ 编辑推荐 ◎
★ 用“截拳道”的方式认识李小龙
呈现在本书中的138封信札，在 今天看来，乃是李小龙写给你我每一位正在翻阅它们的读者。因为，读他的亲笔书信，是认识他的最精简直接的方式，恰如他的截拳道所揭示的真理一般。
☆ 生平重要信件悉数收入
在李小龙人生的几次重要节点，他都选择借书信向朋友袒露真心真意。其中，1962年9月致曹敏儿、1969年1月4日致张卓庆、1972年8月12日致水户上原、1972年11月致麒麟，这四封信堪称李小龙的微型自传，读来让人深思和激赏。
◆ 历史价值与文化价值并存
这些信札中，一是保存了李小龙创立截拳道的思考过程，二是有诸多好莱坞与港片的幕后故事；三是呈现了二十世纪六七十年代海外华人、美国亚裔群体的生活场景和奋斗经历；四是使站在东方与西方、传统与现代的十字路口上的李小龙更加形象立体，他的思考与创造对今天的世界仍有借鉴意义。
◇ 李小龙，永远的榜样
一个谦虚、好学、开放的人，一个致力于追求生命真谛的人，当他了解李小龙愈多，自然会愈加肃然起敬。对于李小龙，我们知道的远远不够，而这本书可以帮助你至少不会错过他。
◎ 内容简介 ◎
这本信札集记载了李小龙从赴美国求学到在香港逝世之间的十五年珍贵时光。在这些寄给家人、师长、朋友、弟子、同行和影迷的信札中，李小龙毫无保留地袒露了他真诚的灵魂。通过他的亲笔，我们得以领略一代传奇巨星光环背后那兴味盎然的普通人生活，以及他那充满个性的奋斗历程。
李小龙短暂的生命是一个人努力追求自我解放和自我实现的绝佳典范，功夫、表演和生命就是他的探索工具，也是这些信札的主题。翻阅这些信札，我们仿佛踏上了一趟“龙之旅”，在沿途每一个重要关口，我们都将拨开纷纭迷雾，目睹那些曾被掩盖的鳞爪痕迹，了解这个人怎样活过了一生！
◎ 名人推荐 ◎
阅读小龙的信札，你要从中寻找的最重要的一样东西便是他逐梦的典范……理性地计划——履行——达成。这就是小龙。这就是他实现梦想的方式。 ——琳达·李·卡德韦尔
这些信札集中揭示了李小龙生命中的崇高品质——凡事力争做到最好，绝不退而求其次。他的一生彰显了一种日求精进、陶冶情操、为人正派、重视人际、逆水行舟、精神境界强韧超凡的人生哲学。最后，李小龙的书信还反映出了“爱、和睦与兄弟情”的人生理念，而这也恰是他经常书于信末的衷心祝福。 ——约翰·里特
战士的方式不仅用于战斗，在日常生活中也可以进行实践。无论是生活还是体育，他教会我们做好准备，面对挑战，走向成功。——贾巴尔
他每时每刻都处在压力之下，醉心于使自己变得完美，下决心要达到个人目标。 ——成龙
李小龙刚开始拍电影时，我们中国人在外国绝对没有现在这么让人尊重，所以我是以一个中国人的态度去奉他为偶像的。 ——甄子丹

美國前總統、諾貝爾和平獎得主歐巴馬
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美國藍領搖滾教父、工人皇帝布魯斯•史普林斯汀
從夢想‧神話‧音樂談起，重塑新時代美國夢！
美國，自由的沃土，吸引世界各地的人前來創造歷史，實現各自的美國夢。時光推移，深根這片土地上的人開始豎立高牆、排除異己，拒絕一切不同自己價值觀、種族、政治立場……極化現象到了水火不容的地步。
非關藍色、紅色，非關黑色、白色，而是同屬美國的連結感。如果文化已經分裂，要如何重新營造那種感覺？要如何恢復對美國前途的信心？要如何訴說這個國家嶄新、團結的故事，既忠於我們最高的理想，同時也誠實說明了我們的不足之處？
兩個局外人「一個黑人和一個白人」透過探討美國人避而不談、不願追溯的歷史，希望能夠引發共鳴與更多不同聲音加入，讓這個四分五裂的國家團結一致，回歸全球領導地位的道路。
一切【對話】就在擺著數十把吉他的錄音棚裡展開……
歐巴馬：在2020年夏天第一次坐下來錄《叛徒：生於美國》的時候，並不知道我們的對話會如何發展。我只知道布魯斯是說故事高手，是美國經驗的吟遊詩人──知道我們很多看法雷同，包括我們的國家對一些根本問題發生了令人不安的轉變。我們仍努力理解究竟我們怎麼走到今天這個地步，並思索可以怎麼訴說更有凝聚力的故事來消弭美國理想與現實之間的差距。生命與你交會，但你從未真正聽過他人的故事。我們敢說，只要你敞開心胸，細細聆聽，你會得到鼓舞……
布魯斯：我們從最初開始，成長過程、我們的相似處、不同點。夏威夷、紐澤西……頗不一樣；父親缺席……頗為類似。然後我們讓對話自然發展。我們漫談人生，談人生該怎麼過，談生命所處的世界，談我們做過哪些努力來塑造世界，我透過音樂，巴拉克透過政治，把世界塑造成我們覺得可以成為的樣子。我們也有嚴肅的對話，探討這個國家的命運、人民的前途，探討有哪些破壞、醜惡、墮落的力量想拆毀國家……
故事就這樣開始了。擅常將主流搖滾音樂與美國藍領階級生活的敘事結合，被封為音樂界「工人皇帝」的布魯斯•史普林斯汀，以及美國首位擁有非裔血統的美國總統巴拉克‧歐巴馬──一位透過音樂、一位透過政治──之間坦誠、發人深省和有趣的對話，從夢想、音樂、身分和社區，娓娓道來各自家族的起源與職業生涯決定性時刻，再深入探討美國兩極分化的政治狀態，以及造成美國夢和美國夢之間愈來愈大的鴻溝。
這是一本關於美國一切現實的故事，述說著美國建立以來人民內心一直尋找的「根」，探索社會階層、種族、史上最鼓舞人心的美國英雄等事蹟，試著打碎舊時代美國夢的神話，建立更多元與尊重的新美國夢。
【特別收錄】
從歐巴馬和史普林斯汀親口介紹美國原創歷史
獨家收錄 《叛徒》（Renegades ）播客內容以外的新對話
獨家收錄歐巴馬帶註釋的手寫演講稿。
史普林斯汀手寫歌詞與資料。
來自兩位作者的私藏生活照照片。
特別為本書的談話提供豐富歷史照片和文件。

Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies--demonstrating how martial arts are a perfect metaphor for personal growth, and how we can practice those teachings every day.
Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water.
Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. But Lee was also a deeply philosophical thinker, learning at an early age that martial arts are more than just an exercise in physical discipline--they are an apt metaphor for living a fully realized life.
Now, in Be Water, My Friend, Lee's daughter Shannon shares the concepts at the core of his philosophies, showing how they can serve as tools of personal growth and self-actualization. Each chapter brings a lesson from Bruce Lee's teachings, expanding on the foundation of his iconic "be water" philosophy. Over the course of the book, we discover how being like water allows us to embody fluidity and naturalness in life, bringing us closer to our essential flowing nature and our ability to be powerful, self-expressed, and free.
Through previously untold stories from her father's life and from her own journey in embodying these lessons, Shannon presents these philosophies in tangible, accessible ways. With Bruce Lee's words as a guide, she encourages readers to pursue their essential selves and apply these ideas and practices to their everyday lives--whether in learning new things, overcoming obstacles, or ultimately finding their true path.
Be Water, My Friend is an inspirational invitation to us all, a gentle call to action to consider our lives with new eyes. It is also a testament to how one man's exploration and determination transcended time and place to ignite our imaginations--and to inspire many around the world to transform their lives.

麦克纳马拉（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）是可口可乐公司西德分部的总经理，长久以来，他默默地为公司辛勤工作，业绩屡创新高，是上司眼中的红人，亦是最有希望获得晋升的职员。某日，上司致电麦克纳马拉，告知他自己的女儿斯嘉丽（帕梅拉·蒂芬 Pamela Tiffin 饰）即将前往西德游玩，希望麦克纳马拉能够成为她的监护人。
然而，让麦克纳马拉没有想到的是，斯嘉丽尽管年纪轻轻，个性却极其热情奔放，来西德没多久，便同一位名叫奥托（豪斯特·巴奇霍兹 Horst Buchholz 饰）的男子坠入了爱河，他们不仅结了婚，斯嘉丽的腹中甚至还有了奥托的骨肉，更糟糕的是，奥托来自于东德，是一位根正苗红的社会主义者，鄙视资本主义的一切。就在这个节骨眼上，麦克纳马拉得知上司很快就要前往西德接他的女儿。

本片为亚当·柯蒂斯的一部实验作品。影片使用了大量档案胶片（包括奥萨马本拉登的青年时代，约翰肯尼迪遇刺事件和艾滋病病毒在非洲的源起等）以及美国六十年代流行音乐，围绕“权力如何在世界发挥效力”这一主题，记录了二战后的五十年来一个被施展了魔法的世界在美国霸权之下的建立过程，以及 人们对这个梦幻般的世界的回应。 （豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

一本正經又幽默地揭開死亡謎底，
讓你笑著嚥下最後一口氣！
剝去詩意，一探耐人尋味的死後世界。
★ Amazon年度選書，討論數高達2.7K
★ Goodread讀者票選最佳科普讀物
★ 熱銷全球14國版權
人在外太空出意外的話遺體去哪裡了？你有聽過死後屍體還會動嗎？
過胖的人骨灰會不會比較重？連體嬰其中一位死掉的話怎麼辦？
這裡是殯儀館，會盡可能友善地對待所有人，包括死人。
但不保證你可以和心愛的倉鼠葬在一起，或不會因昏迷而遭到活埋。
本書收錄了關於死亡的各種冷知識，從屍體的保存方法、驗屍官的工作內容，到木乃伊的製作過程……以文化、風俗、法律、科學等角度，揭開我們對死亡的困惑，像是應該把遺體埋得多深，或臨終前是否看得見一道白光。
來自34個小朋友們提出的問題，正面迎擊，例如──
搬家的時候可不可以挖出心愛的寵物貓？
能不能把自己做成標本，供後世瞻仰？
如果在飛機上心臟病發，屍體會藏在哪裡？
死亡或許讓人感到絕望或恐懼，作者卻透過生動犀利的筆觸，表達對生命的熱愛與尊敬。在她眼裡，死後的世界充滿了想像，但也記住，不是所有可怕的事情都有可能發生。
最後，聽我的忠告，死前千萬不要做這些事：
‧吃一包爆米花，試圖惡整火化人員。
‧囑咐家人留下你的頭蓋骨。
‧用最後的力氣扮鬼臉，好讓你用古怪的表情下葬。
本書特色
‧揉合科學研究與實戰經驗，兼具知識性與娛樂性。
‧以詼諧風趣的口吻，化解我們對死亡的恐懼。
‧書末附上五題快問快答，滿足無限的好奇心。
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.
Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.
Learn how to:
* make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
* overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
* design your environment to make success easier;
* get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.
Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

顾名思义将分析吐槽多年来好莱坞影视里的各种套路，比如坏人的设定(总有迷惑台词)、床戏怎么拍(镜头切到门外风雨)、表现人物吃惊必有喷饮料、威廉尖叫、遇事不决蒙太奇……罗伯·劳主持，安德鲁·加菲尔德、安迪·麦克道威尔、弗洛伦丝·皮尤、马克·斯特朗、理查德·E·格兰特、桑吉夫·巴哈斯卡、卢卡斯兄弟等人担任嘉宾，cue到的包括《泰坦尼克号》《阿甘正传》《独立日》《沉默的羔羊》等不少经典名片。

E.B. White's classic novel tells the story of one small mouse on a very big adventure!

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse. Born into a family of humans, he lives in New York City with his parents, his older brother George, and Snowbell the cat. Though Stuart is shy and thoughtful, he's also a true lover of adventure.

Stuart's greatest journey begins when his best friend, a beautiful little bird named Margalo, suddenly disappears from her nest. Determined to find her, Stuart sets off on an adventure away from home for the very first time in his life. Along the way, he encounters plenty of excitement—but will he be able to find his friend?

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension—the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.
In An Immense World, author and acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don’t need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.

卡罗尔·丹弗斯（惊奇队长）从残暴的克里人手中夺回了属于自己的身份，也对至高智慧完成了复仇。然而，意想不到的后果出现了。面对动荡脆弱的宇宙，她毅然决然地挺身而出。执行任务时，她来到一个神秘的特殊虫洞。在这里，她与另外两位女英雄产生了能力纠缠——一位是来自泽西市、惊奇队长的超级粉丝卡玛拉·克汗（惊奇少女），另一位是曾与卡罗尔亲密无间的小侄女、如今长大在天剑局（S.A.B.E.R.）担任宇航员的莫妮卡·兰博队长。看似不搭界的三人必须齐心协力，以“惊奇联盟”的身份拯救宇宙。

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Swan Song</P></CENTER>
Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P>
Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even goes to school to learn to read and write. But nothing seems to work. Then his father steals him a real brass trumpet. Is a musical instrument the key to winning Louis his love?</P>

故事设定在《哥斯拉2：怪兽之王》里哥斯拉和泰坦巨兽之间的惊天大战夷平了旧金山，以及确认怪兽是真实存在的现状后，凯特再次被一个令人震惊的秘密吓坏了。面对巨大的威胁，她踏上了环球冒险之旅，以了解有关家人和名为“帝王”之神秘组织的真相。

本剧由全亚裔编剧打造、全亚裔演员出演，以洛杉矶和台湾为背景，主角查尔斯·孙是台北黑帮一员，他作为一名残酷的杀手生活，当他的父亲被一个神秘杀手枪击后，查尔斯必须去到洛杉矶保护母亲和完全不知情的弟弟布鲁斯。
杨紫琼饰演母亲艾琳，在洛杉矶为自己和儿子建立了新的生活，远离她在台湾的过去。
Justin Chien饰演查尔斯，是黑帮头目的长子，被培养成一个铁石心肠的罪犯。他去洛杉矶保护母亲和弟弟，发现自己在两种选择中左右为难：他从小到大的生活和他可以为自己创造的生活。
Sam Song Li饰演布鲁斯，他小时候来到美国，对台北的记忆很少，也不知道家庭的过去。当他恶名昭彰且受人尊敬的哥哥出现在他家门口时，布鲁斯被卷入了一个他完全没有准备好的世界。
Highdee Kuan饰演亚历克西斯，发愤图强和雄心勃勃的她从小就具有强烈的正义感和职业道德，后来成为了助理检察官。
Joon Lee饰演TK，是个有抱负的匪徒，也是布鲁斯从儿时起最好的朋友，他希望自己坚强、忠诚、聪明——但事实并非如此，然而这并不妨碍他尝试。
此外爱丽丝·休金饰演May/June，Jon Xue Zhang饰演Blood Boots，Jenny Yang饰演Xing，胡紫蕊饰演Grace，Rodney To饰演Mark。
该剧由布拉德·法尔查克(《美国恐怖故事》《政客》)和Byron Wu编剧并执行制作，前者担任运作人，凯文·坦查隆(《神盾局特工》《波巴·费特之书》)执导，共8集。

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

本书是爱德华•斯诺登的自传，记录了他在童年、少年、成年时期的经历，以及自己价值观变化的全部过程。书中内容既反映了现代网络科技的发展，也表现了作者对美国政府监视行为的不安，并表达了他内心深处的反思与告白。
全书分为三个部分。第一部分是斯诺登的童年回忆。他自小开始对计算机程序语言产生浓厚的兴趣，并由此走上成为系统工程师之路，寻找网络的秘密。第二部分是斯诺登受雇于美国情报机构期间的经历。此期间，他冒着极大风险曝光美国政府的大规模监视系统。这一部分还讲到他为建立这个系统所做的工作，以及促使他曝光事件的原因。第三部分是斯诺登逃亡到香港和俄罗斯，联络媒体继续曝光整个事件的经历。在这一部分中，他也袒露了内心的矛盾。
从田园诗般的童年印象，到跌宕起伏的情报工作，《永久记录》这本书讲述了斯诺登独特的人生经历，是关于这个“在网上长大”的聪明年轻人的完整而深刻的记录。他满怀着激情与坦率、智慧与担当写下的这本书，注定将成为数字时代不可忽略的嘹亮回声。