本書作者以戲劇美學論述觀眾在劇場中的位置，積極鼓吹戲劇活動是每一個人（尤其是被壓迫的人）都可以掌握的表達工具，並藉由此書大力撻伐了影響當時主流戲劇理念甚鉅的亞里斯多德《詩學》，認為亞氏的戲劇觀念裡所提供的悲劇移情作用是服務於當時雅典政治的一套壓制系統，在戲劇活動與人民百姓之間築起一道阻絕的高牆……這是一本寫於1970年代的民眾戲劇經典，值得您細細閱讀。

The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we need to examine its biological roots in humans and animals. Only through a comparative approach that encompasses work at the molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive levels will we be able to comprehend what emotions do, how they evolved, how the brain shapes their development, and even how we might engineer them into robots in the future.
Showing that emotions are ubiquitous across species and implemented in specific brain circuits, Adolphs and Anderson offer a broad foundation for thinking about emotions as evolved, functionally defined biological states. The authors discuss the techniques and findings from modern neuroscientific investigations of emotion and conclude with a survey of theories and future research directions.
Featuring color illustrations throughout, The Neuroscience of Emotion synthesizes the latest in neuroscientific work to provide deeper insights into how emotions function in all of us.

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment and wonders.
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because islands are where species most commonly go extinct -- and because, as Quammen points out, we live in an age when all of Earth's landscapes are being chopped into island-like fragments by human activity.
Through his eyes, we glimpse the nature of evolution and extinction, and in so doing come to understand the monumental diversity of our planet, and the importance of preserving its wild landscapes, animals, and plants. We also meet some fascinating human characters. By the book's end we are wiser, and more deeply concerned, but Quammen leaves us with a message of excitement and hope.

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.

为什么现代社会中的财富和权力的分配，是以今天这种面貌呈现，而非其他形式？为何越过大洋进行杀戮、征服和灭绝的，不是美洲、非洲的土著，而是欧洲人和亚洲人？各族群间的生活差异为何如此之大？ 对于现代人类、国家间的种种不平等现象，史学家往往存而不论，而在这部作品中，作者为许多大家熟悉以及想当然的答案赋予了截然不同的含义。
远古时期，各大陆上的人类社会的发展开始分道扬镳。中国、中美洲、美国东南部和其他地区对野生动植物的早期驯化，使这些地区的各个族群获得了一种领先优势。 为什么小麦和玉米、牛和猪以及现代世界的其他一些“了不起的”作物和牲畜出现在 这些特定地区，而不是出现在其他地区？人们对这个问题的理解至今仍停留在依稀隐约之间。诚然，农业与放牧出现在局部地区，只是对不同族群的不同命运的部分解释，重要的是，发展水平超过狩猎采集阶段的社会，就有可能发展出文字、技术、政府、有组织的宗教，同时也更有可能发展出凶恶的病菌和战争中的强大武器。正是这样的社会在海洋和陆地上进行冒险，以牺牲其他民族为代价，向新的家园不断扩张，人们最熟悉的例子就是欧洲人在过去500年中对非欧洲民族的征服。开始时，这些欧洲人只是想通过航海去寻找贵金属和香料，结果却常常导致对土著人土地的入侵，并通过屠杀和带来的疾病大批消灭了土著居民。
在这部开创性的著作中，演化生物学家、人类学家贾雷德•戴蒙德揭示了事实上有助于形成历史最广泛模式的环境因素，从而以震撼人心的力量摧毁了以种族主义为基础的人类史理论。本书是理解人类社会发展史方面的一个重大进展，它记录了现代世界及其诸多不平等所以形成的原因，也是一部真正关于全世界各民族的历史，是对人类生活的完整一贯的叙述，具有很强的可读性。本书与戴蒙德的其他两部著作《崩溃》、《第三种黑猩猩》一起堪称为“人类大历史”。本书在2005年国外原版的基础上修订出版，新增“日本人乃何许人也”一章。

问题1：作为穷困黑人的感觉怎么样？（ ）
A.很差 B.有点差 C.不好不坏 D.还不错 E.非常好。
“妈的，你一定是在搞笑。”
“我不是黑人，也不是非裔美国人。我是一个黑鬼。黑鬼就是住在这栋楼里的人，非裔美国人住在郊区。非裔美国人打着领带去上班。黑鬼们找不到工作。”
“你不应该四处问人们这些愚蠢的问题，没人会回答的。你应该和我们混在一起，你应该去理解年轻人是怎么在街上讨生活的。”
就这样，跟着这位黑帮老大，开始了他长达十年的“街头生活”，甚至当了一天管理黑帮业务运作的老大。
文卡特斯变身“流氓社会学家”，亲自打入黑帮内部，曾冒着生命危险，周旋在由黑帮老大、打手、毒贩、军火贩子、牧师、警察、社工以及各色人等交织而成的地下社会交际网络之中，取得第一手的资料，真正了解并体验了贫民们的日常生活完成了博士论文，顺利毕业且找到了教职，甚至变得小有名气。之后，文卡特斯怀着对贫民窟人们的内疚与感激离开了街头。临近离别时，研究地点面临拆迁，人们又将面临怎样的生活……
本书中的多数人物姓名与身份都做了匿名化处理，但其中所有的人物、地址与机构都真实存在，绝非虚构。

本书诚实但又不失风趣地记录了作为人类学家的作者在非洲喀麦隆多瓦悠人村落两次进行田野工作的经历，将人类学家如何克服乏味、灾难、生病与敌意的真实田野生活拍案叫绝地呈现在读者面前。
不同于一般的人类学研究报告，这是一部令人捧腹不止的人类学笔记，透过幽默的笔调，读者看到了人类学者如何与研究对象进行互动，在互动中如何调整他的学术成见，以及田野工作上的琐事如何影响后来研究结果、研究的盲点与反思。因此不管是严肃的读者、无聊地只想打发时间或者是向往非洲原始部落的异国情调而蠢蠢欲动的旅人，巴利这本书绝对是一个有趣的选择。

【内容简介】
“人像蚂蚁”这个古老的比喻，就像“比喻”本身一样古老。从作家到政治学家、社会学家，人们渴望从蚂蚁身上寻找人类社会的最佳组织形式；从单一的个体到整体的社会，从君主制到民主社会，从霍布斯的“利维坦”式全能国家到《美丽新世界》中的集权乌托邦，再到原子化、网络化的后现代社会，蚂 蚁的行为在任何时候都能被象征性的解读，并与人类历史上出现过的各种社会形态形成了巧妙的一一对应。作者从社会学专著、小说文本，乃至电影文本出发，探索了这一类比的迷人历史。
在本书中，蚂蚁，成为人类社会的绝对隐喻。人不是“像”蚂蚁，人就是蚂蚁。
【编辑推荐】
☆ 横跨政治学、社会学、昆虫学、文学与电影评论
☆ 展现人类渴望从蚂蚁身上寻找文明前景的所有野心和企图
☆ 塑造人类文明的，是个体的自由，还是是集体的逻辑 ？
☆ 政治制度、战争体系、社会结构……人类社会的全部隐喻
【本书获誉】
这本书的主题看似距离我们很遥远，但蚂蚁是唯一的镜子，让人类可以将自己视为群众和集体的存在。甚至像韦贝尔展示的那样，我们与宇宙外星人的相似程度也无法和我们与小邻居们的亲密程度相比。
——《南德意志报》
韦贝尔这本书的优点之一是，它永远不会忽视蚂蚁的隐喻在科学和文学中的反馈作用。正是由于蚂蚁以社交昆虫的身份出现，并具有集体智慧的特征，所以蚂蚁的行为在任何时候都被象征性地解读——尽管情况大不相同。
——《文学世界》
韦贝尔原创性的文化史……预示了未来。在未来，塑造我们世界的不是个人的自由，而是集体的逻辑。
——《文化时间》

Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, attempting to establish proportionality between them. Strathern gives equal weight to two areas of contemporary debate: The difficulties inherent in anthropologically representing complex societies, and the future of cross-cultural comparison in a field where 'too much' seems known. The ethnographic focus of this book emphasizes the context through which Melanesianists have managed the complexity of their own accounts, while at the same time unfolding a commentary on perception and the mixing of indigenous forms. Revealing unexpected replications in modes of thought and in the presentation of ambiguous images, Strathern has fashioned a unique contribution to the anthropological corpus. This book was originally published under the sponsorship of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.

In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.

书名：内观基础-从身体中了悟解脱的真相【马哈希大师、原始佛教】
作者：马哈希 大师
出版：台湾方广文化出版社
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定价：160
页数：134页
缅甸马哈希大师(1904~1982)，二十世纪南传佛教最重要的修行人之一。 大师独特的禅修法门，非常直接、简单、科学，可以让现代的读者、听众激起修行的动力，一步一步趣向高层的智慧，沉浸在心灵解脱的喜悦氛围当中。
他在本书【内观基础】（从身体中了悟解脱的真相）中首先区分出「寂止禅」与「内观禅」的差异，并以观察腹部为修行的简单对象，由浅入深，再转入深奥的义理与细密的观照历程，从身心的五蕴扩展至六根为修持内观法门的对象，并经由掌握住－心的刹那意识流程与心的培育，最后证入涅盘。
本书是马哈希大师于一九五九年新年期间，特别针对一般社会大众所发表的系列演讲，希望大家都可以证入初阶的预流果圣人境界；该演讲后来以书本的形式出版，广受读者欢迎，多次再版。

•首次完整展现诺贝尔文学奖得主多丽丝•莱辛的猫世界，不再错过任何一只猫
•特别收录插画师有鹿清新手绘
•苏童、梁文道、朱天心、余秋雨、王海鸰齐力推荐
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无论你是谁，总会遇到那只属于自己的猫。
当你坐在一只相识多 年的猫身边，把手放在他身上，试着去适应他那不同于自己的生命跳动的频率，他会不时抬起头来，用一种异于平常的温柔语气向你打招呼，告诉你，他知道你想走进他的世界。

人和动物的关系，是哲学的一个基本问题，人的一大好奇心就是探讨人同动物的差异何在。正是在和动物的对照中，人才确立自身的独特性，黑格尔一科夫传统和尼采传统是对这个问题的两种对立的回答。晚近的大陆学家海德格尔，巴塔耶，德勒兹，福科，德里达和阿甘本在这两个传统的启示下，对人和动物的关系作了更加激进的表达。本辑力图呈现这些哲学家对人和动物关系所作的批判性思考。

唐娜·哈拉维编著的《灵长类视觉--现代科学世界中的性别种族和自然》讲述了：故事总是许多讲述者和听众的共同产物，他们并非都是能被看到或能被听到的。讲故事是个严格的概念，但也是个令人愉快的概念，它没有宣称自己是唯一版本或只能以某种固定方式被阅读的权力。灵长类学似乎是由许多故事组成的一门科学，《灵长类视觉--现代科学世界中的性别种族和自然》的目的就是要介入这些故事讲述的构成方式的争执之中。……故事是通向生活方式的道路。讲故事就是灵长类自我实现的技艺。

John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

本书是第一部比较系统地探讨生态学的渊源和变迁的著作。作为一门在20世纪60年代勃然兴起的年轻学科，生态学以其迷人的魅力吸引了本书作者。从科学思想史的角度看，本书可谓开风气之先。作者认为，任何科学思想都是一种文化传统的产物。因此，他摆脱了科学史中仅就人物的思想和概念论思想的惯例，在说明生态学历史的每一个阶段时，都只选取有代表性的人物，并把他们置于特定的历史画面之中。但是，作者并不因此而否认一种科学思想的连续性；相反，他尤其强调科学思想的传统对一门科学的形成和发展的影响。生态学是关于人与自然的科学。而长期以来，两种对立的自然观影响着这门新兴学科。一个是以生命为中心，一个是以人类为中心。尊重自然或利用自然，根本分野正在于此。

A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting. -- The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch , brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives.

《道德动物》是《纽约时报》年度最佳图书之一，也是最振奋人心的、真正重要的科学读物之一，迄今为止已被译成20余种文字。
本书以达尔文的生平及其作品为脉络，从一些非常有趣的社会问题出发，比如，人类的一夫一妻制不只是法律的规定，这种制度还有着深刻的进化渊源。再如，手足之间为了得到父母关爱而进行的竞争其根源在哪里？为什么父母对自己的子女也会有所偏爱？自欺欺人的生物学根源是什么？逐步深入到人类进化的生物学基础，从进化的角度审视了人类的情感、友谊和竞争、攻击等心理或行为，对人类基于基本道德假定的日常行为及其动机进行了再思索。同时，罗伯特·赖特揭开了那些塑造我们的爱情选择、家庭体验、友谊和政治责任的无意识策略之谜。这本书还在更深层面促使我们重新思考那些最基本的道德准则，对我们的公共政策和日常行为极富启示意义。