Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!”
It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism.
Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters—fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships—and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.

從一九三七年抗日開始到今天，是中國現代史上變亂最劇烈的一段時期。我深切感到：如何將這一特殊歷史階段的重大變動在訪談稿中呈現出來，其意義遠大於追溯我個人生命史的發展。回憶錄因個人的處境互異而各有不同，這是不可避免的。我一生都在研究和教學中渡過，因此回憶也只能騁馳在學術、思 想和文化的領域之內。不用說，我所經歷的世變也是通過這一特殊領域得來的。我希望我的回憶對於這一段歷史流變的認識稍有所助。同時我也相信，一定會有和我同代的其他學人，以不同方式留下他們的回憶。這樣的回憶越多越好，可以互證所同、互校所異。出版這部「回憶錄」的另一動機：拋磚引玉，激起更多學人追憶往事的興趣。如果允許我再有一個奢望，我想說：我在《回憶錄》中所記述的個人學思歷程，無論得失如何，也許可以獻給新一代求學的朋友們，作為一種參考。——余英時
全球華人引領翹望，期待已久的鉅作，《余英時回憶錄》終於問世了。余英時教授不但是中央研究院院士，第一屆唐獎得主，更曾在2006年獲美國克魯格學術獎肯定，可謂聲蜚國際。這部回憶錄具現他從成長求學迄今的心路歷程，以及轉折，與時代變亂相綰繫，從而形塑生命中深沉與不斷思索的肌里，是當代難得一見的，最重要的學人心史。從訪談到成書，歷十二寒暑，成書之不易與下筆之慎重，可見一斑。
在一個缺乏理想和理念的年代，《余英時回憶錄》的問世，不啻暮鼓晨鐘，發人省思。

從1917年到1962年，胡適無論在文化史、思想史、學術史、或政治史上都一直居於中心的位置，他一生觸角所及比同時代任何人的範圍都更廣闊，他觀察世變的角度自然也與眾不同。在胡適個人生命史上的每一階段，一向都存在著一些或大或小的疑點，他的博士學位問題，他的西洋哲學素養，他對毛澤東的影響，他和蔣介石的關係……隨著《胡適日記全集》的出版，其中有些問題已能夠獲得比較明確的解答。
本書根據《胡適日記全集》的內在線索，探討胡適在各個階段與中國現代史進程的關聯，並就上述引起議論的疑點，擇其較有關係者予以澄清，讓胡適自己說話，盡量還胡適一個原來面貌。

本書是余英時教授為《顧頡剛日記》所寫的序言。
顧頡剛以倡導「古史辨」運動知名於世，他一生最重要的研究成績也集中在古代，上起夏、商、周，下至秦、漢。在我們一般印象中，他是一位典型「象牙塔」中學者，畢生與古籍為伍。
作者從《顧頡剛日記》裡頭意外地發現：他的「事業心」竟在「求知慾」之上，而且從1930年代開始，他的生命型態也愈來愈接近一位事業取向的社會活動家，流轉於學、政、商三界。
另一個更意外的發現是，與大家過去的認識截然不同，顧先生並不僅僅是一位謹厚寧靜的恂恂君子。在謹厚寧靜的後面，他還擁有激盪以至浪漫的情感。他對譚慕愚女士「纏綿悱惻」的愛情，前後綿延了半個世紀以上，從1924年初識到1978年題詩日記，讀來極為動人。
這兩大意外的發現，使作者感到必須深入他的內心世界，才能真正懂得他的志業、為學、與為人。

An intellectual memoir by the author of the acclaimed Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson is one of the leading historians of nationalism and Southeast Asia. His seminal book Imagined Commu-nities has changed the way we think about the reason why people live, die and kill in the name of nation-hood.
Born in China, Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. After field work in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, he was banned from Suharto’s Indonesia for disputing the legitimacy of the 1965 coup. In his memoir, he brings to life the intellectual formation of a life spent open to the world, resisting the easy comforts of imagined homes: the joys of learning languages; the importance of field work; the influence of the New Left upon global think-ing; and the satisfactions of teaching.

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: “Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.” It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California, where he struggled with drug addiction and then in New York, where he discovered a long forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, we see how his engagement with patients comes to define his life.
With unbridled honesty and humor, Sacks shows us that the same energy that drives his physical passions — weightlifting and swimming—also drives his cerebral passions. He writes about his love affairs, both romantic and intellectual; his guilt over leaving his family to come to America; his bond with his schizophrenic brother; and the writers and scientists—Thom Gunn, A.R. Luria, W.H. Auden, Francis Crick — who influenced him. On the Move is the story of a brilliantly unconventional physician and writer — and of the man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.

Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city's incessant rhythms, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky, and New Yorkers themselves, kindred souls that Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera.
And he unexpectedly fell in love again, with his friend and neighbor, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, whose exuberance--"I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life," he tells Hayes early on--is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes's distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers.

In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes—that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, that governments need to step in and use fiscal ammunition to prevent these storms from becoming depressions, and that societies that value the pursuit of money should reprioritize—are more pertinent and applicable than ever. In Keynes: The Return of the Master , Robert Skidelsky brilliantly synthesizes Keynes career and life, and offers nervous capitalists a positive answer to the question we now face: When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative?

作为日本电影巨星，仲代达矢九十高龄仍活跃在电影界与戏剧舞台。他无比丰厚的从影经历是日本电影史的宝贵财富。
在日本电影的黄金期（1960年代）仲代达矢与黑泽明、成濑巳喜男、小林正树、五社英雄、冈本喜八等著名导演合作无间，共同铸就了无数经典电影，他与三船敏郎、高峰秀子、原节子、胜新太郎等名演员共同工作的经历也是独一无二，由此堪称电影史的活证人。
本书是他晚年接受电影史研究学者春日太一访问的精华，他娓娓道来自己的片场经历，各个名导、名演员的接触印象，是引人入胜的回忆文字。

十七世纪是中国书法史由帖学转进为碑学的关键时期，而傅山是其中的代表性人物。不同于以往治书法史的学者，本书作者白谦慎并不孤立地探讨傅山的书法，而是将之置于整个时代的文化架构中，藉由学术思想、物质文化、印刷文化之发展史的角度，由经历了明清易代之痛的遗民情结的角度，来观察、诠释傅山的生活，以及由之生发的学术观念与艺术创作。在试图重新勾勒傅山的生活经验之际，作者不仅对中国书法史的这个转折，也对十七世纪的中国文化世界，提供了全新的关照。凡有兴趣于明清易代之际中国社会之各侧面的读者，此书亦为必读的作品。

此书英文、中文繁体字版甫出，即引起海内外学术界的热切关注，被评为“迄今为止研究单个艺术家的最优秀的著作之一”。

Janina Beauman was a year older than Anne Frank when the Second World War began but, unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, this is a story of survival. When Hitler's decree forced her family into the Warsaw Ghetto, Janina, an intelligent, lively girl, suddenly found herself in a cramped flat, hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the casual cruelty meted out by the German occupiers could not dim her passion for books, boys and romance. Then came the raids, and Janina, with her sister and mother, had to keep on the move, hiding in the ruins of the ghetto to avoid being one of thousands rounded up every day and deported to the camps. Their escape to the 'Aryan' side was followed by two years in hiding, taking shelter with those willing to help them and living in constant fear of betrayal. Told through her teenage diaries, giving her story a rare immediacy, this is the extraordinary tale of a passionate young woman's courage and survival.