Join David & Susan Schwartz on a whirlwind tour of Costco warehouses around the globe . They are two of Costco's biggest fans yet live in one of NYC's smallest apartments. Since 2016, they have been to over 200 of Costco's 850 warehouses, plus gotten behind-the-scenes looks at depots, packaging facilities, vendors, meatpacking plants, and even a pre-opening party. Publication on September 12, 2023 is timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of Costco's first warehouse. By that time, David & Susan plan to have visited at least one warehouse in 46 US states and 13 other countries, including Australia, Canada, China, France, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, and the UK. After publication they plan to complete a cross-country Costco-themed road trip from Yonkers, New York to Yorba Linda, California, stopping to visit their favorite retailer along the way. Topics are covered in a whimsical A to Z format, using Q & A to cover topics ranging from Cashews and Chicken to Hot Dogs and Hawaii, targeted to delight the more than 120 million Costco members and over 300,000 dedicated Costco employees. There is a Prologue that describes how the authors came to write the book and an introduction that provides a narrative history of Costco and its predecessor companies. Sample Fun

In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humans and birds.
Birds have ever been the symbols of our highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, they have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked into the sky. Whether as the Christian dove, or Quetzalcoatl—the Aztec Plumed Serpent—or in Plato’s vision of the human soul growing wings and feathers, religion and philosophy have looked to birds as representatives of our better selves—that part of us not bound to the earth.
With the passion of a birdwatcher and hoarder of words, Gibson has spent fifteen years collecting the literary and artistic forms our affinity for birds has taken over the centuries. Birds appear again and again in mythology and folk tales, and in literature by writers as diverse as Ovid, Thomas Hardy, Kafka, Thoreau and T.S. Eliot. They’ve been omens, allegories, disguises and guides; they’ve been worshipped, eaten, feared and loved. Nor does Gibson forget the fascination they hold for science, as the Galapagos finches did for Darwin. Birds figure charmingly and tellingly in the work of such nature writers as Gilbert White, Peter Matthiessen, Farley Mowat and Barry Lopez.
Gorgeously illustrated, woven from centuries of human response to the delights of the feathered tribes, The Bedside Book of Birds is for anyone who is aware of birds, and for everyone who is intrigued by the artistic forms that humanity has created to represent its soul.
From The Bedside Book of Birds ~
Stevenson remembered the story of a monk who had been distracted from his copy-work by the song of a bird. He went into the garden to listen more closely, and when he returned, after what he thought were only a few minutes, he discovered that a century had gone by, that his fellow monks were dead and his ink had turned to dust. The song of the bird had given him a taste of Paradise, where an instant is as a hundred years of earthly time. Was the same true of time in hell, Stevenson asked himself.
Alberto Manguel

我是女权主义者，我是异性恋，我该如何踏进被父权制绑架的异性亲密关系？
☬一本写给既是女权主义者又是异性恋，不得不面对厌女型亲密关系之人的剖析之书
☬出版即引发热议，《世界报》《自由报》《VOGUE》等知名报刊争相报道
☬直面作为女权主义者与热爱男性之间的矛盾，犀利指出异性恋男性既渴望女性又厌女的本质原因
☬常年跃居亚马逊法语社科榜TOP 3，获第44届欧洲散文奖、2021年《左派文艺杂志》随笔奖
☬打破父权制下男女关系的浪漫表象，深挖“男强女弱”背后的社会规训与性别脚本
☬深入探讨爱情如何被政治化，女性如何被规训得自卑而不敢展露自己的才华，男性如何被规训得接受不了真实的女性，认为他们的统治权与生俱来。而羞耻又如何成了女性的生存模式，成了婚内暴力和女性杀戮的温床，女性到底要怎么做，才能重获长期被剥夺的自信和自尊？
☬作者莫娜·肖莱的分析一针见血而逻辑分明，化身“我的女权主义嘴替”，帮助读者厘清思路，向看到一些社会新闻或观点时，隐隐感觉不对劲却难以将自己的感受准确表达出来的表达困境说再见！
☬紧跟潮流，从女性主义视角审视大热美剧、英剧：《性爱自修室》《正常人》《了不起的麦瑟尔夫人》《后翼弃兵》《权力的游戏》……犀利点评其剧情设计的合理与荒谬之处！
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内容简介：
《重塑爱情》是一部探讨父权制对异性恋关系影响的著作，作者莫娜·肖莱通过一个个异性恋关系典型，深入分析了父权制结构下传统男女关系中那些浪漫的表象、厌女的传统以及家庭暴力等问题，直指父权制结构下异性恋文化的病态及厌女之处，并对如何摆脱父权制对男女社会角色的要求与期待，如何作为一名女性主义者，仍然相信男女间传统的爱情做出了解答，试图将爱情从父权统治中拯救出来。
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媒体评价：
从第一行开始，我们就被莫娜·肖莱引用的艺术、个人化的方式打动，既温柔，又坚定。
——《世界报》（Le Monde）
社会化一方面使爱情成为女性的绝对，另一方面，又让男性做好准备警惕爱情，将其视为限制他们自由的因素。同样的社会化教育女性表达自己的情绪，而男性则要压抑自己的情绪，这不可避免地使相互理解变得不那么容易。
——《赫芬顿邮报》（HuffPost）
通过剖析男女之间的关系、关系的支配机制和我们对爱情的想象，莫娜·肖莱建议以爱的名义重塑异性恋关系，更好地解放自己。她的思考扣人心弦，因为它诞生于个人和真诚的基础上。
——《服饰与美容》（Vogue）
这本书邀请我们重新思考我们的幻想、我们的理想，不是放弃它们，而是赋予它们新的意义。这是一次将爱情从父权统治魔掌中拯救出来的非常好的尝试。
——《精神》（Esprit）
我们与作者同行，始终牢记一个目标：将浪漫关系从“不平等的催情效果”中拯救出来，想象一种“背叛父权制的异性恋”。
——《玛丽安娜》（Marianne）

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts: difficult problems or issues with no best practices that force you to choose among various compromises to succeed. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures.
Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss strategies for choosing an appropriate architecture. By interweaving a story about a fictional group of technology professionals--the Sysops Squad--the authors examine everything from how to determine service granularity, manage workflows and orchestration, manage and decouple contracts, and manage distributed transactions to how to optimize operational characteristics, such as scalability, elasticity, and performance.
By focusing on commonly asked questions, this book provides techniques to help you discoverand weigh the trade-offs as you confront the issues you face as an architect. You will:
🞄Analyze trade-offs and effectively document your decisions
🞄Make better decisions regarding service granularity
🞄Understand the complexities of breaking apart monolithic applications
🞄Manage and decouple contracts between services
🞄Handle data in a highly distributed architecture
🞄Learn patterns to manage workflow and transactions when breaking apart applications

<b>Electrifying lessons in power, influence and persuasion to equalise women in an unequal world, from former dominatrix and nun turned sought-after coach</b><br /><br />Kasia Urbaniak spent 17 years studying to become a Taoist nun. To foot the bill for her studies, she worked as a high-paid (and extremely successful) dominatrix in dungeons around New York City. What she learned in these two wildly different settings has turned into her life’s work.<br /><br /><b>UNBOUND </b>brings Urbaniak’s unique teachings for women on speaking power, persuading others and navigating conflict to a mainstream audience for the first time. Part polemic, part practical, it opens women’s eyes to why they frequently find it so difficult – personally, professionally and socially – to raise their voices, why they freeze in challenging circumstances and what they can do to change this. Too often women find themselves in the role of ‘sub’ when they need to be more ‘dom’ – in short they are paralysed by their Good Girl Syndrome and a deep-seated need to please everyone and anyone except themselves.<br /><br /><b>UNBOUND </b>shows women how to cut through layers of self-censoring and self-doubt to direct and command attention so they can express – and get – what they really think, feel, need and want.

《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》作者保罗 • 柯艾略朝圣之旅
书里讲的，是我重获新生的故事。——保罗 • 柯艾略
除了加西亚•马尔克斯，保罗•柯艾略是追随者与读者最多的拉美作家。——《经济学人》
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圣地亚哥之路，中世纪的苦行朝圣之路。保罗在神秘向导的指引下，通过种种考验和修习，躲开重重威胁与诱惑，成功找到将令他成为拉姆教团魔法师的钢剑。
1986年，保罗•柯艾略踏上圣地亚哥之路，点亮了灵感之光，使这部精神冒险小说成为找寻自己道路的寓言。
1987年，《朝圣》问世，开启了“牧羊少年奇幻之旅”，也挖掘了人类灵魂探寻的深度。
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25年前，保罗·柯艾略正是通过这部全球销售1000万册的作品扬名

《塞拉菲尼抄本》创作于1976年至1978年，并于1981年首次出版。2014年上市的中国版，是全球第七种语言授权，参与了全球合印计划，由意大利原厂印刷，原装限量进口3000本。
在罗马某座危楼顶层的小房间里，一位年轻的建筑设计师创作了这部幻想世界的百科全书，后来这部巨作被列为“十大神秘天书”之首。而这位名为鹿易吉•塞拉菲尼的作者也被冠以建筑师、设计师、艺术家等多个称谓。
塞拉菲尼以千余幅精妙绝伦的手绘插图，以及他独创的、无法识别的语言和书写系统，呈现了一个精彩纷呈的异次元世界：小至奇特的动、植物，大至文化与城市建筑，无奇不有、无所不包。想象力恣意纵横，令人脑洞大开。
促成这本手稿得以印刷出版的意大利出版商曾评价：这本书堪称这世界上不计其数的壮举和幻想之一。卡尔维诺生前曾为本书写下长篇推荐序，他曾写道：“塞拉菲尼的语言被赋予了一种权力，它将要唤醒的是一个其内在语法完全颠覆的世界。”
尽管书中的文字至今无人能解，但读者可以借此摆脱文字和语法的束缚，像尚未识字的孩童一样，根据双眼所见的图画，去感觉，去联想。在这些漫无边际的想象中，一个新的世界诞生了。这正是《塞拉菲尼抄本》神奇与伟大之处。

1900年，八国联军攻陷北京，慈禧太后谐同光绪皇帝仓皇出逃西安。本书口述者吴永，时为怀为知县，因迎驾服侍有功，被慈禧任命为前路粮台会办，随扈西行，得以见闻朝延内外许多事件，深知“西狩”内情。
本书分五部分，首卷记述义和团兴起、八国联军陷北京、两宫西逃，以及怀来迎驾，随扈太原，以及由西安回京等经过，其间对一些政变要闻、宫延内幕、权臣间钩心斗争记录甚详。甓园居士刘治襄根据吴永口述记录整理成书，后曾被译成英、德、日诸园文字，“中外推崇，视为信史。”

We rely on science to tell us everything from what to eat to when and how long to exercise, but what about relationships? Is there a scientific explanation for why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle? According to psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, the answer is a resounding "yes." In "Attached," Levine and Heller reveal how an understanding of adult attachment-the most advanced relationship science in existence today-can help us find and sustain love. Pioneered by psychologist John Bowlby in the 1950s, the field of attachment posits that each of us behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:
*Anxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back
*Avoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness.
*Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving. In this book Levine and Heller guide readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mate) follow, offering a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections with the people they love.

本书是一部关于宋代女词人李清照的研究专著。作者在古今浩繁的相关资料中爬梳抉择，经过严密的分析论证，认为后人对李清照一代才女形象的认知和看待她的立场经历了层累性的改变，几乎所有关于李清照的惯常言论都是经过精心阐释的产物，只有经过传统这一棱镜的折射后，李清照才为正统文化所接受。后人为了强化她的传统形象，在明代结集的李清照的作品中，甚至混杂了后起的拟伪之作。作者将数世纪以来外加于李清照的累赘层层剥离，以重构一个接近本来面貌的李清照的形象，揭橥数世纪以来颇富趣味的李清照接受史。

两位作者持续多年扎根人工智能前沿领域，这本书是他们在科学研究的过程中蹦出的意外火花。因为这一全新发现并不是直接回馈于他们本身所处的人工智能领域，而是“无心插柳”收获了对人类约定俗成的思维方式的全新颠覆。这一研究打破了人类世界延续多年、难以撼动的、依靠目标和计划成事的文化基因，真正开启了人类伟大创新的惊喜之旅。
他们在学校、TED、科研论坛等场合公开演讲，让这一新思维方式影响并激励了许多人。他们自身也凭借写入本书的“寻宝者思维”“踏脚石模型”“新奇性探索”等具体思维方法，在人工智能研发领域取得了飞跃式的突破和进展，产生了一系列惠及人类的伟大创造。

Paulo Coelho's enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago, who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids.
Along the way he meets a Romany woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the right direction for his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or whether Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path; but what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of treasure within.
Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

Explore masterpieces hidden in plain sight, historic artist enclaves, and iconic works of public art in this charmingly illustrated exploration of Paris, from the authors of Art Hiding In New York.

Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore in a lifetime—and not just in museums. Tucked away in tree-lined parks, preserved in world class restaurants, emblazoned on Metro station walls, and hidden in the most unexpected places are masterpieces worthy of the Louvre, if you know where to look! 

In this whimsically illustrated celebration of Parisian art and artists, author and curator Lori Zimmer highlights more than 100 treasures. From the gorgeous remnants of the Art Nouveau era to the homes of some of the world's most influential artists—including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more—to an introduction to the modern masters of urban art, there are endless riches to be explored. Discover art that was hidden for decades inside cafes, shops and even a Belle Époque brothel! Paris will surprise you.

Illustrated by artist Maria Krasinski, this book provides curated itineraries for dreaming up your next urban exploration, and is perfect for displaying on any art lover's shelf. 
 

Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what may sound like the fantasies of Hollywood dream-maker Walt Disney were in fact the figments of the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. Exploring the novel use of French motifs in Disney films and theme parks, this publication features forty works of eighteenth-century European design—from tapestries and furniture to Boulle clocks and Sèvres porcelain—alongside 150 Disney film stills, drawings, and other works on paper. The text connects these art forms through a shared dedication to craftsmanship and highlights references to European art in Disney films, including nods to Gothic Revival architecture in Cinderella (1950);bejeweled, medieval manuscripts in Sleeping Beauty (1959); and Rococo-inspired furnishings and objects brought to life in Beauty and the Beast (1991). Bridging fact and fantasy, this book draws remarkable new parallels between Disney’s magical creations and their artistic inspirations.

The new comprehensive bible of interior design, from a home styling guru who has coached an entire Scandinavian generation in the art of creating a harmonious home.

Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling—what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good.

The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb—like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board—complete with helpful illustrations. Use The Interior Design Handbook to achieve a balanced, beautiful home no matter where you live or what your style is.

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一言不合就拉黑
观点不同就反驳
遇到冲突就回避
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人们为什么会这样做？
美国著名精神分析师约瑟夫·布尔戈依据30余年的从业经验，总结了人们在抵御痛苦情绪时常用的10种心理防御机制。他强调：心理防御是人生体验中不可避免的、必要的部分。在面对困难时，心理防御机制会保护我们并帮助我们渡过难关，但是当它们变得僵化或根深蒂固时，可能就会损害我们的人际关系，限制或扭曲我们的情感，并伤害我们的自尊。
约瑟夫博士在书中将心理动力学的基本方法改编为自我探索的指导练习，带你深入探究潜意识。全书分为三个部分：第一部分教你理解心理防御及其重要作用；第二部分带你认识10种主要防御机制，通过练习识别自己的心理防御；第三部分探讨如何解除无益的心理防御，用更有效的方法应对痛苦情绪。

The bestselling author of Hold Me Tight presents a revolutionary new understanding of why and how we love, based on cutting-edge research.

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