A major intervention in the fields of critical race theory, black feminism, and queer theory, The Erotic Life of Racism contends that theoretical and political analyses of race have largely failed to understand and describe the profound ordinariness of racism and the ways that it operates as a quotidian practice. If racism has an everyday life, how does it remain so powerful and yet mask its very presence? To answer this question, Sharon Patricia Holland moves into the territory of the erotic, understanding racism's practice as constitutive to the practice of racial being and erotic choice.

Reemphasizing the black/white binary, Holland reinvigorates critical engagement with race and racism. She argues that only by bringing critical race theory, queer theory, and black feminist thought into conversation with each other can we fully envision the relationship between racism and the personal and political dimensions of our desire. The Erotic Life of Racism provocatively redirects our attention to a desire no longer independent of racism but rather embedded within it.

Challenging what she sees as an obsession with sex and sexuality, Ela Przybylo examines the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking—turning to Audre Lorde’s work on erotics to propose instead an approach she calls  asexual   erotics,  an alternative language for discussing forms of intimacy that are not reducible to sex and sexuality. Beginning with the late 1960s as a time when compulsory sexuality intensified and became increasingly tied to feminist, lesbian, and queer notions of empowerment, politics, and subjectivity, Przybylo looks to feminist political celibacy/asexuality, lesbian bed death, the asexual queer child, and the aging spinster as four figures that are asexually resonant and which benefit from an asexual reading—that is, from being read in an asexually affirming rather than asexually skeptical manner.
 
Through a wide-ranging analysis of pivotal queer, feminist, and anti-racist movements; television and film; art and photography; and fiction, nonfiction, and theoretical texts, each chapter explores asexual erotics and demonstrates how asexuality has been vital to the formulation of intimate ways of knowing and being.  Asexual Erotics  assembles a compendium of asexual possibilities that speaks against the centralization of sex and sexuality, asking that we consider the ways in which compulsory sexuality is detrimental not only to asexual and nonsexual people but to all.

In Racist Love Leslie Bow traces the ways in which Asian Americans become objects of anxiety and desire. Conceptualizing these feelings as “racist love,” she explores how race is abstracted and then projected onto Asianized objects. Bow shows how anthropomorphic objects and images such as cartoon animals in children’s books, home décor and cute tchotchkes, contemporary visual art, and artificially intelligent robots function as repositories of seemingly positive feelings and attachment to Asianness. At the same time, Bow demonstrates that these Asianized proxies reveal how fetishistic attraction and pleasure serve as a source of anti-Asian bias and violence. By outlining how attraction to popular representations of Asianness cloaks racial resentment and fears of globalization, Bow provides a new means of understanding the ambivalence surrounding Asians in the United States while offering a theory of the psychological, affective, and symbolic dynamics of racist love in contemporary America.

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including:




Current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language
Tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you
LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations
Common bloopers to avoid
Tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations
Suggestions for addressing common questions and concerns
Actions for creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces
Recommendations for self-care and sustainable allyship


This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as parents who want to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to create more confident, active allies who are effective advocates for change. This informative, entertaining, and supportive guidebook will surely jump-start even the most tentative ally.

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family.

A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle’s snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a “safe space” app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick . And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter.

With nuanced emotional precision, gritty humor, and compassionate insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities, the stories in Afterparties deliver an explosive introduction to the work of Anthony Veasna So.

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment — a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her co-conspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths.

When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.

Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now.

Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.

《黑奴未竟之旅》(How the Word is Passed)从个人家族遭遇谈起，作者克林特·史密斯（Clint Smith）本身是作家兼诗人，从自己的家乡新奥尔良作为起点，带领读者走读一趟令人难忘的旅程，旅程经过新奥尔良的多座碑石、景点，这些遗物的存在诚实地展露过去，述说着一个世代相传的故事，故事的主题——奴隶制，贯穿着黑人运命、潜移默化地留存在整个国家的血液里。 奴隶制的存在持续在美国社会留下一道道伤痕，那些真实存在在南方的种植园、监狱里的事件，形塑成现代美国人的日常，例如纪念奴隶制结束的六月节、充满黑人文化的曼哈顿下城区。在这些看似稀松平常的小事里，隐藏着黑奴被作为物品交易、毫无自由与尊严的悲痛历史，仅管奴隶制度已经废除，但这些伤痛和阴影仍持续往下一个黑人世代烙印着…

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2022 PEN/VOELCKER AWARD FOR POETRY COLLECTION
WINNER OF THE 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY

A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

“The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without,” Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss’s working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back again. With sheer virtuosity, Seuss moves nimbly across thought and time, poetry and punk, AIDS and addiction, Christ and motherhood, showing us what we can do, what we can do without, and what we offer to one another when we have nothing left to spare. Like a series of cels on a filmstrip, sonnets captures the magnitude of a life lived honestly, a restless search for some kind of “beauty or relief.” Seuss is at the height of her powers, devastatingly astute, austere, and―in a word―frank.

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing ; Sing, Unburied, Sing ; and The Water Dancer —that chronicles the journey of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to our own tumultuous era.

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s Problem on her shoulders.

Ailey is reared in the north in the City but spends summers in the small Georgia town of Chicasetta, where her mother’s family has lived since their ancestors arrived from Africa in bondage. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that’s made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma, as well as the whispers of women—her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries—that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.

To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family’s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors—Indigenous, Black, and white—in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistance, bondage and independence, cruelty and resilience that is the story—and the song—of America itself.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum *

“ Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson

"Atherton Lin has a five-octave, Mariah Carey-esque range for discussing gay sex.” – New York Times Book Review

As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of queer history.

Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last  the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could this spell the end of gay identity as we know it?

In Gay Bar,  the author embarks upon a transatlantic tour of the hangouts that marked his life, with each club, pub, and dive revealing itself to be a palimpsest of queer history. In prose as exuberant as a hit of poppers and dazzling as a disco ball, he time-travels from Hollywood nights in the 1970s to a warren of cruising tunnels built beneath London in the 1770s; from chichi bars in the aftermath of AIDS to today’s fluid queer spaces; through glory holes, into Crisco-slicked dungeons and down San Francisco alleys. He charts police raids and riots, posing and passing out—and a chance encounter one restless night that would change his life forever. 

The journey that emerges is a stylish and nuanced inquiry into the connection between place and identity—a tale of liberation, but one that invites us to go beyond the simplified Stonewall mythology and enter lesser-known battlefields in the struggle to carve out a territory. Elegiac, randy, and sparkling with wry wit, Gay Bar is at once a serious critical inquiry, a love story and an epic night out to remember.

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society.

In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them.

When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she’d been told about herself and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs.

Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny.

Written with Febos’ characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.

“20世纪诗坛奇迹” 西尔维娅·普拉斯向死而生的暴烈绝唱
40首生前未出版珍贵手稿附创作日期，权威译者包慧怡长文译后记和注释，最新完整中文经典版首次出版
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当代文化偶像Patti Smith&女权先锋安妮·塞克斯顿心爱之书！
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这部诗集由“爱”（love）开始，以“春天 ”(spring)结束
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自杀只是输给悲伤的瞬间，至死她不曾放弃这种努力
因为飞升与坠落间存在残酷却值得拼上性命活一遭的美丽世界
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《爱丽尔》无可替代——
它是遗作
是普拉斯离世前抑郁的精神世界最真实的呈现
也为十年前的半自传性成长小说《钟形罩》增添更多感染力和真实性
若说《钟型罩》记录了她青春期的叛逆与躁动，那《爱丽尔》则是她更为真实的“自白”
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编辑推荐：
◆20世纪“自白派”诗歌巅峰，普拉斯挣扎、绝望的内心独白
◆当代文化偶像、美国摇滚女诗人帕蒂·史密斯心爱之书
◆安妮·塞克斯顿、罗伯特·罗威尔、乔治·斯坦纳众文学名人推荐
◆收录普拉斯完整40首遗作诗附创作日期，原汁原味呈现诗人心路历程
◆随书附标题诗（Ariel）英文手稿，印银工艺；赠普拉斯签名款纪念书签
◆权威译者包慧怡倾情献译，附长文译后记和注释，经典完整版
◆封面覆触感膜，天鹅绒质感，内文进口瑞典轻型纸，完美阅读体验
◆任何诗歌迷和文学迷不可错过的枕边书
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1963年普拉斯于伦敦寓所自杀前，在书桌上遗留下一个黑色弹簧活页夹，里面有40首完整诗歌手稿，最初起名为《爱丽尔和其他诗》，由其丈夫休斯根据手稿顺序进行整理和删减（删去过分残酷或有所影射的诗等），分别于1965和1966年出版英、美两个不同版本。
此修复版《爱丽尔》收录完整40首诗歌及创作日期，并严格遵照普拉斯遗留下的手稿顺序编排，使之与其他作品相比，具有不可取代的特殊意义，原汁原味呈现诗人一路以来的心路历程，是普拉斯矛盾、挣扎一生最真实的自白。由国内权威文学译者、作家包慧怡倾情献译（编辑与译者进行大量修订），附长文译后记和近40条注释，首次完整出版！
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名人推荐：
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我的这些新诗有一个共同点，它们都写于凌晨四点左右——那个寂静，幽蓝，送奶工在安置奶瓶时发出玻璃乐音以前的时辰。它们是为耳朵所写，而非眼睛：它们是读着写出的。
——1962 年，普拉斯为BBC广播所写
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“我母亲于1963年2月11日自杀时，在书桌上留下一个黑色弹簧活页夹，里面是四十首诗作的手稿。”
—— 普拉斯之女 弗丽达·休斯
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“我20岁时得到诗集《爱丽尔》，自此它便成为我生命中最重要的一本书。”
——当代文化偶像 美国摇滚女诗人 帕蒂·史密斯
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“《爱丽尔》的出现影响了我，我一点也不忌讳说这些。那里有一种特殊的东西,也许是勇气吧。她敢于做一些非同寻常的事。她敢于写恨的诗歌,这是我从来都不敢写的。我一直都很害怕表达愤怒，甚至在我的生活里也是如此。”
——普利策诗歌奖得主 妇女解放运动先驱 安妮·塞克斯顿
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“生命的瓦解正是她艺术上的不朽。死亡，她那匆匆的、藐视一切的死亡，是惊讶，是打开的那件闪闪发光的生日礼物，是‘飞入血红的眼睛，那白昼的坩埚’的那种超脱，是一直在等待她的那个恋人。”
——美国诗人 罗伯特·罗威尔
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“她诗歌中强烈亲密的情感，构成了一种真诚的强大修辞。诗歌以其骄傲的坦荡骚扰着我们的神经，发出迫切的强烈要求，让读者畏缩，为自己日常谨慎退避的感受力而尴尬。倘若这些诗歌是把生活带进我们，倘若它们不只是展示现代的精神焦虑史，我们就必须集中心智小心阅读。它们太真诚，付出的代价太多，不能轻易当成神话。”
——文艺复兴巨匠 乔治·斯坦纳
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“我喜欢《爱丽尔》中体现出的诗歌多样性，是光明和黑暗的完美结合。诗歌细节丰富，令人难以忘怀。”
——英亚马逊读者

這本小說是句點，是遺言，
總結了昆德拉的寫作生涯，
也是一場終極的如釋重負。
繼《無知》後，暌違11年，文壇大師米蘭‧昆德拉最新小說力作！
我們從很久以前就知道，
這個世界已經不可能推翻，不可能改造，
也不可能讓它向前的悲慘進程停下來了。
我們只有一種可能的抵抗，
就是不把它當一回事。
無意義，我的朋友，這是存在的本質。
它隨時隨地永遠與我們同在。
就算沒有人想看到它，它也會出現：
在恐怖之中，在血腥鬥爭之中，在最不幸的厄運之中。
要在這麼悲劇性的境況裡認出它，直呼其名，
這經常需要一點勇氣。
可是我們不只要認出它，還要去愛它，
無意義，我們必須學習去愛它。
呼吸這圍繞著我們的無意義，
它是智慧的鎖鑰，它是好心情的鎖鑰……

《生命中不能承受之輕》以「布拉格之春」為背景，蘇聯軍隊入侵捷克，知識分子大量逃亡海外，昆德拉透過一男兩女交纏的愛情故事，帶出了對政治、文化、人類生命的省思與嘲諷。
漫漫長路上，年輕女子特麗莎與她的丈夫托馬斯相伴。托馬斯一半是深情的崔斯坦，另一半卻是風流的唐璜，對特麗莎的愛和壓抑不住的放蕩撕扯著他。
薩賓娜是托馬斯的情人，她聰明，厭惡多愁善感，她離開她的日內瓦情人弗蘭茨，追尋她的自由，目的地卻是「不能承受的生命之輕」。
究竟，什麼樣的特質才最符合「人類境況」？是「重」，還是「輕」？嚴肅要到何處才會讓位給輕浮？輕浮又要到何處才會讓位給嚴肅？昆德拉以悖論的手法透過小說提出了這些問題。
全書從幾個簡單的主題出發，但卻在結合了故事、夢境、反思、散文、詩歌、新近和古老歷史的變奏遊戲裡，不斷地以音樂的色調變化豐富著這部小說，呈現出夢幻般的甜美憂傷與殘酷的黑色鬧劇。而在昆德拉的作品裡，沈重與輕盈或許從來不曾這樣結合過，也使得這部小說成為大師最具代表性的經典之作。
本書特色
●文壇大師米蘭‧昆德拉最知名、也最膾炙人口的經典代表作，為紀念出版30週年，特別徵得昆德拉同意，使用大師本人手繪書封獨家製作紀念版，限量5000本，售完為止！
●全新編排，封面採200g進口麗綺紙上水性光，雙色燙金，更增典藏價值！
●本書曾在台灣、大陸掀起一股昆德拉熱潮，熱銷逾百萬本！
●改編拍成電影「布拉格的春天」，由奧斯卡影帝丹尼爾戴路易斯主演。
重要書評︰
衛報︰令人驚異的是，一本與其時代背景如此緊密連結的作品，在二十年後卻依然沒有過時。僅管自從1984年以來，整個世界，特別是所謂的東歐地區，歷經了重大的改變，但是昆德拉的小說在今日讀來，卻依然和它首次出版時一樣深入人心！
華爾街日報︰一部眼界開闊又複雜細緻的作品，交織著政治與哲思、肉慾和靈性、趣味和深度……當今寫作男女之間多樣關係的作者中，沒有人比得上昆德拉的智慧觀察。
華盛頓郵報︰《生命中不能承受之輕》是一部愛情故事，也是一本概念小說……機智、誘人、嚴肅……充滿情感，對於性愛與政治之間巧妙的交互作用有極為嫺熟的描述。
時代雜誌︰成功地展現出勝於嘲諷的智慧與超越絕望的希望！

◎“二十世纪的尼采”、现代欧洲最伟大的哲学家之一
◎E.M.齐奥朗初试啼声之作 中文简体版首次译介
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在绝望之巅挣扎，燃起超脱生死的激情
将眼泪变成思想，发出反叛的野蛮呐喊
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【编辑推荐】
※E.M.齐奥朗是现代欧洲最伟大的哲学家之一，被誉为“二十世纪的 尼采”。其作品以断章体的形式和对痛苦磨难、虚无主义等问题的思考而著称，在国际上享有盛誉，被翻译成十几种语言。苏珊·桑塔格、伊塔洛·卡尔维诺、米兰·昆德拉、保罗·策兰、萨缪尔·贝克特等诸多当代名家一致推崇。
※《在绝望之巅》是E.M.齐奥朗初试啼声之作，也是他最重要的代表作之一，其中存在主义式的绝望令人震惊而又振奋，展现了一种新奇的、抒情的、反体系化的哲学风格，奠定了他的创作基调，成为他之后作品的思想源泉，是了解齐奥朗思想脉络的必读之作。
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【内容简介】
《在绝望之巅》是二十世纪著名哲学家E.M.齐奥朗的首部作品，写于作者饱受抑郁症和失眠症困扰时期。齐奥朗在其中对种种形而上学问题提出了自己的独特见解，主题涉及荒谬、异化、抑郁、失眠、爱情、狂喜、苦难、贫穷、善恶等。本书以一种新奇的、抒情的、反体系化的哲学风格，奠定了齐奥朗的创作基调，作为这位现代哲学家的思想源泉，意义重大。
《在绝望之巅》既是齐奥朗最重要的代表作之一，也是他最受欢迎的作品之一，精致的散文语言、断章体的创作形式和悲观的哲学思想有机结合，表现出荒诞主义和后现代主义态度，对西方知识界产生了极大影响。
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【名人推荐】
“齐奥朗是当今思想最精细，写作最具力量的人之一。”——苏珊·桑塔格
“他是一位杰出的反叛者，也是一位独具怀疑精神的厌世者，一而再、再而三地让我们在人类存在的虚无当中惊醒过来。”——诺曼·马内阿

2015 Alex Award Recipient!Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her--how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way. Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car. But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself. Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.

In America, demons wear white hoods.

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.

Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

卡拉·瓦伦丁为死者工作。
在成为世界上“超恐怖”的巴斯病理学博物馆（就是BBC剧集《神探夏洛克》里福尔摩斯做实验和跳楼的那座博物馆）的馆长之前，她做了多年的尸检工作，完成了大约5000次尸检。在这本书中，她以尸检过程为叙事主线，分享了她的专业知识。
从尸体的第一个切口开始，我们将跟随作者，着手进行尸体的外部检查，随后依次进入尸体内部，解剖单独的器官，直至最后的尸体缝合。在每一个阶段，我们都会随着作者的笔触，了解尸检的过程和知识，了解人类生与死之间的历史和不断变化的文化关系，了解生命究竟是什么。
她对我们的身体最终会发生什么，有生动的洞察。书中的每一章除详细描绘尸检的其中一个环节，也描述了作者生活和工作的细节，纠正了我们从综艺节目、剧集上看到的关于尸检的错误认知。她的文字触及了我们对死亡的感受中一些更具争议的方面，比如性和死亡的关系，比如我们对人体组织收集、器官捐赠等的态度。

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《史密森》杂志2016年年度优秀科普书
“科技艺术”网站2016年拓展大脑的12本非虚构图书之一
这颗星球上的每一个物种都有自己的故事，演化的史诗中藏着代代相传的知识
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◎ 编辑推荐
★ 毒物的出现，原来是生命的另一种机会！
全面扭转你对有毒动物或毒液的刻板看法
☉小心有毒！！！
☉卸下防备，它们又不会从书里跳出来咬你；
☉抛开恐惧，这些生物远比你以为的有趣：
· 雄性鸭嘴兽的螫刺会让人剧痛数个小时
· 子弹蚁“蚁如其名”，毒素带来的疼痛堪比中枪
· 雌性扁头泥蜂会控制蟑螂的意识，使其乖乖成为幼蜂的口粮
· 吉拉毒蜥的毒素化合物彻底改变了医生治疗糖尿病的方式
· 蜂毒的一种主要成分会攻击并杀死人体免疫缺陷病毒
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◎ 媒体推荐
作者开展了大量有毒动物的研究……并提醒我们，毒液是具有医疗潜力的“复杂分子库”， 因此保护其生物多样性也可以保护生物化学的财富。
——《自然》杂志
一次热闹的旅行……作者讨论了蛇、河豚、科莫多巨蜥和蜘蛛，还有章鱼、蜗牛、鸭嘴兽和蜜蜂，她以一种通俗易懂又愉快的方式将生化科技与生理信息联系了起来。
——《出版者周刊》
读者们要注意了：有毒的东西会把毒牙咬进你的身体，而且不会放过你。作者在本书中介绍的会导致出血的毛毛虫和控制思维的黄蜂十分引人注目。我向每一个想知道毒液科学家到底是对什么如此兴奋的朋友和每一个想知道自然界中还有什么尚待发现的学生推荐本书。
——莱斯利 • V.波伊尔，美国亚利桑那大学毒蛇研究所创始人
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◎ 内容简介
数千年来，人类对毒液深深着迷，无论是它迅速发挥功效的能力，或是极小量就足以造成伤亡的威力。半个世纪前，研究人员发现“毒液”的传递方式会影响其作用：吃下去可能无毒，经由皮肤或其他途径接触却会致命！生物学家克丽丝蒂 • 威尔科克斯探索世界上形形色色的有毒动物，带领读者了解毒液的演化、其细致的运作方式、对人类的影响，以及毒液为何具备改变当代生物化学和医学发展的非凡潜力。
作者以生动的口吻娓娓道来有毒动物研究者如何“以身犯险”，让你在捏把冷汗之余被她讲述的故事吸引。除此之外，作者还平易近人地置入多种原本可能令人望而却步的科学知识，包括化学分析、细胞分子生物学、生物化学、免疫学、神经科学、药物动力学、人体生理学等。如今我们已经能从基因和细胞层面来理解毒液分子对人类的影响，科学家们仔细探究毒液的各种组成，厘清不同成分对人类的不同组织造成的影响，这些精密的作用机制让毒液得以为人类所用，进而开发成治疗癌症和艾滋病的潜力药物。读完本书，你将会发现，越来越多的研究让科学家更加肯定毒液在人类医疗领域的价值，以及有毒动物在生态体系中的重要地位。

★编辑推荐
◎普通话与汉语拼音是怎么来的？它们合理吗？
——从南系官话到普通话：国语是如何统一的？
——汉语拼音为什么不好用？
——“抗日神剧”里，日军说话为什么总是那么怪？
◎如何科学打脸地图炮
——粤语真的是古汉语的活化石吗？
——台湾腔为什么这么“娘”？
——北京话是满人从东北带过来的吗？
◎你深入考虑过你名字中的奥妙吗？
——李王张刘陈为什么称霸中国姓氏？
——为什么uncle和cousin就可以把七大姑八大姨通通代表了？
——中国姓氏势力分布地图
◎古人到底是怎么说话的？来一场影音现场式的逼真穿越
——古诗怎么读才科学？
——十二生肖是怎么来的？
——为什么南方多江，北方多河？
破解方言与古汉语的密码万花筒
化我们的方言为武器
打脸所有的地域歧视
捍卫你我昂起头颅讲家乡话的权利
以古人的声音为羽翼
踏上真正的穿越之旅
发掘历史长河中被遗忘的传统记忆
这里隐藏着一个更本真的中国
◎封面展开即是一张意想不到的民国语言小报。
除了把玩、收藏、炫巧，请勿忘记它还有重要功用——
用古汉语与方言，反击地图炮优越感，告诉他们，我们是方言党！
◎号外号外，寻人启事！
赵元任精通各地方言，每每“口技旅行全国”，郑子宁寻迹古代语音，竟还 “口技穿越时空”——你能找着郑子宁旅行到什么地方，穿越到哪朝哪代了吗？
★名人推荐
全球化浪潮下，今天语言消失的速度是前所未有的，从个人到国家，乃至所有民族，都有无尽的记忆与传统因之渐渐被我们忘却。语言就如生物基因一样，储存着丰富的历史信息，但却长期被人目作“绝学”。这本书化所谓“绝学”为人人可懂、妙趣横生的故事，引领我们在语言中找到了另一个更本真的世界。
——历史语言学家 上海师范大学/复旦大学教授 潘悟云
人人都会说话，所以关于语言文字，人人都喜欢说上两句，可惜即使是专家，也很少能把自己的专门以外的常识说清楚。郑子宁费心搜罗来了各方面“专家的常识”，为我们提供了一些可靠的谈资。
——汉藏语学者 伦敦大学亚非学院研究员 龚勋
当今中国流传着诸多关于古代汉语与汉语方言的说法，比如粤语更接近古代汉语、普通话其实是满语蒙古语的产物并非汉语之类的，言之凿凿，流毒甚广。虽然有人拨乱反正，无奈声音太小，效果不大。郑子宁这本书以轻松的语调清楚揭露了这些说法的错误（基于其上的一系列结论也就不攻自破了），向读者展示了真正的语言研究的方法和结论如何引人入胜、激动人心。但凡对语言感兴趣，不管是刚入门的新手还是懂多种语言/方言的老江湖，这都是一本不可多得的好书。
——伊朗学学者 哈佛大学伊朗学博士 张湛
★内容简介
日常语言影响着个体的思维方式，方言维系了民族的历史记忆，政治语言决定了国家的现实意识。《东言西语》是一部打破个人思维模式，追寻民族失落历史，探求家国意识逻辑的挑战读者智识边界之书。
郑子宁以共时的现代汉语方言为经，横观汉语方言与民族文化传承的现实全景，发散式阐明了凝聚于其中的文化偏见；以历时的古代汉语嬗变为纬，纵览中国语言与传统的历史面貌，系统性揭示了遮蔽于其下的文化记忆。由此，郑子宁用以一种深入浅出的方式，化门槛与难度极高、向来被目为“绝学”的方言学与历史语言学为近50个精彩绝伦的故事，把汉语普通话、拼音、方言、古汉语、姓名、称谓、外语习得等几乎所有语言与文化的核心问题融会贯通，用具有内在统一性的连贯逻辑，为我们在语言中找到了一个全新的中国。