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◎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。

Have you ever tried to read up on some incredible part of the world, only to find yourself faced with incomprehensible terminology and jargon? It’s nice to know what the parts of a thing are called, but it’s even more interesting to know what they do. What if you had something that could clearly explain it all using simple words?
Thing Explainer, by Randall Munroe, does just that. Using line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) most common words, he provides simple explanations for some of the world’s most interesting things: our food-heating radio boxes (microwaves), our very tall roads (bridges), and our computer buildings (datacenters). He also explains the other worlds around our sun (the solar system), the big flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), and even the stuff inside us (cells).
Where do these things come from? How do they work? What do they look like if you open them up? What would life be like without them? And what would happen if we heated them up, cooled them down, pointed them in a different direction, or pressed this button? In Thing Explainer, Munroe gives us the answers to these questions and so many more. Funny, interesting, and always understandable, this book is for anyone—age 5 to 105—who has ever wondered how things work, and why.

Not all yarns are alike and it happens far too often that we use the wrong type of yarn for the wrong project - sometimes with disasterous results. In these pages, Clara Parkes provides in-depth insight into a vast selection of yarns, giving you the inside stories behind the most common fibre types, preparations, spins and ply combinations used by large-scale manufacturers and importers, medium-sized companies, boutique dye shops, community spinneries and old-fashioned sheep farms. And, because we learn best by doing, Parkes went to some of the most creative and inquisitive design minds of the knitting world to provide a wide assortment of patterns created to highlight the qualities (and minimize the drawbacks) of specific types of yarns. "The Knitter's Book of Yarn" will teach you everything you need to know about yarn: How it's made, who makes it, how it gets to you, and what it wants to become. The next time you pick up a skein, you won't have to wonder what to do with it, you'll know intuitively.

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more.
Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.
Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.
Jahren’s probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her acute insights on nature enliven every page of this extraordinary book. Lab Girl opens your eyes to the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal. Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way the person you were meant to be.

Do you secretly love to play with your food? Whether you're craving peanuts or pizza, you'll find just the thing to hit the spot between the covers of Tasty Crochet. With over 30 crochet patterns on the menu, there's something here to please every palette. In addition to snack items that can be stitched up in a flash, you'll find: patterns to plan a meal for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessert; basic crochet techniques to get you started right away; and short "ingredients" lists to make finishing an item quick and easy. Whether they're play food for the kids or fun projects for you, you'll love increasing your daily fiber intake with Tasty Crochet!

Learn how to Create a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home – from Christopher Gavigan and the trusted experts at Healthy Child Healthy World.
Healthy Child Healthy World is the essential guide for parents! All parents want a happy and healthy child in a safe home, but where do they start? It starts with the small steps to creating a healthier, less toxic, and more environmentally sound home – and this is the definitive book to get you there.
Unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans, overwhelmingly children, now face chronic disease and illnesses including cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, birth defects, ADD/ADHD, obesity/diabetes, and learning and developmental disabilities. The number gets higher each year and more parents ask WHY? Scientific evidence increasingly finds chemicals in everyday products like cleaning supplies, beauty care and cosmetics, home furnishings, plastics, food, and even toys that are contributors to these ailments.
The good news is that you can something to protect your children with a few simple changes!
Inside, you’ll find practical, inexpensive, and easy lifestyle advice for every stage of parenting including:
* Advice on preparing a nontoxic nursery for a new baby
* What every expectant mom needs to do to have a safer pregnancy
* Clarifying which plastics and baby products to avoid and the healthier solutions
* Tips to take to the grocery store, including the most and least pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables and the best healthy kid-approved snacks
* Which beauty care / cosmetic products pose the biggest risk to health
* The best recipes for healthy snacks, low-cost and safe homemade cleaners, and non-toxic art supplies
* How to easily minimize allergens, dust, and lead
* A greener garden, yard, and outdoor spaces
* Tips to keep your pets healthy, and the unwanted pests out naturally
* Renovation ideas, naturally fresher indoor air, and safer sleeping options,
* An 27 page extensive shopper’s guide to most trusted and best products every home needs
Inside is also packed with over 40 featured contributions from renowned doctors, environmental scientists, and public-health experts like Dr. Harvey Karp, Dr Philip Landrigan, and William McDonough, as well as many celebrity parents like Gwyneth Paltrow, Tobey Maguire, Sheryl Crow, Erin Brockovich and Tom Hanks. A special featured contribution from First Lady Michelle Obama on her best ways of coping with her daughter’s asthma.

What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.
In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules , Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really workand why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain Rules for Baby , he shares what the latest science says about how to raise smart and happy children from zero to 5. This book is destined to revolutionize parenting. Just one of the surprises: The best way to get your children into the college of their choice? Teach them impulse control.
Brain Rules for Baby bridges the gap between what scientists know and what parents practice. Through fascinating and funny stories, Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and dad, unravels how a child’s brain develops--and what you can do to optimize it.
You will view your childrenand how to raise themin a whole new light. You’ll learn:
Where nature ends and nurture begins
Why men should do more household chores
What you do when emotions run hot affects how your child turns out
TV is harmful for children under 2
Your child’s ability to relate to others predicts her future math performance
Smart and happy are inseparable. Pursuing your child’s intellectual success at the expense of his happiness achieves neither
Praising effort is better than praising intelligence
The best predictor of academic performance is not IQ. It’s self control
What you do right nowbefore pregnancy, during pregnancy, and through the first five yearswill affect your children for the rest of their lives. Brain Rules for Baby is an indispensable guide.

Whatever life a woman leads, from biker chick to society girl, there's a stereotype she'll have to live down. The Guerrilla Girls , notorious for their outrageous take on women's issues, now tackle the maze of stereotypes that follow women from cradle to grave. With subversive use of information-and great visuals-they explore the history and significance of stereotypes like Old Maid, Trophy Wife, and Prostitute with a Heart of Gold. They tag the Top Types, examine sexual slurs, explain the evolution of butches and femmes, and delve into the lives of real and fictional women who have become stereotypes, from Aunt Jemima to Tokyo Rose to June Cleaver. The Guerrilla Girls' latest assault on injustice towards women will make people laugh, make them mad, and maybe even make them change their minds.

《半天的魔法》给您一些可爱的小提案。钩针的魅力，在于忙里偷闲，只要有一支钩针、少许线、编织一些实用的小部件，就能调节房间的气氛。书中作品非常的可爱，比起以往这类型的书，里面还多了些比较实用的设计。不单单限于玩偶和大的挂饰。

Right after "Is it a boy or a girl?" and "What's his/her name?," the next question people invariably ask new parents is "Are you getting any sleep?" Unfortunately, the answer is usually "Not much." In fact, studies show that approximately 25% of young children experience some type of sleep problem and, as any bleary-eyed parent will attest, it is one of the most difficult challenges of parenting. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the assessment and treatment of common sleep problems in children, Dr. Jodi A. Mindell now provides tips and techniques, the answers to commonly asked questions, and case studies and quotes from parents who have successfully solved their children's sleep problems. Unlike other books on the subject, Dr. Mindell also offers practical tips on bedtime, rather than middle-of-the-night-sleep training, and shows how all members of the family can cope with the stresses associated with teaching a child to sleep.

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这里有43条成功的法则
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该书大道至简，以图文并茂的形式讲解了如何把握异性心理、建立吸引的规律到如何追求女生的全过程。其姊妹篇为《如何征服英俊少男》。从内容来看，本文为译作。日文原作素材来源于美国七八十年代开始萌芽的关于系统学习两性交往知识的"PUA(Pick Up Artist)文化"材料。

Welcome to Todd McLellan’s unique photographic vision of the material world: fifty design classics—arranged first by size and then by intricacy—are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and dissected in real-time, frame-by-frame video stills.
This book makes visible the inner workings of some of the world’s most iconic designs. From SLR camera to mantel clock to espresso machine, from iPad to bicycle to grand piano, every single component of each object is revealed. These disassembled objects show that even the most intricate of modern technologies can be broken down and understood, while beautifully illustrating the quality and elegance of older designs. Stunning photography is interspersed with essays by notable figures from the worlds of restoration, DIY, and design innovation who discuss historical examples of teardowns, disassembly, and reverse-engineering.
Each photograph is itself a work of art and offers a reinterpretation of our familiar world. They connect people with the child-like joy of taking something apart to see how it works and will appeal to anyone with a curiosity about the material world.
181 color illustrations