南北韓分裂後，姜哲煥的祖父母放棄在日本豐衣足食的生活，義無反顧地遷回朝鮮報效祖國。九歲那年，受祖父犯「最重的叛國罪」牽連，姜哲煥一家旋即遭當局以政治犯家屬的名義，押解至北韓最大、監禁幾萬名政治犯的「耀德集中營」。

十年勞動改造，姜哲煥最深刻的體悟竟是：「人有作惡的無限潛能。」

在耀德，姜哲煥忍受恥辱、毒打、饑餓，以及無止盡的苦力勞動。求生的本能讓他性格丕變，學會了耍詐、偷竊、陽奉陰違，失去對他人憐憫與同情的能力。集中營卑劣的生活，逼著適應不良的囚犯自尋短路，姜哲煥的父親與四叔就因熬不過低潮，試圖結伴上吊。至於祖母，身為社會主義的虔誠信徒，轉變也最為劇烈。耀德不符人道精神的罪行，破除了她對金氏父子的迷思，看清北韓根本不是「社會主義的人間天堂」，反而更像由希特勒主宰的世界。

幸運獲釋後幾年，姜哲煥因非法收聽南韓電臺廣播，二度面臨勞改威脅。走投無路，他決心逃離地獄的魔爪，抵達旅程終點「大韓民國」重獲自由的那一刻，姜哲煥忍不住流下喜悅的淚，亟欲將北韓同胞所受的苦難與壓迫公諸於世。殊不知國際社會乃至同為大韓民族的南韓人，對北韓當局和集中營內侵犯人權的惡行惡狀，似乎無動於衷，脫北者的懇求得不到任何迴響。

來到首爾不久後，姜哲煥與在人權組織任職的李古樂結識。李古樂深信北韓政權之所以能為所欲為，部分因北韓老百姓與外界完全隔離，部分則出於國際社會對北韓政權罪行的一無所知。他建議姜哲煥現身說法，揭露北韓人民在金氏父子高壓統治下的生活實況。2000年，姜哲煥的遭遇終於在西方世界曝光，就連時任美國總統的小布希也深受感動與啟發。2005年，小布希邀請姜哲煥到白宮討論北韓問題的解決之道，並在2010年出版的個人回憶錄中「Decision Points」表示：「在我的總統任期內，《平壤水族館》是對我影響最大的書之一。」

"A welcome revision to what has always been a popular book amongst intending PhD students; certainly an essential for all careers libraries!...Order your copy of the book today, and watch your students queue to consult it!" - Phoenix"Phillips and Pugh's book has, since its original publication in 1987, become the undisputed bible for doctoral students...To say that this book is a goldmine of hints, sound advice and carefully researched observations and lessons is an understatement." - Nursing Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.
She has seen both these dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live ; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.
Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've all suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
( Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!)

The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. A time machine has just transported you back into the fourteenth century. What do you see? How do you dress? How do you earn a living and how much are you paid? What sort of food will you be offered by a peasant or a monk or a lord? And more important, where will you stay? The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England is not your typical look at a historical period. This radical new approach shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. Through the use of daily chronicles, letters, household accounts, and poems of the day, Mortimer transports you back in time, providing answers to questions typically ignored by traditional historians. You will learn how to greet people on the street, what to use as toilet paper, why a physician might want to taste your blood, and how to know whether you are coming down with leprosy. The result is the most astonishing social history book you’re ever likely to read: revolutionary in its concept, informative and entertaining in its detail, and startling for its portrayal of humanity in an age of violence, exuberance, and fear.

僵尸生存手册
别让愚蠢和粗心大意毁了你最宝贵的财富--生命。不死的僵尸们现在可能就在跟踪你，而你毫不知情，这本书是你存活的关键。僵尸生存手册提供了完整的、可靠的保护措施，保护你和你的爱人免遭僵尸之灾。这是一本能救你命的书。
僵尸攻击逃生10大要点：
1.在它们来袭之前做好计划
2.它们不会感到害怕，你也不要害怕
3.运用你的头脑。。砍下它们的
4.刀具不需要时间装填弹药
5.理想的防护：短发、紧身衣
6.走上楼梯，然后毁掉楼梯
7.离开汽车，用自行车
8.不停移动，放低身体，保持安静，保持警惕！
9.没有绝对的安全之地，只有相对的
10.僵尸可能暂时离开，但威胁一直存在

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

序
中文版序
序言
凡例
導 言
第一部分 愛國者的長途跋涉
第一章 從北平到長沙
第二章 聯大的長征
第三章 蒙自的魅力
第二部分 交互影響
第四章 聯大與雲南人
第五章 重慶與昆明
第六章 聯大的學風
第三部分 諄諄教誨 濟濟良師
第七章 文學院
第八章 法商學院
第九章 戰爭與學術
第十章 理學院
第十一章 工學院
第十二章 師範學院
第四部分 聯大八年
第十三章 希望的歲月：1938-1941年
第十四章 堅忍的歲月：1941-1943年
第十五章 考驗的歲月：1943-1945年
第十六章 完成使命：1945-1946年
結語
附錄：訪談清單
注釋
參考文獻
索引
譯後記

这本书经过系统的调查，收录了令人瞠目的历史细节，囊括了安葬习俗、名人遗言，以及超过400幅各个时代的医学和历史插图。《离奇死法大百科》不仅仅是一本普通的书，它还是一幅用文字和数字勾勒的人类命运的画像。它以有趣和幽默的眼光来看待死亡背后的真相，在结构安排上以各种死法排序，精确地向我们描述了各式各样的死亡路线，是一本信息丰富的资料性读物。

Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion.

Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in eastern Eurasia (centered on the great North China Plain). Both empires were broadly comparable in terms of size and population, and even largely coextensive in chronological terms (221 BCE to 220 CE for the Qin/Han empire, c. 200 BCE to 395 CE for the unified Roman empire). At the most basic level of resolution, the circumstances of their creation are not very different. In the East, the Shang and Western Zhou periods created a shared cultural framework for the Warring States, with the gradual consolidation of numerous small polities into a handful of large kingdoms which were finally united by the westernmost marcher state of Qin. In the Mediterranean, we can observe comparable political fragmentation and gradual expansion of a unifying civilization, Greek in this case, followed by the
gradual formation of a handful of major warring states (the Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, Rome-Italy, Syracuse and Carthage in the west), and likewise eventual unification by the westernmost marcher state, the Roman-led Italian confederation. Subsequent destabilization occurred again in strikingly similar both empires came to be divided into two halves, one that contained the original core but was more exposed to the main barbarian periphery (the west in the Roman case, the north in China), and a traditionalist half in the east (Rome) and south (China).

These processes of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation have never been the object of systematic comparative analysis. This volume, which brings together experts in the history of the ancient Mediterranean and early China, makes a first step in this direction, by presenting a series of comparative case studies on clearly defined aspects of state formation in early eastern and western Eurasia, focusing on the process of initial developmental convergence. It includes a general introduction that makes the case for a comparative approach; a broad sketch of the character of state formation in western and eastern Eurasia during the final millennium of antiquity; and six thematically connected case studies of particularly salient aspects of this process.

Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach.
In addition to grammar, paradigms, and readings, each chapter includes a variety of extraordinarily well-crafted exercises that reinforce the grammar and morphology while encouraging the joy of linguistic and cultural discovery.

"Aspects of Roman History 82BC--AD14" examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from pre-university to undergraduate level. This is the first book since H.H. Scullard's "From the Gracchi to Nero", published two generations ago, to offer a full introductory account of one of the most compelling and vital periods in the history of Europe. "Aspects of Roman History 82BC--AD14": brings to life the great figures of Pompey, Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra and Augustus, and explores how power was gained, used and abused; covers the lives of women and slaves, the running of the empire and the lives of provincials, and religion, culture and propaganda; offers both a survey of the main topics and a detailed narrative through the close examination of sources; and, introduces students to the problems of interpreting evidence, and helps develop the knowledge and skills needed to further the study of ancient history.

Ancient Greek Religion provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek religion. Focuses on Athens in the classical period Includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult, and vivid descriptions of Greek religion as it was practiced Ancient texts are presented in boxes to promote thought and discussion, and abundant illustrations help readers visualize the rich and varied religious life of ancient Greece Revised edition includes additional boxed texts and bibliography, an 8-page color plate section, a new discussion of the nature of Greek “piety,” and a new chapter on Greek Religion and Greek Culture

Over the past two decades, no field of scientific inquiry has had a more striking impact across a wide array of disciplines–from biology to physics, computing to meteorology–than that known as chaos and complexity, the study of complex systems. Now astrophysicist John Gribbin draws on his expertise to explore, in prose that communicates not only the wonder but the substance of cutting-edge science, the principles behind chaos and complexity. He reveals the remarkable ways these two revolutionary theories have been applied over the last twenty years to explain all sorts of phenomena–from weather patterns to mass extinctions.
Grounding these paradigm-shifting ideas in their historical context, Gribbin also traces their development from Newton to Darwin to Lorenz, Prigogine, and Lovelock, demonstrating how–far from overturning all that has gone before–chaos and complexity are the triumphant extensions of simple scientific laws. Ultimately, Gribbin illustrates how chaos and complexity permeate the universe on every scale, governing the evolution of life and galaxies alike.

Since humans first looked towards the heavens, they have attempted to predict and explain the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. This book describes the theories of planetary motion that have been developed through the ages, from the homocentric spheres of Eudoxus to Einstein's general theory of relativity. It emphasizes the interaction between progress in astronomy and in mathematics, demonstrating how the two have been inextricably linked since Babylonian times.

Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, this long awaited second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated.It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems a " how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology." Moreover he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with unique and direct information about the physics of the very early Universe.The material is presented in an informal pedagogical manner. This includes a comprehensive introduction to relativistic astrophysics needed for the clarification of cosmological ideas.

Here are ten examples of the different kinds of mysteries scientists have yet to crack, some plausible theories and a few less likely ones. Find out why these questions, and others like them, remain, and when- or indeed whether- we might get some answers. Take a tour of how some of the big gaps in our knowledge are being probed and how much there is still to know.