By the close of the last millennium Dorling Kindersley had become one of the most recognisable brands in publishing. Across the range of illustrated household reference titles, from children's books to travel guides, its distinctive look of colourful images cut out against a white background could be seen on bookshelves throughout the country - and indeed the publishing world. Apart from three minor acquisitions, DK had grown organically over 25 years to be a publicly listed company with a turnover of GBP200 million, some 1500 employees, publishing arms across the English language markets, a 50-strong international sales force that dealt with more than 400 publishers, a direct selling business with 30,000 independent distributors, and had expanded its skills for delivering handsomely designed reference books into the new media of videos, CD-ROMs and online educational content. Then a series of catastrophic printing decisions brought the company to its knees, and ultimately into the arms of Pearson. Christopher Davis is uniquely positioned to tell the story of DK's rise and fall. He joined the company at its foundation and in due course became Group Publisher. The narrative he provides is a dual one, encompassing the visionary genius of Peter Kindersley and the publishing revolution he fomented, and charting the remarkable, sometimes precarious, frequently hilarious, roller-coaster ride as the company grew from a handful of people in a studio in South London to a substantial global business. In the rapidly changing publishing climate of today, this book is also a nostalgic reminder of a time when creativity could flourish unburdened by the shackles of corporate bureaucracy.

大仲马（1802-1870）法国著名通俗历史小说家《基督山伯爵》是他的代表作。
法老大副堂泰斯船长委托，为拿破仑党人送了一封信，遭到两个卑鄙小人和法官的陷害，被打死牢。狱友法里亚神甫向他传授各种知识，并在临终前把埋于基督山岛上的一批宝藏秘密告诉了他。堂泰斯越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富。从此名基督山伯爵，经过精心策划，报答了恩人，惩罚了仇人。本充满浪漫的传奇色彩，章章奇特新颖，引人入胜。

What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by Ikea's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it's okay to like Comic Sans, "Just My Type" will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker sacked. Refer to Prince in the Tafkap years as a Dingbat (that works on many levels). Spot where movies get their time periods wrong and don't be duped by fake posters on eBay. Simon Garfield meets the people behind the typefaces and along the way learns why some fonts - like men - are from Mars and some are from Venus. From type on the high street and album covers, to the print in our homes and offices, Garfield is the font of all types of knowledge.

梁實秋對中國文壇具有多方面的貢獻，包括對英國文學的學術研究、翻譯莎士比亞全集以及推廣英語教學；其散文作品集《雅舍小品》更是膾炙人口的佳作，暢銷數十載，歷久不衰。梁實秋先入清華大學，之後赴美留學的經歷，使其具有學貫中西的背景。他的文風上承唐宋，下擷晚明，旁取英國小品文的從容灑脫，使《雅舍小品》篇篇讀來，幽默風趣，不僅可見作者的廣博見識與文筆功力，其莊諧並作的風格更能見其真情、創意與豁達。「雅舍」實為一室一廳之「陋室」，梁實秋俯仰起居其間，將生活中息息相關的事物以風趣幽默的筆法觀照；將狗、豬、鳥等人們最熟悉不過的動物，及下棋、散步、理髮等日常瑣事娓娓道來，妙趣橫生。

The Short Oxford History of English Literature is the most comprehensive and scholarly history of English literature on the market. It offers an introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day in eleven chapters covering all the major periods of English literature chronologically. Professor Sanders provides detailed analysis of the major writers and their works and examines the impact of British literature on contemporary political, social and intellectual developments. This third edition has been revised and updated for a 21st century reader, incorporating discussion of a greater number of female and contemporary authors.

《读库1101》内容主要包括：《中学生》、《辛亥私人记录:剪辫》、《辛亥私人记录:易帜》、《七年》、《毒斗天南》、《皮克斯“寻蛋”之旅（上）》、《风水和天命》、《心字香和声音》。
《中学生》是摄影师任曙林记录的八十年代北京一七一中学的中学生，他的镜头下，八十年代校园的懵懂与青涩让我们怦然心动。“那几年，许多中学还是社会上最后一块净土，还可以保持相对的独立性。那时的中学生好看，是因为她们脸上真有纯真烂漫，她们内心总还相信着什么，那时的恋爱是真恋爱啊。”潜心拍完那些照片，他说，“八十年代的中学生不能复制，他们只能是那个时代的产物。”
2011正值辛亥百年，与之相关的概念书定会铺天盖地。傅国涌先生则另辟蹊径，通过亲历者的私人记录来多维展示历史大事件。
这些亲历者的日记、书信、口述、回忆录等史料，它们来自不同社会阶层，具有不同政治倾向，重现了有关辛亥革命的许多史实，对辛亥革命作出了全新的解读，让我们得以进一步靠近现场，看到一幅幅更真实的历史图景，在平静的叙事中感受那个大变革时代的呼吸，重新认识那场改写历史的革命。
“剪辫”与“易帜”，在丰富的史料与细节中，傅国涌为我们展开了辛亥年间波澜壮阔的历史画卷，这是一幅立体的工笔画，上至精英、下至底层民众，都是这段历史的参与者、亲历者，也是历史的塑造者。历史的真相，也期待我们在无限逼近的细节之中逐渐获得。
电脑动画工作室皮克斯已成为影坛传奇。它将四个来自三家公司、不同职务的人紧紧联系在一起：乔治·卢卡斯、史蒂夫·乔布斯、罗伯特·艾格和约翰·拉塞特。这四位，第一位是星战帝国的教父、《星球大战》的导演，第二位是苹果公司的CEO，第三位是迪士尼公司的CEO，最后一位是迪士尼和皮克斯动画工作室的首席创意师、全球范围内的迪士尼主题公园和度假胜地的首席创意顾问，一个曾经被迪士尼踢出家门的初级动画师。
1995年11月22日，《玩具总动员》在北美上映，引起了全美的轰动。从此，皮克斯成为电脑动画电影的王者，而这家原来濒临倒闭的公司，也开始逐渐被全世界的影迷所熟悉，观众为荧幕上那个欢快的小台灯而欢呼鼓掌。
也是从《玩具总动员》开始，皮克斯开始了在影片中的“藏蛋”之旅，并由此成为影迷观看皮克斯电影的乐趣之一。《皮克斯“寻蛋”之旅》则开始挖掘所有皮克斯出品的影片中深埋的彩蛋。
中国人成为世界上命运感最强的民族之一。《风水和天命》一文则是张宏杰先生揭示的曾国藩的一个侧面。
垂暮之年，他猛然发现用尽一生精力换来的“同治中兴”不过是一片虚假繁荣。他遵循圣人之道一丝不苟地苦学苦修，却并没有达到“为天地立心，为生民立命，为往圣继绝学，为万世开太平”的理想。他眼看着神州不断陆沉，自己却无能为力。他以一人之力，无法挽回传统社会积千百年形成的强大颓势。一生的奋斗，最后竟然如拔刀斫水，并不能丝毫影响水之东流。他对晚清朝廷上下一如既往的昏溃混乱、对时世沧桑人心难复深深失望，对自己一生灯蛾扑火式的努力深为失望，“老年常多悔惧”，“近年焦虑过多，无一日游于坦荡之天”。在“补救无术，日暮道穷”之际，不免愈加以天命说来排解自己的郁怀。
“以不言者为体，以所言者为用，以不言者存诸心，以所言者勉诸身”，是皈依了天命说之后曾国藩的行事策略。也就是说，以天命说来排解心中的迷惑愤懑，以天人感应说来激励自己继续奋斗。鉴于这种考虑，曾国藩从不在众人面前谈论天命，即使私下谈论，也总不出亲信僚属的小圈子，并且多在事后。他愈是感到“天命难违”，愈是强调主观意志的作用，甚至达到极端的程度。“志之所向，金石为开”一语，就是他晚年用来勉励年青人的。
2011年度的藏书票，选自威廉·莫里斯（William Morris，1834-1896）为自己的幻想小说《闪光平原》（The Story of the Glittering Plain，or the Land of Living Men）创作的插图。

“可爱”已经成为遍布全球的一大现象……二十世纪八十年代流行的漫画文字和“酒井法子式用语”、九十年代的“御宅族”以及二十一世纪兴起的“萌”热潮，日本的“可爱”文化在世界亚文化群中，具有独一无二的彻底去政治化。本书从“可爱”现象入手，分析了“可爱”的语源，对“可爱”要素进行了分析，探讨了“可爱”的重要属性，是第一本专门对“可爱”这一文化现象进行深入研究的著作。

In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ...Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

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Enthralled by a portrait of himself, young Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to exchange his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Thus he is able to indulge in his desires, as only the portrait bears the traces of his decadence and becomes a nightmarish picture of his soul.
Edited with an Introduction by Robert Mighall
Preface by Peter Ackroyd

Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means—whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. Using translation as his lens, David Bellos shows how much we can learn about ourselves by exploring the ways we use translation, from the historical roots of written language to the stylistic choices of Ingmar Bergman, from the United Nations General Assembly to the significance of James Cameron’s Avatar. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? ranges across human experience to describe why translation sits deep within us all, and why we need it in so many situations, from the spread of religion to our appreciation of literature; indeed, Bellos claims that all writers are by definition translators. Written with joie de vivre, reveling both in misunderstanding and communication, littered with wonderful asides, it promises any reader new eyes through which to understand the world.
In the words of Bellos: “The practice of translation rests on two presuppositions. The first is that we are all different: we speak different tongues, and see the world in ways that are deeply influenced by the particular features of the tongue that we speak. The second is that we are all the same—that we can share the same broad and narrow kinds of feelings, information, understandings, and so forth. Without both of these suppositions, translation could not exist. Nor could anything we would like to call social life. Translation is another name for the human condition.”

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《商業周刊》專欄，結集了！十年來，最讓人流口水的一本書！
跟著舒國治遊台北、吃小吃！
小吃的佳美，透露出城市裡人的佳良；事實上台北之好，主要是人與人的關係最密切，人對於別人的需要，亦最了解；甚至可以說，台北是人情最溫熱，最喜被照拂也最喜照拂別人的體貼之城。若有一個年輕人，不想再忍受上班，決心每天烘三百個蔥花麵包，下午三點出爐，六點便全數賣完。再如主婦每日中午將精心調製的五十個便當拿到公園賣，半小時賣完回家，這皆是我所謂「理想的行業」，更別說對社會之貢獻了。──＜自序＞
選買小吃亦有技術，謂「雜湊」也。譬似買「秦家餅店」的乾烙蔥油餅，再去「鼎泰豐」外帶它的「小菜」（即豆干絲、海帶絲、粉絲、豆芽菜四味拌成），如此返家，一層層撕下油餅，就著這極富醋香滋味的小菜而吃，這便最好。若是再有一碗濃郁香烈的牛肉湯，則不妨至「汕頭牛肉麵」攤買上一大袋牛肉湯。
這些皆是台北所製足以傲視世界的小東西，只是取用它須得稍費周章與些許巧思。──＜東門市場滷肉飯＞
清晨進店，菜包上桌，取小碟，倒白醋，再擱一小匙辣椒醬，算是配色，也增些許辣氣，不加醬油，就這麼蘸包子吃。
菜包之菜，青綠至極，一口咬下，見綠絲如韌，有人不禁會問：「是雪裡蕻嗎？」當然不是，是青江菜。只是所有極綠之菜絞成細絲，皆很近雪裡蕻之質也。──＜康樂意包子＞
林家的福州乾麵，拌麵的汁是白汁，麵相淨雅，頗見品味。桌上的黑醋，識者自會酌量調灑，不灑亦隨意，在此店斷沒有貼一布告教你如何加醋調味那一套。──＜林家乾麵＞
如今，做湯湯水水蔬菜的店，不知怎的，少了。莫非台灣拋卻農家生活習尚真有這麼快？ ──＜永樂布市對面「清粥小菜」＞
此店的湯頭，色較清亮，有椒香氣，有薑沖氣，亦有近似淺淺的沙茶的藥香氣；簡而言之，清鮮也。亞熱帶地區或許最適宜這般口味，華南口味，而不是坊間那些我們習以為常、視為當然的、豆瓣醬風味的──牛肉麵。──＜汕頭牛肉麵＞

84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence.
In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive." Twenty days later, on October 25, 1949, a correspondent identified only as FPD let Hanff know that works by Hazlitt and Robert Louis Stevenson would be coming under separate cover.
When they arrive, Hanff is ecstatic -- but unsure she'll ever conquer "bilingual arithmetic." By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office. But only when FPD turns out to have an actual name, Frank Doel, does the real fun begin.
Two years later, Hanff is outraged that Marks & Co. has dared to send an abridged Pepys diary. "i enclose two limp singles, i will make do with this thing till you find me a real Pepys. THEN i will rip up this ersatz book, page by page, AND WRAP THINGS IN IT." Nonetheless, her postscript asks whether they want fresh or powdered eggs for Christmas. Soon they're sharing news of Frank's family and Hanff's career. No doubt their letters would have continued, but in 1969, the firm's secretary informed her that Frank Doel had died. In the collection's penultimate entry, Helene Hanff urges a tourist friend, "If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me. I owe it so much."

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tevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. Also in this volume are "The Body Snatcher," which charts the murky underside of Victorian medical practice, and "Olalla," a tale of vampirism and "the beast within," with a beautiful woman at its center.

Philosopher, naturalist and rugged individualist, Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This representative sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862). Reprinted from standard editions.

作者写道：“人类历史上最默默无闻的英雄，就是发明下水道的智者，制作浴缸的能人，让你领略淋浴魅力的才子，阴沟的建造者……卑微的管子工……爱尔兰人也许拯救了人类文明一次，但管子工们拯救了无数次。”
当我们考虑那些福利设施真正让我们过上文明生活的时候，优秀的管子工所做的一切便名列前茅了。但我们几乎没花一点时间去欣赏这种技术奇迹，它用一个水龙头给我们千家万户带来干净水，用一根杠杆把我们的排泄物冲刷掉——直到今天。
本书行文幽默风趣，所叙述的奇闻轶事给人以愉悦的阅读感受。不仅把管子工行业悠久的历史娓娓道来，而且描述了作者制造铅水管的艰辛过程，参观伦敦下水道的“惊险”旅程，在自家浴室安装最新型日本马桶的尝试，展示了他为全面了解这个最被嘀咕的文明支柱所付出的无畏努力。
本书成功地将历史、科学和作者的切身经历融为一体，令那些从未思考过这个日常技术奇迹所隐藏的错综复杂知识的人大开眼界。

這是一個熱情故事，我想表達出愛情的萬轉千迴，
完全幻滅了之後也還有點什麼東西在。
──張愛玲
九莉還記得她嬰兒時期的景象：人來人往的嘈雜聲中，有一支白銅湯匙塞進她嘴裡，那股鐵腥味真難吃！
這種與生俱來的敏感與驚人的記憶，顯然一直留在她的血液裡。從幼年傳統家族在新舊世代衝擊中的爭鬥、觀念對立的父母籠罩的陰影，到讀書時修道院女中千面百樣的同學、戰時人與人劍拔弩張的緊繃感……點點滴滴的細碎片段，無一不在她生命刻下印記，並開出繁盛的文字。
而就是這種特殊的文采，吸引了邵之雍天天來拜訪九莉。他眼中的光采像捧著一滿杯的水，他說就算這文章是男人寫的，也要去找他，所有能發生的關係都要發生。二十二歲還沒談過戀愛的九莉，覺得這一段時間與生命裏無論什麼別的事都不一樣，恍如沉浸在金色的永生中，讓她不顧一切，即使之雍被說是漢奸、即使他是有婦之夫……

盖·德利斯勒是加拿大动画人，为了帮助朝鲜的外包动画事业，受法国资本家的派遣，不远万里，来到朝鲜……好吧，他为了完成公司的动画项目，在朝鲜的外包公司呆了两个月。期间，他每晚画下一天的见闻，然后整理编绘成这本漫画《平壤》。

1949年的大遷徙，是一個強烈的時代印記
當年蔣介石決定來台的原因與時機是什麼？
政府各部會遷台的經過如何？外省人遷台有哪些困境？
1949年的大規模戰後移民潮，究竟在歷史上占據著什麼樣的地位？
本書從蔣介石來台前的部署與撤退計畫、第三次下野，到來台初期的反攻努力與復行視事，以及政府各機關、重要文物的遷台經過詳情，還有一百多萬的外省人來台後，對台灣造成的衝擊與影響等。本書娓娓道來，值得您細細品味。
目次
前 言
第一章　戰後國共內戰述論
一、戰後國共攻防的策略.
二、國軍剿共失敗──論三大戰役失敗的原因
第二章　蔣介石來台前的部署與撤退計畫
一、來台前的戰略部署
二、大陸沿海地區的軍事撤退
第三章　蔣介石第三次下野──從南京到溪口
一、下野的原因
二、各方的態度.
三、與前兩次下野的比較
第四章　蔣介石來台──從溪口到台北
一、溪口歲月
二、選擇來台的原因.
三、何時決定來台
第五章　蔣介石來台初期的反攻努力與復行視事.
一、來台之初的反攻努力
二、聯絡反共國家
三、國民黨部遷台暨總裁辦公室的成立與復行視事
第六章　行政院遷台經過
一、行憲後行政院的演變
二、機關疏運計畫
三、從南京至廣州.
四、從廣州、重慶到台灣.
第七章　政府機關遷台及其問題
一、外交部及使節團
二、資源委員會與招商局
三、中央研究院
四、機關遷移的問題..
第八章　重要文物遷台經過.
一、運台前的準備
二、分批運台的經過
三、文物運台初期的保管與運台過程檢討
第九章　外省人來台的途徑與交通
一、途徑與交通
二、來台的票價.
第十章　陌陌千里急急行──遷台的場景與悲劇
一、上海碼頭
二、渡台悲歌──太平輪事件
第十一章　學生遷台的個案──山東流亡學生
一、流亡學生的困頓
二、山東流亡中學生
三、從廣州到澎湖.
第十二章　外省人遷台數量
一、外省人民遷台數量
二、軍隊來台數量
第十三章　外省人遷台經過及抵台初期的觀感
一、外省人遷台的經過.
二、誰知他鄉變故鄉──抵台之初的台灣印象
第十四章　台省因應逃難潮──入境管制措施
一、實施入境管制的背景..及目的
二、實施的情形
三、入境管制的意見
四、施行後的問題及其影響
第十五章　外省人遷台的性質與影響
一、移墾與逃難──與明清時期漢人來台的比較
二、外省人遷台對文化教育的影響.
三、外省人遷台對社會經濟的影響
結　　論..
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