It’s not just fake news. Bullshit is everywhere. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a data-saturated world.
The world is awash in bullshit, and we’re drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.
Based on Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West’s popular course at the University of Washington, Calling Bullshit is a modern handbook to the art of skepticism. Bergstrom, a computational biologist, and West, an information scientist, catalogue bullshit in its many forms, explaining and offering readers the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. They instruct readers to ask:
• Who is saying it?
• How do they know?
• What do they have to gain by persuading me?
• Are the numbers or results too good or too dramatic to be true?
• Is the claim comparing like with like or apples and oranges?
• Is it confirming your personal bias?
In this lively guide to everything from misleading statistics to “fake news,” Bergstrom and West help you recognize bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it–in data, in conversation, even within yourself–and explain it to your crystal-loving aunt or casually racist uncle. Now more than ever, calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning community, whether it be a circle of friends, a network of academics, or the citizenry of a nation.

苦踟躕，甜懊惱。《我是許涼涼》李維菁再次穿透少女精魄微宇宙的寫實情書。
●楊照－專序
●王健壯、紀蔚然、陳芳明、陳慧嶠、楊澤、駱以軍、劉克襄─借肩膀推薦
王健壯：「讓人若即若離地迷，悲喜交織地迷」紀蔚然：「曲伸自如的軟刃」
陳芳明：「快，狠，準。銳利的感覺與情緒」陳慧嶠：「藏匿底層的深黝的綿密的渴望」
楊澤：「充滿強烈夢幻感的記憶之書」楊照：「老派愛情的終極輓歌」
駱以軍：「鍊金術般自覺，可以召喚整個宇宙的書」劉克襄：「只帶著自己的傷魂旅行」
「偏偏我們愛上的，都是不存在的東西。那就是為什麼我們做我們現在正在做的事。瞧瞧我們變成了什麼，愛情的乞丐，死亡的天使。關於那些讓人流淚的，愛的失落，家的幻滅，從此漂浮無依的恐懼。你不用擔心，我總會笑盈盈地眨著眼對大家說，沒問題的。」
女巫師召喚、或一千零一夜說書人床榻密語般蘊藏著小說的布局樂趣，詩的「由心而發」本義和餘韻，和當代生活裡人們的種種處境況味，小小的夢幻顛倒，哀樂滄桑。
關於局部壞毀、暫時傷殘、選擇性缺損以及隨機入夢失憶的……女性老靈魂無藥可救追愛失愛的後青春單元劇。正因為是偽裝堅強所以要更堅強，寵溺可愛所以要更可愛，相信美麗所以要更美麗。
彷彿一個個預知傷害紀事（但其實真是人畜無傷的不是嗎？我是如此謹小慎微愛著自己所以自愛節制），小小說，小小詩，小小人，那些距離真正的肉身青春已很遙遠，不老不死愛恨之心儘管續續斷斷稍縱即逝、乍滅還生畢竟時時迫近的故事：形成一處處心之河曲，豐饒明亮大街旁某條陰影小巷，更是隨著每個真實動情片刻呼吸起伏的奇妙旋律──或輕快自由或頓挫纏綿，或如獻祭樂段或似隨口小調，都僅為當下讀者一人的心事細細低訴傾唱，只屬於國王的夜鶯，唱出了便永遠失落了，聽懂了也是不願懂，那些既喧譁也沉默的腹語留言，和教人太輕易心碎的美好救贖。

香港的傳媒百花齊放，電視新聞頻道更是越來越多，24小時新聞為受眾帶來源源不絕的最新資訊，但從受眾的角度來看，要求的不單是新聞的量多與少，更甚是新聞的質素，是否達到廣大群眾滿意的水平。這就需要從新聞的取材以及表達方法等多方面，求變革、謀提高。香港回歸祖國前後，電視新聞傳播發生了很大變化，家文對這些變化都做了條分縷析，都有哪些變化？是好是耶？評析得當否？建議細看家文的研究成果。
倪寧 (中國人民大學新聞學院常務副院長)
李家文這本書探討的、訪問的、搜集的及寫出來的，看過的讀者才會真正有深刻感悟。李家文對香港電視新聞的深度探討研究，來的正是時候，遲不遲、早不早。這本書，不是隨便一個沒有甚麼專業經驗的學者的另一篇習作。很多新聞學的教授們，只可以理論滔滔，卻從來沒有──或極少有──實作經驗。李家文則是一邊有理論、一邊仍有實作。這本書是她在業內實作多年細看興迭的經歷累積；也是一名研究生悉力以赴的研究成果──課題是：1997前後香港特別行政區和中國大陸社會政治現實的變化如何影響電視新聞的運作及判斷。

中國學生在俄國的紛雜感情與心碎分離
v.s.
兩國之間的友情結合與盟約破裂
1920年代起，成千上萬的革命青年踏上旅途，前往蘇聯，尋找理想的共產天堂。在那裡他們學習俄語，又在官方禁止下墜入愛河，生下子女，有些人結了婚。
中蘇的結盟，是二十世紀共產國際最關鍵的一段關係，史家過去常從地緣政治與意識型態為觀察角度。但作者創先採用「終身不渝的戀情」為比喻，並以「中國學生在俄國的紛雜感情與心碎分離」，來照映「兩場革命之間的友情結合與關係破裂」。
作者整理大量中、俄、德、法及前東歐國家的史料文獻、日記、回憶錄、個人紀錄與訪談，記錄了一部牽涉多代人的大歷史。書中人物故事跨越二十世紀初期到一九八〇年代，內容涵蓋中蘇兩場革命的情感、社會和文化等層面。加上作者優雅和機智的筆鋒，帶出極具吸引力的詮釋。
這是一部經過精心研究、令人目眩神迷的可信歷史，讀來竟比原創故事更曲折。從毛澤東的棄妻到蔣介石的兒子，從蘇聯孤兒院中被納粹擄走的中共紅軍總司令女兒，到「願意排在德國女人之後和丈夫做愛」的憤怒妻子，這些人的故事，建構出20世紀國際關係裡最動人的命運紀錄。

The FDA requires that drug approvals be submitted in this format, and U.S. federal courts request that it be used for electronic case filing. We're talking, of course, about PDF (or Portable Document Format), and with more than 600 million copies of its reader (Adobe Acrobat) downloaded, and governments and enterprises around the world using it to streamline document management, chances are you'll be called to develop for it as well. This comprehensive reference makes sure you're ready! Containing all of the info from previous editions, plus new material on what's been added to PDF Version 1.5, this essential guide makes a highly technical subject accessible and intelligible. You'll find complete coverage of all major aspects of the format-imaging model, architecture, syntax, graphics, operators, fonts, and rendering--as well as highly readable explanations of its interactive and multimedia features, transparency capabilities, intellectual property issues, and more. The first and last word on the most current PDF spec from the people who know it best: Adobe!

「有了中國文學的涵養，他的文字沒有病容；有了社會學的修業，他中年的看山之感終於沒有掉進奔奔蕩蕩的虛境去；有了現代社會異鄉人的情懷，則他勇以針對人類的異化輸注理性的溫情。他在德國聖山的哲人路上見到幾個少男少女埋頭在滿地黃葉中找栗子，依稀記起江南逃難的童年歲月，在田野中剪野菜，在山溪摸魚蝦，就是沒有揀過栗子；於是他也彎身用樹枝在層層殘枝敗葉叢中，找起栗子來了：『時人不識余心樂，將謂偷閒學少年！』這是文學的神韻，是社會學的視野，是文化的倒影，更是歷史多情的呢喃，都在金耀基的胸中和筆底。」
——董橋《語絲的「語絲」》

本书是介绍大数据智能、人工智能技术的科普书籍，旨在让更多人了解和学习互联网时代的人工智能技术——自然语言处理技术，让大数据智能技术更好地为我们服务。全书包括大数据智能基础、技术和应用三部分，共14章。基础部分有3章：第1章以深度学习为例介绍大数据智能的计算框架；第2章以知识图谱为例介绍大数据智能的知识库；第3章介绍大数据的计算处理系统。技术部分有6章，分别介绍机器翻译、主题模型、情感分析与意见挖掘、智能问答与对话系统、个性化推荐、机器写作。应用部分有5章，分别介绍社交商业数据挖掘、智慧医疗、智慧司法、智慧金融、计算社会科学。本书后记部分为读者追踪大数据智能的学术资料提供了建议。

Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind.
In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars.
Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan's death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep.
We see Kennan's insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.

The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter
how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.
An introduction explores curatorial work from its origins in the seventeenth century onward and outlines the various roles of the curator today. Twelve chapters then trace the various stages of the exhibition process in clear, informative language and using helpful diagrams and tables, from developing the concept to writing contracts and loan requests; putting together budgets and schedules; producing exhibition catalogues and interpretation materials; designing gallery spaces; working with artists, lenders, and art handlers; organizing private views; and documenting and evaluating a show.
With advice and tips from a cast of international museum directors and curators―including Daniel Birnbaum (Moderna Museet, Stockholm); Aric Chen (M+,
Hong Kong); Elizabeth Macgregor (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London); Gao Peng (Today Art Museum, Beijing); Jennifer Russell (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); and Nicholas Serota (Tate, London)―this volume is a crucial guide for anyone involved in, or studying, the dynamic field of curation.

The world is not always what we think it is. This book presents unusual borders, enclaves and exclaves, divided or non-existent cities and islands. Numerous conflicts have left countries divided and often shattered. Remnants of countries can by design or accident be left behind as a legal anomaly in this complex world.
Most people believe that a country’s borders are clearly defined: just lines that separate countries. Everything on one side of the line belongs to one country and everything on the other side belongs to another country. This might be the case most of the time, but there are unusual exceptions to this unwritten rule.
Examples include:
• Campione d’Italia where Italian residents have to travel 15km through Switzerland to reach the nearest available Italian territory.
• Tomb of Suleyman Shah which is a tiny Turkish enclave within Syria which was moved closer to Turkey when Lake Assad was created but still stayed in Syria.
• Pheasant Island which for half a year belongs to the Spanish city of Irun, and the remaining half, to its French twin-town, Hendaye.
• Canadian Stanstead and American Beebe Plain where the boundary line runs along the center of the main street, so that the houses on one side of the street are in Canada and on the other in the United States.
These and many more instances are captured in this fascinating book full of strange geographical intrigue.

本书的叙述从戈尔巴乔夫掌权始至苏联解体终，对这段历史时期的重大事件和重要人物进行了浓墨淡彩的描写，其主旨在于让人明了，当苏联的政治体系将一个尚未做好掌舵准备的人推到风口浪尖时，苏联这艘被政治及经济风浪冲击得千疮百孔的大船最终触礁便是不可避免的了。2016年是苏联解体25周年，本书对我们更真实地了解那段历史，更有效地汲取苏联解体教训，具有极大的借鉴作用和启发意义。

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev’s authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia.

★桃桃淘电影、史航感动推荐，最贴近现代人深层体温的作者吉田修一全新力作。
★这个傻傻的、有点丧的男人，满足了我对好人的一切幻想。
★《横道世之介》同名电影千万读者贡献票房，豆瓣年度电影十佳8.8高分。
★人生不如意，万岁！人生衰到底，万万岁！陪你度过人生低谷期的朋友世之介，只要有世之介在就有欢笑在。
★24岁的善良青年世之介找不到工作的一年，契合当下现状，可谓与我们的生活无缝衔接，希望可以给读者带来感动和勇气。编辑部6个人看哭了5个，还有1个笑出了眼泪。这是一本满载着欢乐、感动，治愈温暖、积极向上的书。
人生这种东西，绝非全都是花好月圆。有好的时期，也有坏的时期；有最棒的一年，当然也有最坏的一年。十八岁从长崎小城到东京求学的横道世之介，大学毕业遇上“就业冰河期”没能顺利找到工作，二十四岁的他依旧靠打零工和玩小钢珠度日。这一年里，他和立志成为寿司师傅的女孩在小钢珠店抢椅子；和“社畜”新人小诸一起体验人生中的第一次海外旅行；他有了一段新恋情，走入了一个带着三岁儿子的美丽单身母亲的生活……就算失意，世之介也从未改变！他的单纯、善良和发自内心的对生活的爱，继续感染所有与他相遇的人。

Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity. Marketplace's Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighborhood, forging deep relationships with ordinary people who see in the city's sleek skyline a brighter future, and a chance to rewrite their destinies. There's Zhao, whose path from factory floor to shopkeeper is sidetracked by her desperate measures to ensure a better future for her sons. Down the street lives Auntie Fu, a fervent capitalist forever trying to improve herself with religion and get-rich-quick schemes while keeping her skeptical husband at bay. Up a flight of stairs, musician and cafe owner CK sets up shop to attract young dreamers like himself but learns he's searching for something more. A tale of twenty-first-century China, Street of Eternal Happiness profiles China's distinct generations through multifaceted characters who illuminate an enlightening, humorous, and at times heartrending journey along the winding road to the Chinese Dream.

《我的父亲丰子恺》回顾了丰子恺一生的几个重要阶段，从丰子恺的家世和童年写起，介绍了丰子恺初出茅庐的情形和师从李叔同、夏丏尊的经历，生动地描绘了丰子恺从白马湖到缘缘堂的过程以及抗战时期的逃难和坚持，也写到了十年的遭遇。文字亲切生动，娓娓道来，具有可读性。此书配图60多幅，图文并茂，可供读者阅读学习。

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars.