In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated
journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.
In the Internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.
Heading into a 2020 election season that promises to be a Great Giza Pyramid Complex of invective and digital ugliness,
will be an invaluable antidote to the hidden poisons dished up by those we rely on to tell us what is happening in the world.

Economist Bryan Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction.

American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive laws argue the need to protect native citizens.

But economist Bryan Caplan adds a new, compelling perspective to the immigration debate: He argues that opening all borders could eliminate absolute poverty worldwide and usher in a booming worldwide economy—greatly benefiting humanity.

With a clear and conversational tone, exhaustive research, and vibrant illustrations by Zach Weinersmith, Open Borders makes the case for unrestricted immigration easy to follow and hard to deny.

Get ready to take flight as two certified flight instructors guide you through the pilot ratings as it is done in the real world, starting with Sport Pilot training, then Private Pilot, followed by the Instrument Rating, Commercial Pilot, and Air Transport Pilot. They cover the skills of flight, how to master Flight Simulator, and how to use the software as a learning tool towards your pilot's license. More advanced topics demonstrate how Flight Simulator X can be used as a continuing learning tool and how to simulate real-world emergencies.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system--and the people who are saving it.
"A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBES
One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen, and a series of elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr. Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr. Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.
The Price We Pay offers a roadmap for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care, and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well--a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.
No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer. The paradox of the modern dictator is that he must create the illusion of popular support. Throughout the twentieth century, hundreds of millions of people were condemned to enthusiasm, obliged to hail their leaders even as they were herded down the road to serfdom.
In How to Be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders?
This timely study, told with great narrative verve, examines how a cult takes hold, grows, and sustains itself. It places the cult of personality where it belongs, at the very heart of tyranny.

20世纪60年代初，东德投入10亿美元建造了柏林墙，这是一座11英尺高的屏障，由79英里长的栅栏、300座瞭望塔、250条警犬、20个掩体组成，由随时开枪的警卫全天候运作。在接下来的二十八年里，至少有五千人试图冲破它，游过它，穿过它下面的隧道，或者从空中飞越它。
1989年，东德领导层在国民反叛面前屈服了，这场起义最终导致50万东柏林人要求结束对自由流动的禁令。全世界的媒体蜂拥而至，捕捉这一时刻。这一时刻或许比任何其他时刻都更能预示冷战的结束。查理检查站是近三十年的全球冲突的地震震中。不信任，压迫，偏执和恐惧，在这一时期笼罩着整个世界。
《查理检查站》讲述的是西方和苏联之间令人紧张的对抗，突出了艾森豪威尔、斯大林、肯尼迪、赫鲁晓夫、毛泽东、尼克松、里根等重要的全球性人物。他还采访了建造和拆除隔离墙的人、穿越隔离墙的儿童、试图翻越隔离墙而失去性命的人的亲戚和朋友、守卫检查站的军警和士兵、监督跨越其边界的行动中央情报局、军情六处和斯塔西的工作人员；以野心塑造了它的政客；记录了它的故事的记者；还有更多的人，他们活生生的记忆为查理检查站的整个故事做出了贡献。

这是一本务实的入门书，助你零起点上手自然语言处理。
HanLP 作者何晗汇集多年经验，从基本概念出发，逐步介绍中文分词、词性标注、命名实体识别、信 息抽取、文本聚类、文本分类、句法分析这几个热门问题的算法原理与工程实现。书中通过对多种算法的讲解，比较了它们的优缺点和适用场景，同时详细演示生产级成熟代码，助你真正将自然语言处理应用在生产环境中。
随着本书的学习，你将从普通程序员晋级为机器学习工程师，最后进化到自然语言处理工程师。

本書以「消費主義」為核心概念，探討百貨公司在近代中國的意義，特別思考這種資本 主義的企業組織如何藉由創造全新的消費經驗，傳播現代消費主義。百貨公司與傳統商 店最明顯的差異在於規模：建築之大，往往占據整個街區；商品之多，足以涵蓋人生所 有需求；而其經營原則乃以交易量極大化，來達成利潤極大化的目標。不過，百貨公司 不只是人與物的集散地，也是觀察社會關係的視鏡及權力再現的空間。由於這個行業在 階級、國族、性別等層面有較為複雜的組成元素，我們可以藉此打破許多既定的界線， 重新析論上海城市文化的內涵。從「人」的角度來看，百貨公司原意是對所有人出售所 有物品的「環球供應商」，是華人/洋人、男人/女人、中產階級/勞工階級的交會處， 然而在消費主義的運作邏輯下，不同的人群卻得到不同的待遇。從「物」的角度來看， 表面上看似「中性」的商品與消費行為，卻在消費主義的實踐中，被貼上階級、國籍、 性別的屬性標籤。因此，五光十色的百貨公司不僅是現代物質文明的展示櫥窗，也是我 們理解城市文化的一把鑰匙。如果說，近代上海的傳奇建立在以消費主義為基礎的人、 物關係上，而百貨公司正是人、物互動的實踐場域，既充滿了魅惑與慾望，也承載著矛 盾和爭議。

To control information is to control the world. This innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire—and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda.
Information warfare may seem like a new feature of our contemporary digital world. But it was just as crucial a century ago, when the great powers competed to control and expand their empires. In News from Germany, Heidi Tworek uncovers how Germans fought to regulate information at home and used the innovation of wireless technology to magnify their power abroad.
Tworek reveals how for nearly fifty years, across three different political regimes, Germany tried to control world communications—and nearly succeeded. From the turn of the twentieth century, German political and business elites worried that their British and French rivals dominated global news networks. Many Germans even blamed foreign media for Germany’s defeat in World War I. The key to the British and French advantage was their news agencies—companies whose power over the content and distribution of news was arguably greater than that wielded by Google or Facebook today. Communications networks became a crucial battleground for interwar domestic democracy and international influence everywhere from Latin America to East Asia. Imperial leaders, and their Weimar and Nazi successors, nurtured wireless technology to make news from Germany a major source of information across the globe. The Nazi mastery of global propaganda by the 1930s was built on decades of Germany’s obsession with the news.
News from Germany is not a story about Germany alone. It reveals how news became a form of international power and how communications changed the course of history.

In the late 1800s, Japan introduced a new, sex-segregated educational system. Boys would be prepared to enter a rapidly modernizing public sphere, while girls trained to become “good wives and wise mothers” who would contribute to the nation by supporting their husbands and nurturing the next generation of imperial subjects. When this system was replaced by a coeducational model during the American Occupation following World War II, adults raised with gender-specific standards were afraid coeducation would cause “moral problems”—even societal collapse. By contrast, young people generally greeted coeducation with greater composure.
This is the first book in English to explore the arguments for and against coeducation as presented in newspaper and magazine articles, cartoons, student-authored school newsletters, and roundtable discussions published in the Japanese press as these reforms were being implemented. It complicates the notion of the postwar years as a moment of rupture, highlighting prewar experiments with coeducation that belied objections that the practice was a foreign imposition and therefore “unnatural” for Japanese culture. It also illustrates a remarkable degree of continuity between prewar and postwar models of femininity, arguing that Occupation-era guarantees of equal educational opportunity were ultimately repurposed toward a gendered division of labor that underwrote the postwar project of economic recovery. Finally, it excavates discourses of gender and sexuality underlying the moral panic surrounding coeducation to demonstrate that claims of rampant sexual deviance, among other concerns, were employed as disciplinary mechanisms meant to reinforce compliance with an ideology of harmonious gender complementarity and to dissuade women from pursuing conventionally masculine prerogatives.
This book will interest scholars of Japanese history and culture and, more broadly, scholars of media, education, and gender and sexuality studies. Written in accessible and engaging language that avoids jargon, it is also suitable for use in undergraduate courses

“[A] deep & sweeping account of a relentless search for justice.”—Washington Post
After the Nuremberg trials & the start of the Cold War, most of the victors in WWII lost interest in prosecuting war criminals. Many of the lower-ranking perpetrators quickly blended in with the millions who were seeking to rebuild their lives in a new Europe, while those who felt most at risk fled the continent. The Nazi Hunters focuses on the few who refused to allow their crimes to be forgotten—& who were determined to track them down.
The Nazi Hunters reveals the experiences of the young American prosecutors in the Nuremberg & Dachau trials, Benjamin Ferencz & Wm Denson; the Polish investigating judge Jan Sehn, who handled the case of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss; Germany’s judge & prosecutor Fritz Bauer, who repeatedly forced his countrymen to confront their country’s record of mass murder; the Mossad agent Rafi Eitan, in charge of the Israeli team that nabbed Eichmann; & Eli Rosenbaum, who rose to head the US Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations that belatedly sought to expel war criminals who were living in the USA. But some of the Nazi hunters’ most controversial actions involved ambiguous cases, such as former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim’s attempt to cover up his wartime history. Or the fate of concentration camp guards who have lived into their 90s, long past the time when reliable eyewitnesses could be found to pinpoint their exact roles.
The story of the Nazi hunters is coming to an end. It was unprecedented in many ways, especially the degree to which the initial impulse of revenge was transformed into a struggle for justice. The Nazi hunters have transformed fundamental notions of right & wrong. Nagorski’s book is a richly reconstructed odyssey, a tale of gritty determination, at times reckless behavior & relentless pursuit.

A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of synthetic drugs―from black market drug factories in China to users and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists in Europe―which reveals for the first time the next wave of the opioid epidemic
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. “A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs”―and all-too-often tragically lethal.
Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice―and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe― were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs’ effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China’s vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many.

孫中山與鄧小平皆推崇「香港經驗」，但究竟如何「積極不干預」？當年夏鼎基的解釋似是而非，至今辯論未休。早年來華英國年輕官員閱讀四書五經之後，驀然發覺儒學沒有像西方宗教般，把道德與人死後的結局捆綁著，反而用世俗中人性最美麗的一面，來克服七宗原罪。解開西方道德盲點之後，洋儒與中國通官員懂得不用干預，卻產生「積極自由」及「共同之善」。本書觀察他們的人格演變過程，從百多個案例中歸納出「積極不干預」的各種招式。

本书是由飞虎队员在1944-1945年间所拍摄的摄影作品集,反映特殊年代中特殊人群眼中的中国社会,具有较高的史料价值。