It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly British bent - a sort of Baywatch with cricket…' Of course, what greeted Bill Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still it teems with life - a large proportion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistable currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. Ignoring such dangers - yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging; their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this.

回眸20世紀，美國何以成為超級大國？
啟示21世紀，未來中美關係何去何從？
人類的兩大基本訴求：發展與平等，它們形成了社會變遷、國家興衰的兩大動力。就一個國家、一種社會而言，所謂成功或失敗主要不在於政權在誰手中，或是疆土的擴大或縮小，也不是單純的數字的增長或減少，而是要看相對來說，哪個能更好地滿足人類的這兩大訴求，同時較好地解決或至少緩解二者的矛盾，取得相對平衡的進展，從而達到真正的興旺發達，否則反是。
美國何以興？其秘訣何在？這正是本書試圖深入探討的。
本書意在鑒往知來，希望能得出一些啟示。儘管著眼於世界，卻總忘不了我國在這世界大潮中何以自處。
——資中筠
本書從美國所繼承的豐富精神資源和19世紀給美國留下的問題與危機談起，透過紛繁複雜的社會現象、影響美國的各種思潮，深入探討美國的發展模式及其得失利弊，客觀講述美國百餘年間走過的獨特道路及其內在動因。

本书是继2011年《资中筠自选集》、2013年《老生常谈》之后，著名学者资中筠的又一个自选集，收入其2013-2022年间尚未入集的文章，以及讲座整理稿、访谈记录。全书共两卷，包括文化教育、公益与社会改良、历史与救国、世界观察、思故人、音乐家园、闲情与杂感和访谈录八个小辑，涉及学术思考、公共话题、私人生活等各个方面。本册为上卷。"难求于世有济，但行此心所安"。资先生以曾国藩名句自况，不阿世，不迎俗，拒绝"帝师"情结，洋洋五十万言，所思所虑，还是"生于斯、长于斯、终老于斯的本乡本土"。 我们经历过登峰造极的造神运动，一个人受到万民的膜拜，这是制度问题。在集权的制度下，没有人敢发表不同的意见。但假如没有人拜，这个神就不存在了。事实是，仍有很多人习惯于崇拜皇权，认为掌权者即是皇帝，总会做出英明的决断，坏事都是底下人干的，天皇永远圣明，这就是一种文化，一种思维方式。一种制度会鼓励一种文化。--摘自资中筠《从文化制度看当代中国的启蒙》

香港英资财团的起源，最早可追溯到19世纪上半叶英国东印度公司的对华鸦片贸易。随着香港成为远东著名的贸易转口港，英资洋行迅速崛起，并将投资的触角从贸易拓展至航运、仓储码头、银行保险、地产、酒店及公用事业，从而建立起其逾170年的庞大基业。
20世纪70年代中后期，一度雄踞香港的英资财团受到新兴华资的挑战，开始从巅峰滑落。踏入过渡时期，英资作双线发展：怡和、汇丰等透过国际化策略，包括迁册、结构重组、加快海外投资等，试图建立起进可攻、退可守的战略态势；而太古、香港电讯、嘉道理等则透过上市、连手中资等实施固守香港核心业务的策略。回归之后，无论是怡和、汇丰还是太古、嘉道理、渣打等都获得了进一步的发展。时至今日，英资财团仍然是香港整体经济和资本结构中一个重要组成部份，对香港经济的发展发挥着重要作用，并构成香港经济的独特色彩。
一部香港英资财团的历史，实际上就是香港近现代政治和经济历史的一辑极其生动的侧影，从中可了解178年来香港经济所经历的深刻变化、发展脉搏、发展态势以及发展规律，并可得到一些历史性和现实性的启示。

香港華資財團的起源，最早可追溯到以南北行、金山莊為代表的行商和依附外資公司的華人買辦的發展。到19世紀末，隨著香港確立為遠東貿易轉口港，華資財團開始在地產、航運、零售百貨以至銀行等多個領域嶄露頭角。
20世紀60-70年代，伴隨著香港工業化的快速步伐，新興華商勢力不僅在製造業取得統治地位，而且相繼在航運、地產、酒店及影視娛樂等一系列重要行業漸取上風。其後，以李嘉誠、包玉剛為代表的新興華商，以雷霆之勢先後收購和記黃埔、九龍倉、港燈和會德豐等一批英資公司，而新鴻基地產、恒基地產、新世界發展等一批華資地產公司亦蛻變為大型企業集團，進而打破英資財團的長期壟斷，成為稱雄香江的一股重要經濟力量。
回歸以後，隨著香港與中國內地經濟融合發展，華商在香港尤其是內地市場獲得龐大而廣泛的投資機會。在這種背景下，華資大財團以香港為基地，突破狹窄地域限制，發展成為全國性、多元化甚至國際化的大型企業集團。這一時期，華資財團不僅成為香港經濟中最大的資本力量，而且在維持香港經濟繁榮穩定，推動香港與內地經濟合作等方面均發揮了重要的積極作用。
一部香港華資財團的歷史，實際上就是香港近現代政治和經濟歷史的一輯極其生動的側影，從中可了解逾170年來香港經濟所經歷的深刻變化、發展脈搏、發展態勢以及發展規律，並可得到一些歷史性和現實性的啟示。

Within the canon of European photography books it would be difficult to find one more famous, revered and influential as Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment, wrote Jeffrey Ladd in Time LightBox, in a feature on Steidl's new edition of this ultimate photobook classic. Originally published in 1952, this collection of Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years was embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book has since influenced generations of photographers, while its English title defined the notion of the famous peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image--not the moment of the height of the action, necessarily, but the formal, visual peak. This new publication--the first and only reprint since the original 1952 edition--is a meticulous facsimile of the original book that launched the artist to international fame, with an additional booklet on the history of The Decisive Moment by Centre Pompidou curator Clément Chéroux.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was born in Chantelou-en-Brie, France. He initially studied painting and began photographing in the 1930s. Cartier-Bresson cofounded Magnum in 1947. In the late 1960s he returned to his original passion, drawing. In 2003 Cartier-Bresson established the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, one year before his death.

In Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan’s uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Japanese ideas and practices. A latecomer to the age of imperialism, Japan used modernization efforts in Taiwan to cast itself as a benevolent force among its colonial subjects and imperial competitors. In contrast to most European colonies, where only elites received an education, in Taiwan Japan built elementary schools intended for the entire population, including girls. In 1897 it developed a program known as “Good Wife, Wise Mother” that sought to transform Han Taiwanese girls into modern Japanese female citizens. Drawing on Japanese and Chinese newspapers, textbooks, oral interviews, and fiction, Fang Yu Hu illustrates how this seemingly progressive project advanced a particular Japanese vision of modernity, womanhood, and citizenship, to which the colonized Han Taiwanese people responded with varying degrees of collaboration, resistance, adaptation, and adoption. Hu also assesses the program’s impact on Taiwan’s class structure, male-female interactions, and political identity both during and after the end of Japanese occupation in 1945. Good Wife, Wise Mother expands the study of Taiwanese history by contributing important gendered and nonelite perspectives. It will be of interest to any historian concerned with questions of modernity, hybridity, and colonial nostalgia.

　　「這一代的憂鬱，是樹的憂鬱；上一代的憂鬱，是鹿的憂鬱。一隻動物上路，四蹄一躍，光溜溜，幾近無法回頭，無太多行裝，因而遷居至此，忍痛割捨。」

　　這是一部關於香港、臺灣兩地的小說。

　　二○一九年後，隨著社會運動波盪與國際政治形勢劇變，對香港人而言，臺灣有了新的意義：是共同體、避風港、烏托邦，也可能是再次離開的中途停頓點。《樹的憂鬱》寫下二○一九年後，港臺兩地間，人們流離的複雜心理：留下與離去、噤聲無語與續存記憶，每個抉擇都困難。因流亡、求學、移民、或結婚落腳臺灣的港人，在異地面臨的文化衝突，離開後的內在歉疚、遭遇更多元且衝突的政治分歧衝擊，格格不入或融入，夾在其間該如何調適。

　　「直至妳發現，人們擁獲的種種權利、關懷和愛，也許都像室友們每部電腦或手機殼後斑斕且交錯的思潮與主張貼紙們，匯成的蜃景。那麼好看，又那麼易於破損，輪常替換。」——〈野貓〉

　　「一個人，在將要失去自由，甚至死亡前，他必須先捍衛其微不足道而深切的價值，有時是尊嚴，有時是記憶，有時是遺憾，有時是恥辱。」——〈辦雜誌〉

　　「我們要怎樣翻譯我們的語言，才能抵達遠方？」——〈愛人〉

　　※隨書附贈「寄給遠方」明信片一張
　　無論任何時刻，人身在何處。
　　親筆寫下給予遠方親友的祝福、祈禱或思念寄出。

專文推薦

　　謝曉虹（香港作家，香港浸會大學人文及創作系助理教授）

各界推薦

　　宇文正，作家
　　李金蓮，作家
　　李智良，香港小說家
　　張亦絢，小說家
　　陳  慧，作家
　　童偉格，小說家
　　黃崇凱，小說家

Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home—at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.

Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtroom, the legislature or on ceremonial occasions, and was described as either the art of persuasion or the art of speaking well. This anthology, edited by Thomas Habinek, brings together all the most important ancient writings on rhetoric, including works by Cicero, Aristotle, Quintilian and Philostratus. Ranging across such themes as memory, persuasion, delivery and style, it provides a fascinating introduction to classical rhetoric and will be an invaluable sourcebook for students of the ancient world.

With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtuoso performances and a host of practical manuals for the layman. While many of these were little more than collections of debaters' tricks, the Art of Rhetoric held a far deeper purpose. Here Aristotle (384 322 BC) establishes the methods of informal reasoning, provides the first aesthetic evaluation of prose style and offers detailed observations on character and the emotions. Hugely influential upon later Western culture, the Art of Rhetoric is a fascinating consideration of the force of persuasion and sophistry, and a compelling guide to the principles behind oratorical skill.

唯一暢銷12萬冊的臺灣歷史最佳讀本！
入選「東亞出版人會議」之「當代東亞人文經典100」經典作品，
且為台灣入選15本中，唯一女性作者！
已翻譯成日文、韓文和英文，兼及學術專業與普及性，
是各級學校的最佳臺灣史讀物及輔助教材！
《臺灣歷史圖說》（三版）特色：
1、本書從史前寫到1990年代，涵蓋時間很長，就每個歷史時期選取若干主題，擇要敘述，無法鉅細靡遺，惟以議題取勝，具有通史的可親性和通貫性。
2、以臺灣島為歷史敘述的單元，人群方面則以原住民為敘述起點，且於漢人出現後，仍見其身影，脫離漢人開發史觀，為臺灣史的原漢書寫開創新局面。
3、本書配有許多圖片、地圖和圖表，文字和意象互相補充，彼此參照，讓「過去」得以多采多姿的形式出現，增加讀者琢磨流連的空間，深化感受并激發想像。
《臺灣歷史圖說》（三版）含括戰後臺灣的歷史進程，有助於讀者理解、掌握當代臺灣社會種種現象的歷史根源，進而思考解決之道，共同為島嶼的未來貢獻心力。
本書係作者周婉窈《臺灣歷史圖說》聯經版第三版。1997年由中央研究院臺灣史研究所籌備處出版，1998年改由聯經出版公司印發行，至2014年，共30刷，印數約12萬本。
本書已有韓文譯本《대만──아름다운 섬 슬픈 역사》（新丘文化，2003）、日文譯本《図説台湾の歴史》（平凡社，2007；增補版，2013），以及英文版A New Illustrated History of Taiwan（SMC Publishing╱南天書局，2015）。

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia’s access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data clouds and leaks, but long before we had satellite imagery of any neighborhood at a finger’s reach, the amount the Soviet government knew about your family’s city, street, and even your home would astonish you. Revealing how this was possible, The Red Atlas is the never-before-told story of the most comprehensive mapping endeavor in history and the surprising maps that resulted.
From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, DC, and London to towns like Pontiac, MI and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. What they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious like locations of factories and ports, or more surprising, such as building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by actual Soviet feet on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these incredible Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
A fantastic historical document of an era that sometimes seems less distant, The Red Atlas offers an uncanny view of the world through the eyes of Soviet strategists and spies.

英國國家海事博物館是世界上甚具規模的以海事為主題的專題博物館，該館藏有十七件統稱為「中國旗幟」的織造品，大多與十九世紀下半葉至二十世紀初在中國爆發的戰爭或軍事衝突有關，所涉及的歷史事件耳熟能詳——第一、二次鴉片戰爭、十九世紀的華南海盜、太平天國、庚子事變，以及北伐前的地方軍事割據等。當中既有清代水師船旗，亦有被認為屬於海盜「十五仔」的旗幟及「中國將領黃開廣」的華蓋；有1857年英法聯軍進攻廣州時掠走的飛虎旗，也有寫有「粵軍第一師師長李」八個大字的方形旗，為中國博物館或研究機構鮮見。這批「中國旗幟」來源不一，形式多樣，保存狀況較好，是從物質文化的視角研究中國近代政治和軍事史不可多得的實物材料。
這本圖文並茂的論文集，是2018年香港城市大學舉辦的「威權的象徵：英國國家海事博物館藏中國旗幟」學術研討會的成果。會議和論文集源於廣東革命歷史博物館和英國的格林威治皇家博物館的合作項目，邀請來自倫敦、廣州、上海、香港和澳門的專家學者，共同探討這批「中國旗幟」的來龍去脈及用途。在國內博物館旗幟類藏品收藏相對空白的情況下，是項研究具有重要意義。

Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world’s great cities – past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths – previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased population today. And let’s not forget those giant fatbergs clogging our underground arteries, or the storm-surge super-structures of tomorrow.

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★ “书”这件东西，这个我们整天买、整天看、整天画线的物件，在西方古代是个什么样子？是不是我们现在习以为常的形制？
★ 《西奈抄本》从西奈半岛的古老修道院到了沙皇宫中，又由英国政府和人民集资从苏联政府手中购买，藏入大英博物馆，文物的命运就是浓缩的近代史。
★ 亚述巨像和泥板从伊拉克降临伦敦、巴黎，物理和空间的变化带来文化上巨大的冲击，让人不得不重新 “帝国”概念。
★ 20世纪苏联作曲家的回忆录和21史记德国骗子的文物作伪，一样是书自有命。只有对这些历史上真实的“事”和“物”做一番追索，才有可能治愈空谈和玄理带来的谵妄、臆想症和软骨病。
内容简介
继《古典的回声》《古典的回声（二集）》后，高峰枫教授出版的第三部随笔集。收录他写于2015—2022年写的八篇长文，在具体入微的“事”和“物”上磨炼学问。
书籍形制的改变、《西奈抄本》的流亡、亚述雕像和泥板从伊拉克运抵伦敦和巴黎、西方寻找亚特兰蒂斯史前文明的痴迷，近年《耶稣之妻福音书》的作伪和肖斯塔科维奇《见证》一书的真伪谜团，每一篇都应了“书自有命”这句话。

A fascinating story of writing across cultures and time
While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region together in a common intellectual enterprise that encompassed religion, philosophy, historiography, political theory, art, and literature. Literacy in Classical Chinese set the stage for the adaptation of Chinese characters into ways of writing non-Chinese languages like Vietnamese and Korean, which differ dramatically from Chinese in vocabularies and grammatical structures.
Because of its unique status in the modern world, myths and misunderstandings about Chinese characters abound. Where does this writing system, so different in form and function from alphabetic writing, come from? How does it really work? How did it come to be used to write non-Chinese languages? And why has it proven so resilient? By exploring the spread and adaptation of the script across two millennia and thousands of miles, Chinese Characters across Asia addresses these questions and provides insights into human cognition and culture. Written in an approachable style and meant for readers with no prior knowledge of Chinese script or Asian languages, it presents a fascinating story that challenges assumptions about speech and writing.

Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world. How did a nomad come to conquer China and master the sea? Based on ten years of research and a lifetime of immersion in Mongol culture and tradition, Emperor of the Seas brings this little-known story vibrantly to life.
Kublai Khan is one of history's most fascinating characters. He brought Islamic mathematicians to his court, where they invented modern cartography and celestial measurement. He transformed the world's largest land mass into a unified, diverse and economically progressive empire, introducing paper money. And, after bitter early setbacks, he transformed China into an outward looking sea-faring empire.
By the end of his reign, the Chinese were building and supplying remarkable ships to transport men, grain, and weapons over vast distances, of a size and dexterity that would be inconceivable in Europe for hundreds of years. Khan had come to a brilliant realization: control the sea, and you control everything.
A master storyteller with an unparalleled grasp of Mongol sources, Jack Weatherford shows how Chinese naval hegemony changed the world forever - revolutionizing world commerce and transforming tastes as far away as England and France.

為了紀念慶祝Book Matter本事出版成立一週年了，特此創刊這本不定期刊物《BM》。360頁彩色印刷。分書訊和專題兩部份：
Book Matter
董 橋 我的念想
北 島 穿過語言的柵欄
馮 象 聖錄弁言
Matter
王 強 無我的自我主義者— 關於但不限於貓的文字零拾
趙越勝 憲政制度的故鄉英國— 關於1640 年英國革命
張旭東 漂流的終結— 魯迅“上海十年”開端時刻
拉 文 書籍史導論 ( 李家真譯)
重頭文章是著名書癡、《讀書毀了我》的作者王強寫的150頁關於貓的文章，別開生面。同時有《法國思想長廊》作者趙越勝，談論英國大革命和大憲章、張旭東重讀魯迅告別廣州、香港，到達人生最後一站上海，還有北島紀念日本朋友是永駿，都是精采的新作。其中〈書籍史導論〉〈書籍時間線〉兩文，更是讀書人、愛書人必讀的大作。
《BM》靈活的題材和圖文並茂的排版，希望把更多關於書，以及重要的議題帶給讀者。