From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany.
In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less authoritarian than Russia's and less anti-Semitic than France's; representative institutions were thriving, and competing political parties and elections were a central part of life. How then can we explain the fact that in little more than a generation this stable modern country would be in the hands of a violent, racist, extremist political movement that would lead it and all of Europe into utter moral, physical, and cultural ruin? There is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand, and Richard Evans has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans's history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as he shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. With many people angry and embittered by military defeat and economic ruin; a state undermined by a civil service, an army, and a law enforcement system deeply alienated from the democratic order introduced in 1918; beset by the growing extremism of voters prey to panic about the increasing popularity of communism; home to a tiny but quite successful Jewish community subject to widespread suspicion and resentment, Germany proved to be fertile ground in which Nazism's ideology of hatred could take root.
The first book of what will ultimately be a complete three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian's art and the book by which all others on this subject will be judged.

Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg were talented, courageous, and strikingly attractive women who fought convention to make their names in the male-dominated field of flight in 1930s Germany. With the war, both became pioneering test pilots and were awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Third Reich. But they could not have been more different and neither woman had a good word to say for the other.Hanna was middle-class, vivacious, and distinctly Aryan, while the darker, more self-effacing Melitta came from an aristocratic Prussian family. Both were driven by deeply held convictions about honor and patriotism; but ultimately, while Hanna tried to save Hitler's life, begging him to let her fly him to safety in April 1945, Melitta covertly supported the most famous attempt to assassinate the F?hrer. Their interwoven lives provide vivid insight into Nazi Germany and its attitudes toward women, class, and race.Acclaimed biographer Clare Mulley gets under the skin of these two distinctive and unconventional women, giving a full-and as yet largely unknown-account of their contrasting yet strangely parallel lives, against a changing backdrop of the 1936 Olympics, the Eastern Front, the Berlin Air Club, and Hitler's bunker.

人生的智慧就是如何尽量称心、愉快地度过一生这样一门艺术。关于这方面的教诲在哲学上可称为“幸福论”。因此，这本著作教导人们如何才能享有一个幸福的生存。
对于人的幸福起着首要关键作用的，是属于人的主体的美好素质，这些包括高贵的品格、良好的智力、愉快的性情和健康良好的体魄。
在这世上存在三种力：明智、力量和运气。我相信运气至为重要。

《悉达多》并非是佛陀的故事，它讲述了一个人的一生，千万寻常人亦会经历的一生。
意气风发的少年郎，常认为自己是被命运选中的人。抛下过去，随了跌跌撞撞的步伐，找寻心中的声音，追逐名利，经历友情，品尝爱情。不同的是，悉达多一生追求的是生命的圆融统一，看似宏大，确是每个人无法回避的问题。
黑塞的语言是充满诗性的，正如本书副题“一首印度的诗”，因不得而知的原因，此副题在前人所出版本中都被回避了。为了尽可能表现黑塞的诗意，我们选择从德文直译（据悉市面销量最高版本译自英文版），尽管我们的译文不能完全实现这种诗意，但其诗的本性与精神显而易见。
本书地位在前人的版本中已被反复强调——亨利·米勒的最爱；影响了包括电台司令在内的许多名人雅士；在六十年代美国掀起过阅读黑塞的热潮，大学生们人手一册等等。
但如书中成为摆渡人的悉达多所述，智慧无法分享，它可以被发现，被体验。
所以倘若你碰巧遇到了这本小书，请细细品味其中的文字。
愿你在读了悉达多的故事后，也能有所感悟，并开始体验属于自己的人生。

数字化信息交流和网络社交平台占领了我们的生活。
被数字化了的生命实际上导致了社群、公共空间的坍塌，也慢慢侵蚀了政治行动的可能，妨害了有意义的政治议程。
数字化交流激发了瞬间的冲动性反应，发送和接收这种信息的民众，变成了一个（个）数字化的（蜂）群。这不是大众，而不过是一些被相互隔离的个体；不足以称为“我们”，不能形成解决问题的主导性力量，不能筹谋未来，因为他们深陷当下。
数字群是一个破碎的整体。
当信息胜过思想，一切按照脸书、股市和情报机构的法则运行，民主将受到威胁，自由将受到损害。
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韩炳哲作品系列（见识城邦出品）
《精神政治学》
Psychopolitik
《爱欲之死》
Agonie des Eros
《在群中》
Im Schwarm
《他者的消失》
Die Austreibung des Anderen
《疲怠社会》
Müdigkeitsgesellschaft
《娱乐何为》
Gute Unterhaltung
《暴力拓扑学》
Topologie der Gewalt
《透明社会》
Transparenzgesellschaft
《美的救赎》
Die Errettung des Schönen
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阅读韩炳哲的作品，无论如何都是富有才思智慧的享受。
——阿兰•巴迪欧（Alain Badiou），法国哲学家
韩炳哲属于这一类哲学家，在他们之前，没有人寻求改变世界之道，甚至没有人充分意识到这种改变的必要性。
——《高等教育内部参考》（Inside Higher Ed）
韩炳哲揭示出，在大数据时代，批判理论将且必将重整旗鼓。
——威尔•戴维斯（Will Davies）
大数据时代形成的纷繁现象，需要新的哲学思维和框架，韩炳哲的几本书堪称最敏锐、最犀利的时代探测器，是大数据时代的哲学批判指南。
——思郁，自由写作者
德国哲学家韩炳哲的几本小书，大题小做、举重若轻，触及现代人生活的多个层面，是东西方人文精神碰撞的结晶，走进了读者的心灵。
——何道宽，翻译家，深圳大学英语及传播学教授
海德格尔曾经把人的生存状态描述为“沉沦”，亦即每一个个体失去了去存在的能力，置身于闲谈、好奇和两可的公众舆论之中，在这里貌似穷尽了一切可能性，而实际上没有给行动留下任何可能性。韩炳哲进一步揭示了数字时代人所面临的困境：我们痴迷于数字媒体从而被重新编程，然而对于后果如何却陷入了盲目和麻木。在群里，每个人都是个人，但每个人又都不是他自己。
——张志伟，中国人民大学哲学院教授
韩炳哲以其哲学的睿智与分析的犀利，迫使我们去反思数字网络媒体时代的生存情调与伦理处境。他推进了大众社会考察的很多关键范畴，比如对倦态与山寨的思考，在本雅明的技术复制与福柯的生命政治之后，他发现了“数字全景监狱”的新现象，以此把社会批判理论推进到“心灵政治学”的层面，重新连接了哲学与经验。在他的思考中透露出东方哲人的细腻与韵味。
——夏可君，哲学家与策展人，中国人民大学文学院副教授
“扫一扫”跟扫没有任何关系，渐渐远离大地的我们，是否仍有力量的来源？迷恋于数字化的主动和便利的同时，我们也在被监视中迷失。也许已经没有“我们”，只有“群”。韩炳哲的《在群中》以其一贯的犀利，带给我凝视深渊的勇气。
——贾克防，西北师大范大学哲学系副教授
韩炳哲是互联网时代的精神分析师，在他精确、冷静的诊断之下，智能手机、社交媒体、大数据、物联网种种技术进步都显示出新自由主义秩序对于人类生活的全面宰制。资本主义这一以自由为名的型态早已成为一个政治—经济—文化—科技的联合体，它不再用身体的强制、思想的管控维持自己的意识形态统治地位，而是渗透到我们精神的每一个角落，感官、情绪、欲望都成为新自由主义生产—消费机制的利用对象，让我们在丝毫不觉得丧失自由的情况下拱手出让自己的自由，这就是韩炳哲所说的精神政治的含义。在这样的统治秩序中，我们主动按照功绩社会的竞争标准进行自我管控，因此深陷抑郁症的旋涡，我们将自己的爱欲投射到各种感官消费之上，因此遭受爱的无能为力，我们沉浸在社交媒体的群体话语噪音中，却无法形成任何统一的集体整治行动。韩炳哲用短小精悍的文字，与福柯、阿多诺、列维纳斯、阿甘本进行思想碰撞，揭示出这个时代的严峻危机。
——杨小刚，中山大学哲学系副研究员

本书是一部非常引人入胜的双人传记作品，讲述了纳粹德国两位受过高度嘉奖的女试飞员的故事。
汉娜和梅利塔战胜了舆论对女性的偏见，在20世纪30年代男性占主导地位的德国飞行领域为自己争得了一席之地。她们在战争中成长为首屈一指的试飞员，并且凭借自己对第三帝国的卓越贡献获得铁十字勋章。然而，两人的命运截然不同，她们也不能苟同对方的抉择。出身中产阶级的汉娜是雅利安人，而不爱出风头的梅利塔来自普鲁士贵族家庭，两人都怀有深深的荣誉感和爱国主义情怀。然而在最终，1945年，汉娜恳求希特勒同她一起逃出柏林，企图挽救其生命；而梅利塔却暗中支持最著名的元首刺杀计划，并为此付出了血的代价。两人交织的人生让读者有机会洞悉纳粹德国及其女性、阶级和种族的态度。著名传记作家克莱尔•穆利通过深入挖掘两位非传统女性，通过1936年奥运会、东方战线、柏林航空俱乐部和希特勒地堡等背景，描绘了她们非凡而又杰出的人生的真实故事。

A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II.
On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death.
Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay’s The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay’s reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there.
What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay’s brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.

"Among the many books written on Germany after the collapse of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich, this book by Milton Mayer is one of the most readable and most enlightening."--Hans Kohn, "New York Times Book Review "
"It is a fascinating story and a deeply moving one. And it is a story that should make people pause and think--think not only about the Germans, but also about themselves."--Ernest S. Pisko, "Christian Science Monitor "
"Writing as a liberal American journalist of German descent and Jewish religious persuasion Mr. Mayer aims--and in the opinion of this reviewer largely succeeds--at scrupulous fairness and unsparing honesty. It is this that gives his book its muscular punch."--Walter L. Dorn, "Saturday Review "
"Once again the German problem is at the center of our politics. No better, or more humane, or more literate discussion of its underlying nature could be had than in this book."--August Heckscher, " New York Herald Tribune "