以茶叶为核心书写全球史，凸显茶叶帝国缔造者的恐惧、幻想和渴望。
茶叶构建了日不落帝国，承载了数百年现代世界全球化贸易的宏大叙事。
★所获奖项
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★内容简介
茶叶一直是世界上最受欢迎的商品之一。几个世纪以来，种植、销售茶叶所带来的收益为战争提供了资金，推动了殖民活动，而茶叶的栽种也在土地使用、劳动力制度、市场运作和社会等级制度等方面带来了巨大的变化，这些变化至今尚存。本书以历史的眼光深入审视了男男女女是如何通过在欧洲、亚洲、北美洲和非洲的茶产业来改变全球的口味和习惯的。
作者埃丽卡•拉帕波特在本书中指出，17—20世纪，茶产业与大英帝国的边界是重叠的，但从未完全一致。她还强调了使大英帝国能够主导但从未完全控制全球茶叶的生产、贸易和消费的经济、政治和文化力量。她还深入研究了欧洲人是如何接受、挪用和改变中国茶文化，以在英国及其他全球市场建立广泛的茶叶需求，并在南亚和非洲建立种植园经济的。茶产业是最早的殖民产业之一，商人、种植者、推广者和零售商利用帝国资源为全球广告和政治游说买单。茶叶激发出的商业模式至今仍然存在，并且对理解政治和宣传如何影响国际经济至关重要。
★编辑推荐
◎生动描述了中英两国围绕茶叶贸易而导致的紧张关系，甚而爆发了鸦片战争，之后又详细讲述了中国茶叶是如何被吸收并同化到英帝国的文化和经济中。
◎运用丰富的档案资料，深入探索了阿萨姆和锡兰的茶叶生产商如何克服困难去寻找和维护市场。在这一过程中，尤为引人入胜地讲述了一批专业宣传家是如何推广茶叶的。
英国人喝茶加糖和牛奶的习惯从哪来的？在维多利亚时代中期，大西洋两岸的消费者为何开始厌倦绿茶而青睐红茶？为何茶叶成为南非人心目中的历史版图的一部分？为何美国人最喜欢的茶饮料是冰茶？
◎考查了“解殖民化”对于茶产业和茶叶消费文化的深刻影响。茶叶帝国走向衰落，茶叶不再被定义为一种帝国商品，而是一种对国家发展至关重要的全球性产业。
★媒体推荐
本书从伦敦的咖啡馆写到阿萨姆闷热的种植园，再写到麦迪逊大街的广告公司……研究得透彻，叙述得迷人。
——《出版人周刊》
本书做了细致的研究，展示了散落在全球各地的档案资料，用以说明早在“全球化”一词出现之前，产品的跨境流通如何将世界编织到一起……拉帕波特的作品对我们所有人都有意义。
——华志坚（Jeffrey Wasserstrom），《华尔街日报》
拉帕波特权威地讲述了茶叶和饮茶文化如何影响了大英帝国及受英国影响的世界的宏大历史……她对这些年来茶叶的推销方法的描述极为引人入胜。
——文思淼（Simon Winchester），《纽约时报书评》

Nominated for 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award in Literature (on the earlier edition).
Runner-up for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual."
"The classic argument for a women’s literary tradition."—Scott Heller, Chronicle of Higher Education
"The authors force us to take a new look at the grandes dames of English literature, and the result is that they will never seem quite the same again."—Le Anne Schreiber, New York Times Book Review
"Imperative reading."—Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
"A masterpiece."—Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The Madwoman in the Attic, The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century, originally published in 1979, has long since become a classic, one of the most important works of literary criticism of the 20th century. This new edition contains an introduction titled "The Madwoman in the Academy" that is, quite simply, a delight to read, warmly witty, provocative, informative and illuminating."—Joyce Carol Oates, Princeton University
"A groundbreaking study of women writers. . . . The book brought the concerns of feminism to the study of female writers and presented the case for the existence of a distinctly feminine imagination."—Martin Arnold, The New York Times
"The authors are brilliant academics but they wear their erudition lightly. It remains imperative reading for those who want to understand better the grandes dames of English literature, and is still one of the most powerful pieces of writing from a feminist point of view. Argumentative, polemical, witty and thought-provoking, this is a book which will make the reader return to the original texts." —Yorkshire Post (Leeds)
"A feminist classic and still one of the best books on the female Victorian Writers."—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review

Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex.” But that simple phrase didn’t mean much until ordinary women began using the law to get justice on the job―and some took their fights all the way to the Supreme Court. Among them were Ida Phillips, denied an assembly line job because she had a preschool-age child; Kim Rawlinson, who fought to become a prison guard―a “man’s job”; Mechelle Vinson, who brought a lawsuit for sexual abuse before “sexual harassment” even had a name; Ann Hopkins, denied partnership at a Big Eight accounting firm because the men in charge thought she needed "a course at charm school”; and most recently, Peggy Young, UPS truck driver, forced to take an unpaid leave while pregnant because she asked for a temporary reprieve from heavy lifting.
These unsung heroines’ victories, and those of the other women profiled in Gillian Thomas' Because of Sex, dismantled a “Mad Men” world where women could only hope to play supporting roles; where sexual harassment was “just the way things are”; and where pregnancy meant getting a pink slip.
Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever.

THE ASSASSINS’ GATE: AMERICA IN IRAQ recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerilla war in Iraq. It brings to life the people and ideas that created the Bush administration’s war policy and led America to the Assassins’ Gate—the main point of entry into the American zone in Baghdad. The consequences of that policy are shown in the author’s brilliant reporting on the ground in Iraq, where he made four tours on assignment for The New Yorker. We see up close the struggles of American soldiers and civilians and Iraqis from all backgrounds, thrown together by a war that followed none of the preconceived scripts.
The Assassins' Gate also describes the place of the war in American life: the ideological battles in Washington that led to chaos in Iraq, the ordeal of a fallen soldier’s family, and the political culture of a country too bitterly polarized to realize such a vast and morally complex undertaking. George Packer’s first-person narrative combines the scope of an epic history with the depth and intimacy of a novel, creating a masterful account of America’s most controversial foreign venture since Vietnam.

★内容介绍
“尽管了解有关乳腺癌及其治疗的事实很重要，但仅仅知道医学事实还不够。我们真正想知道的是，即将到来的治疗到底是怎样的一种体验。手术后、化疗或放疗期间的真实感觉如何？家人、家庭和日常工作必须做出哪些改变？在所有事情都发生之后，如何才能恢复‘正常’生活呢？这些问题的答案，只能来自那些不得不亲自面对乳腺癌的女性。”
艾娜•雅洛夫从美国女性杂志和健康组织的征稿中，选编收录了72封乳腺癌患者的来信汇成这本《离心最近的是乳房》。来信的女性中有人仍在积极治疗，也有人已康复数十年，她们在信中分享了应对疾病的经验，她们的恐惧与希望，走过的弯路与做出的抉择，病中及其后的生活琐事；谈及包括确诊治疗、情绪调节、人际关系、支持机构、恢复和复发等各方面话题，展现出直面疾病困厄、继续生活的勇气与力量。
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★编辑推荐
乳腺癌这种疾病受到越来越多关注，但被广泛报道的往往是防治建议或少数知名病患，人们仍缺乏对其的现实认识，或过于高估患癌的风险，或过于轻视乳房的健康。《离心最近的是乳房》呈现了来自普通患者的真实声音，乳腺癌患者及其家属可以看到众多并肩而立的伙伴：“她经历过这些，她知道”“如果她可以做到，我也可以”；其他读者也可以从中了解有关乳腺癌的真实情况，获得直面自身困境的力量。
“朋友和同事告诉我，我当时很勇敢，但是你还有什么其他选择呢？生死攸关的时候，你就去做那些你必须做的事。”
“事实上，战胜癌症从一开始就不是你的责任。它一直都是政府和医学研究机构的任务，但是许多年以来，他们一直都没能完成。”
“罹患乳腺癌之后的生活不止一种模样。有些日子是非常黑暗和困难的，而另一些日子则是充满欢乐和光明的。”
“保持积极态度的人，就是最有生存希望的人！”
“接受化学疗法并不一定就会掉发或者呕吐，也不一定需要改变自己的穿着打扮——你仍然可以做那个迷人、性感和充满活力的自己。”
“如果你不希望切除自己的乳房，这种想法是完全正常的。让我们有这种感觉的原因，并非完全是媒体宣传和对美丽肉体的崇拜。女性的胸前本来就应该有两个‘隆起物’啊。我们天生就是如此。”
“这次磨难教会了我一种与病患、老年人或残障人士相处的全新方法。最重要的就是，让他们保持自己的尊严。表达关爱和同情，但不要怜悯。”
“现在愿意接受帮助；并且以后也愿意去帮助他人。”
“即使我对疾病无能为力，我也有能力控制自己的生活。为什么要担心明天？今天还没有结束呢。”
“即使我之后真的复发了，也并不一定是世界末日！！！”