可怕的外星怪物――虫族越来越严惩地威胁着地球，可是地球各国却把大量金钱和物资花在为小孩子在太空修建游戏基地上，并不断挑选年幼在孩子前往其中进行各种对抗游戏。游戏的难度不断被加大，不断有人被淘汰，教官有意孤立成绩突出的人，优秀的学员不择手段、拼命竞争……这一切的最终目的就是挑选出一个心理状态最稳定、神经最强悍的孩子。地球当局将赌注押在了这个最终的游戏天才身上，此人将获得地球远征舰队的指挥权，与虫族展开决战。 安德・维京成为了这个游戏天才，但是，大决战以他完全没有想到的方式开始了……

在《达尔文电波》中，环境污染、人口膨胀……人类进入工业时代以来累积的诸多社会问题最终将人类推上了一条突变进化的高速公路，人类在毫无准备的情况下就陷入了“更新换代”的恐慌之中……
《达尔文电波》的科幻内核是对传统的达尔文进化理论的公然反叛，借书中的女主人公凯·朗之口，贝尔指出：进化并不像达尔文所宣称的那样是一种随机的选择，而是有一套早已制订好的法则。

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If, that is, the world survives. "Ender's Game" is the winner of the 1985 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1986 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

统治美国的，是那些创造了巨额财富的机构的所有者和高管。由公司法律顾问、军事承包商、农业工商业主以及大公司领导者所组成的企业共同体支配了联邦政府。本书为人们了解美国的社会上层阶级和企业共同体提供了丰富的经验事实，而且接续了韦伯、马克思、米尔斯等人的研究传统，从而发展出一套既从组织维度出发，又强调阶级支配和阶级冲突的“权力结构研究”范式，在精英研究中自成派。尽管40年来围绕本书引发了广泛的争议，但几乎所有从事“精英研究”的社会科学家都认可本书为该领域的经典之作。

本文集所译介的几部著作分别成书于不同时期，均为乔姆斯基政治评论的代表作，基本上涵盖了作者政治理论的核心体系，探讨了美国自越南战争、海湾战争、“9·11”事件以来的对外政策走向，尤其是对于一向自我标榜为“价值中立”的美国媒体和舆论界进行了强有力的批判，并进而对当今世界的最大热点问题之一——恐怖主义——的现状和成因进行了深刻的分析，有助于国内学人及广大读者更深入地了解西方尤其是美国的政治、外交、军事政策。

这本书是作者过去几年给一些期刊报纸写的专栏文章结集，其中主要是给《南方人物周刊》的文章。全书中以讲故事的形式，把“美国的民主”这样一个概念性的东西拆解成点点滴滴的事件、政策和人物去描述。

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This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology. </p>

Since its landmark publication in 1980, "A People's History Of The United States" has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the U.S.A., and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, "A People's History" triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.Now Howard Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant comics form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of "A People's History": the centuries-long story of America's actions in the world. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America's leading historians.Shifting from world-shattering events to one family's small revolutions, "A People's History of American Empire" presents the classic ground-level history of America in a dazzling new form.

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum. One phrase in particular anchored itself in listeners’ minds, a reminder that for all the discord and struggle to be found in our history as a nation, we have always been guided by a dogged optimism in the future, or what Obama called “the audacity of hope.”
The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. He also writes, with surprising intimacy and self-deprecating humor, about settling in as a senator, seeking to balance the demands of public service and family life, and his own deepening religious commitment.
At the heart of this book is Barack Obama’s vision of how we can move beyond our divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families, the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and the transnational threats—from terrorism to pandemic—that gather beyond our shores. And he grapples with the role that faith plays in a democracy—where it is vital and where it must never intrude. Underlying his stories about family, friends, and members of the Senate is a vigorous search for connection: the foundation for a radically hopeful political consensus.
A public servant and a lawyer, a professor and a father, a Christian and a skeptic, and above all a student of history and human nature, Barack Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to our Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. Those Americans are out there, he writes—“waiting for Republicans and Democrats to catch up with them.”

閹割美國太不幽默了，讓我們陽痿它。
對美國，我們不是「治療陽痿」，我們是「陽痿治療」。是用使美國陽痿的方法，治療美國「強陽不倒」的絕症（「強陽不倒」的學名是「陰莖異常勃起」，priapism）。
美國的絕症很邪門兒，它得了「政治上的強陽不倒」（political priapism），禍害世界和它自己。
美國曾經安分過、曾經有錢過，但是今天它變了，它變得鴨霸四海、狂吃八方，債台高築之下，它的政府，每花一美元，其中四角一分是借來的；它的人民呢，一美元當十美元大花特花、虛擲浪費。在美國境外流通的美金總數，比在美國本土還多得多，這就是說，美國在用印鈔機吃世界，一張百元美鈔的印刷費只要兩分錢，一張張印出來，全世界都被它偷吃了。
美國變了，美國是他國的禍害、是人類的噩夢、是世界的猙獰。
美國動用排山倒海的「柔性力量」（soft power）載歌載舞，在歡樂中使我們嚮往它，淡化它的惡形惡狀。我們曾經嚮往過，但是，我們必須覺悟了。我們用這本書，舉證歷歷，表達我們的不安與憤怒，我們決心不再受騙了。
閹割美國太不幽默了，讓我們陽痿它。

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.

A distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Jews, the Italians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Blacks, the Puerto Ricans, and the Mexicans--in order to explain their varied experiences in adapting to American society.

CAN I GET A “RAMEN” FROM THE CONGREGATION?!
Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today’s fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM’s devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it’s the assuring touch from the FSM’s “noodly appendage.” Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still others are drawn to the Church’s flimsy moral standards, religious holidays every Friday, or the fact that Pastafarian heaven is way cooler: Does your heaven have a Stripper Factory and a Beer Volcano? Intelligent Design has finally met its match&#8211;and it has nothing to do with apes or the Olive Garden of Eden.
Within these pages, Bobby Henderson outlines the true facts&#8211; dispelling such malicious myths as evolution (“only a theory”), science (“only a lot of theories”), and whether we’re really descended from apes (fact: Humans share 95 percent of their DNA with chimpanzees, but they share 99.9 percent with pirates!)

From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" (Edmund S. Morgan New York Review of Books ).