Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”

Reissue of J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing, with an exclusive new afterword by Robert Macfarlane.J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967. Greeted with acclaim, it went on to win the Duff Cooper Prize, the pre-eminent literary prize of the time. Luminaries such as Ted Hughes, Barry Lopez and Andrew Motion have cited it as one of the most important books in twentieth-century nature writing.Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J. A. Baker spent long winters looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands - peregrines that spend the winter hunting the huge flocks of pigeons and waders that share the desolate landscape with them.This new edition of the timeless classic, published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first publication, features an afterword by one of the book's greatest admirers, Robert Macfarlane.

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.
Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

本书既保留了原作无规则的标点符号和异乎寻常的书写方式，又突出了原作完成和未完成的两个部分，同时也纠正了其他一些版本的错误，原原本本地再现了作者手搞的风貌，为翻译和认识卡夫卡的作品提供了很有价值的参考，同时也力图为我国的卡夫卡读者和卡夫卡研究再现一个新的视野范围。
卡夫卡是生活于奥匈帝国统治下的捷克小说家。他的作品大都用变形荒诞的形象和象征直觉的手法，表现被充满敌意的社会环境所包围的孤立、绝望的个人。文笔明净而想像奇诡，常采用寓言体，背后的寓意言人人殊，暂无（或永无）定论，令二十世纪各个写作流派纷纷追认其为先驱。

本书是薛爱华《撒马尔罕的金桃》最新修订译本，内含24页彩色图片，另保留原书风格20幅黑白题图。本书是西方汉学的一部名著，被视为西方学者研究中国古代社会、古代文化的必读之作。本书选取中华民族最值得骄傲的朝代——唐代为研究对象，详细研究了当时的世界文化交流和文明引进。内容涉及了唐朝生活的各个方面，家畜、野兽、飞禽、植物、木材、食物、香料、药品、纺织品、颜料、矿石、金属制品、世俗器物、宗教器物、书籍等，共18类170余种，举凡生活所需、日常所用，几乎无所不包。此书不仅展现了大唐时期的社会文化、物质生活的生动画面，为认识唐朝的社会生活史和文化史提供了极有价值的参考，也是了解中华文明和文明交流史的必读书籍。
本书可能是我们这个时代中，在研究中国方面资料最翔实、最博学精深，并且写得最赏心悦目的著作。
——《亚洲研究杂志》
完全是赏心乐事……薛爱华先生几乎没有漏掉唐代生活的任何一个方 面，以至于一点一滴地为整个文明建立起一幅合情合理的全景画卷……谢弗先生文笔优雅，睿智。他喜欢这些 天方夜谭式的故事，而且把它们讲得非常好。
——《星期六评论》
对唐代文化一次令人着迷的考察，这可以从唐代对舶来品的使用和需要中反映出来……我们很难得看到这么一本令人愉快而内容丰富翔实的书。
——《美国东方学会会刊》
美国学者薛爱华的《撒马尔罕的金桃》，是西方汉学的一部名著，被视为西方学者研究中国古代社会、古代文化的必读著作。……从本书我们可以看到，唐朝的外来物品是何等的丰富多彩，而这些外来物品对中国社会、中国原有的文化又发生着复杂的、多方面的影响，其中很多逐步溶入中国原有文化之中，最终成为中国文化的组成部分。今天的中国文化是多元的文化。中国文化既包含汉族的，也包含其他兄弟民族的；既有本土的，也有外来的成分。
——陈高华（中国社会科学院学术委员会委员，中国海外交通史研究会会长）
《撒马尔罕的金桃——唐朝的舶来品研究》是西方汉学的一部名著，被视为西方学者研究中国古代社会、古代文化的必读之作。本书选取中华民族最值得骄傲的朝代——唐代为研究对象，详细研究了当时的世界文化交流和文明引进。内容涉及了唐朝生活的各个方面，家畜、野兽、飞禽、植物、木材、食物、香料、药品、纺织品、颜料、矿石、金属制品、世俗器物、宗教器物、书籍等，共18类170余种，举凡生活所需、日常所用，几乎无所不包。此书不仅展现了大唐时期的社会文化、物质生活的生动画面，为认识唐朝的社会生活史和文化史提供了极有价值的参考，也是了解中华文明和文明交流史的必读书籍。

2012年坎迪尔（Cundill Prize）历史奖大奖（世界奖金最高的历史著作奖）
裴士锋生动重现了……十九世纪中叶的太平天国战争。这场战争所夺走的人命之多，在人类史上名列前茅。它的深远影响，在当今中国仍未消失。《天国之秋》是由第一流历史学家和杰出作家完成的引人入胜之 作。
——基辛格（Henry A. Kissinger） 《论中国》《大外交》等书作者
精心琢磨的历史铺陈，是极出色的典范。从一八五〇年代初期打至一八六四年的这场中国内战，可能是人类史上死伤最惨烈的内战；裴士锋以生动翔实的手法，呈现中国的统治者及其数千万子民的命运如何受到英国外交与商业利益的摆布，如何受到太平天国本身的非正统宗教和政治理念影响。一个悲惨且撼动人心的故事。
——史景迁（Jonathan Spence） 《追寻现代中国》《大汗之国》等书作者

【東南亞史：多元而獨特，關鍵的十字路口】
本書作者安東尼・瑞德是國際上研究東南亞的第一人，他的研究不是從決定歷史的所謂大事件出發，而是注重環境、地理和普通人的日常生活等年鑑學派的研究方法，因此有「亞洲的布勞岱爾」之稱。此外，瑞德堅持全球史的研究視角，印度、中國、伊斯蘭、近代歐洲的力量在這個關鍵的十字路口相遇、交織和互相影響，正是東南亞在全球史中的重要特徵。
目前台灣出版的東南亞相關主題以國別史居多，且偏重 #民族主義 視角。要探討長達一千三百多年的東南亞通史，若只依賴殖民主義和民族主義的視角，將無法洞悉東南亞的本質；這是因為東南亞直到十九世紀末才出現所謂的「政治體制」，到二十世紀中葉才出現「民族國家」。本書便是首部全方位、多角度分析東南亞的多樣性和獨特性的權威之作。行文上不以單一的時間線從古敘述至今，而是分為氣候、貿易、宗教、政治、人文等不同主題深入研究；不同時代所側重的描寫主題也不盡相同，甚至在不同的時代裡，東南亞的大陸區、半島區和群島區幾大區塊之間並非相互接續，有時可能會互相重疊，更能呈現東南亞地區乃至於東南亞史的多元獨特之處。

Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and Rome can seem bewilderingly complex, yet they are so much a part of modern life and discourse that most of us know fragments of them. This comprehensive companion takes these fragments and weaves them into an accessible and enjoyable narrative, guiding the reader through the basic stories of classical myth.
Philip Matyszak explains the sequences of events and introduces the major plots and characters, from the origins of the world and the labors of Hercules to the Trojan War and the voyages of Odysseus and Aeneas. He brings to life an exotic cast of heroes and monsters, wronged women and frighteningly arbitrary yet powerful gods. He also shows how the stories have survived and greatly influenced later art and culture, from Renaissance painting and sculpture to modern opera, literature, movies, and everyday products.

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world.


Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan , she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced these countries, with governments experimenting with both democracy and dictatorships.


In Kyrgyzstani villages, she meets victims of the tradition of bride snatching; she visits the huge and desolate Polygon in Kazakhstan where the Soviet Union tested explosions of nuclear bombs; she meets shrimp gatherers on the banks of the dried out Aral Sea; she witnesses the fall of a dictator.


She travels incognito through Turkmenistan, a country that is closed to journalists. She meets exhausted human rights activists in Kazakhstan, survivors from the massacre in Osh in 2010, and German Mennonites that found paradise on the Kyrgyzstani plains 200 years ago. We learn how ancient customs clash with gas production and witness the underlying conflicts between ethnic Russians and the majority in a country that is slowly building its future in nationalist colors.


Once the frontier of the Soviet Union, life follows another pace of time. Amidst the treasures of Samarkand and the brutalist Soviet architecture, Sovietistan is a rare and unforgettable adventure.

One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging thunder for a new generation of readers.

《玄怪录》，唐代传奇小说集，牛僧孺撰。原十卷，今本一卷。其中所收作品，多托言隋唐以前事。记唐代之事，亦以德宗贞元以前者为多。《续玄怪录》，古代中国传奇小说集﹐因续牛僧孺《玄怪录》而得名。撰者李复言。生卒年﹑籍贯均不详。《新唐书·艺文志》著录此书5卷。据《郡斋读书志》记载﹐原书分仙术﹑感应等三门。现存南宋尹家书籍铺刻本﹐4卷﹐23篇﹐不分门类。

This is the completely revised and updated edition of <i>Flash Training</i>, the fundamental manual for physical and mental training for rock climbers. Drawing on new research in sports medicine, nutrition, and fitness, the author has created a training program to help any climber achieve superior performance and better mental concentration on the rock, with less risk of injury. A necessary book for rock climbers everywhere. <br />

我是个写小说的人，对于人，我只能想了解、欣赏，并对他进行描绘，我不想对任何人作出论断。像我的一位老师一样，对于这个世界，我所倾心的是现象。我不善于作抽象的思维。
我对人，更多地注意的是他的审美意义。
——汪曾祺
汪先生的好，是如今大多数中国作家身上没有的好。他那种夫子气，文士气，率性而真切，冲淡而平和，有大学而平易，阅人阅世深厚而待人待物随意。
——何立伟

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide.
The story of humanity is the story of textiles — as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture.
In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code.
Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.

A powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.

Survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims--and their journeys, pilgrimages.

Carel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, A House in the Homeland documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss.

As an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.

With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion—a constant preoccupation since childhood—thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life. Themes from Serres's earlier writings—energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil—are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus, and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into.

From the best-selling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and After Dark, a rich and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have made on his life.

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing.

Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.

By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running.

●汉娜•阿伦特极具争议性的著作，对第二次世界大战中纳粹犹太政策进行全面总结，提出著名的“平庸的恶”概念，引发西方思想界长达五十年的争论
●详细记录纳粹战犯庭审全过程，还原历史现场，探讨战后审判的合法性
●无删节简体中文全译本首次出版
●特别收录阿伦特德文版自序与德国史学巨擘汉斯·蒙森导读
1961年，耶路撒冷地方法院对纳粹战犯、“犹太问题最终解决方案”重要执行者阿道夫•艾希曼开展了一场旷日持久的审判。汉娜•阿伦特就这场审判为《纽约客》写了五篇报告，后集结成书。《艾希曼在耶路撒冷》详细记录了这次引发全球关注的审判的全过程，并结合对大量历史资料的分析，提出了“平庸的恶”的概念。恶的化身未必是狂暴的恶魔，也有可能是平凡、敬业、忠诚的小公务员。艾希曼由于没有思想、盲目服从而犯下的罪并不能以“听命行事”或“国家行为”的借口得到赦免。