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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness Goodreads 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者:
Anil Seth
Faber & Faber
2021
- 9
Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.
Watercress Goodreads 豆瓣
Watercress
作者:
Andrea Wang
Neal Porter Books
2021
- 3
Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.
Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can.
At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged. Together, they make a new memory of watercress.
Andrea Wang tells a moving autobiographical story of a child of immigrants discovering and connecting with her heritage, illustrated by award winning author and artist Jason Chin, working in an entirely new style, inspired by Chinese painting techniques. An author's note in the back shares Andrea's childhood experience with her parents.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can.
At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged. Together, they make a new memory of watercress.
Andrea Wang tells a moving autobiographical story of a child of immigrants discovering and connecting with her heritage, illustrated by award winning author and artist Jason Chin, working in an entirely new style, inspired by Chinese painting techniques. An author's note in the back shares Andrea's childhood experience with her parents.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Goodreads
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
作者:
Audre Lorde
Tantor Audio
2016
- 4
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment among minority women writers and the absolute necessity to explicate the concept of difference—difference according to sex, race, and economic status. The title Sister Outsider finds its source in her poetry collection The Black Unicorn (1978). These poems and the essays in Sister Outsider stress Lorde's oft-stated theme of continuity, particularly of the geographical and intellectual link between Dahomey, Africa, and her emerging self.
Pachinko Goodreads
Pachinko
作者:
Min Jin Lee
Grand Central Publishing
2017
- 2
In this bestselling, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew.
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving,
is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters-strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant-and that her lover is married-she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.
Richly told and profoundly moving,
is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters-strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis-survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history.
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last Goodreads
作者:
Azra Raza
We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet -- a few innovations notwithstanding -- a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost.
In
, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again,
explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like
,
is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.
In
, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again,
explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like
,
is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.
Foundation (2021) 豆瓣 TMDB KxMediaDb
Foundation Season 1 所属 : Foundation
5.9 (176 个评分)
导演:
艾利克斯·格雷夫斯
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詹妮弗·彭
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演员:
杰瑞德·哈里斯
/
李·佩斯
…
剧集讲述《基地》系列的千年传奇故事,一群流亡者发现拯救银河帝国免遭破坏的唯一方法只有选择反抗。
色,戒 (2007) 豆瓣 TMDB Eggplant.place IMDb
色‧戒
8.7 (1727 个评分)
导演:
李安
演员:
梁朝伟
/
汤唯
…
其它标题:
Lust, Caution
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Lust, Caution
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本是岭南大学学生的王佳芝(汤唯 饰)因战争辗转到了香港读书,她在香港大学加入了爱国青年邝裕民(王力宏 饰)组织的话剧组,他们主演的爱国话剧更激起了他们的爱国情操。当邝裕民得知汪伪政府的特务头子易先生(梁朝伟 饰)正在香港的时候,他们便密谋要刺杀易先生。化名“麦太太”的王佳芝很快得到了易太太(陈冲 饰)的信任与喜爱,同时美丽的“麦太太”也吸引了易先生的眼球,正当事情进行得如火如荼之际,易先生突然要回到上海去。
此后王佳芝一直生活在上海,没想到重遇了邝裕民。当得知刺杀行动还没结束时,王佳芝再次成为了特务,再次以“麦太太”的身份出现在易先生的面前。
重逢后的二人关系进一步发展,此时的易先生因爱上了王佳芝而对她毫无忌讳,王佳芝的内心也变得起伏不定。刺杀行动进行正顺利,但当易先生送给王佳芝璀璨钻戒表达爱意时,王佳芝做出了惊人的决定……
此后王佳芝一直生活在上海,没想到重遇了邝裕民。当得知刺杀行动还没结束时,王佳芝再次成为了特务,再次以“麦太太”的身份出现在易先生的面前。
重逢后的二人关系进一步发展,此时的易先生因爱上了王佳芝而对她毫无忌讳,王佳芝的内心也变得起伏不定。刺杀行动进行正顺利,但当易先生送给王佳芝璀璨钻戒表达爱意时,王佳芝做出了惊人的决定……
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America Goodreads
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
作者:
Barbara Ehrenreich
Owl Books (Henry Holt)
2002
- 5
Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor. ISBN: 9781449888848
魔法满屋 (2021) Eggplant.place 豆瓣
Encanto
6.7 (348 个评分)
导演:
杰拉德·布什
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拜伦·霍华德
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演员:
斯蒂芬妮·比翠丝
/
黛安·格雷罗
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其它标题:
Encanto
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奇幻魔法屋(港)
…
故事发生在一块充满魔力的土地上。在这个人人都有魔法的家族,唯一的普通女孩将迎接怎样的挑战?
灰熊人 (2005) 豆瓣 Eggplant.place TMDB
Grizzly Man
8.2 (64 个评分)
导演:
沃纳·赫尔佐格
演员:
Timothy Treadwell
/
Amie Huguenard
…
其它标题:
그리즐리 맨
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グリズリーマン
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本纪录片取材于野生动物保护主义者蒂莫西·崔德威尔(Timothy Treadwell)1999~2003年在美国阿拉斯加州卡特迈国家公园及自然保护区所拍摄的素材。崔德威尔从1989年起致力于野生灰熊的研究和保护,并与朋友成立了“熊人协会”,每年夏天来到卡特迈独自野营,观察记录灰熊的生活习性,并义务对数千名学童进行讲解,呼吁社会打击偷猎,关注、保护灰熊。导演沃纳·赫尔佐格(Werner Herzog)探访了崔德威尔的父母和前女友,并对2003年10月崔德威尔及女友艾米·胡格纳德(Amie Huguenard) 之死的细节进行了细致采访描绘,试图在展示崔德威尔非凡经历的同时,回答究竟是什么使他选择远离人类放逐荒野,将生命献给灰熊。 本片获圣丹斯电影节纪录片评审团大奖提名及艾尔弗·斯隆奖,并获2005年独立精神奖、洛杉矶影评人协会、纽约影评人协会、美国国家影评人协会等多个协会的最佳纪录片奖。
Living for Change 豆瓣
作者:
[美] Grace Lee Boggs
University of Minnesota Press
2016
- 8
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.
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虎尾 (2020) 豆瓣 TMDB
Tigertail
4.2 (18 个评分)
导演:
杨维榕
演员:
李鸿其
/
李坤珏
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其它标题:
Tigertail
《摘金奇缘》后,好莱坞继续开发亚洲相关影视:在英国演戏的四川妹子李坤珏(《浴血黑帮》《开膛街》)将出演Netflix电影《虎尾》(Tigertail,也是美国一个地点),马志(《降临》)已加盟。故事来自《无为大师》联合主创杨维榕,他的父母来自台湾,该片讲述台湾移民到 美国的两代人历程和内心联结:
一个叫Grover的男子在台湾出生长大,童年艰难的他抛弃了真心热爱的家庭,和一个女子真真跑到了美国,他跟真真之间没什么感情,但两人还是一起在美国寻找新生活。
后来Grover开始审视自己一生做过的和抉择,他是一个顽固的男人,他的女儿Angela已长大成人,也成了一个顽固的女人。父女俩压根没意识到他们俩有多相像,但最终,都后悔过、失败过之后,两人开始互相理解。
坤珏饰演年轻时的珍珍,一个安静、礼貌、不碍事的台湾女子,和Grover一起去到美国生活,对她来说很艰难。直到遇到了一个叫Peijing的朋友,珍珍才开始真正思考独立和自身价值。Grover的女儿Angela,跟父亲疏远又取得联系。马志饰演年长的Grover。
一个叫Grover的男子在台湾出生长大,童年艰难的他抛弃了真心热爱的家庭,和一个女子真真跑到了美国,他跟真真之间没什么感情,但两人还是一起在美国寻找新生活。
后来Grover开始审视自己一生做过的和抉择,他是一个顽固的男人,他的女儿Angela已长大成人,也成了一个顽固的女人。父女俩压根没意识到他们俩有多相像,但最终,都后悔过、失败过之后,两人开始互相理解。
坤珏饰演年轻时的珍珍,一个安静、礼貌、不碍事的台湾女子,和Grover一起去到美国生活,对她来说很艰难。直到遇到了一个叫Peijing的朋友,珍珍才开始真正思考独立和自身价值。Grover的女儿Angela,跟父亲疏远又取得联系。马志饰演年长的Grover。
Far East Deep South (2020) 豆瓣 IMDb
导演:
Larissa Lam
演员:
Baldwin Chiu
/
Caliya Chiu
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When a Chinese-American family travels from California to Mississippi to visit the grave of their ancestors, they stumble upon surprising revelations. Along the way, they meet a diverse group of local residents and historians, who shed light on the racially complex history of the early Chinese in the segregated South. Their emotional journey also leads them to discover how the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 impacted their family and how deep their roots run in America.
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power Goodreads
作者:
Pekka Hämäläinen
Tantor Audio
2019
- 10
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains.
The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (2006) IMDb
导演:
Chip Richie
演员:
Shane Alan Bowers
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John Buttram
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Documentary on the 1838 Cherokee removal from the southeastern United States, dubbed the "Trail of Tears."
Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School (2008) IMDb
导演:
Chip Richie
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Dan Agent
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演员:
Gayle Ross
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August Schellenberg
From Rich-Heape Films, the award winning producers of Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy and Black Indians An American Story and told from the Native American perspective, this documentary uncovers the dark history of the US government policy and will give a voice to the countless Indian children forced through the system. The film deals with both the schools run by Christian missionaries and those run by the United States' Bureau of Indian Affairs. It addresses the schools' role of forcing cultural assimilation of the resident children into the ways of the majority culture of European Americans.[2]