The Language of Displayed Art

作者：  Michael O Toole & 著

出版社：Routledge

简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The visual arts such as photography and most other systems of signs through which people make meaning can best be understood and interpreted through three distinct but related dimensions, argues O'Toole (emeritus communications studies, Murdoch U., Perth, Australia). They are representational meaning, modal meaning, and compositional meaning--functions he borrowed from the systemic-functional linguistics of M. A. K. Halliday and his colleagues. He writes for people who, like him, have no formal training in the visual arts, but enjoy visiting galleries, and admiring sculptures in parks or squares. Looking first at perceptions then conceptions, he discusses such topics as Sandro Botticeli's 1478 Primavera, a semiotics of architecture, modes of comparison, the social semiotic and the viewing subject, and mono-functional tendencies. Among the features of the accompanying disk is a virtual gallery. The first edition was published in 1994 by Leicester University Press. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：　　The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs describes not only everything you need to know to start designing FPGAs, but also how the art came to be in its current state...Unlike many in the EDA industry, Maxfield doesn't forget that chips go on boards: One chapter looks at PCB considerations of FPGA Design...I must admit that when I first saw the book, I imagined reading it would be something of a slog as so many technical books are. Upon opening the book, I was delighted to discover that Maxfield's writing style actually makes reading the book more of a romp in the part. There are portions of the book that I intended to just scan but found myself sucked into reading in full...The Design Warrior's Guide to FPGAs will be a great source of knowledge to the FPGA newcomer. It will also provide new insights and broaden the veteran designer's knowledge of the field. But most of all it is a fun and engaging read for anyone for whom electronics design is more than a 9-to-5 job. It is a good buy at the $49.95 list price - PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN & MANUFACTURE JULY 2004 　　 　　If you've never read any books written by Clive "Max" Maxfield, then you're in for a treat. True to form, his latest book on FPGAs is enjoyable to read. Yet it's also rich in the technical details that any modern designer would need...He covers all of the issues that anyone working with FPGAs or thinking about moving to them would need to know...As with most of Max's work, this book's appendix is a treasure trove of background tutorials...While this book is well suited for young engineers - anyone with less than the prerequisite five years in FPGA or ASIC design - it also offers many topics that will interest the experienced designer - Wireless Systems Design, August 2004 　　 　　...a must-read book for those designers who either want an introduction to designing with FPGAs or need to broaden their understanding of the EDA tools available for such applications. Maxfield writes in a easy-to-read style, and provides insightful and diverse information for designers and curious readers alike. The author has never forgotten his designer roots, and the book is full of examples and chapters dedicated to such applications as gigabit transceivers, linear-feedback-shift registers, and integration of third-party cores. -- EDN, 5/21/2004　　

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简介：The title "writings" is slightly misleading; this is not a reader but a survey of jazz and jazz musicians from its inception through the rising stars of the 1990s. Davis (U. of Pittsburgh) writes in the personal tone of someone who has long been active in the jazz scene (the preface is by Donald Byrd, one of many musicians Davis has played with), offering many frank opinions that seek to correct historic misconceptions about jazz and jazz musicians. The audio CD features classic works from Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Coleman Hawkins, among others. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：　　“nast's work in idea mapping enables those with creative minds to clearly lay out their thinking process and those who are more process-minded to become creative. if your organization is looking for a pragmatic，step-by-step guide to idea mapping，this is it.” 　　——chris brown，executive vice president，dte energy resources 　　“i have used idea maps for thirty years and have taught mba students，employees，and my children how to harness their power. i strongly recommend this book and believe you will feel it to be one of the best investments you have ever made in your own growth.” 　　——stephen c. lundin，coauthor，fish! 　　“this is a book that everyone should read. it's an interactive，thought-provoking book about the brain and learning that will expand your mind. nast，an accomplished and well-respected instructor，has guided me into a new realm of learning experiences and possibilities. i'm sure you will feel the same upon reading her insightful work.” 　　——simon tai，ceo，buzan centre taiwan and s&j media intergration co. ltd.，host of news discovery on news 98 taiwan 　　“nast shows you a revolutionary method to capture your thinking processes. don't underestimate the simplicity of idea mapping because therein lies its genius.” 　　——scott hagwood，four-time usa memory champion，author，memory power 　　“the ability to visually capture and organize thoughts and ideas has enabled millions of people around the world to do their work with greater creativity and productivity，run their businesses more strategically，and manage complex projects more efficiently--even map out a sales process or new product roll-out. nast's very practical，readable book will get you quickly up to speed on one of the simplest but most powerful ways to organize your ideas，your work，and yourself.” 　　——mike jetter，cofounder and cto，mindjet corporation，coauthor，the cancer code 　　“the principles nast writes about in idea mapping have become a staple for me over the past fourteen years. i was turned onto the concept of idea mapping in 1992 and have been a student and practitioner ever since. this has absolutely transformed the way i learn，design learning，and prepare for public speaking. i have never been more confident in my recall，knowing the content is nicely tucked away in my brain as it was designed to be. get ready for a life-changing experience for yourself and those you influence.” 　　——will flora，senior manager，chick-fil-a university，atlanta，ga

A global history : from prehistory to the 21st century = 全球通史. / 第7版.

作者：  L. S. Stavrianos.

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简介：　　From the Author to the Reader 　　Each age writes its own history. Not because the earlier history is wrong, but because each age faces new problems, asks new questions, and seeks new answers. This precept is self-evident today when the tempo of change is increasing exponentially, creating a correspondingly urgent need for new history posing new questions and offering new answers. 　　Our own generation, for example, was brought up on West-oriented history, and naturally so, in a West-dominated world. The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were an era of Western hegemony in politics, in economics, and in culture. But the two World Wars and the ensuing colonial revolutions quickly ended that hegemony, as evidenced by the disappearance of the great European empires from the maps of the world. The names and the colors on the maps changed radically, reflecting the new world that had emerged by the mid-twentieth century. 　　Slowly and reluctantly we recognized that our traditional West-oriented history was irrelevant and misleading in this world. A new global perspective was needed to make sense of the altered circumstances. The transition from the old to the new was achieved, albeit with much soul searching and acrimony. By the 1960s the reality of the shift was evident in the emergence of the World History Association, in the appearance of the Journal of World History, and in the publication of the first edition of this text. 　　This brings us back to our original question: Why publish a new edition for the twentieth-first century, only a few decades after the first edition? The answer is the same as the answer given to justify the first edition: a new world requires a correspondingly new historical approach. The postcolonial world of the 1960s necessitated a new global history. Today the equally new world of the 1990s, and of the twentieth-first century, requires an equally new historical approach. The new world of the 1960s was in large part the product of the colonial revolutions. The new world of the 1990s , as Pope Pius VI noted, is the product of the “magic influence of science and technology”. The pervasiveness of this influence is evident in the “gigantic problems” it has created in all aspects of our lives. For example, students of the late twentieth century doubtless remember their daily prostration under their wooden desks, probably wondering what protection those flimsy structures could offer against nuclear bombs. 　　The generation of students had to face up to not only new dangers to human life, but also to unprecedented peril to the mother Earth which had given birth to that life. Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau has warmed: Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the twentieth century than in all previous human history. Likewise the environmental organization Worldwatch Institute concluded in 1989: By the end of the next decade the die will pretty well be cast. As the world enters the twentieth-first century, the community of nations either will have rallied and turned back the threatening trends, or environmental deterioration and social disintegration will be feeding on each other.　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Uusipaikka (mathematics, U. of Turku) writes primarily about profile likelihood-based confidence intervals and generalized regression models with a nod to generalized linear models. Uusipaikka begins as with likelihood-based statistical inference, including likelihood ratio tests and maximum likelihood estimates, then moves to generalized regression models (giving definitions and special cases), the general linear model, including confidence the region's and intervals, nonlinear regression models, generalized linear models, binomial and logistic regression models, Poisson regression models, multinomial regression models, and other generalized regression models, including those which are linear. Extremely well illustrated and containing a wealth of real-life examples, this is intended for senior undergraduate and first level graduate students in generalized regression and can also be suitable in the study of applied statistics. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

Frommer’s New York City 2009Frommer纽约市导览2009

作者：  Brian Silverman　著

出版社： 2008年9月

简介：More annually updated guides than any other series 16-page color section and foldout map in all annual guides Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design Explore the city with a real New Yorker, who gives you inside tips on hotels, restaurants, attractions, and nightlife. 　　The best places to eat, from vintage delis to pizza joints to power palaces. Off-the-beaten-path experiences and undiscovered gems, plus new takes on top attractions, and the latest news on the newest hotels, restaurants and hotspots in the City that Never Sleeps. The most frequently updated travel series on the market. Plus, online updates are available at Frommers.com so travelers don't have to worry about out-of-date information. Opinionated write-ups. No bland descriptions and lukewarm recommendations. Our expert writers are passionate about their destinations--tell it like it is in an engaging and helpful way. Exact prices listed for every establishment and activity--no other guides offer such detailed, candid reviews of hotels and restaurants. We include the very best, but also emphasize moderately priced choices for real people. 　　All Complete guides offer user-friendly features including star ratings and special icons to point readers to great finds, excellent values, insider tips, best bets for kids, special moments, and overrated experiences. 　　作者简介：　　Brian Silverman is a freelance writer whose work has been published in Saveur, The New Yorker, Caribbean Travel & Life, Islands, and Four Seasons. Among the many topics he writes about are food, travel, sports, and music. He is the author of numerous books including Going, Going, Gone: The History, Lore, and Mystique of the Home Run, and the Twentieth Century Treasury of Sports. For Frommer’s, he has written Complete, Portable, and Budget guides to New York City, as well as New York City For Dummies. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

Best American Short Stories 2006

作者：  Katrina Kenison　著

出版社：Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006-10-1

简介：　　"While a single short story may have a difficult time raisingenough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization,short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees,blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you canthink about," writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The BestAmerican Short Stories 2006. This vibrant, varied sampler of theAmerican literary scene revels in life's little absurdities,captures timely personal and cultural challenges, and ultimatelyshares subtle insight and compassion. In "The View from CastleRock," the short story master Alice Munro imagines a fictionalaccount of her Scottish ancestors' emigration to Canada in 1818.Nathan Englander's cast of young characters in "How We Avenged theBlums" confronts a bully dubbed "The Anti-Semite" to both comic andtragic ends. In "Refresh, Refresh," Benjamin Percy gives aforceful, heart-wrenching look at a young man's choices when hisfather -- along with most of the men in his small town -- isdeployed to Iraq. Yiyun Li's "After a Life" reveals secrets, hiddenshame, and cultural change in modern China. And in "Tatooizm,"Kevin Moffett weaves a story full of humor and humanity about ayoung couple's relationship that has run its course. Ann Patchett"brought unprecedented enthusiasm and judiciousness to The BestAmerican Short Stories 2006]," writes Katrina Kenison in herforeword, "and she is, surely, every story writer's ideal reader,eager to love, slow to fault, exquisitely attentive to the text andall that lies beneath it."

Now write!,Memoir, journalism, and creative nonfiction exercises from today’s best writes and teachers

作者：  雪莉·艾利斯(Sherry Ellis)编;刁克利译校

出版社：中国人民大学出版社,2011

简介：　　 这是一本非虚构文学创作的必备手册，其中收集了当今广受赞誉的非 　　虚构文学创意写作大师们的个人写作练习。他们中不乏传奇散文作家、《 　　纽约时报》最佳畅销书作者、普利策奖获得者、创意写作领军人物，还有 　　许多顶级的传记作家、新闻记者和教授非虚构文学创意写作的教师。《开 　　始写吧!――非虚构文学创作》的写作练习为非虚构文学创意写作的方方面 　　面部提出了崭新的理念，比如如何突破创作瓶颈、为已完成的作品注入新 　　的活力等。这些练习既可为初学写作者开启写作之门，也可为已有一定写 　　作经验的人士借鉴学习。 　　 雪莉？艾利斯编著的《开始写吧!――非虚构文学创作》将带你走进非 　　虚构文学创意写作领域一探究竟。《开始写吧!――非虚构文学创作》将有 　　助于不同水平的作者提高写作技巧并掌握写作实质。书中提供了八十多篇 　　速成练习，正是这些练习打开了这些顶级作家们的创作源泉! 　　

THE WARREN BUFFETT WAY, THIRD EDITION

作者：  Robert

出版社：Wiley 2013年11月

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　　Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today's most admired business leaders. He became a billionaire and investment sage by looking at companies as businesses rather than prices on a stock screen. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind Buffett's spectacular success. The new edition updates readers on the latest investments by Buffett. And, more importantly, it draws on the new field of behavioral finance to explain how investors can overcome the common obstacles that prevent them from investing like Buffett. New material includes: How to think like a long-term investor —— just like Buffett Why "loss aversion", the tendency of most investors to overweight the pain of losing money, is one of the biggest obstacles that investors must overcome. Why behaving rationally in the face of the ups and downs of the market has been the key to Buffett's investing success Analysis of Buffett's recent acquisition of H.J. Heinz and his investment in IBM stock The greatest challenge to emulating Buffett is not in the selection of the right stocks, Hagstrom writes, but in having the fortitude to stick with sound investments in the face of economic and market uncertainty. The new edition explains the psychological foundations of Buffett's approach, thus giving readers the best roadmap yet for mastering both the principles and behaviors that have made Buffett the greatest investor of our generation.

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简介：内容简介 在线阅读本书 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer stage, and then developed religion --as well as nasty germs and potent weapons of war --and adventured on sea and land to conquer and decimate preliterate cultures. A major advance in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way that the modern world came to be and stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, the Rhone-Poulenc Prize, and the Commonwealth club of California's Gold Medal. 媒体推荐 书评 Amazon.com Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the Westhas become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond presents the biologist''s answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly reviews human history on every continent since the Ice Age at a rate that emphasizes only the broadest movements of peoples and ideas. Yet his survey is binocular: one eye has the rather distant vision of the evolutionary biologist, while the other eye--and his heart--belongs to the people of New Guinea, where he has done field work for more than 30 years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Most of this work deals with non-Europeans, but Diamond''s thesis sheds light on why Western civilization became hegemonic: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples'' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Those who domesticated plants and animals early got a head start on developing writing, government, technology, weapons of war, and immunity to deadly germs. (LJ 2/15/97) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Alfred W. Crosby, Los Angeles Times3/9/97 Jared Diamond...is broadly erudite, writes in a style that pleasantly expresses scientific concepts in vernacular American English and deals almost exclusively in questions that should interest everyone concerned about how humanity developed. . . .Reading Diamond is like watching someone riding a unicycle, balancing an eel on his nose and juggling five squealing piglets. You may or may not agree with him (I usually do), but he rivets your attention. Guns, Germs, and Steelis his answer to a question proffered by his New Guinean friend, Yali: "Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo [steel axes, umbrellas, matches, soft drinks, etc.- the material stuff of civilization], but we black people had little cargo of our own?" It is an obvious and important question, and one to which professional historians, including myself, tend to react as if we''d discovered a coral snake in the shower...we shy away from Yali''s question because the easiest answer is one that many bray and bray about and others would rather die than utter. Race... Jared Diamond had done us all a great favor by supplying a rock-solid alternative to the racist answer... ...This is a wonderfully interesting book, especially for historians of the usual liberal arts background, who will find the final chapter, "The Future of Hisotry as a Science," alone worth the price of admission. In it, Diamond argues that students of humanity- while they cannot be as precise as physicists and chemists with their laboratory experiments, nor can they run history over again to see if this change can produce that result- have examples and "natural experiments" with which they can fashion informative comparisons. Why did Christendom enthusiastically and permanently adopt the wheel, the key element in most machinery, while the Islamic societies largely discarded it? What happened when syphilis first appeared, as compared to what is happening today with the appearance of AIDS? What is happening to society in the highlands of Diamond''s home-away-from-home, Paupa New Guinea, where people have hurtled from the technology of the stone ax to that of the computer within a lifetime? Diamond''s lesson is this: Think big like our astronomers, who begin their training not by trying to understand the nervous gyrations of the members of the asteroid belt but the simple and stately movements of the major planets over the years, decades and centuries. Think big. "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a provocative start. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From AudioFile Grover Gardener does as well with scientific material as he does with more traditional literature, giving it spirit and vitality while sounding as interested in the information as readers will be. Although he doesn''t pronounce "bonobo" (pigmy chimp) like the keepers in the zoo, nor "Tenochtitlán" like a Mexican, his technical pronunciation is otherwise flawless. The abridgment to one-third of the original does no serious damage, but only deprives readers the privilege of enjoying more of this Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the evolution of civilization. Few writers could ever take so complex a subject and render it as palatable and memorable as Professor Diamond. J.A.H. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to the Audio CD edition. From Kirkus Reviews MacArthur fellow and UCLA evolutionary biologist Diamond (The Third Chimpanzee, 1992, etc.) takes as his theme no less than the rise of human civilizations. On the whole this is an impressive achievement, with nods to the historians, anthropologists, and others who have laid the groundwork. Diamond tells us that the impetus for the book came from a native New Guinea friend, Yali, who asked him, ``Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?'''' The long and short of it, says Diamond, is biogeography. It just so happened that 13,000 years ago, with the ending of the last Ice Age, there was an area of the world better endowed with the flora and fauna that would lead to the take-off toward civilization: that valley of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers we now call the Fertile Crescent. There were found the wild stocks that became domesticated crops of wheat and barley. Flax was available for the development of cloth. There was an abundance of large mammals that could be domesticated: sheep, goats, cattle. Once agriculture is born and animals domesticated, a kind of positive feedback drives the growth toward civilization. People settle down; food surpluses can be stored so population grows. And with it comes a division of labor, the rise of an elite class, the codification of rules, and language. It happened, too, in China, and later in Mesoamerica. But the New World was not nearly as abundant in the good stuff. And like Africa, it is oriented North and South, resulting in different climates, which make the diffusion of agriculture and animals problematic. While you have heard many of these arguments before, Diamond has brought them together convincingly. The prose is not brilliant and there are apologies and redundancies that we could do without. But a fair answer to Yali''s question this surely is, and gratifyingly, it makes clear that race has nothing to do with who does or does not develop cargo. (Book- of-the-Month Club/History Book Club/Quality Paperback Book Club selection) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. William H McNeil, The New York Review of Books, May 15, 1997 Guns, Germs and Steelis an artful, informative and delightful book...there is nothing like a radically new angle of vision for bringing out unsuspected dimensions of subject and that is what Jared Diamond has done. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. James Shreeve, New York Times Book Review An ambitious, highly important book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Colin Renfrew, Nature A book of remarkable scope...One of the most important and readable works on the human past. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. The New Yorker The scope and the explanatory power of this book are astounding. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. James Shreeve, New York Times Book Review An ambitious, highly important book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Colin Renfrew, Nature Jared Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years." Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Professor, Harvard University No scientist brings more experience from the laboratory and field, none thinks more deeply about social issues or addresses them with greater clarity, than Jared Diamond as illustrated by Guns, Germs, and Steel. In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition. Thomas M. Disch, The New Leader An epochal work. Diamond has written a summary of human history that can be accounted, for the time being, as Darwinian in its authority. William H McNeil, The New York Review of Books An artful, informative and delightful book. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Martin Sieff, Washington Times Serious, groundbreaking biological studies of human history only seem to come along once every generation or so. . . . Now [Guns, Germs, and Steel] must be added to their select number. . . . Diamond meshes technological mastery with historical sweep, anecdotal delight with broad conceptual vision, and command of sources with creative leaps. No finer work of its kind has been published this year, or for many past. 查看所有商品描述

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

作者：  Seth

出版社：Hachette 2012年04月

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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods thatsurround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincolnkneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken withsomething the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatalaffliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in hisjournal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study anddevotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And thismastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendaryheight, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path ofvengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union andfreeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces ofthe undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. Thatis, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal ofAbraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes onit in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grandbiographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough,Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatestpresident for the first time-all while revealing the hidden historybehind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in thebirth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

"Seth Grahame-Smith is an excellent writer whose prose raisesAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a step above others of itsgenre...[He] does such an excellent job blending the facts ofLincoln's life into the story that it is sometimes hard todetermine fact from fiction...Suspenseful, and most readers willwant to read it in one sitting." ( Asbury ParkPress)

"Evocative...Grahame-Smith [is] a lively, fluent writer with asharp sense of tone and pace." (TIME)

"Thanks to P&P&Z, a delicious mutant book craze wasborn. But then opportunists infested the territory...It's nice tosee plucky Grahame-Smith retake his turf." (EntertainmentWeekly)

"Not just the Lincoln biography we've all been waiting for. It'salso the funniest, most action-packed and weirdly well-researchedaccount of the Civil War you'll probably read in a long time.Grahame-Smith could be poised to become the Howard Zinn ofvampire-related alterna-history." (VanityFair)

"Grahame-Smith does an excellent job of capturing the spirit ofthis style of story-telling, mixing historically accurate anecdoteswith entries from Lincoln's fictional secret journal, weaving thevampire elements into the story in a manner that's quitebelievable." (Wired)

The Beatles

作者：  Bob Spitz　著

出版社：Hachette 2006年10月

简介：　　Starred Review. With this massive opus, veteran musicjournalist Spitz (Dylan: A Biography) tells the definitive story ofthe band that sparked a cultural revolution. Calling on books,articles, radio programs and primary interviews, Spitz follows theband from each member's family origins in working-class Liverpoolto the band's agonizing final days. Spitz's unflinching biographyreveals that not only did the Beatles pioneer a new era of rock butthey also were on the cutting edge of rock star excess, from their1961 amphetamine-fueled sets in the clubs of Hamburg to theireventual appetites for stronger drugs, including marijuana, LSD,cocaine and, eventually for John Lennon, heroin. Sex was also partof the equation; in 1962, when the band cut its first audition forSir George Martin, all four members had a venereal disease, andboth John's and Paul McCartney's girlfriends were pregnant. Spitzdetails the tangled web of bad business deals that flowed fromnovice manager Brian Epstein (though the heavily conflicted Epsteincan be forgiven since he was in uncharted territory). Although thisis a hefty volume steeped in research, Spitz writes economically,and with flair, letting the facts and characters speak forthemselves. In doing so, he captures an ironic sadness thataccompanied the Beatles' runaway success—how their dreams ofstardom, once realized, became a prison, forcing the band to spendlarge parts of their youth in hotel rooms to avoid mobs and tostage elaborate escapes from literally life-threatening situationsafter appearances. As with all great history writing, Spitz bothcaptures a moment in time and humanizes his subjects. While somewill blanch at the unsettling dark sides of the Beatles, most willcome to appreciate the band even more for knowing the incrediblepersonal odysseys they endured. 32 pages of b&w photos.

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简介： Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed byLanaand AndyWachowski and Tom Tykwer Includes a new Afterword by David MitchellA postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles and genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction that reveals how disparate people connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.“[David] Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything, and his ambition is written in magma across this novel’s every page.”— The New York Times Book Review“One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is—and should be—read by any student of contemporary literature.”—Dave Eggers “Wildly entertaining . . . a head rush, both action-packed and chillingly ruminative.”— People “The novel as series of nested dolls or Chinese boxes, a puzzle-book, and yet—not just dazzling, amusing, or clever but heartbreaking and passionate, too. I’ve never read anything quite like it, and I’m grateful to have lived, for a while, in all its many worlds.”—Michael Chabon

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简介：　　From Publishers Weekly 　　Celebrated primatologist de Waal expands on his earlier work in Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals to argue that human traits of fairness, reciprocity and altruism develop through natural selection. Based on his 2004 Tanner Lectures at Princeton, this book argues that our morality grows out of the social instincts we share with bonobos, chimpanzees and apes. De Waal criticizes what he calls the "veneer theory," which holds that human ethics is simply an overlay masking our "selfish and brutish nature." De Waal draws on his own work with primates to illustrate the evolution of morality. For example, chimpanzees are more favorably disposed to others who have performed a service for them (such as grooming) and more likely to share their food with these individuals. In three appendixes, de Waal ranges briefly over anthropomorphism, apes and a theory of mind, and animal rights. The volume also includes responses to de Waal by Robert Wright, Christine M. Korsgaard, Philip Kitcher and Peter Singer. Although E.O. Wilson and Robert Wright have long contended that altruism is a product of evolution, de Waal demonstrates through his empirical work with primates the evolutionary basis for ethics. (Oct.) 　　------------------------------------------ 　　From Scientific American 　　It was not until a year and a half after his voyage on board the Beagle that Charles Darwin first came face to face with an ape. He was standing by the giraffe house at the London Zoo on a warm day in late March of 1838. The zoo had just acquired an orangutan named Jenny. One of the keepers was teasing her—showing her an apple, refusing to hand it over. Poor Jenny "threw herself on her back, kicked & cried, precisely like a naughty child," Darwin wrote in a letter to his sister. In the secret notebooks that he kept after the voyage, Darwin was speculating about evolution from every angle, including the emotional, and he was fascinated by Jenny’s tantrum. What is it like to be an ape? Does an orangutan’s frustration feel a lot like ours? Might she cherish some sense of right and wrong? Will an ape despair because her keeper is breaking the rules—because he is just not playing fair? Our own species has been talking, volubly and passionately, for at least 50,000 years, and it’s a fair guess that arguments about right and wrong were prominent in our conversation pretty much from the beginning. We started writing things down 5,000 years ago, and some of our first texts were codes of ethics. Our innumerable volumes of scripture and law, our Departments of Justice, High Courts, Low Courts, and Courts of Common Pleas are unique in the living world. But did we human beings invent our feeling for justice, or is it part of the package of primal emotions that we inherited from our ancestors? In other words: Did morality evolve? Dutch-born psychologist, ethologist and primatologist Frans de Waal has spent his career watching the behavior of apes and monkeys, mostly captive troupes in zoos. As a young student, he sat on a wooden stool day after day for six years, observing a colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo. Today he watches chimpanzees from an observation post at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta and at other zoos and primate centers. His work, along with primatologist Jane Goodall’s, has helped lift Darwin’s conjectures about the evolution of morality to a new level. He has documented tens of thousands of instances of chimpanzee behavior that among ourselves we would call Machiavellian and about as many moments that we would call altruistic, even noble. In his scientific papers and popular books (including Chimpanzee Politics, Our Inner Ape and Good Natured), he argues that Darwin was correct from that first glimpse of Jenny at the zoo. Sympathy, empathy, right and wrong are feelings that we share with other animals; even the best part of human nature, the part that cares about ethics and justice, is also part of nature. De Waal’s latest book, Primates and Philosophers, is based on the Tanner Lectures that he delivered at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values in 2004. In this book he tries—as he has many times before—to refute a popular caricature of Darwinism. Many people assume that to be good, be nice, behave, play well with others, we have to rise above our animal nature. It’s a dog-eat dog world out there—or, as the Romans put it, homo homini lupus, man is wolf to man (a curious proverb for a people whose founding myth was the suckling by a wolf of the infant twins Romulus and Remus). Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s self-appointed bulldog, promoted this dark, cold view of life in a famous lecture, Evolution and Ethics. "The ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it," he declared. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan puts it another way: if there is no God, then we are lost in a moral chaos. "Everything is permitted." De Waal calls this "Veneer Theory." In this view, human morality is a thin crust on a churning urn of boiling funk. In reality, de Waal reminds us, dogs are social, wolves are social, chimps and macaques are social, and we ourselves are "social to the core." Goodness, generosity and genuine kindness come just as naturally to us as meaner feelings. We didn’t have to invent compassion. When our ancestors began writing down the first codes of conduct, precepts, laws and commandments, they were elaborating on feelings that evolved thousands or even millions of years before they were born. "Instead of empathy being an endpoint," de Waal writes, "it may have been the starting point." Back in the 1950s and 1960s, when animal psychologists talked about "sympathy" and "empathy," they always put those words between quotation marks, de Waal notes. Now he wants to take away the quotation marks. He describes one of his best-known demonstrations that animals care about fairness. In the experiment, he had pairs of capuchin monkeys perform simple tasks in their cages. For successfully completing each task they would get a reward, sometimes a slice of cucumber, sometimes a grape. All the monkeys would work for and eat the cucumber slices, but they preferred grapes. If one monkey kept getting paid in cucumber and it could see that its partner in the next cage was getting grapes, it would get mad, like Darwin’s Jenny. After a while the monkey would refuse to eat or throw the cucumber right out of the cage. Is de Waal right about all this? In the second half of Primates and Philosophers, his arguments are critiqued by a series of commentators, all of whom have written important studies of evolutionary ethics. They cite Freud, Kant, Hume, Nietzsche and Adam Smith. They circle and circle around those pairs of capuchin monkeys: "A capuchin rejects a cucumber when her partner is offered a grape—is she protesting the unfairness, or is she just holding out for a grape?" writes Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. "Of course, if the lucky capuchin were to throw down the grape until his comrade had a similar reward, that would be very interesting!" writes Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. They disagree, they discuss, they bicker a little, like all primates and philosophers. They illuminate not only ageless questions of ethics but also current concerns such as the Geneva convention and "why universal empathy is such a fragile proposal," as de Waal writes in his response to his critics. By the end of the book it seems clear that we can no longer look at morality as a sort of civilized veneer on a cold and selfish animal, even though that view goes back long before Darwin went to the zoo. Its origin lies in the Western concept of original sin—when Adam and Eve ate their first apple.　　

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简介：Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, Love, in love's philosophy.--John Donne What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings of the butterfly of love." Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern writings on the topic of erotic love, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. The result is a broadly conceived, comprehensive, and important work, nearly as stimulating and provocative as love itself. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of the wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love. In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.--Friedrich Nietzsche Free love? As if love is anything but free!--Emma Goldman I know of no more frequently cited word than love . . . Shouldn't this support the suspicion, along with rump-shaped hearts on bumper stickers . . . that in our language there may be no more bankrupt a word? Still these days bankruptcy does not prevent one from continuing to do very profitable business.--William Gass Love is a kind of war, and no assignment for cowards.--Ovid Every man carries within him the eternal image of woman . . . Even if no woman existed, it would still be possible to deduce from this unconscious image exactly how a woman would have to be constituted physically.--Carl Jung Love as a virtue? The passion that makes fools of us all and has led to the demise of Anthony, Cleopatra, young Romeo, Juliet and King Kong? Love is nice but it is not a virtue. Maybe it is not even nice.--Robert C. Solomon Contributions from: Plato, Sappho, Theano, Ovid, Heloise and Abelard, Andreas Capellanus, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stendhal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carol Jung, Karen Horney, D. H. Lawrence, Emma Goldmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone deBeauvoir, Philip Slater, Shulamith Firestone, Irving Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Neu, Louis Mackey, Amelie Rorty, Elizabeth Rapaport, Kathryn Pauly Morgan, Robert Nozick, Annette Baier, William Gass, Larry Thomas, Ronald de Sousa, Robert C. Solomon.

Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction

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简介：　　The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originallycame out in The New Yorker ? RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERSin 1955, SEYMOUR ? An Introduction in 1959. Whatever theirdifferences in mood or effect, they are both very much concernedwith Seymour Glass, who is the main character in mystill-uncompleted series about the Glass family. It struck me thatthey had better be collected together, if not deliberately pairedoff, in something of a hurry, if I mean them to avoid unduly orundesirably close contact with new material in the series. There isonly my word for it, granted, but I have several new Glass storiescoming along ? waxing, dilating ? each in its own way, but Isuspect the less said about them, in mixed company, the better.Oddly, the joys and satisfactions of working on the Glass familypeculiarly increase and deepen for me with the years. I can't saywhy, though. Not, at least, outside the casino proper of myfiction.

The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more / 1st international paperback ed.

作者：  Chris Anderson.

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简介：In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn't in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses - the endlessly long tail of that same curve... Our world is being transformed by the Internet and the near limitless choice that it provides to consumers; tomorrow's markets belong to those who can take advantage of this. The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance, an entirely new model for business that is just starting to show its power as unlimited selection reveals new truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it. The record business has been transformed by iTunes and Rhapsody; a similar transformation is coming to just about every industry imaginable. What happens when everything in the world becomes available to everyone? When the combined value of all the millions of items that may sell only a few copies equals or exceeds the value of the few items that sell millions each? When a bunch of kids with no profit motive can record a song or make a video and get the same electronic distribution for it as the most powerful corporation? Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine, first explored "The Long Tail" in an article that has become one of the most influential business essays of our time. Using the worlds of movies, books, and music, he showed how the Internet has made possible a new world in which the combined value of modest sellers and quirky titles equals the sales of the top hits. He coined the term "The Long Tail" to describe this phenomenon, a phrase that's since appeared in boardrooms and media around the world. "In short, though we still obsess over hits," Anderson writes, "they are not quite the economic force they once were. Where are those fickle consumers going instead? No single place. They are scattered to the wind as markets fragment into a thousand niches." Now, in this highly anticipated book, Anderson shows how we got to this point, and the huge opportunities that exist: for new producers, new aggregators, and new tastemakers. He discusses the reputation economy; the end of inventory; the Wal-Mart effect; the power of peer production; and the rise of massively parallel culture. he demonstrates how Long tail applies to industries ranging from the toy business to advertising to kitchen appliances. he gives the nine rules for operating in Long Tail economy. And he provides a glimpse of a future that's already here. (Publisher)

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简介：This stunningly persuasive book examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. Samuel P. Huntington shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority. At the same time he reveals how, inevitably, these ideals have been perennially frustrated through the institutions and hierarchies required to carry on the essential functions of governing a democratic society. From this antagonism between the ideals of democracy and the realities of power have risen four great political upheavals in American history. Every third generation, Huntington argues, Americans have tried to reconstruct their institutions to make them more truly reflect deeply rooted national ideals. Moving from the clenched fists and mass demonstrations of the 1960s, to the moral outrage of the Progressive and Jacksonian Eras, back to the creative ideological fervor of the American Revolution, he incisively analyzes the dissenters' objectives. All, he pungently writes, sought to remove the fundamental disharmony between the reality of government in America and the ideals on which the American nation was founded. Huntington predicts that the tension between ideals and institutions is likely to increase in this country in the future. And he reminds us that the fate of liberty and democracy abroad is intrinsically linked to the strength of our power in world affairs. This brilliant and controversial analysis deserves to rank alongside the works of Tocqueville, Bryce, and Hofstadter and will become a classic commentary on the meaning of America.

The LEGO？ Book 乐高全书 ISBN9781409376606

作者：  Daniel

出版社：DK Publishing 2014年04月

简介：　　Daniel Lipkowitz is a LEGO Group Senior Writer and storydeveloper. He writes for LEGO Master Builder Academy and LEGO ClubMagazine, creates characters and storylines for new LEGO themes,and writes scripts for animated LEGO movies and videos. He is alsothe author of DK's bestselling The LEGO Book.