Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers, it is a sweeping historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s. Its findings offer a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century. It offers a dizzying and dynamic world filled with captivating people and startling revelations.A new foreword from sociologist Mary Pattillo places the study in modern context, updating the story with the current state of black communities in Chicago and the larger United States and exploring what this means for the future. As the country continues to struggle with race and our treatment of black lives, Black Metropolis continues to be a powerful contribution to the conversation.

Rudolf Raff is recognized as a pioneer in evolutionary developmental biology. In their 1983 book, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, Raff and co-author Thomas Kaufman proposed a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology. In The Shape of Life, Raff analyzes the rise of this new experimental discipline and lays out new research questions, hypotheses, and approaches to guide its development.Raff uses the evolution of animal body plans to exemplify the interplay between developmental mechanisms and evolutionary patterns. Animal body plans emerged half a billion years ago. Evolution within these body plans during this span of time has resulted in the tremendous diversity of living animal forms.Raff argues for an integrated approach to the study of the intertwined roles of development and evolution involving phylogenetic, comparative, and functional biology. This new synthesis will interest not only scientists working in these areas, but also paleontologists, zoologists, morphologists, molecular biologists, and geneticists.

From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be based on his study of the dandelion's pappus and the maple tree's samara, many of our greatest physicists, mathematicians, and engineers have learned much from studying plants.?A symbiotic relationship between botany and the fields of physics, mathematics, engineering, and chemistry continues today, as is revealed in Plant Physics. The result of a long-term collaboration between plant evolutionary biologist Karl J. Niklas and physicist Hanns-Christof Spatz, Plant Physics presents a detailed account of the principles of classical physics, evolutionary theory, and plant biology in order to explain the complex interrelationships among plant form, function, environment, and evolutionary history. Covering a wide range of topics-from the development and evolution of the basic plant body and the ecology of aquatic unicellular plants to mathematical treatments of light attenuation through tree canopies and the movement of water through plants' roots, stems, and leaves-Plant Physics is destined to inspire students and professionals alike to traverse disciplinary membranes.

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird's nest, the octopus's garden in the sea, or the parts of inland lakes in which freshwater plankton reside. Yet during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a group of zoologists began establishing novel, indeed modern ways of studying nature, propagating what present-day ecologists describe as place-based research.Raf De Bont's Stations in the Field focuses on the early history of biological field stations and the role these played in the rise of zoological place-based research. Beginning in the 1870s, a growing number of biological field stations were founded-first in Europe and later elsewhere around the world-and thousands of zoologists received their training and performed their research at these sites. Through case studies, De Bont examines the material and social context in which field stations arose, the actual research that was produced in these places, the scientific claims that were developed there, and the rhetorical strategies that were deployed to convince others that these claims made sense. From the life of parasitic invertebrates in northern France and freshwater plankton in Schleswig-Holstein, to migratory birds in East Prussia and pest insects in Belgium, De Bont's book is fascinating tour through the history of studying nature in nature.

Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God's authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires.Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity's inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one's limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us-today as then-to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity.

As rich as the development of the Spanish and Portuguese languages has been in Latin America, no single book has attempted to chart their complex history. Gathering essays by sociohistorical linguists working across the region, Salikoko S. Mufwene does just that in this book. Exploring the many different contact points between Iberian colonialism and indigenous cultures, the contributors identify the crucial parameters of language evolution that have led to today's state of linguistic diversity in Latin America.?The essays approach language development through an ecological lens, exploring the effects of politics, economics, cultural contact, and natural resources on the indigenization of Spanish and Portuguese in a variety of local settings. They show how languages adapt to new environments, peoples, and practices, and the ramifications of this for the spread of colonial languages, the loss or survival of indigenous ones, and the way hybrid vernaculars get situated in larger political and cultural forces. The result is a sophisticated look at language as a natural phenomenon, one that meets a host of influences with remarkable plasticity. ?

Long before the age of "e;Big Data"e; or the rise of today's "e;self-quantifiers,"e; American capitalism embraced "e;risk"e;--and proceeded to number our days. Life insurers led the way, developing numerical practices for measuring individuals and groups, predicting their fates, and intervening in their futures. Emanating from the gilded boardrooms of Lower Manhattan and making their way into drawing rooms and tenement apartments across the nation, these practices soon came to change the futures they purported to divine.How Our Days Became Numbered tells a story of corporate culture remaking American culture--a story of intellectuals and professionals in and around insurance companies who reimagined Americans' lives through numbers and taught ordinary Americans to do the same. Making individuals statistical did not happen easily. Legislative battles raged over the propriety of discriminating by race or of smoothing away the effects of capitalism's fluctuations on individuals. Meanwhile, debates within companies set doctors against actuaries and agents, resulting in elaborate, secretive systems of surveillance and calculation.Dan Bouk reveals how, in a little over half a century, insurers laid the groundwork for the much-quantified, risk-infused world that we live in today. To understand how the financial world shapes modern bodies, how risk assessments can perpetuate inequalities of race or sex, and how the quantification and claims of risk on each of us continue to grow, we must take seriously the history of those who view our lives as a series of probabilities to be managed.

Institutions have regimes-policies that typically come from the top down and are meant to align the efforts of workers with the goals and mission of an institution. Institutions also have practices-day-to-day behaviors performed by individual workers attempting to interpret the institution's missives. Taken as a whole, these form a company's memory regime, and they have a significant effect on how employees analyze, mix, translate, sort, filter, and repurpose everyday information in order to meet the demands of their jobs, their customers, their colleagues, and themselves.In Rhetorical Memory, Stewart Whittemore demonstrates that strategies we use to manage information-techniques often acquired through trial and error, rarely studied, and generally invisible to us-are as important to our success as the end products of our work. First, he situates information management within the larger field of rhetoric, showing that both are tied to purpose, audience, and situation. He then dives into an engaging and tightly focused workplace study, presenting three cases from a team of technical communicators making use of organizational memory during their everyday work. By examining which techniques succeed and which fail, Whittemore illuminates the challenges faced by technical communicators. He concludes with a number of practical strategies to better organize information, that will help employees, managers, and anyone else suffering from information overload.

Chronic pain is a medical mystery, debilitating to patients and a source of frustration for practitioners. It often eludes both cause and cure and serves as a reminder of how much further we have to go in unlocking the secrets of the body. A new field of pain medicine has evolved from this landscape, one that intersects with dozens of disciplines and subspecialties ranging from psychology and physiology to anesthesia and chiropractic medicine. Over the past three decades, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have struggled to define this complex and often contentious field as they work to establish standards while navigating some of the most challenging philosophical issues of Western science.In The Politics of Pain Medicine: A Rhetorical-Ontological Inquiry, S. Scott Graham offers a rich and detailed exploration of the medical rhetoric surrounding pain medicine. Graham chronicles the work of interdisciplinary pain management specialists to found a new science of pain and a new approach to pain medicine grounded in a more comprehensive biospychosocial model. His insightful analysis demonstrates how these materials ultimately shape the healthcare community's understanding of what pain medicine is, how the medicine should be practiced and regulated, and how practitioner-patient relationships are best managed. It is a fascinating, novel examination of one of the most vexing issues in contemporary medicine.

It's long been known that Japanese file fewer lawsuits per capita than Americans do. Yet explanations for the difference have tended to be partial and unconvincing, ranging from circular arguments about Japanese culture to suggestions that the slow-moving Japanese court system acts as a deterrent.With?Second-Best Justice, J. Mark Ramseyer offers a more compelling, better-grounded explanation: the low rate of lawsuits in Japan results not from distrust of a dysfunctional system but from trust in a system that works-that sorts and resolves disputes in such an overwhelmingly predictable pattern that opposing parties rarely find it worthwhile to push their dispute to trial. Using evidence from tort claims across many domains, Ramseyer reveals a court system designed not to find perfect justice, but to "e;make do"e;-to adopt strategies that are mostly right and that thereby resolve disputes quickly and economically.An eye-opening study of comparative law,?Second-Best Justice?will force a wholesale rethinking of the differences among alternative legal systems and their broader consequences for social welfare.?

A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past-often called "e;association items"e;-may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people and events in American history. Kept in museum collections large and small across the United States, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history.In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past. She traces the relic-collecting tradition back to eighteenth-century England, then on to articles belonging to the founding fathers and through the mass collecting of artifacts that followed the Civil War. Ultimately, Barnett shows how we can trace our own historical collecting from the nineteenth century's assemblages of the material possessions of great men and women.

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's The Recombinant University draws us deeply into the academic community in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the technology was developed and adopted as the first major commercial technology for genetic engineering. In doing so, it reveals how research patronage, market forces, and legal developments from the late 1960s through the early 1980s influenced the evolution of the technology and reshaped the moral and scientific life of biomedical researchers.Bay Area scientists, university administrators, and government officials were fascinated by and increasingly engaged in the economic and political opportunities associated with the privatization of academic research. Yi uncovers how the attempts made by Stanford scientists and administrators to demonstrate the relevance of academic research were increasingly mediated by capitalistic conceptions of knowledge, medical innovation, and the public interest. Their interventions resulted in legal shifts and moral realignments that encouraged the privatization of academic research for public benefit. The Recombinant University brings to life the hybrid origin story ofbiotechnology and the ways the academic culture of science has changed in tandem with the early commercialization of recombinant DNA technology.

establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well as the subsequent efforts of Stephen Jay Gould, David Raup, and James Valentine, paleontology became embedded in biology and emerged as paleobiology, a first-rate discipline central to evolutionary studies. Pairing contributions from some of the leading actors of the transformation with overviews from historians and philosophers of science, the essays here capture the excitement of the seismic changes in the discipline. In so doing, David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse harness the energy of the past to call for further study of the conceptual development of modern paleobiology.

遇到问题、陷入痛苦，自己解决不了，不合适向朋友倾诉，也不确定心理咨询是否可以帮助自己，怎么办？不妨先看看这本书。 这本书里有很多人想要了解的问题：心理咨询是如何发挥作用的？咨询师有什么倾听与引导的技巧？咨询师与来访者看待问题的角度有何不同？咨询师如何发现我们自己意识不到的问题？又是如何用简单而富有表现力的语言，提供创造性的思路，让人豁然开朗、与自己和解？好起来的标准是什么，被治愈的感觉又是怎样的？如果我有一些心理困惑和问题，在没有心理咨询师陪伴的情况下，我该如何靠自己面对、思考和处理？ 作者凝练超过五十年的临床经验，把心理咨询之所以发挥作用的精髓，向我们娓娓道来，这个过程就好像：咨询师潜入来访者的内心世界，又重新浮出水面，告诉来访者他在水下发现了什么，感受到了什么——帮助来访者理解自己的底层逻辑，内隐的动机、愿望与创伤、恐惧，无意识的内心冲突等他意识不到的因素，以及，告诉来访者他该如何帮助自己。 这是一本精彩得有点过分的书。无论你是正在陷入困境的人，还是心理咨询师，都可以从这本书中获得意想不到的启发。 相比被动地接受环境的影响，人们更渴望发挥自主性，主动影响未来。然而，如果你不了解自己，不了解你是如何被环境影响的，你会很容易陷入误区，你的决策和行动很可能起到相反的效果。 那么，应该如何有效地发挥自主性呢？本书基于具身认知、大脑的神经可塑性原理、知觉受环境影响的规律、感知训练等实验研究，探讨了自我的持续发展和自主决策未来的可能性。通过本书，读者可以了解我们是如何被环境影响的，如何训练知觉以促成积极影响，如何削弱外部影响，并尽可能地让自己成为生活的主人。 本书适合所有渴望探索自我，渴望改变、发挥潜能、自主创造未来的读者。书中颠覆认知且非常有趣的知识点将促进读者深度思考。 老师是改变大脑的人，而大脑是学习的器官。显然，老师对大脑的理解对于他们是否准备好教学工作至关重要。因此，基于脑科学的教育者是那些有意识地将心理学、脑科学和教育学领域的研究应用到教学设计中，并与每个学生共同合作的老师。在教育脑科学领域，有句话常被提及：“关于大脑如何学习，我们在过去十年中所了解的比在过去一百年中要多得多。”如此看来，所有老师难道不都应该是基于脑科学的教育者吗？ 心理治疗常常会遇到踟蹰不前的困顿局面，寻求督导、参加培训、阅读图书，似乎效果都不理想。治疗师会被迷茫、无助、绝望的情绪笼罩，这种僵局如何突破？ 《心理治疗中的陷阱》对心理治疗难以发挥效力的情况进行了分类整理，区分了来访者陷阱和治疗师陷阱，深入剖析了每种陷阱中的行为模式（来访者或治疗师）、治疗关系、成长背景（来访者或治疗师），分析了陷阱的*初迹象、陷阱带来的好处，并以具体示例呈现，给出解决方案，让治疗师拨开迷雾，按照本书给出的方法走出陷阱。 本书适合心理咨询师、心理治疗师、社会工作者、心理学爱好者阅读。 青春期是个体由儿童向成年人过渡的特殊成长阶段，孩子处在想打破儿童的旧身份，并建立成年人的新身份的自我整合期，面临“三重压力”一一身体发育、人格独立和升学竞争。当三重压力让孩子难以适应时，他们容易出现叛逆、情绪化、厌学等问题。 孩子不是在故意制造问题，他们只是被问题“困住”了，父母需要用支持型养育的方式替代单纯的说教，学会精准回应孩子的各种问题从而陪伴孩子走过这个动荡的成长阶段 作者表示，处于青春期的孩子的大脑具有高度可塑性，而家庭对孩子成长的影响力远远大于学校。他结合多年来辅导过上千个家庭的实践经验，辅以真实案例与应对方案，告诉家长“孩子为什么会变成这样”，从而打造出一本解决青春期关键问题的手册。 近年来，青少年心理问题频发表明孩子们对专业心理指导的需求在不断增长。心理工作者需要运用真正专业的技术，帮助青少年抚平内心创伤，健康地度过至关重要的生命阶段——青春期。 《青春期心理问题认知疗法》由认知疗法创始人亚伦·T.贝克等资深临床心理学家撰写。本书是一部旨在指导心理工作者，在学校环境中运用认知疗法为青少年提供咨询的开创性实操指南。在本书中，作者结合难能可贵的实践经验，以存在较棘手心理问题的四位中学生的具体案例为背景，首先介绍了关于认知疗法的重要概念和模型，以及不同概念之间的联系与区别；其次传授了帮助来访者更好地进行个案概念化的具体方法；*后介绍了在学校开展咨询时*有效的认知技术和行为技术，包括认知三角、思维记录、引导式发现等，此外还提供了工作者在目标设定、会谈过程等过程中可以使用的各种表格和模型，以及清晰的对话示例。读完本书后，工作者将*、清晰地了解在学校环境中运用认知疗法，并不断精进自身的咨询技术。 本书是所有心理咨询师、心理治疗师，以及中学老师和家长的重要参考书。 本书是关系性精神分析的基石性著作，也是后弗洛伊德时代的重量级精神分析著作。它深刻地阐述了主体间性视角在理论研究与临床应用上的重要意义，超越了早期工作中由“孤立心灵”引发的一系列问题，探索了精神分析发展的新的可能性。 主体间性观点是罗伯特·史托罗楼在他的经典著作《云中的面庞》中首次提出的，他认为，所有的心理过程都源自人与人之间的相互关联性，分析性关系的发展总是以非线性的过程发生，而非之前许多疗法所认为的，以线性的过程发生。这一概念为精神分析从一人心理学向双人心理学的发展奠定了重要基础。在本书中，三位作者详细论述了传统精神分析的笛卡尔视角的局限，并借助现象学和自体心理学的思想，说明了以主体间性理论为基础的精神分析工作思路，以及运用主体间性理论理解并治疗创伤病人和精神病人的方法。 本书是三位作者30年来合作的精华，它是当代精神分析学者、精神分析师、心理治疗师，以及心理学专业学生必不可少的读物。 正念认知疗法以正念减压疗法为基础，融入了认知行为疗法的视角和元素，可以用来帮助治疗抑郁症并预防抑郁复发。 本书通过为期八周的团体课程，教读者如何成为一名正念认知疗法教师，以便为有抑郁、焦虑问题的人群提供帮助。本书内容分为三个部分，*部分介绍了正念认知疗法课程，以及由苏珊· L. 伍兹开发的用于帮助正念认知疗法教师培训和学习的两种方法——贯穿课程始终的五大改变要素和每周课程的主题、原理、意图和练习技巧——以深入了解抑郁症的发病原理，并学习应对困难和挑战性体验所需的技能；第二部分深入探讨了正念认知疗法教师在个人发展过程中应磨炼的技能，探索八周课程中所包含的各种正念练习和认知训练；第三部分探讨了具身体现正念临在的原理和表达方式：教师在运用正念认知疗法带领团体时应呈现的基础态度和反思式探询对话。 本书适合心理治疗临床工作者、冥想练习者、助人工作者及正念指导教师阅读。

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From?New York Times?bestselling author Jennifer McMahon comes five dark and chilling novels in one e-book,?including:?Promise Not to Tell,?Island of Lost Girls,?Dismantled,?Don't Breathe a Word, and?The One I Left Behind.Promise Not to Tell—A chilling novel about a woman whose past and present collide when she returns to her small hometown to care for her aging mother on the same night a young girl is killed.Island of Lost Girls—When 23 year-old Rhonda sees someone in a large rabbit suit kidnap a young girl, the investigation that follows uncovers the secrets behind the disappearance of her childhood friend, Lizzy, years ago.Dismantled—A novel about a group of old friends who once believed things (and perhaps, people) must be taken apart, literally, to be truly understood.Don't Breathe a Word—One couple finds themselves in a seemingly supernatural web of fairies that links them to a young girl's disappearance 15 years ago.The One?I?Left Behind—A?gut-wrenching mystery about an architect whose troubled mother has been found 25 years after being kidnapped by a serial killer who is still on the loose.

【恐怖灵异+神秘文化+悬疑解密】黄河阴兵、蚩尤残尸、河底古墓、鬼尸蛊……解密黄河古道的东方神秘文化。 《黄河古事》系列前传！男频大神龙飞新作！残尸重现，天崩降临。 一张诡秘的八羊图打破了黄河畔的宁静，渔家少年陈七两的父兄遁入画中。七两为寻父兄，意外卷入天崩浩劫。 黄河之下，镇河石棺、蚩尤残尸、禹王神钟等上古秘辛接连浮现。 七门内部分崩离析，蚩尤后人欲引天崩，旁门势力各怀鬼胎，少年壮志力挽狂澜……大河滔滔，虚实真假，九死一生，守护黄河。 看籍籍无名的河滩穷小子，如何在风云万变的乱世里，以一己之力阻挡盖世强敌。

一个让后人永远敬仰的文学巨匠，一座永恒的丰碑！ ★值得每一代中国人阅读的文学经典，值得每一个中国人珍藏的民族记忆！ ★老舍是一个伟大的人民艺术家，一个让后人永远敬仰的文学巨匠，一座永恒的丰碑！ ★老舍先生的作品包含了对民族精神探讨及对命运的思考，让作者从中体味出人生百态和生活的严峻和沉重。 ★老舍（1899.2.3－1966.8.24），原名舒庆春，字舍予。另有笔名絜青、鸿来、非我等。北京满族正红旗人，中国现代著名作家、杰出的语言大师，新中国*位获得“人民艺术家”称号的作家。 ★老舍一生著作颇丰，主要作品有《骆驼祥子》《老张的哲学》《二马》《四世同堂》《我这一辈子》，话剧《茶馆》《龙须沟》等。 ★老舍的文学创作基本上是以老北京下层平民的生活为背景，具有浓郁的北京味儿和市井气息，语言幽默，但内容严肃，人物形象塑造得鲜活自然，使人印象深刻。 《老舍经典全集》包括《骆驼祥子》《老张的哲学》《二马》《济南的冬天》《猫城记》《我这一辈子》《小坡的生日》《文博士》《茶馆》《龙须沟》《宝船》以及《四世同堂》等，其经典作品尽在其中。 ★ 1、《骆驼祥子》 长篇市井小说 《骆驼祥子》是老舍的代表作之一。 小说描述了20世纪20年代军阀混战时期，一位来自农村的人力车夫祥子在北平城三起三落的悲剧故事。经过三年的奋斗，他终于买了一辆属于自己的车，可是他的美好愿望总是一次次落空，*终他的精神世界彻底崩溃，变成了一具麻木不仁的行尸走肉。 ★2、《茶馆》展示了戊戌变法、军阀混战和新中国成立前夕三个时代近半个世纪的社会风云变化。通过一个叫裕泰的茶馆揭示了近半个世纪中国社会的黑暗腐败、光怪陆离，以及在这个社会中的芸芸众生。 ★3、《龙须沟》描写了北京一个小杂院4户人家在社会变革中的不同遭遇，表现了新旧时代两重天的巨大变化。 反映了中国人民解放前后的不同命运，体现了人民政府为人民的中心思想以及人民对党对政府的拥护和热爱。 ★4、《宝船》是老舍先生创作的儿童剧。该剧颂扬了劳动者勤劳善良、助人为乐、顽强勇敢、团结互助的美好心灵。 曲折生动的故事、富于神幻色彩的情节、天真童稚的语言，使得该作自诞生以来一直深得年轻读者的喜爱。 ★5、《二马》是老舍的早期作品，1929年写于英国。 小说塑造了一个迷信、中庸、马虎、懒散的奴才式人物老马，他的生活信条就是得过且过，让人联想到鲁迅笔下的阿Q，不同的是，阿Q生活在老中国的乡村，老马则是华侨，旅居国外。老舍有意把老马放到异国情境中去刻画，通过马氏父子在伦敦的生活以及与英国人的交往，看东西方民族的不同，试图在中西文化比较的背景下凸显落后国民性的荒谬之处。 ★6、《济南的夏天》是文学大师老舍的经典散文合集。 为了帮助读者更好地理解老舍作品的精髓，本选集对老舍先生的部分优秀散文作品进行了筛选和整理，收录了《春风》《想北平》《相片》《抬头见喜》《春风》《猫》《我的母亲》《五月的青岛》《北京的春节》《吊济南》《趵突泉的欣赏》等老舍先生具有代表性的经典散文篇目。 ★7、《老张的哲学》描写了20年代前后北京各阶层市民的生活及思想感悟。 主人公老张，是旧北京一个无恶不作的无赖恶棍。他身兼兵、学、商三种职业，信仰回、耶、佛三种宗教；他信奉的是“钱本位而三位一体”的人生哲学，“老张哲学”的内涵和实质是赤裸裸的市侩哲学。 ★8、《猫城记》是老舍所著具有讽喻及科幻色彩的长篇小说。 飞机坠毁在火星，“我”成了火星上的漂流者，误入猫城，参观一切。“我”如同一个伤心的新闻记者，记录猫城的种种怪现象：猫人只吃迷叶，猫兵抢着投降，猫城的房子没门窗，猫国的法律管不着外国人，猫学校的学生打老师……正如老舍所说，《猫城记》是个噩梦，它记录了一个文明历史上极为黑暗的几页，也反映了老舍思想的苍凉底色。 ★9、《我这一辈子》是老舍先生创作于1937年抗战前夕的一部著名的中篇小说，小说以*人称手法，描写了一位旧时代普通巡警的坎坷一生。 通过主人公的经历和思想变化，表现出了陈腐动荡的社会背景下底层小人物无力把握自己命运的悲哀，以一个平凡小人物，反映了一部时代的大悲剧，在当时“格外具有挺拔于时代的进步气息”。 ★10、《四世同堂》这是一部中国现代长篇小说经典名著，是老舍先生的代表作之一。 通读全篇小说，不仅能感受到老舍先生文章中那种特有的京腔京韵和诙谐，更从他诙谐与幽默的文笔中品味出生活的沉重。 ★11、《小坡的生日》是老舍先生创作的一部长篇童话， 作品以生活在南洋（即新加坡）的男孩小坡和他的妹妹为主人公，讲述了小坡生活中的有趣故事，故事后半段完全是小坡的梦境，充满天马行空的想象，也隐含了作者对南洋种种现实弊端的嘲讽。 ★12、《文博士》讲的是一个心术不正、怀有野心的留学美国后回国的哲学博士文志强的故事。 文博士是一个不学无术却精于权术的文痞政客，他打着留美博士的洋招牌，招摇撞骗，巴结权贵，钻营到名利双收的“专员”肥缺。他虽然也爱钱，但深知要弄钱，就得做官。因此他信奉的人生哲学是“钱本位加官本位”的二位一体。老舍用戏谑嘲讽的犀利笔锋，鞭挞了旧中国“儒林”中的丑类。

《白板》 ? 关于主流人性论的颠覆性反叛，破而后立，进而建立起新的意义和道德观念，重塑对人性的信心。 ? 阐明人性的本源、内涵及局限，追溯人类诸多苦难的根源，拨开道德错觉的迷雾，直达现实的彼岸。 ? 直面人性科学研究领域的诸多热点话题：政治、暴力、性别、儿童及艺术，发现诸多现实冲突背后的分岔路口及共享的普世价值观念。 ? 一场探索人类本性的奇幻之旅。 ? 史蒂芬·平克“语言与人性”四部曲之后一部。 《心智探奇》 ? 权威解答“什么是智能”这一深刻问题，破解机器人难题。 ? 详细剖析心智的四大能力，权威解读“心智如何工作”。 ? 一扇窥视人类心智活动神奇与奥秘的窗户。 ? 一场探索心智本质的奇幻之旅。 《语言本能》 ? 一扇了解语言器官、破解语法基因、进入人类心智的大门； ? 一个关于语言问题权威的答案； ? 一些令人信服、生动有趣的例证； ? 一场常识对谬论的彻底胜利。 《思想本质》 ? 一扇进入人类心智的窗户； ? 一次针对语言与思想之间的关系深刻的论述； ? 一些令人信服、生动有趣的例证； ? 一场思想之本质的探索之旅。

There's a new wicked witch in Oz—and her name is Dorothy. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meets Kill Bill in this edgy, fast-paced, fantasy-adventure series from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Paige. The first two novels and three novellas are available together here for the first time:Dorothy Must Die: Oz has turned into a savage dystopia under Dorothy's rule—and now a new girl from Kansas must take her down. Amy Gunn been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked. Her mission: Remove the Tin Woodman's heart. Steal the Scarecrow's brain. Take the Lion's courage. And—Dorothy must die.The Wicked Will Rise: With the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked scattered across Oz, Amy Gumm is on her own in the twisted fairyland. As she searches the kingdom in the hopes of destroying Dorothy once and for all, Amy realizes that nothing is what it seems in Oz and everyone has their own agenda.This collection also contains the three prequel novellas No Place Like Oz, The Witch Must Burn, and The Wizard Returns.

Welcome to Tim Dorsey's Florida?—?where nobody gets out unscathed and untanned! Get five Dorsey novels full of murder and mayhem all set in the wacky world of?Florida in one e-book,?including:?Florida Roadkill,?Hammerhead Ranch Motel,?Orange Crush,?Triggerfish Twist, and?The Stingray Shuffle. Mystery fans are in for a wild ride along with Dorsey's favorite character, the?lovable serial killer and Floridaphile Serge A. Storms.