The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There may be no work of Chi...(展开全部)

本書檢視早期近代中國印刷品的世界，並聚焦於經典古典小說《 #水滸傳 》。根據讀者遇到的版本差異，《水滸傳》可能提供相當不同的閱讀體驗，此現象亦反映早期近代中國小說體裁，與當時 #印刷 文化變遷的特色。 葛思平主張理解傳統小說的最佳方式，就是將其視為印刷業的一種現象。他追索這種特具影響力的小說，在近代早期如何被改寫與改動，因為它跨越了菁英與大眾、私人與商業、以及民間與武林的界線。撇開那些難有答案的，關於作者身份與原典的種種問題，葛思平轉而關注透過印行自有版本來塑造小說的編輯-出版商們。藉由研究小說的各種化身，《紙上的嘯聚：水滸傳與中國小說的變革》（Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel）揭示印刷品不僅是穩定文學文本的力量，在特定的...(展开全部)

A monumental, integrated view of man's search for an understanding of the inner reaches of the mind.

耶尔多·杨·德伦特（Jelto Jan Drenth 1946-）荷兰著名性学家。接受各种性学领域的培训，1994年注册为荷兰性学协会的性学医生。现为荷兰《性学余志》大学副刊编辑委员会委员；荷兰《性学杂志》编辑委员会委员兼顾问。曾任荷兰性学协会主席，第十届世界性学大会秘书等。《作为问题的性》、系列录像节目《你的情欲和你的生活》的主要作者：参与编写《医生专用性学》和《性学教科书》；2002年出版的专著《世界的渊源——女人性器官的真相与神话》，迄今已被译为多种语言。

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central Japan. Using methods drawn from historical geography and economic development, Wig...(展开全部)

How best to save the world—as saint or soldier? The answer for Eric Greitens is "both." Like many young idealists, Eric Greitens wanted to make a difference. During college and afterward, he traveled to the world's trouble spots, working in refugee camps, serving the sick and the poor on four continents, from Gaza to Croatia to Mother Theresa's home in Calcutta, among others. ...(展开全部)

A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society. We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since their beginnings, when William Blake called them "dark Satanic mills." Many factories that o...(展开全部)

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that...(展开全部)