Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

With this book—his most ambitious yet—Ken McGoogan delivers a vivid, comprehensive recasting of Arctic-exploration history. Dead Reckoning challenges the conventional narrative, which emerged out of Victorian England and focused almost exclusively on Royal Navy officers. By integrating non-British and fur-trade explorers and, above all, Canada’s indigenous peoples, into the his...(展开全部)

作者苏珊·克莱伯德，是“科伦拜恩枪击案”中迪伦·克莱伯德的母亲。事发后的数年里，她仔细反省了家庭生活的细枝末节，试图理解精神健康障碍与暴力行为之间的交叉联系。她没有被哀伤打垮，相反，逐步成为了一名推动者，全力投入到推进精神健康意识和疾病干预活动中去，并且成效卓著。本书的全部收益将捐献给专注精神健康议题研究的慈善机构和组织。

As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II. But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenyas largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyusome one and a half million people. The compelling story of the system of prisons and work camps where thousands met th...(展开全部)

An in-depth depiction of radical changes and challenges in Japan-China relations in the post-war period, thoroughly researched and rich in storytelling. In the course of tumultuous relations with China, Japan has had to trail blaze in the face of the rise of China. Japan's naked exposure to the unfolding Realpolitik with China at its core is for the first time comprehensively r...(展开全部)

《黑奴未竟之旅》(How the Word is Passed)从个人家族遭遇谈起，作者克林特·史密斯（Clint Smith）本身是作家兼诗人，从自己的家乡新奥尔良作为起点，带领读者走读一趟令人难忘的旅程，旅程经过新奥尔良的多座碑石、景点，这些遗物的存在诚实地展露过去，述说着一个世代相传的故事，故事的主题——奴隶制，贯穿着黑人运命、潜移默化地留存在整个国家的血液里。 奴隶制的存在持续在美国社会留下一道道伤痕，那些真实存在在南方的种植园、监狱里的事件，形塑成现代美国人的日常，例如纪念奴隶制结束的六月节、充满黑人文化的曼哈顿下城区。在这些看似稀松平常的小事里，隐藏着黑奴被作为物品交易、毫无自由与尊严的悲痛历史，仅管奴隶制度已经废除，但这些伤痛和阴影仍持续往下一个黑人世代烙印着…

《黑奴未竟之旅》(How the Word is Passed)从个人家族遭遇谈起，作者克林特·史密斯（Clint Smith）本身是作家兼诗人，从自己的家乡新奥尔良作为起点，带领读者走读一趟令人难忘的旅程，旅程经过新奥尔良的多座碑石、景点，这些遗物的存在诚实地展露过去，述说着一个世代相传的故事，故事的主题——奴隶制，贯穿着黑人运命、潜移默化地留存在整个国家的血液里。 奴隶制的存在持续在美国社会留下一道道伤痕，那些真实存在在南方的种植园、监狱里的事件，形塑成现代美国人的日常，例如纪念奴隶制结束的六月节、充满黑人文化的曼哈顿下城区。在这些看似稀松平常的小事里，隐藏着黑奴被作为物品交易、毫无自由与尊严的悲痛历史，仅管奴隶制度已经废除，但这些伤痛和阴影仍持续往下一个黑人世代烙印着…

Richard McGregor’s Asia’s Reckoning is a compelling account of the widening geopolitical cracks in a region that has flourished under an American security umbrella for more than half a century. The toxic rivalry between China and Japan, two Asian giants consumed with endless history wars and ruled by entrenched political dynasties, is threatening to upend the peace underwritten...(展开全部)

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-194...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated for Good Reads Books of 2020 One of Time's Must-Read Books of 2020 'Unputdownable ... Hong's razor-sharp, provocative prose will linger ...(展开全部)