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)

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer’s search for the truth behind his family’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic—part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work—that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history. The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by t...(展开全部)

三岛由纪夫，日本小说家，剧作家，记者，电影制作人，电影演员，是日本战后文学的大师之一，不仅在日本文坛拥有高度声誉，在西方世界也有崇高的评价，甚至有人誉称他为“日本的海明威”，曾二度入围诺贝尔文学奖，也是著作被翻译成英文等外国语版最多的当代作家。后为极端激进政治目的自杀谏世。

【作者简介】 叶礼庭（Michael Ignatieff, 1947- )，当今世界极具影响力的政治家、知识分子。叶礼庭曾任教于剑桥大学、多伦多大学、哈佛大学等校，也曾担任战地记者和政治评论员多年，出任多国政府顾问，提供人权、民主、公共安全和国际事务方面的深刻洞见。其文章多见于《纽约书评》《金融时报》《新共和》等媒体，另著有《伯林传》《血缘与归属》《战士的荣耀》《火与烬》《痛苦的正当尺度》等作品。 1987年，他的家族回忆录《俄罗斯相册》获得加拿大文学最高荣誉——总督奖； 2001年，获乔治·奥威尔奖； 2003年，获汉娜·阿伦特奖； 2016年11月，获得加拿大平民最高荣誉——加拿大勋章； 2016年至今，担任中欧大学校长。 ··· 【译者简介】 陈晓静，女，浙江舟山人，所学为对外汉语专业，曾从事文宣等工作。

This thought provoking book uncovers a crisis in the political imagination, a wide-spread failure to provide the passionate sense of community "in which our need for belonging can be met." Seeking the answers to fundamental questions, Michael Ignatieff writes vividly both about ideas and about the people who tried to live by them-- from Augustine to Bosch, from Rosseau to Simon...(展开全部)

What do we need in order to survive? Whose needs do we have a right to speak for? Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot? To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedy—and to important texts by Shakespeare, St. Augustine, and the great writers of the Enlightenment. Drawing on t...(展开全部)

Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their domi...(展开全部)

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two oc...(展开全部)