《人间有味（汪曾祺典藏文集）》是汪曾祺经典散文之闲情野趣卷，以闲适美文为主题。其中《味是故乡浓》精选汪老谈美食的精彩篇目，令人有大快朵颐之乐；《此间有真趣》是对烟火人生的很好领悟，智者哲思的火花于平静的叙述中频频闪现；《山水在人心》记述旅行中的风景，令人陶醉之余，心生向往。

《惠家河纪事》是基于作者陈光中先生从年轻时代就坚持写笔记、画素描以及拍摄或收集的大量可贵的反映当时情景的照片、实物所记录下来的历史侧影。本书记述了作者当年在黄土高原插队的经历，以及与陕北乡亲之间的深厚感情，为读者生动地展现了那个时代年轻人的一些真实的想法和刻骨铭心的人生经历。

'The US vs China offers vital insight into the underlying currents reshaping the world as it shifts from its transatlantic axis to Asia-centred order, making it a must-read for anyone with an interest in twenty-first-century international affairs. An essential counter to arguments about the "China threat" and the "inevitability of US-China conflict", the work should find a place on any balanced academic reading list, both undergraduate and graduate.' Jenny Clegg, China and Asia Pacific specialist, author of China's Global Strategy: towards a multipolar world, Pluto Press 'China has burst onto the global political scene, tearing up the established contours of post-1945 international relations. This is a change that affects us all in the most profound ways and is shaping the twenty first century, throwing up fundamental questions: Can US hegemony prevail? Will China be the next global superpower? Does China's rise present a threat to world peace? In this accessible yet rigorous book, Jude Woodward challenges conventional preconceptions about the implications of China's rise and suggests that with the US on the decline, China offers hope for the future.' --Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

As Europe plunged into World War II, Hitler ordered the development of a hi-tech secret weapon capable of taking the war across the Atlantic--the Messerschmitt Me 264. Chosen from designs for an "Amerika Bomber" tendered by Messerschmitt, Junkers, and Focke-Wulf, this ultra-long-range aircraft would be capable of attacking cities in the United States. Just one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American entry into World War II, Hitler was promising, privately, to wage a "new war" against the USA after his victories in Europe. Dazzling digital artwork and 50 rare archival photographs perfectly complement the detailed analysis offered by Robert Forsyth as he examines the development, intended role, and influence of the aircraft that Hitler planned to use to bomb New York City.

The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors -- if any remain.

他是开启现代化的改革者；他是传统帝国的裱糊匠；他是一代先进知识分子的凝聚中心；他权倾一时、谤满天下，他就是悲情宰相——李鸿章。 本书文字涉及李鸿章的早年落拓、镇压太平天国、创办洋务运动，签订《马关条约》《辛丑条约》，周旋于世界外交舞台直至死去的一生。指出李鸿章有鞠躬尽瘁死而后已的心，能够忍辱负重，但受制于那个时代，又不由让人感叹“以一人而敌一国”的无望与悲恸。唐德刚在《顾维钧回忆录》中也提到梁启超这句“以一人而敌一国”，可见梁先生对于那段世纪历史的描绘已经在史学界形成了共鸣。 本书新增雷颐五万字导读，补充更丰富资料，立体解析李鸿章一生。

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

巨大的财富背后，往往有巨大的代价。这是一部维多利亚时代浮华糜烂的家族史诗，交织着贪婪和仇恨、自私与残忍、冷血的谋杀和虚幻的爱情。 1866年一个炎热的夏日午后，封闭的温菲尔德校园里发生了一起意外溺亡的悲剧，银行家族继承人、南美领主的儿子纷纷卷入了这一神秘事件。多年之后，这一事件中暗藏的阴谋与背叛依然裹挟着他们的命运……

Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American. They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than Levi Strauss & Co., the creator of this classic American garment. As a young man Levi Strauss left his home in Germany and immigrated to America. He made his way to San Francisco and by 1853 had started his company. Soon he was a leading businessman in a growing commercial city that was beginning to influence the rest of the nation. Family-centered and deeply rooted in his Jewish faith, Strauss was the hub of a wheel whose spokes reached into nearly every aspect of American culture: business, philanthropy, politics, immigration, transportation, education, and fashion. But despite creating an American icon, Levi Strauss is a mystery. Little is known about the man, and the widely circulated "facts" about his life are steeped in mythology. In this first full-length biography, Lynn Downey sets the record straight about this brilliant businessman. Strauss's life was the classic American success story, filled with lessons about craft and integrity, leadership and innovation.

《一个大国的崛起与崩溃》是一部有关苏联74年兴衰历史的实证性专题研究著作，由22名中国学者合力完成，书中涉及政治、军事、外交、经济、文化、民族、宗教等各个方面，共28个专题，总计约110万字。这部著作利用大量俄国解密档案，立足专题或个案分析，开拓新的研究领域和研究视角，以重构苏联74年历史兴衰的主要过程。

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so we’re told. In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation’s history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters. Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never “sold themselves”; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms. Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms. In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichés that have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.

How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband. Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance. Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.

Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Area 51 - Black Jets, author and military historian Bill Yenne offers the first fully illustrated chronology of Area 51's most famous aircraft projects, including Lockheed's U-2 "Dragon Lady" and SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance planes, drones ranging from the early Lockheed D-21 to the modern-day General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and the famous F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter produced by the Have Blue program during the 1970s. Each project is given its own fascinating chapter illuminating the aircraft's development at this famed location. But beyond the aircraft themselves, Area 51 - Black Jets also covers a handful of the many classified experimental programs carried out at Area 51 over the years, such as Have Doughnut, Have Ferry, and Have Drill - secret undertakings that successfully reverse-engineered such enemy aircraft as the Russian MiG during the Cold War. Presented in beautiful hardcover format and illustrated with historic color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and maps, this book reveals Area 51 for what it truly is: a clandestine area for the United States' most cutting-edge technological innovators in military aviation.

几年前，骑行路上的白关（狼）遇到了黄鹭（鹿），两个城里的上班族，因为对自由的共同向往，成了小两口。“到乡下找个院子一起住吧！”这是黄鹭对白关的勇敢告白，离开熟悉城市中熟悉的一切，租下乡间的两间土房和半亩田，这是白关给黄鹭的回答。 这本书就记录了他们在乡下的生活。在随笔中，我们可以读到乡下生活的“慢”，壁炉前发发呆聊聊天读读书，每一天似乎都有无所事事的满足；在照片中，我们看得见乡下生活的“快”，忙碌的春天，丰盛的夏天，猫冬之前静谧的秋天，如飞梭一般轮转；在漫画中，我们知道了乡下生活的艰辛，虫子会啃菜，鸟儿会偷枣，踉踉跄跄地种菜施肥，稍一偷懒，就“草盛豆苗稀”；在“食谱”中，我们仿佛也尝到了土地回馈的自然好味，羡慕着他们可以在这么年轻的时候回归田园。 住到乡下之前，他们是不够完美的两个人，住到乡下以后，他们仍然继续着不够完美的日常，然而，小小的半亩田里长出了一年的好吃的，租来的土房子也有了家的样子，也许，根本不必等待有钱、退休、万事俱足的完美时刻，想要做的事，可以像他们一样，做了再说。 ————————————————————————————————————— 两个不够完美的人，一片暂租来的田地，在老去之前，先把生活过成向往的模样。 和喜欢的人，过喜欢的生活，偶尔勤奋，偶尔懒散，在纯粹与自然中，用心感受四季的更迭。

For many years now China's economy has seemed unstoppable. A slow appreciation of the renminbi in 2007 brought wave upon wave of liquidity into China and allowed its companies and banks to raise hundreds of billions in dollars via stock market listings. State banks that had started the new century as bankrupt relics of a communist past became the darlings of international investors. Even the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and the ensuing global financial crisis seemed to have little impact on China as the government quickly responded with a huge stimulus package. But the Lehman collapse was a dramatic wake up call to the Chinese leadership. This model of bank and capital market reform had been studiously emulated for more than a decade and had brought great benefits to China. But now, although they believed it to be bankrupt, the Chinese government were bereft of new ideas. In the face of the global financial crisis the government returned to what it knows best, massive state intervention via the banking system. Ten years of banking and capital market reforms were dead. In Red Capitalism, Carl Walter and Fraser Howie detail how the Chinese government reformed and modeled its financial system in the 30 years since it began its policy of engagement with the west. Instead of a stable series of policies producing steady growth, China's financial sector has boomed and gone bust with regularity in each decade. The latest decade is little different. Chinese banks have become objects of political struggle while they totter under balance sheets bloated by the excessive state-directed lending and bond issuance of 2009. Looking forward, the government's response to the global financial crisis has created a banking system the stability of which can be maintained only behind the walls of a non-convertible currency, a myriad of off-balance sheet arrangements with non-public state entities and the strong support of its best borrowers--the politically potent National Champions--who are the greatest beneficiaries of the financial status quo. China's financial system is not a model for the west and, indeed, is not a sustainable arrangement for China itself as it seeks increasingly to assert its influence internationally. This is not a story of impending collapse, but of frustrated reforms that suggests that any full opening and meaningful reform of the financial sector is not, indeed cannot be, on the government's agenda anytime soon.