I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
—Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837
As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism.
Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

2018 documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen

编辑推荐：本书是《外国古典文学名著选粹》系列之一，作者卢梭是法国十八世纪思想家和文学家。这部名为“忏悔”实为“控诉”的《忏悔录》记载了他从出生到被迫离开对皮埃尔岛之间五十年的生活经历，讲述了他被侮辱和被损害的一生。作品思想内容丰富，人物形象鲜明，情节生动真实，是卢梭文学创作中最为重要的一部。

在历史上多得难以数计的自传作品中，真正有文学价值的显然并不多，而成为文学名著的则更少。至于以其思想、艺术和风格上的重要意义而奠定了撰写者的文学地位——不是一个普通的文学席位，而是长久地爱人景仰的崇高地位的，也许只有《忏悔录》了。卢梭这个不论在社会政治思想上，在文学内容、风格和情调上都开辟了一个新的时代的人物，主要就是通过这部自传推动和启发了十九世纪的法国文学，使它——用当时很有权威的一位批评家的话来说——“获得最大的进步”、“自巴斯喀以来最大的革命”，这位批语家谦虚地承认：“我们十九世纪的人就是从这次革命里出来的”。

2009 television film directed by Torsten C. Fischer

2010 film directed by Mick Jackson

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

当我揣摩福尔摩斯这个错综复杂的角色时，偶尔会觉得自己是在轻轻地弯曲一根柳条，却从不真正折断它。
——杰里米•布莱特
在许多人眼中，他是福尔摩斯的化身。
他在格兰纳达的剧集里扮演了整整十年的福尔摩斯，共出演四十一部剧集和电视电影，直到去世。
他是史上最成功的福尔摩斯扮演者，极其忠于原著，又带着危险的锋芒。
福尔摩斯不仅是他最著名的角色，也成为他的一部分，令他着迷、深陷、恐慌、挣扎；有时合二为一，有时避之不及。福尔摩斯构成了他整个后半生。

用音乐与世界对话：国际知名音乐大师坂本龙一唯一自传
★大岛渚、贝托鲁奇、阿莫多瓦的御用音乐家
★麦当娜、大卫•鲍伊的亲密合作者
◆奥斯卡金像奖、金球奖最佳电影配乐、格莱美最佳影视配乐专辑……日本最负国际盛誉的电影音乐大师
◆《末代皇帝》、《俘虏》、《遮蔽的天空》、《高跟鞋》、巴塞罗那奥运会……动人音乐背后共同的名字—— 坂本龙一
这是日本著名音乐大师坂本龙一唯一一本自传。音乐家回忆了自己儿时如何初次接触音乐，而后在母亲和老师的影响下逐渐走上音乐道路，并最终在国际舞台上赢得盛誉的历程。坂本龙一在回忆中检视自己一路走来的经过，对于自己怎样“成为了现在的自己”做了一次最全面的叙述，充满成长的趣味描述和引人深思的语句。书中穿插坂本龙一不同时期的个人照片50余幅，展现了这位音乐大师充满魅力的人生旅程。

Shadowlands tells the unique story of his tragic love. In Joy Davidman he truly found love and was drawn out of his shell. But only briefly, as she died months after they married. Brian Sibley skilfully looks at Lewis?s childhood, his literary legacy and shows how, in the end, despite grief and painful doubts, Lewis?s faith shone through. Shadowlands is also a BAFTA winning BBC film, a stage play by William Nicholson and a feature film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. This new edition is fully expanded and updated.

Very sadly, Nigel Hawthorne died on Boxing Day 2001. He had just completed his exceptional autobiography about a life which had by no means taken a straight path. His ambitions to be an actor when a young man in South Africa were strongly discouraged by his father. He came to England alone and struggled for many years to make his name - eventually joining the Royal Court, starring in the West End, and finally having his great TV break in Yes, Minister. He also struggled with his sexuality and it was not until meeting production manager Trevor Bentham in l977 that he finally found his life partner. A naturally private man, his media 'outing' in the run-up to the Oscar Ceremony for The Madness of King George was the source of much pain, although ultimately it became a liberation. At the peak of his career he was struck by cancer and his battle with illness forms a moving final section of the book.

Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an unstinting, up-close view of the most harrowing crises of our time, and the profound impact they have had on his life. </p>
After growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Cooper felt a magnetic pull toward the unknown, an attraction to the far corners of the earth. If he could keep moving, and keep exploring, he felt he could stay one step ahead of his past, including the fame surrounding his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, and the tragic early deaths of his father and older brother. As a reporter, the frenetic pace of filing dispatches from war-torn countries, and the danger that came with it, helped him avoid having to look too closely at the pain and loss that was right in front of him. </p>
But recently, during the course of one extraordinary, tumultuous year, it became impossible for him to continue to separate his work from his life, his family's troubled history from the suffering people he met all over the world. From the tsunami in Sri Lanka to the war in Iraq to the starvation in Niger and ultimately to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and Mississippi, Cooper gives us a firsthand glimpse of the devastation that takes place, both physically and emotionally, when the normal order of things is violently ruptured on such a massive scale. Cooper had been in his share of life-threatening situations before -- ducking fire on the streets of war-torn Sarejevo, traveling on his own to famine-stricken Somalia, witnessing firsthand the genocide in Rwanda -- but he had never seen human misery quite like this. Writing with vivid memories of his childhood and early career as a roving correspondent, Cooper reveals for the first time how deeply affected he has been by the wars, disasters, and tragedies he has witnessed, and why he continues to be drawn to some of the most perilous places on earth. </p>
Striking, heartfelt, and utterly engrossing, Dispatches from the Edge is an unforgettable memoir that takes us behind the scenes of the cataclysmic events of our age and allows us to see them through the eyes of one of America's most trusted, fearless, and pioneering reporters. </p>

A direct, stylish, and engrossing story of a marvelous life well lived. Markham describes her childhood in Kenya and her experiences as a bush pilot in the 1930s -- evoking the landscapes, people, and wildlife in rich detail.

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

"“企鹅人生”人物传记系列。
约翰·基根（John Keegan），1934年生于英国伦敦，2012年去世时被《纽约时报》誉为“他那个时代出类拔萃的军事历史学家”。曾多年任英国桑赫斯特皇家军事学院高级讲师。1986年成为英国皇家文学学会会员。著有《战争史》《战斗的面貌》等二十部作品，包括畅销的《一战史》。"

富兰克林·罗斯福和温斯顿.丘吉尔——本书对他们之间复杂的感情纠葛和友谊给出了迄今为止最为详尽的描绘。这份重要的友谊是历史上独一无二的:一位总统和一位首相在战争中共度113天，互通的信件达2000封之多。在鸡尾酒、香烟、雪茄的陪伴下，他们秘密地在华盛顿、海德公园、卡萨布兰卡、德黑兰等多处会晤，战争、政治、健康、亲情……无所不谈。丘吉尔和罗斯福之间有着太多的相似之处：同是出身于19世纪的精英世家，同是第一流的政治家，20世纪和21世纪的缔造者，他们品啜着拥有权力的乐趣。他们的关系，或许是一种“爱情关系”，情感丰富的丘吉尔追求着躲躲闪闪的罗斯福。丘吉尔，这位在希特勒魔爪下不屈不挠的不列颠首相，却每每为了不能获知他在罗斯福心中的地位而深感不安；罗斯福，一个让人捉摸不透的人，总是喜欢与人们保持一种若即若离的关系，这里面既包括他的妻子埃莉诺、他的白宫幕僚，也包括了丘吉尔。面对暴政和恐怖，他们两人携手建立起一个通向胜利的联盟，尽管联盟中间也出现过一些突发事件或偶尔的利益上的龃龉。本书引用了大量鲜为人知的素材，包括罗斯福的秘密情人露西.拉瑟弗德未曾公开的信件、帕梅拉·丘吉尔·哈里曼的个人档案，以及对于仅有的几个与两位领袖都有交往的古稀老人的采访实录。

史怀哲细述了个人的生活历程、思想与道德流脉的追忆，也对有伦理与文化关系的论述，道德真谛的阐释，字里行间流淌着他的哲学洞见与宗教悲悯。自传中结合了告白、叙事、探险与哲学思索，让这个身兼神学家、音乐家、科学家与传教士医师的传奇故事，即使在我们这个犬儒的年代，也依然发人深省。 本书开宗明义便说这是个“人性精神已然殒落”的时代，因为无论是科学、科技或权力，全都逸离了伦理的标准。于是史怀哲执着地讨论原始基督教的精神与历史上的耶稣；对巴哈的热爱（声音的诗人与画家）；对重建老教堂管风琴的期望。然而对当代读者来说，最让人感动的篇章应属揉合了神秘主义与理性主义的哲学观，是史怀哲在后来的人生阶段中发展出来的伦理学，他称之为“对生命的尊重”。
编辑推荐：
★ 西方世界唯一可与甘地比肩的“非洲圣人”，他的名字几乎成了“人类爱”的代名词。
★ 被西方世界誉为二十世纪最伟大的精神之父！★ 史上首位“最无争议”诺贝尔和平奖奖得主。
★ 影响二十世纪人道主义精神走向的划时代伟人——史怀哲心灵巨著！
★ 全球顶尖级政治家、企业家、教育家、思想家提高人文修养的枕边书！
★ 与《假如给我三天光明》一起影响整个世界，激励无数年轻人。销售过1000万册的经典励志读物，西方大中小学的课外必读书目。
★ 李开复、毕淑敏、美国前总统卡特一致鼎力推荐！
★ 最值得全人类阅读的生命之书！献给我们疲惫的英雄梦想！
★ 征服全球读者、作家、出版社、版权经纪人、书店、媒体的鸿篇巨制！
★ 中国读者等待了近四十年的殿堂级经典——《生命的思索：史怀哲自传》中文版全国内
唯一独家授权，首次完整翻译！
★ 一本书可以改变人的一生，我就是见证人！——台湾诚品董事长 吴清友
2012年台湾诚品书店召开《生命的思索》繁体版首发式隆重推荐。
★ 当代《沉思录》，一部真正安定人心的伟大著作。唯有精神的丰足才能为心灵带来平静，史怀哲带给你安定人心的力量！
★ 美国《时代周刊》、前美国总统吉米·卡特、著名思想家罗曼罗兰、科学巨匠爱因斯坦、
哲学家罗素、台湾诚品集团董事长和佛教上师一致强烈推荐！
★ 一本对战争与和平、掠夺与谦守、贪婪与节制、文明与野蛮、征服与敬畏进行的生命反思。
★ 思索人生，是一种精神性活动，借此人将不再茫然浑噩，开始经历值得尊重的自我生命历程，为获得生命的真正价值而努力奋斗。思索生命，就是深化、内在化并升华生存意识。—— 史怀哲
★ 他传奇的一生，映照出一个伟大的生命风景，彰显出人文关怀在人类社会的终极价值！
★ 在这个逐渐失去珍贵价值的时代，在困境与抉择的当下，让我们与史怀哲一起，开始生命的思索，追寻人生的正面力量。
谨以此书献给你们：
对于知识分子， 他将告诉你如何在坐而言之外，也能起而行，以及如何身体力行地践行自己的思想和理念。
对于理想青年，他是自我奋斗和最大限度地发展个人理想的完美范本。
对于渴望与他人亲密交往的人，他说，我们彼此鼓励，在黑暗中并肩行走，而不需要注视别人的脸和探视别人的心灵。
对于大多数普通人， 他讲告诉你，光是生存着是不够的。你必须多做一些什么。
对于医疗工作者， 他将告诉你，医疗工作是一种爱的行为，医生只有本着“敬畏生命”的理念，才不会把人的生命当做商品一样处理。
对于基督徒， 他将引导你，如何把所信的经由日常生活表现出来，以及如何把爱变成具体的行动。因为信仰不是一门学问，只有被实践的时候，它才有意义。
对于从事动物保护和环境、生态保护的人， 他将引导你如何在保护动物的同时，也能充分地认识到现实的残酷性，以及生物与生物之间互不相容的争斗。
对于已经或将要献身于慈善工作或直接服务于人的人， 他肯定是你最好的导师和伙伴，也是最有力量的引导者和鼓舞者。
对于渴望自由并渴望遵循内心而活的人， 他也是你的榜样。在赴非之前，他在欧洲的学术界和音乐界已有相当的地位，他是斯特拉斯堡大学的教授，是尼古拉教堂的牧师，是管风琴演奏家.但是，他把那一切都放下了。
对于沉迷于物质主义的人，他将告诉你，什么是内在的幸福，以及在拥有外在的幸福后，又如何获得内在的幸福——那种只有献身于世或服务于人才能获得的幸福。
对于漠视生命以及他人生存权利的人，他将告诉你，对于生命而言，什么是善，什么是恶。
对于善良的、有深刻的同情心的人，他是你们最好的同伴。哥德说， 惟独这样的人，才能在我们所认识的宇宙万物里，与天下众生有所区别。 对于富人、权贵或占有更多社会资源的人，他将引导你思考：幸运者必须向不幸者伸出援手。这是上帝的召唤，这也是幸运者应该承担的责任。
对于追求和平的反核人士，他绝对是你的战友和同志。他认为，核战一旦爆发，只会全体毁灭，所谓的胜利者是没有的。他甚至说，只有全面停止核试验，太阳才会从地球上升起。

在科学史上，只有达•芬奇和爱因斯坦可以和他并列。
特斯拉被视为“创造出二十世纪的人”。
特斯拉死后，美国FBI将他的所有设计图纸与实验作品全部没收，被列入高级机密，美国军方对他的论文研究至今也没有停止。
这本自传将填补与他有关的历史信息“黑洞”。
特斯拉一生取得约 1000 项专利发明，没有他，以下影响人类生活的工具可能不会出现，或是延迟出现：交流电发电机、交流电传输、水电站、无线电、自动点火、电话、收音机、电视机、传真机、雷达、无线制导导弹、无人机、X光摄像、霓虹灯、太阳能发电、无叶涡轮……
尼古拉•特斯拉是电气时代的真正先知！
但是，他的生活经历和历史成就已很大程度上为世人所淡忘。
我们出版特斯拉的自传，是为了鼓励科学实验研究，反对“唯论文论”，因为我们的时代不能再充斥骗取科研经费的办公室研究了，我们的时代呼唤特斯拉式的回归真实世界的科学研究精神。
目 录
第一章 我的少年生活
第二章 我早期的发明努力
第三章 我是如何构想旋转磁场的
第四章 发明特斯拉线圈和变压器
第五章 放大发射机
第六章 自动遥控的艺术