2021 film directed by Ridley Scott

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

特德·姜作品新结集，内藏《商人和炼金术师之门》《呼吸》《前路迢迢》《软件体的生命周期》《达西的新型自动机器保姆》《双面真相》《大寂静》《脐》《焦虑是自由引起的眩晕》九篇作品—— 炼金术士之门，自由穿梭时空，科幻版的一千零一夜如何展开？ 我的每一口呼吸，都让这个宇宙离死亡更近一步。 自由意志并不存在，只是你相信这一点之前，它并不具有杀伤力。 科幻小说中随处可见人造生物，就像从宙斯头部跳出的雅典娜，这些人造生物一出现就完全成形。但意识并不是这样工作的，软件体真实的生命周期是什么样？ 我的保姆是台机器，对一个新生儿来说，这意味着什么？ 记忆一直在欺骗我们，只是我们自己并未发现。如果每个人都开始持续记录生命日志，文明将发生怎样的改变？ 我们并不是宇宙的中心，可一开始，人类并不知道这一点。 如果平行空间的确存在，且可以发生对话，你会用怎样的方式穷尽生活的可能？

Oliver, a lonely autistic boy, seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy's devices against him, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.

在本书中，阿伦特力图表明“积极生活”的三种活动——劳动、工作和行动——的区分是基于人的条件而做出的，她理解的人的“条件”，既不是所谓人的本质属性，也不是康德意义上规定人类经验方式的超验条件，而是人在地球上被给定的那些生存条件：劳动的条件是人们必需维生，工作的条件是人们必需建造一个人造物的世界，行动的条件是人们必需在交往中彰显自己，回答“我是谁”的问题。离开了这些条件，生活就不再是“人”的生活了。在此意义上，人是被条件规定了的存在（conditioned beings）。但他们的活动又创造着自己下一步生存的条件，比如劳动超出家庭和国家界限的全球化发展，和人从宇宙的角度对地球采取行动，都根本上改变了人类未来的生存处境。本书在结构上另一个值得关注之处是“积极生活”（vita activa）与“沉思生活”（vita contemplativa）的二元对照。第一章给出的两种生活的对照，为全书确立了一个隐含的背景框架。实际上，只有在此二元对照下，劳动、工作和行动才可能有效地保持自身，因为与两种生活方式相应的，是古代西方对两个世界的想象：柏拉图的现象世界和理念世界，或基督教的尘世之城和天上之城，前者是变化的、有死灭的，后者是永恒不变的。在那里，制作或工作被当成一切活动的原型，人在制作中模仿神圣世界的创造，现实生活的真实性和荣耀都来自后者，后者才是他渴望回归之所。阿伦特认为这种沉思生活高于积极生活的等级秩序，在传统政治思想中导致了对政治的伤害，因为政治哲学家倾向于以制作模式把行动理解为按照某种真理来统治。但对立之消隐的灾难后果，要在世俗化的现代才清晰地浮现出来。在神圣世界不再被信仰，沉思“被逐出有意义的人类能力行列”之后，制作活动也失去了衡量他的产品真实性的标准，作为人造物的世界越来越相对化，丧失了它得以立足的持久性和稳固性。二元世界观的消失，一方面让现代人丧失了作为生存条件的“世界”，另一方面人被抛回到自身，返回到孤独内心来寻求真实性和确定性的基础。“世界异化”和“向自身的回返”最终以牺牲世界和牺牲行动为代价。虽然在现代早期，人作为制造者获得过短暂的胜利，那时人曾被高举为目的，但“由于现代的世界异化和内省被提升为一种征服自然的无所不能的策略，也就没有哪种能力像制作——主要是建造世界和生产世界之物的能力——一样，丧失得如此之多”（本书第242页）。在最后一章，阿伦特哀悼了技艺人（homo faber）的失落：匠人精神始终预设了一个物的世界，在那里，物质闪耀、语词可听，但在世界塌陷，甚至被还原为生物循环意义上的自然的情况下，最终是劳动动物（animal laborans）取得了全面胜利，而这就是我们已生活于其中的世界。

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of millions of people in nearly 200 countries. When Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix, he developed a set of counterintuitive and radical management principles, defying all tradition and expectation, which would allow the company to reinvent itself over and over on the way to becoming one of the most loved brands in the world. Rejecting the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate, Reed set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance and hard work is irrelevant. At Netflix, you don't try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees never need approval, and the company always pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these principles, the implications were unknown and untested, but over just a short period of time they have led to unprecedented flexibility, speed, and boldness. The culture of freedom and responsibility has allowed the company to constantly grow and change as the world, and its members' needs, have also transformed. Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world.

故事发生在阳光旅馆的10号房，这是一个神奇的房间，其中发生的事情早已经脱离了能够用科学解释的范畴。这个房间里，每一样物品都被赋予了一种特殊的能力，拥有了一件物品，就能够随心所欲的使用它的能力。当这个消息不胫而走的时候，各路人士怀揣着各种各样的目的从世界各地聚集到了10号房间，然而他们并不知道的事，得到就要付出，这付出可能是身体上的、感情上的，也有可能是生命。 一次偶然中， 警察米勒（彼得·克劳斯 Peter Krause 饰）得到了一把神秘的钥匙，而这把钥匙正归属于10号房间，与此同时，米勒的女儿亦在房间里无故失踪，为了找到心爱的女儿，米勒踏上了充满危险和劫难的旅程。

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

美国短篇小说大师雷蒙德·卡佛公认的成熟之作，收入大部分名篇：《大教堂》入选《美国最佳短篇小说选》，《好事一小件》获“欧·亨利小说奖”第一名，《发烧》入选《美国短篇小说杰作选》。 故事多数平常：小夫妇没生出孩子以至生活灰暗；生日蛋糕早好了，被撞伤的孩子却在父母等待中悄然离去；卖维他命的女人为生意焦虑，丈夫则觊觎着她的同伴……小说常有意想不到的结尾。卡佛以一种悠长的凝视直面无望。他被尊为简约文学的典范，生活把他的人物剥了个精光，而他把自己的文字削到嶙峋。 《大教堂》中仍有卡佛早期作品的无奈和冷硬，但是，他把自己那扇一直尘封的天窗推开一条缝隙，洒下了些许光亮。

Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes about the cultural prisms that have shaped her: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the American scammer as millennial hero; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the mandate that everything, including our bodies, should always be getting more efficient and beautiful until we die.

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

《使命召唤17：黑色行动5 冷战》（英语：Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War，港台译作：决胜时刻：黑色行动冷战）是一款由Treyarch和Raven Software工作室开发并由动视发行的第一人称射击游戏。这是该游戏副标题系列《黑色行动》的第五部，也是《使命召唤》系列的第17部主要作品。作为《使命召唤：黑色行动》的直接续集，《使命召唤：黑色行动冷战》于2020年11月13日对Microsoft Windows、PlayStation 4、Xbox One、PlayStation 5、Xbox Series X/S 平台发行。 游戏的初次揭晓于2020年8月26日官方在 YouTube 频道发布的预告片 ，多人游戏模式于9月9日揭晓。 《黑色行动冷战》设定于1980年代初的冷战时期。美国中央情报局特工 “罗素·阿德勒”Russell Adler 要追捕所谓的苏联间谍“珀尔修斯”Perseus，其既定目标是要颠覆美国并使力量平衡向苏联倾斜。 但是本作Microsoft Windows平台不支持简体中文，而其他平台支持简体中文。 该游戏最初是由Raven和Sledgehammer Games开发，无意让其成为黑色行动系列的作品。但由于两支团队之间存在分歧，开发工作受到困难，导致动视安排Treyarch在2019年负责游戏开发，而Raven则为共同开发者。该游戏的行销始于2020年8月，并且以不同的形式进行，包括某些内容创作者会收到幻灯片投影机、展示冷战历史事件的网站，让大众在线解决难题。该游戏的公共多人测试版在2020年10月上线。游戏受到评论家的普遍好评，并取得了商业上的成功。

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

2011 film directed by George Nolfi

The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience. Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products? Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicate—how to speak and write to get your ideas across. Written by an MIT professor who taught his students these techniques for more than forty years, the book starts with the basics—finding your voice, organizing your ideas, making sure what you say is remembered, and receiving critiques (“do not ask for brutal honesty”)—and goes on to cover such specifics as preparing slides, writing and rewriting, and even choosing a type family. The book explains why you should start with an empowerment promise and conclude by noting you delivered on that promise. It describes how a well-crafted, explicitly identified slogan, symbol, salient idea, surprise, and story combine to make you and your work memorable. The book lays out the VSN-C (Vision, Steps, News–Contributions) framework as an organizing structure and then describes how to create organize your ideas with a “broken–glass” outline, how to write to be understood, how to inspire, how to defeat writer's block—and much more. Learning how to speak and write well will empower you and make you smarter. Effective communication can be life-changing—making use of just one principle in this book can get you the job, make the sale, convince your boss, inspire a student, or even start a revolution.

本故事改编自《纽约时报》年度受欢迎小说——2008年的同名作品。故事里面Adrien Brody饰演曼哈顿一位作家Porter Wren，是一名原本是模范父亲及丈夫。他应一位陌生女子的求助去追查其神秘遇害的丈夫，却逐步坠入桃色纠纷之中。JB饰演其妻子Lisa Wren。 影片由Brian DeCubellis导演，其他演员包括Jennifer Beals、澳大利亚演员Yvonne Strahovski以及和JB大人多次合作的Campbell Scott、曾获艾美奖最佳女主角的Linda Lavin以及英国演员Steven Berkoff。

★《萤火虫小巷》作者超越新作！作者因此书击败J.K.罗琳、胡赛尼等99名知名作家，强势登顶美国亚马逊kindle作家排行榜。 ★畅销三百万册， 四十二种语言译本横扫世界，力压《小小小小的火》《使女的故事》《本源》等名作，拿下Goodreads年度小说、《人物》杂志年度图书、美国蕞大书店巴诺书店年度推荐图书、《纽约时报》畅销榜第YI名、ibook苹果书城畅销第YI名、美国图书馆热门借阅第YI名、Bookpage 美国书籍评论网2018年十大蕞爱选书第YI名、LibraryReads蕞受喜爱书籍第YI名、 Buzzfeed 2018年蕞受欢迎小说等。 ★孤独让我看到自己的模样，而爱，让我真正明白自己想成为的样子。献给每个在孤独中收获勇气和成长的人。 ★翻译家康学慧精心打磨译文，插画师卤猫绘制封面，瑞典进口内文纸印刷，轻薄柔软易翻阅。 爸爸总是告诫蕾妮外面的世界很危险，其实她的家里才是最危险的。 1974年的阿拉斯加，最闪亮和最黑暗的人性在漫长夜里肆意滋长。 阿拉斯加非常大，有很多地方可以藏起爱这样的小东西：邻居间的友爱、深深的母女爱，青涩的纯真爱和扭曲甚至可能致命的恋人爱。 这片难以捉摸的孤独之地，揭穿了隐藏多年的漩涡与秘密。来到阿拉斯加后，14岁的蕾妮突然看清了周围世界的真实模样，明白了父母一直隐瞒的真相。 世界太过广大，我们都必须独自面对太多问题。我们用爱把世界挡在门外，世界却来势汹汹。