Who would have guessed that an innocent search for an inexpensive edition of War and Peace could lead to an all-consuming obsession? Nancy and Lawrence Goldstone's romance with rare books arose from just such a search and led them to a world they had never encountered before: the world of antiquarian books. They quickly found themselves infatuated with this quaint and curious world, and scoured the East Coast in search of first editions and rare books. This search, and the curious people they met along the way, is chronicled in their book Used and Rare. Their second book, Slightly Chipped, continues this exploration, taking us on tours of book fairs, libraries, and auctions. No longer the wide-eyed innocents, the Goldstones delve a little deeper into the book world: they explore facets such as fine printing and literary movements, pour over Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, and puzzle over the incredible markup of hypermoderns. (Never heard of hypermoderns? They are collectible books recently published. A first edition of Sue Grafton's A Is for Alibi sold for $1,250 in 1998. Better check your shelves.) Both the avid bibliophile and the casual reader will find things to enjoy in Slightly Chipped. For the collector, the Goldstones' discussion of the Internet's impact on collecting is illuminating, and their look at the hypermodern market is positively eye-opening. Plus, visits to such places as the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia and the Pequot Library in Connecticut will get any bibliophile's salivary glands going. For the casual reader, Slightly Chipped is as warm and engaging as Used and Rare; although the Goldstones have become sophisticated book collectors, there is still plenty of the ingenuous surprise and delight that made Used and Rare such a joy to read. They balance out the serious aspects of book collecting with a liberal peppering of literary anecdotes, ranging from William Morris's tyrannical leadership of the Kelmscott Press to the sexual proclivities of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, keeping the tone light and the pace lively. All this packed into one volume makes Slightly Chipped a rare treat for book lovers of all types. --Perry Atterberry

An updated edition of the essential insider's resource. For the experienced collector or someone embarking on a new hobby, this newly revised and updated edition of Book Finds reveals the secrets of locating rare and valuable books. Includes information on first editions and reader's copies, auctions and catalogs, avoiding costly and common beginner mistakes, strategies of professional "book scouts," and buying and selling on the Internet.

A new original graphic novel by Matt Lesniewski (The Freak), about a man at the end of his rope, pushed to the edge. As if being tracked by a violent gang of drug dealers wasn't enough, a mad scientist's muscle for hire, who hunts creatures for twisted Frankensteinesque experiments, finds himself fighting his boss and the patchwork monsters he helped create.

Rusty Brown is a fully interactive, full-color articulation of the time-space interrelationships of three complete consciousnesses in the first half of a single midwestern American day and the tiny piece of human grit about which they involuntarily orbit. A sprawling, special snowflake accumulation of the biggest themes and the smallest moments of life, Rusty Brown literately and literally aims at nothing less than the coalescence of one half of all of existence into a single museum-quality picture story, expertly arranged to present the most convincingly ineffable and empathetic illusion of experience for both life-curious readers and traditional fans of standard reality. From childhood to old age, no frozen plotline is left unthawed in the entangled stories of a child who awakens without superpowers, a teen who matures into a paternal despot, a father who stores his emotional regrets on the surface of Mars and a late-middle-aged woman who seeks the love of only one other person on planet Earth.

2001 年 9 月 11 日的恐怖袭击事件改变了世界，人们花了几十年时间才认识到这一点。20 年过去，继美国历史上最长的战争后，阿富汗再度落入塔利班手中，而《转折点：911 与反恐战争》回答了以下问题：谁袭击了美国？为什么？情报系统出了什么问题，导致悲剧发生？三届政府在反恐战争中的最高决策如何导致了今日的局面？该剧集中包含对多位受访者的访谈，包括多位美国总统政府的官员、前中央情报局成员、美国退伍军人以及阿富汗国民军士兵、塔利班指挥官、阿富汗政府成员、阿富汗军阀、以及阿富汗平民 — 许多以前从未在镜头前发言的人。该剧集还将聚焦袭击幸存者本人的声音。这部纪录片共五集，是一部重要而富有启发性的编年史，讲述了 911 袭击事件以及这些事件如何改变了历史进程。

Discover the terrifying funhouse world of Christmasland and the ageless monster who rules it. Climb into the passenger seat as Hill and artist Charlie Wilson III explore Charlie Manx's twisted beginnings, introduce a new and depraved cast of characters to Christmasland, and take us for a 100 MPH ride down an icy nightmare road in a car with no brakes...

2021 television special

October 24, 1944, the world's greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan's navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead Musashi, its top secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean. How did this unsinkable giant go down so fast? Was it overwhelming American air power? Or a fatal design flaw? Now American deep sea explorers and Japanese military experts are determined to solve this 70-year old mystery. But first they must find the missing Musashi.

Jim, a middle-aged everyman, suffers a pathetic death. He awakens in the afterlife, where he is granted great sex, delicious food, bottomless alcohol, and other hedonistic desires. Naturally, Jim is wary of his new life. Once everything he thought he wanted comes so easily, he starts to rethink his existence and must make a very difficult decision.

Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Mesmer, William James, Pavlov, Freud, Piaget, Erikson, and Skinner. Each of these thinkers recognized that human beings could examine, comprehend, and eventually guide or influence their own thought processes, emotions, and resulting behavior. The lives and accomplishments of these pillars of psychology, expertly assembled by Morton Hunt, are set against the times in which the subjects lived. Hunt skillfully presents dramatic and lucid accounts of the techniques and validity of centuries of psychological research, and of the methods and effectiveness of major forms of psychotherapy. Fully revised, and incorporating the dramatic developments of the last fifteen years, The Story of Psychology is a graceful and absorbing chronicle of one of the great human inquiries—the search for the true causes of our behavior.

The up and down history of the toy merchandising of the evergreen science fiction franchise.

让我们走入史上最具标志意义、价值数十亿美元的玩具品牌背后，听缔造者介绍这些玩具沉浮兴衰的历程。

2018 film by Chen Sicheng

If humanity cannot live with the dangers and responsibilities inherent in freedom, it will probably turn to authoritarianism. This is the central idea of Escape from Freedom, a landmark work by one of the most distinguished thinkers of our time, and a book that is as timely now as when first published in 1941. Few books have thrown such light upon the forces that shape modern society or penetrated so deeply into the causes of authoritarian systems. If the rise of democracy set some people free, at the same time it gave birth to a society in which the individual feels alienated and dehumanized. Using the insights of psychoanalysis as probing agents, Fromm’s work analyzes the illness of contemporary civilization as witnessed by its willingness to submit to totalitarian rule.

哥伦比亚大学首部漫画形式的博士论文 包揽多项国际大奖的天才奇书 一部人人都能读懂的学术著作 一次视觉思维的实验，探究人类构建知识体系的方式 一场对固化观点的起义，启发我们打破局限，跳出平面国 ◎ 编辑推荐 ☆ 一部人人都能看懂的学术著作 本书为哥伦比亚大学首部以漫画形式 呈现的学术论文，一部关于漫 画的漫画，一部探讨图像与文字关系的图像小说，一部研究视觉思维的视觉作品。作品的形式、内容与研究方法之间高度协调统一，作品本身就是对自身理论的践行，用潜移默化的方式引导读者观赏、理解、接受知识。 ☆ 涵盖范围广泛，实际意义深远;能读懂本书，就意味着你已经掌握获取更多知识的方法 本书主要研究视觉思维、多维视角、获取知识的方法论，同时涵盖哲学、天文、数学、光学、哲学、生态学、文学、艺术等诸多领域的研究成果。以阅读本书的方法阅读世界，有助于读者逃离“平面国”的禁锢，颠覆固化、僵化、常规的思维，开启动态、高效、多维的视角。 ☆ 非虚构漫画，却能带来的惊心动魄的阅读体验 从一维到多维，从平面国到浩瀚的宇宙，阅读本书如同体验一次头脑的奥德赛之旅，一路上布满丰富的知识和惊喜的启示，图像与文字配合无间，共同创造出史诗般波澜壮阔的场景。 ◎ 内容简介 社会给每个人固定的角色，我们被分门别类，放置在轨道上接受指令，按部就班地过完平面化的一生。单一的视角、狭隘而僵化的思维，使我们无法突破自己的局限，无限的潜能也被遏制。我们如同小说《平面国》中的居民，从不理解更高维度的存在。 《非平面》提供了一种认清自身局限，并进一步突破局限的方法。它融合了科学、哲学、艺术、文学和神话的多种观点，利用漫画的拼贴能力，教人以一种新的感知模式。这种新型的感知是一个动态的过程，它能整合不同的视点，从中开辟出一条重新发现世界的创新之路。 ◎ 媒体推荐 尼克·索萨尼斯的《非平面》是一本关于太阳底下所有事物的复杂、美丽、迷幻的冥想之书，是一部别具一格且启人心智的杰作。 ——斯考特·麦克劳德，《理解漫画》《雕塑家》的作者 索萨尼斯对漫画研究、符号学、认识论以及新兴的视觉思维研究都做出了深刻贡献。对于任何试图创造、批判或思考视觉叙事形式的人来说，都值得一读。 ——《出版周刊》 《非平面》内容丰富、构思巧妙、影响深远而又难以概括。它将自己从漫画的常规格式中解放出来，教导人们用超越常规和创新的方式来阅读这一部黑白艺术漫画。《非平面》应该成为学校的必修课。 ——《新政治家周刊》 索萨尼斯的《非平面》是一部天才奇书，是以漫画形式书写的哲学杰作。对于索萨尼斯来说，“平面”并非克莱门特·格林伯格所激赏的现代艺术的抽象品质，而是爱德温·艾勃特的“平面国”居民的可悲处境：在可以察觉的维度之外，无法理解其他维度的存在。索萨尼斯提出的解决方案是将视觉元素，尤其是绘画，纳入语言主导的智识。 ——《纽约时报》 ◎ 获奖记录 2015年： 《印刷》年度最佳设计书奖 Panels年度最受欢迎漫画 《纽约观察报》“十大创新书籍” 《独立报》年度最佳图像小说奖 《福布斯》年度最佳图像小说奖 《精选》年度杰出学术著作 2016年： 2015年林德·沃德“年度图像小说奖” 美国专业与学术杰出出版奖-媒体&文化研究类 美国专业与学术杰出出版奖-人文类 2017年 巴西Troféu HQMIX奖