Revered sushi chef Jiro Ono strives for perfection in his work, while his eldest son, Yoshikazu, has trouble living up to his father's legacy.

巴勃罗·聂鲁达，一个复杂的人，一个才情卓越、少年成名、爱自然如同爱女人、美酒和佳肴、其情诗混合着深情和肉欲的智利伟大诗人，一个共产党员，一位视社会正义和诗艺同等重要的直言不讳的政治家，一位驻外大使和总统候选人，1971的诺贝尔文学奖得主，生前却数度在自己的祖国智利成为不受欢迎的人。 今年是诺贝尔获奖诗人聂鲁达诞辰百年，本书选编的目的就在于全面介绍聂鲁达（1971年诺贝尔文学奖）的诗歌

以务实求真、敢于直言被誉为20世纪中国有良知的知识分子典范的清华大学教授、著名水利专家黄万里（1911～2001），出身名门，受业名师，先在唐山交大学工，后赴美国康奈大学、爱荷华大学、伊利诺大学专攻水利，获硕士、博士学位。曾在西南、西北、东北从事水利建设，坚持实地勘察，科学办事。1957年从黄河实际出发，坚决反对修建三门峡大坝，并批评苏联专家的规划，加之所作的《花丛小语》直刺时弊而获罪，被划为右派，历尽磨难。22年后才得以平反昭雪，重返讲台，继续为水利真理而奋争，直到90高龄辞世。 黄万里家人授权作者立传，并提供近200幅珍贵图片见证历史沧桑，书中全面展现黄万里的丰富人生、感情世界和多彩才华，对黄万里的父亲、著名教育家革命家黄炎培，妻子西玉隽及岳父、国民党元老丁惟汾，烈士二哥、全国政协副主席、全国工商联主席黄孟复之父黄竞武以及黄氏大家族中众多成员与师生亲友包括三代大丫头、三代四博士、跨国亲朋、院士女婿、患难同事等等，都有生动的记述，读之宛如一部历史画卷展现眼前。

关于马克•布洛赫（1886-1944）的第一部传记。布洛赫是一名历史学家，两次世界大战的战士，抵抗运动的领袖，被逮捕后遭到严刑拷打，最终英勇就义。本书以大量私人书信、日记和资料为基础，参考众多尚未公开的档案，呈现了这位爱国者在第三共和国下的光辉一生。作为历史学家，布洛赫最为人熟知的或许是《历史学家的技艺》——对自己的人生事业所做的一系列发人深省的思考——以及《社会经济历史年鉴》杂志的联合创办人。他生活的时代阴云遍布，两次世界大战、反犹主义和集权主义使他深受影响。他勇于直面这些事件，最终成为某种智力型的英雄，他的一生则是竭力捍卫自由批判探索精神的缩影。

As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself. Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own. In this volume, Wang talks about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. He was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents’ orientation was always to China. Wang grew up in the plural, multi-ethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya (now Malaysia). He learned English in colonial schools and was taught the Confucian classics at home. After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya. Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world.

本書是第一部研究太虛大師佛教改革始末的英文專書。作者除了大量引用原始中文資料外，亦引用了許多西方學者與傳教士的評論，包括太虛思想萌芽的歷史背景、一生的行止與全球性的弘法嘗試，以及其大乘佛教思想的願景架構與遺澤等，研究範圍十分完整，兼具東、西方及跨宗教的觀點與分析，為讀者提供了有別於坊間同類書籍的珍貴資料。 太虛大師是二十世紀最重要、最具爭議性的佛教改革家與思想家。他於民初發起以「人生佛教」思想為主軸的佛教復興運動，試圖改革僧伽制度、提倡積極參與社會活動，以菩薩行在這個世界建立淨土，並實現成佛的誓願。他在當時的佛教界與文化界掀起了一番驚濤駭浪，所獲褒貶不一，甚至曾有保守派人士視他為危險分子。 太虛自認在佛教改革上是失敗的，然而在他圓寂半個世紀後的今天，他所撒下的「人生佛教」種子，經歷了風雨飄搖的動盪年代，已然在台灣佛教界生根並且開花、結果。無論歷史如何評論他的成敗，不容置疑的是，他的影響力此刻正塑造著漢傳佛教的現代面貌。

Harrison C. White is one of American sociology's preeminent thinkers, yet until now his endeavour to develop a general theoretical perspective on the basis of social network analysis has remained largely unexamined. This book opens out for the first time White's contribution to those interested generally in his social network approach, but daunted by the complexity and mathematical modelling often employed in his published work. Special attention is paid to White's model of production markets, as an application of his general sociology. The book draws on interview material with White himself, as well as with several of his past students.

海外華人史學大家王賡武在年近九旬之際寫下自己「長年半游牧生涯」的故事。他的人生以殖民時代的東南亞為起點，歷經殖民、戰爭、動亂、革命，大半生在三大洲間遷徙， 構成二十世紀的歷史洪流之中一部豐富而獨特的流浪史。 接續上卷《家園何處是》，下卷《心安即是家》的故事從王賡武身份認同的廢墟上展開， 繼續述說他輾轉於新加坡、吉隆坡、倫敦、劍橋、坎培拉、香港的探索旅程。王賡武逐漸從滿腔熱血、致力於「建國造史」的年輕知識精英，轉而投向大學校園「尋求更大的自由」。 這段旅程的同行者是本書另一位作者林娉婷。我們會從她的角度回看那些年，她與年輕的鬍子詩人王賡武相識於馬來亞大學，兩人在倫敦成婚，在異鄉生子，先後遷居五個國家、七座城市，共同尋求身份認同的歸宿：「我們住在什麼地方，那裏就是我們的家。」

"Mathematicians" is a remarkable collection of ninety-two photographic portraits, featuring some of the most amazing mathematicians of our time. Acclaimed photographer Mariana Cook captures the exuberant and colorful personalities of these brilliant thinkers and the superb images are accompanied by brief autobiographical texts written by each mathematician. Together, the photographs and words illuminate a diverse group of men and women dedicated to the absorbing pursuit of mathematics. The compelling black-and-white portraits introduce readers to mathematicians who are young and old, fathers and daughters, and husbands and wives. They include Fields Medal winners, those at the beginning of major careers, and those who are long-established celebrities in the discipline. Their candid personal essays reveal unique and wide-ranging thoughts, opinions, and humor, as the mathematicians discuss how they became interested in mathematics, why they love the subject, how they remain motivated in the face of mathematical challenges, and how their greatest contributions have paved new directions for future generations. "Mathematicians" in the book include David Blackwell, Henri Cartan, John Conway, Pierre Deligne, Timothy Gowers, Frances Kirwan, Peter Lax, William Massey, John Milnor, Cathleen Morawetz, John Nash, Karen Uhlenbeck, and many others. Conveying the beauty and joy of mathematics to those both within and outside the field, this photographic collection is an inspirational tribute to mathematicians everywhere.

The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period - epitomized by the events of May 1968 - were as permanently marked in their worldviews as their parents had been by the depression and World War II. Sociology was at the center of these events, and it changed decisively because of them. "The Disobedient Generation" collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s." It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class, race, the establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves. This is an intensely personal collective portrait of a generation in a time of struggle.

Welcome to “East Hudson,” an elite private school in New York where the students are attentive, the colleagues are supportive, and the tuition would make the average person choke on its string of zeroes. You might think a teacher here would have little in common with most other teachers in America, but as this veteran educator—writing anonymously—shows in this refreshingly honest account, all teachers are bound by a common thread. Stripped of most economic obstacles and freed up by anonymity, he is able to tell a deeper story about the universal conditions, anxieties, foibles, generosities, hopes, and complaints that comprise every teacher’s life. The results are sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, but always recognizable to anyone who has ever walked into a classroom, closed the door, and started their day. This is not a how-to manual. Rather, the author explores the dimensions of teaching that no one else has, those private thoughts few would dare put into a book but that form an important part of the day-to-day experience of a teacher. We see him ponder the clothes that people wear, think frankly about money (and the imbalance of its distribution), get wrangled by parents, provide on-the-fly psychotherapy, drape niceties over conversations that are actually all-out warfare, drop an f-bomb or two, and deal with students who are just plain unlikeable. We also see him envy, admire, fear, and hope; we see him in adulation and uncertainty, and in energy and exhaustion. We see him as teachers really are: human beings with a complex, rewarding, and very important job. There has been no shortage of commentary on the teaching profession over the decades, but none quite like this. Unflinching, wry, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, it’s written for every teacher out there who has ever scrambled, smirked, or sighed—and toughed it out nonetheless.

Osamu Tezuka has often been called "the god of manga" and "the Walt Disney of Japan," but he was far more than that. Tezuka was Walt Disney, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Tim Burton, and Carl Sagan all rolled into one incredibly prolific creator, changing the face of Japanese culture forever. Best known for Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion, Tezuka was instrumental in developing Japanese animation and modern manga comics."" "The Art of Osamu Tezuka "is the first authorized biography celebrating his work and life and featuring over 300 images--many of which have never been seen outside of Japan. With text by respected manga expert Helen McCarthy, "The Art of Osamu Tezuka: ""God of Manga "pays tribute to the work of an artist, writer, animator, doctor, entrepreneur, and traveler whose curious mind spawned dozens of animated films, and over 170,000 pages of comics art in one astonishingly creative lifetime."The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of ""Manga "also includes an exclusive 45-minute DVD documentary covering Tezuka's prolific career, from his early manga characters to his later animation work. The package is out of the ordinary as well. It is a hardcover with an onlay and a vinyl jacket.

鲍勃·迪伦历时三年在手动打字机上敲出来的回忆录，记录的不仅是作者发明创造和灵感进发的辉煌时刻，还有那些意气消沉的时刻，曾经想退却，不想努力乃至失败，但它们如何仍有可取之处。迪伦对此毫不讳言，没有人期待他会如此开诚布公。他袒露这些瞬间，正视它们，把握它们，然后超越它们。这是了不起的成就，像亨利·米勒最隐私的作品一样，这也是一部开创时代——书中所描述的时代——的作品，揭示人类精神的种种可能。它们并不都是轻而易举的可能。终究，它只是生命，从来没有像这样被书写过的生命。 20世纪最伟大的摇滚音乐家，美国文化的符号——鲍勃·迪伦，不仅称得上是20世纪最伟大的摇滚音乐家，更是一位杰出的诗人，一位语言大师（他是惟一一位获诺贝尔文学奖提名的音乐家）。这本鲍勃·迪伦历时三年在手动打字机上敲出来的回忆录，最终证明其作者是一位杰出的散文大师，一位引人注目的文化观察家，和一位化装成荡秋千演员的诗人。这本书揭开了这位大众文化偶像的神秘面纱，展现一代才子尽情释放生命的风采。被评选为《纽约时报》等全球数十家著名媒体2003年年度最佳图书。