失意的小说家兼教授塞隆尼斯·“蒙克”·埃里森（杰弗里·怀特 Jeffrey Wright 饰）出于怨恨，用开玩笑的方式写了一本小说，书中充斥着古怪刻板印象的黑人形象。不料这本书出版后大受好评，不仅获得文学大奖，还被拍成电影。

2014 film

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.

Doug Stanhope has been a stand-up comic since 1990. Recorded in Salt Lake City, UT at The Complex on July 19, 2011, this is the follow up to the widely praised Oslo: Burning The Bridge To Nowhere.

1972 film by Bob Fosse

2006 film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. (From the Inside Flap)

What’s the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American—in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I. So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn’t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That’s what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree. But June can’t get away from Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June’s (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang’s novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.

Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, “feminist” has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyoncé. It drives advertising and marketing campaigns for everything from wireless plans to underwear to perfume, presenting what’s long been a movement for social justice as just another consumer choice in a vast market. Individual self-actualization is the goal, shopping more often than not the means, and celebrities the mouthpieces. But what does it mean when social change becomes a brand identity? Feminism’s splashy arrival at the center of today’s media and pop-culture marketplace, after all, hasn’t offered solutions to the movement’s unfinished business. Planned Parenthood is under sustained attack, women are still paid 77 percent—or less—of the man’s dollar, and vicious attacks on women, both on- and offline, are utterly routine. Andi Zeisler, a founding editor of Bitch Media, draws on more than twenty years’ experience interpreting popular culture in this biting history of how feminism has been co-opted, watered down, and turned into a gyratory media trend. Surveying movies, television, advertising, fashion, and more, Zeisler reveals a media landscape brimming with the language of empowerment, but offering little in the way of transformational change. Witty, fearless, and unflinching, We Were Feminists Once is the story of how we let this happen, and how we can amplify feminism’s real purpose and power.

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.

When first published in 1977, "A Literature of Their Own" quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the long but neglected tradition of women writers in England. A classic of feminist criticism, its impact continues to be felt today. This revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception and a new postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women.

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude. John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us nothing on the basis of which to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. Like an athlete in “the zone,” you were called to a harmonious attunement with the world, so absorbed in it that you couldn’t make a “wrong” choice. If our culture no longer takes for granted a belief in God, can we nevertheless get in touch with the Homeric moods of wonder and gratitude, and be guided the meanings they reveal? ALL THINGS SHINING claims we can. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homer’s polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and finally to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a new--and very old—way to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world. Dreyfus, a philosophy at Berkeley for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for people’s everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the top 40 on iTunesU. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard, is an eloquent new voice. His sensitivity to the sadness of the culture – and to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it away – will capture a generation adrift. Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day. — — — — — — http://books.simonandschuster.com/All-Things-Shining/Hubert-Dreyfus/9781416596158

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.

无权无势者做些脏活，有权有势者坐享其成。 维持社会运转的必要工作却遭忽视甚至唾骂。 我们假装看不见，但不平等已经到了最危险的时候。 - 【编辑推荐】 ⭐当代社会残酷叙事，观察不平等的新维度，揭露打工人承受的道德成本 重新审视社会中不可或缺但道德存疑的职业：屠宰场劳工，监狱看守，石油钻井操作员…… 这类工作因其暴力与伤害，被视为肮脏下作，使从事者蒙受污名、羞辱、精神创伤，但所谓“脏活”得到了社会公众的默许，为了保证良心清白，我们宁愿被蒙在鼓里。 这些隐形劳工是被遗忘的百分之一，承担了社会百分之百的肮脏工作。他们是结构性不平等的受害者，却被剥夺了无辜。 当工作不再享有尊严，贫穷意味着道德失格，无权无势力者出卖良心，有权有势者坐享其成。我们是否有退出的选择？ ⭐风险社会中精英的傲慢，曝光资本、权力、技术的共谋，如何剥夺穷人仅剩的良心 在原油泄漏后，登上头条的是满身油污的鹈鹕，而非殒命的钻井员工。屠宰场安全生产丑闻曝光，食客们担心的是盘中肉，而非受虐的工人。非法抓取个人信息的程序员手握高薪，使“不作恶”成为空谈。 文明使暴力隐藏在社会生活幕后，站在道德高地的社会精英，用特权换取美德，用消费主义洗脱与恶行的共谋。 我们置身文明的国度，却成为野蛮的共犯。对远方的苦难洞若观火，对眼下的罪恶视而不见。 ⭐新闻纪实的精彩之作，社会学者的温情书写，为每个被噤声和掩盖的打工人立传 深入美国腹地，探访高墙之下、地理与社会的边缘地带。奥威尔笔下的矿井工人，狄更斯所见的教养所囚犯，也在本书中重新现身。 作者以非虚构笔法与社会学视角，基于数年追踪采访，用详实数据和社会理论重新阐释了不平等的当代意涵。 - 【各界推荐】 新冠大流行暴露出我们对基础工人的依赖，而早在此之前，就有一群人做着我们或许不愿去想的工作。在这本深刻、敏锐、文笔优美的书中，埃亚勒·普雷斯探讨了从事这些工作的人的生活：监狱惩教官、无人机操纵员、屠宰场女工。《脏活》没有妄下评判，而是正视了一系列深刻而棘手的道德问题。它揭示了共谋的纽带，这些故事并非属于他人，我们每个人都牵涉其中。这是一本精辟、重要的书。 ——帕特里克·拉登·基夫，《疼痛帝国》作者 在这本内容丰富、令人不安的书中，埃亚勒·普雷斯强调了我们要求最弱势的社会成员从事某些蒙受污名和道德伤害的工作。在公众视野之外，监狱看守、屠宰场工人和无人机操纵员干着社会中的“脏活”。这本书揭示了我们所有人是如何卷入我们外包给他人的肮脏工作，从而促使公众反思工作中的不平等。 ——迈克尔·桑德尔，《精英的傲慢》作者 令人不安和必要……《脏活》几乎每一页都向我们展示了丑恶，但作者仍然希望我们抛开愤世嫉俗和悲观主义，和他一起寻找加强我们之间道德纽带的方法。 ——《纽约时报书评》 并不是玫瑰色的眼镜阻碍了对真实情况的清晰认识；正是精英傲慢的金框眼镜，蒙蔽了特权阶层，让他们对人群中的底层视而不见。 ——《美国学人》 - 【内容简介】 为什么有些职业既不道德又不体面，还有人抢着做？当工作不再享有尊严，我们是否有退出的选择？在这本讲述职业与不平等的非虚构著作中，作者援引了“脏活”的概念，即社会中不可或缺但被视为肮脏、下作的工作，如屠宰场的移民劳工。这些人无权无势、朝不保夕，还会遭受羞辱与良心谴责。而公众宁愿被蒙在鼓里。本书描述了“看不见的工作”背后，资本如何与权力、技术共谋，塑造了不平等的权力结构，揭示了工作中隐藏道德成本的真相。

Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. He describes how these two radically opposed views have manifested themselves in the political controversies of the past two centuries, including such contemporary issues as welfare reform, social justice, and crime. Updated to include sweeping political changes since its first publication in 1987, this revised edition of A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans who get straight to the point ( your presentation was simply awful ) Latin Americans and Asians who are steeped in hierarchy Scandinavians who think the best boss is just one of the crowd,the result can be, well, sometimes interesting, even funny, but often disastrous.Even with English as a global language, it's easy to fall into cultural traps that endanger careers and sink deals when, say, a Brazilian manager tries to fathom how his Chinese suppliers really get things done, or an American team leader tries to get a handle on the intra-team dynamics between his Russian and Indian team members.In The Culture Map , Erin Meyer provides a field-tested model for decoding how cultural differences impact international business. She combines a smart analytical framework with practical, actionable advice for succeeding in a global world.

◆ 编辑推荐—————————————————————————————————— 把道德立场放入社会理论，面向今天的社会理论指南 从社会学经典理论至后现代主义、女权主义、酷儿理论、后殖民主义的连贯梳理 ◆ 内容简介—————————————————————————————————— 本书是美国社会学家史蒂文·塞德曼的著作，梳理了从社会学成立伊始至21世纪初期的社会学理论。在清晰明确地概括每个社会理论家、社会理论流派的学说之外，作者还结合写作时的社会环境与背景对各个理论进行了评述，将道德维度加入社会理论，将社会学的种种承诺、概念和知识相对化，试图以此将社会理论带入公共生活的讨论中，融入有关社会世界当下与未来面貌的持续对话和冲突之中。就像作者在序言中所说的：“知识能够让我们的生活有所不同，其首要价值就蕴含于知识所想象并助力缔造的那些类型的生活。正是这样的希望，在大约两百年的时间里引领着社会学和现代社会理论的。也正是这一希望，激发了本书。”