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Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics – new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellersKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph

榮獲2023皇家學會與卡內基非小說大獎，《感官之外的世界》帶領我們從動物的感官視角重新認識地球。嗅覺、磁場、震動與聲波，世界遠比人類所感知的更廣闊。這本書啟發學生擴展視野，培養科學素養與對自然的敬畏。**Winner of the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize**Discover the world as you've never seen it before - through the eyes of animals.'Immersive and mind-blowing' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesThe Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of this world.In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, welcoming us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. Showing us that in order to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.A NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST, SPECTATOR, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT and NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**Winner of 2023 Carnegie Medal

'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers'ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? Now with a new chapter, this is the eye-opening book fromSunday Timesbestselling author Jeanette Winterson.Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points - from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave planet Earth.'Very funny... A kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories'Spectator'Refreshingly optimistic'Guardian

This riotously colourful book takes a photographic journey through Queen Elizabeth II's ten decades of colour-blocked style. The photographs, which span the colours of the rainbow and a century of s

Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s two first novel - here they are together in one edition. Now I think it’s time to tell my story. Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s two first novels.Home from college on his summer break, the narrator spends his time drinking beer and smoking with his friend nicknamed the Rat, listening to the radio, thinking about writing and pursuing a relationship with a girl with nine fingers. Three years later he has moved to Tokyo to work as a translator and live with indistinguishable twin girls. But the Rat has remained behind.Haunted by memories of the past, the narrator embarks upon a quest to find the exact model of pinball machine he and the Rat had enjoyed playing years earlier: the three-flipper Spaceship. ‘Quintessential Murakami…an excellent introduction to a writer who has since become one of the most influential novelists of his generation’ Guardian ‘Murakami’s way of making emotionally resonant images

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism.Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the appalling civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, readers still come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves.This first full biography of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.

★ 潛入英國極右勢力第一線的一年真實紀錄★ 《Sunday Times》年度青年作家獎入圍作品★ 像間諜小說般緊張刺激的調查報導★ 揭開極端主義如何滲透現代社會的黑暗真相記者Harry Shukman化名「Chris」，帶著隱藏攝影機潛入英國極右勢力，展開長達一年的臥底調查。他深入接觸極端組織、陰謀論團體與種族主義社群，揭露這些勢力如何招募、運作與擴張。《Year of the Rat》以如同間諜小說般的緊張敘事，呈現一場真實且危險的調查行動，也揭開當代極端政治思潮的隱秘世界。Follows HOPE not hate researcher and reporter Harry Shukman on a year undercover infiltrating far-right groups in the UKSHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES CHARLOTTE AITKEN YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD‘Important and courageous’ James O’Brien'A tense account of going undercover inside Britain's far-right groups. At times it reads like a novel...only the stakes are real' Sunday TimesHarry Shukman led a double life. Friends and family knew him as a journalist, but unbeknownst to them he was secretly infiltrating the British far right. Equipped with a hidden camera, he posed as 'Chris' and set out to expose right-wing extremists.From canvassing with Britain First to befriending Holocaust deniers, neo-Nazis and a Silicon Valley-backed race-science organis

日本文學英譯本A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from theSunday Timesbestseller.What will you find in the city?READERS LOVETHE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS‘Felt like stepping into a dream’‘I really loved getting lost in this book’‘Everyone on this planet should read Murakami at least once in their lifetime’‘Riveting and irresistible’‘It’s magical, it’s wise . . . deeply comforting’A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, a breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from theSunday Timesbestseller.When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he fi

Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together. A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan. Unicorn skulls and voracious librarians.John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story, post-modern manifesto. All this rolled into one rip-roaring novel, End of the World and Hard-boiled Wonderland is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami’s international following.Tracking one man's descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. ‘A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head’ Jay McInerney‘His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind’ GuardianWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

《Patriot》是 Alexei Navalny 生前親筆撰寫的生命記錄。本書從他的政治啟蒙寫起，談到與家人的深厚連結、在公共領域的投入，以及多次遭受拘捕與監控的經歷。他並未以激昂語氣敘述，而是以平穩、直接的方式，呈現身為丈夫、行動者與被囚者的各種心境。書末收錄的獄中日記，更讓讀者看見他在極端環境中維持觀察與思考的能力。閱讀本書，能感受到他對自由與國家前途的持續關切，也能從中理解一位公共人物如何在壓力之下保持清醒與幽默。Patriot is the unforgettable life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our time.Alexei Navalny’s poisoning in 2020 by the Russian security services was a global news event. In 2024 he died in a brutal Arctic prison. He began writing Patriot whilst recovering from his poisoning; it ends with his secret prison diaries.HUSBANDHe was a beacon to millions and became the sole political threat to Vladimir Putin. This is his life in his own words: his political awakening, his marriage and beloved family, his total commitment to taking on a corrupt regime and his enduring love of Russia and its people.PRISONERWe witness his message of hope gain nationwide support, his many arrests and harassment, and the incredible attempt on his life. We understand why he felt he

A visceral, bite-size novella from a rising Asian American literary star with a striking, surreal, irreverent voice - one of the '5 under 35' National Book Award honorees'Thrillingly disorienting... ultra-sensual' GUARDIAN'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMANAn erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive loveSeven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, re-encounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days.As the two of them board the same bus – each dubiously claiming not to be following the other – their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories. As past and present bleed together, Seven can feel her desire begin to unmoor her from the flow of time.Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of violence and love, and the ghosts of girlhood friendship.'An intriguing tale of

Is it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love.Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life lived completely by, and for, oneself.Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed.With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries - from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman RushdieShe will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…‘Mesmerising…an epic tribute to the power of words’ELIF SHAFAK‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga, ‘victory city’.Over the next two hundred and fifty years, Pampa Kampana’s life becomes deeply interwoven with Bisnaga’s as she attempts to make good on the task that the goddess set for her: to give women equal agency in a patriarchal world. But all stories have

Legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. 'Extraordinary insights about music, emotion and the brain...An instant classic' Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on MusicThis Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music. It's also the story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in L.A.to become Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain and one of the most successful female record producers of all time. Now an award-winning professor of cognitive neuroscience, Dr Susan Rogers takes readers behind the scenes of record-making and leads us to musical self-awareness. She explains that everyone possesses a unique 'listener profile', shows how being musical can mean actively listening, and encourages us to think about the records that define us.Lively and illuminating, this book will refresh your playlists, deepen your connection to artists, and change the way you listen to music. 'Superb... thi

★《紐約時報》 2022 年度最好書★《金融時報》2023年度好書★ 入圍2023《英國皇家學會科學圖書獎》決選名單**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023***Shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2023*From the author of Spillover, the book that predicted the pandemic, Breathless is the story of Covid-19 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists tasked with fighting it.Bestelling author David Quammen draws on countless interviews with experts, including leading virologists, to take us inside the global race to understand SARS-CoV-2, it's ever-changing nature and capacity to kill. In doing so, he explains how new viruses emerge when we disrupt ecosystems and suggests why the coronavirus may be here to stay.By peering over the shoulders of the brilliant scientists leading the chase, Breathless uncovers the warnings from infectious diseases experts that went unheeded; and which clues are the most compelling in the hunt for the virus' origin.'A viral

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel ''So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use''Azaro, is a spirit child, who in many traditions of Nigeria exists between life and death. Born into a difficult world, Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.''In a magnificent feat of sustained imaginative writing, Okri spins a tale that is epic and intimate at the same time. The Famished Road rekindled my sense of wonder. It made me, at age 50, look at the world through the wide eyes of a child'' Michael Palin''This is a book to generate apostles. People will be moved and, with stars in their eyes, will pass on the word'' Time Out ''Ben Okri is incapable of writing a boring senten

《Man’s Search for Meaning》是精神科醫師Viktor E. Frankl以自身在奧斯威辛集中營的經歷所寫下的經典之作。面對極端苦難，他觀察到，那些仍願意安慰他人、分出最後一片麵包的人，往往能撐得更久。Frankl由此提出「意義療法」的核心信念——人類最深的渴望，是在生命中尋找意義。無論環境多絕望，我們仍可選擇面對的態度。本書超越時代，啟發無數讀者思考「如何活下去」。16 MILLION COPIES SOLD'A book to read, to cherish, to debate, and one that will ultimately keep the memories of the victims alive' John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped PyjamasA prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the concentration camp prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone.Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to sea

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.

A young woman is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of FlashlightA young fugitive is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning, Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel.‘I couldn’t put American Woman down’ Joan Didion‘A fascinating portrait of dangerous fragility’ New York TimesOn the run after an act of violence against the American government, twenty-five-year-old Jenny Shimada is drawn into caring for three younger fugitives. One of them, the kidnapped granddaughter of a San Francisco millionaire, has become a national celebrity for joining her captors’ revolutionary cell.Yet as Jenny and her charges pursue their destinies from an old farmhouse in upstate New York to California, isolation turns to paranoia and their radical ideals soon begin to fracture.‘Beautiful… A work of real achievement’ Jennifer Egan‘Mesmerising’ Vanity Fair‘Riveting, deeply affecting’ Jhumpa Lahiri'Amazing…compelling’ Los Angeles Times

Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-shortlisted author of FlashlightTwo outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping story of love and war – the debut novel from Susan Choi‘A major world writer’ New York TimesIn 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in the Tennessee mountains. Chuck is shy, speaks English haltingly, and on the subject of his earlier life in Korea he will not speak at all. Then he meets Katherine, a beautiful and solitary young woman who, like Chuck, is haunted by a dark episode from the past.Without quite knowing why, these two outsiders are drawn together, each sensing in the other the possibility of salvation.‘Epic and intimate’ The New Yorker‘A first novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness’ Los Angeles Times‘Elegantly wrought’ Vanity Fair

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 –The astonishing story of one family swept up in the tides of the twentieth century, ranging from Japan to the USA to the North Korean regimeSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025WATERSTONES FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026A moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime...‘Ferociously smart and full of surprises’ Eleanor Catton‘Engrossing... Full of brains and mystery’TelegraphOne evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.This sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk's disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night slowly unravels.A Bookof the Year for theGuardian,Time,New Y

‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one’ TOM HANKS‘If there’s one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other. What will AI do?Nexus is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive. **NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE NEW MATERIAL FOR PAPERBACK AND EBOOK**'One of the most remarkable intellects of our generation' RORY STEWART'A wake-up call in the gentlest, most urgent way' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI'This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN'A super narrative writer'

日本文學英譯本★ 日本貓文學經典原點，夏目漱石代表作全新譯本★ 一隻沒有名字的貓，諷刺整個人類社會★ 《The Travelling Cat Chronicles》與《The Guest Cat》讀者必讀★ 透過貓的眼睛，看見明治時代日本與人性的荒謬一隻沒有名字的流浪貓被學者收留後，開始觀察身邊形形色色的人類。透過牠冷靜又諷刺的視角，人類的虛榮、荒謬與矛盾逐漸浮現。《I Am a Cat》是日本文學大師夏目漱石的經典作品，以幽默筆觸描繪明治時代社會與人性百態，是一部至今仍充滿魅力的諷刺小說。The original Japanese Cat-Lit Classic. Now published in a new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the CityDiscover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City.'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...'Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted by a local scholar and thrown headfirst into the absurd upper middle-class world of Meiji-era Japan. Now a noble but somewhat world-weary observer, he has ample opportunity to dissect the strange ways and convoluted conversations of the human race.First published at the turn of the 20th century, and regarded as one of Japan’s most iconic classics, I Am a Cat is a captivating exploration of id

The legendary author of Behave shows that free will can not exist and explores the radical and disturbing implicationsOne of the world’s greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact. The perfect Christmas gift for readers interested in science and the philosophy of life.‘One of the best scientist-writers of our time’ OLIVER SACKSWhat if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environment, and ultimately both are beyond our control. In a world without free will, we must completely rethink what we mean by choice, responsibility, morality and justice. Sapolsky’s extraordinary book does exactly this, guiding us toward a profoundly fairer, more humane way of living together.‘A joy to read.

Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience,Homelandsis a living, breathing contemporary history of Europe by one of our greatest writers**Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize 2024****AFinancial TimesBest Book of 2023**'A moving love letter to Europe' Lea Ypi, author ofFreeDrawing from the people who lived it,Homelandsexplores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid experiences: from his father's memories of D-Day and his own surveillance at the hands of the Stasi to interviewing Albanian guerrillas in the mountains of Kosovo and angry teenagers in the poorest quarters of Paris, as well as advising prime ministers, chancellors and presidents.Homelandsis at once a living, breathing history of a period of unprecedented progress, a clear-eyed account of how so much then went wrong and an urgent call to the citizens

The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing' Robert MacfarlaneThe more we learn about fungi, the l

Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century''s greatest killer – and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.''Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a reimagining of the past'' GuardianWith a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918–1920 was the greatest human disaster, not only of the twentieth century, but possibly in all of recorded history. And yet, in our popular conception it exists largely as a footnote to World War I.In Pale Rider, Laura Spinney recounts the story of an overlooked pandemic, tracing it from Alaska to Brazil, from Persia to Spain, and from South Africa to Odessa. She shows how the pandemic was shaped by the interaction of a virus and the humans it encountered; and how this devastating natural experiment put both the ingenuity and the vulnerability of humans to the test.Laura Spinney demonstrates that the Spani

A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYRediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L.

One Sunday morning in October, Istvan and his wife Vera start their day as usual. While sifting through the fragments of the family history in an attempt to understand this glamorous and enigmatic cou

Why do women have sex? Is it purely for pleasure or the desire to reproduce? In their ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Cindy Meston and evolutionary psychologist David Buss investigate the underlying sexual desires of women and identify 237 distinct motivations for sex. Drawing on more than a thousand intensive interviews conducted solely for the book, as well as their pioneering research on physiological response and evolutionary emotions, Meston and Buss give us a remarkably complex and nuanced portrait of female sexuality. They explore the use of sex as a defensive tactic against a man''s infidelity (protection), as a ploy to boost self-confidence (status), as a barter for gifts (resource acquisition), or even as a cure for a headache (medication).Why Women Have Sex explores the deep-seated psychology and biology of female sexuality, and promises to inform every woman''s - and her partner''s - awareness of her relationship to sex and her own sexuality.

本書《Salt》由知名歷史書作家 Mark Kurlansky 撰寫，從一粒鹽出發，講述這種看似平凡的物質如何塑造人類文明。鹽曾是貨幣、戰略資源與貿易核心，影響國家興衰與戰爭決策。Kurlansky 以輕快筆調串連古今，帶領讀者穿梭於鹽礦、鹽路與廚房之間，看見歷史的味道與世界的連結。Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind.Wars have been fought over salt and, while salt taxes secured empires across Europe and Asia, they have also inspired revolution - Gandhi's salt march in 1930 began the overthrow of British rule in India. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is produced to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of world history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.

'A chomping, romping, savoury tour de force: by turns hilarious, and seriously thought provoking' Simon SchamaFor most of his adult life, Bill Buford had secretly wanted to find himself in France, in