《美国的智慧》是一本通俗哲学著作，介绍了美国建国以来的许许多多的重要哲学家、作家，例如富兰克林、爱默生、梭罗、桑塔雅那等等，内容涉及到社会生活的方方面面：生活、生命、情感、自由、幸福、自然、宗教、幽默与讽刺、爱情与婚姻、战争与和平，等等。 林语堂提倡“以自我为中心，以闲适为格调”的小品文创作。在本书中，林先生挥毫泼墨，收放自如，真正体现了这一风格。阅读本书，犹如与大师面对面交谈，心灵会得到一次净化和升华。

Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. A scholar who writes and teaches about South Asian literature and contemporary art with incredible virtuosity, he discusses writers as diverse as Morrison, Gordimer, and Conrad. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.

In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and foibles of the English people. She puts the English national character under her anthropological microscope, and finds a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and byzantine codes of behaviour. The rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid-pantomime rule. Class indicators and class anxiety tests. The money-talk taboo and many more ...Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments (using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig), Kate Fox discovers what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishness.

一.社会解读 娱乐解读 性情解读 二.漫游于现代与后现代之间