Exquisite images from award-winning National Geographic photographer Robert Clark offer a captivating perspective on the vast beauty and myriad functions of a seemingly simple thing: the bird feather. Each detailed close-up is paired with informative text about the utility and evolution of the feather it depicts, making this handsome marriage of art and science the ideal gift for bird lovers, natural history buffs, and photography enthusiasts.
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'One of the most beautiful books of the year... A symphony to the wonders of the natural world, and a stand against the disappearance of wild childhood' The BooksellerFrom bestselling Landmarks author Robert Macfarlane and acclaimed artist & author Jackie MorrisAll over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. These are the words of the natural world -- Dandelion, Otter, Bramble and Acorn, all gone. The rich landscape of wild imagination and wild play is rapidly fading from our children's minds.The Lost Words stands against the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural world they invoke. With acrostic spell-poems by award-winning writer Robert Macfarlane and hand-painted illustration by Jackie Morris, this enchanting book captures the irreplaceable magic of language and nature for all ages.
“When the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. The words were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these ‘lost words’ included acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the words taking their place were attachment, blog, broadband, bullet-point, cut-and-paste, and voice-mail….
In response, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris set out to make a ‘spell book’ that would conjure back twenty of these lost words, and the beings they name, from acorn to wren. By the magic of word and paint, they sought to summon these words again into the voices, stories, and dreams of children and adults alike, and to celebrate the wonder and importance of everyday nature.”
图书馆没有纸质书,我只能在 YouTube 上看一下 flip through 解馋,超大开本,印刷和设计都超级精美,文字排版也有巧思,像是跳动的音符,也像咒语——要唤回那些失落的自然的密码。
A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.
“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill Soloway
The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy—which simply meant housewife—or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women.
Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language—from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place?
Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions and more—and how we can use the answers to effect real social change. Montell’s irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as:
Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults
How to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your Grammar
Fuck it: An Ode to Cursing While Female
Cyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia
Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
Totally commercial writing. What I’m looking for is in-depth analysis and nuanced exploration of language phenomena, rather than a collection of witty, bite-sized statements in a pop-culture way.
上面那本的英文版。我接着中文停下的部分又读了 1/4 英文非常不耐烦,作者是根本没有写长句的能力吗?破折号破折号,括号括号,互联网俚语,和中文各种网络热词如出一辙的风格让我耐心尽失,于是后 1/2 在 Audible 里开了倍速(是的!我居然能开倍速听英语了!说明这书是多么没有信息量!)听完了。期间翻了无数个白眼。最后还滑向了下半身器官名词探讨,听的有声书简直像被霸凌,听了一百遍 penis dick pussy cunt 之类我想杀人了!作者还提高音量在我耳边尖叫,我简直要抓狂。难道成为 feminist 还要包括学习这些词汇?还有,停止认领一些糟糕的语言习惯并单方面认为是女性独有 OK?不要把这说成仅是女性的问题然后还试图正当化,这非常可笑。
许多现象是真实存在的,然而作者引用的论据和得出的结论却是完全不能让我信服。作为一本宣传自己是“语言学”相关的书,正文里却只充满了美式白人年轻女性口语,并且书后毫无参考文献和引用列表,严谨性大打折扣。大量使用俚语/网络语言的写作风格也让我不喜。我完全不赞成作者单方面把许多对糟糕语言习惯的批评简单归因成对女性的蔑视,以及把语言习惯粗暴分成男性的和女性的。Like, you know 等的泛滥在许多人群中都可见到,作者却认为这仅是对女性的打压并为这些习惯辩护。无法同意她的如此多观点。
不想花费时间给一本我不喜欢的书写长评——但我好像也打了这么多字了,其实我之前还在读书会语音连线时激情喷了它一个多小时。最后再贴一下 goodreads 上点赞最高的
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"Wonderfully strange and strangely wonderful, Peter Van den Ende's Wanderer is an epic dream captured in superbly meticulous detail."—Shaun Tan
As with Shaun Tan's The Arrival, it gives us collective goosebumps to introduce the singular talent and imagination of Peter Van den Ende to North America. Without a word, and with Escher-like precision, Van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs and between icebergs, through schools of fish, swaying water plants, and terrifying sea monsters. The little boat is all alone, and while its aloneness gives it the chance to wonder at the fairy-tale world above and below the waves uninterrupted, that also means it must save itself when it storms. And so it does. We hope that readers young and old will find the strength and inspiration that we did in this quietly powerful story about growing, learning, and life's ups and downs.
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