《經濟學人》2016年度書單
得到 app 王爍的訂閱專欄提到書單他只關注《經濟學人》年讀書單。於是我就好奇去找,整理下來給自己,有時間可以找一些來讀。
以下是《經濟學人》2016年度書單,來源 Books of the Year 2016 。2016年度推薦書單有關中國、語言、微生物、遺傳、不平等和中世紀的手稿。
p.s. 其中很多書籍由於眾所周知的原因,並不能在國內看到,可移步美國 Amazon 查找。
政治與時事
Politics and current affairs
China』s Future. By David Shambaugh.
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia』s New Nationalism. By Charles Clover.
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas. By Markus Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau.
CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping. By Kerry Brown.
China』s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. By Minxin Pei.
The Egyptians: A Radical Story. By Jack Shenker.
Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan. By Isabel Buchanan.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. By J.D. Vance.
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye. By Sonny Liew.
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine. By Ben Ehrenreich.
傳記和回憶錄
Biography and memoir
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between. By Hisham Matar.
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years. By John Guy.
Half-Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India. By Vinay Sitapati.
When Breath Becomes Air. By Paul Kalanithi.
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. By Gareth Stedman Jones.
Negroland: A Memoir. By Margo Jefferson.
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 「Civilisation」. By James Stourton.
Born to Run. By Bruce Springsteen.
But You Did Not Come Back. By Marceline Loridan-Ivens.
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe. A Biography. By Elaine Showalter.
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman. By Minoo Dinshaw.
歷史
History
The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China. By Philip Ball.
The Romanovs: 1613-1918. By Simon Sebag Montefiore.
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914. By Richard Evans.
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire. By Peter Wilson.
Lenin on the Train. By Catherine Merridale.
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. By Philippe Sands.
經濟與商業
Economics and business
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The US Standard of Living since the Civil War. By Robert Gordon.
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalisation. By Branko Milanovic.
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization. By Richard Baldwin.
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan. By Sebastian Mallaby.
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built. By Duncan Clark.
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story. By John Bloom.
社會、文化與旅行
Culture, society and travel
Cleverlands: The Secrets Behind the Success of the World』s Education Superpowers. By Lucy Crehan.
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. By Timothy Garton Ash.
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. By Gary Younge.
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives. By Helen Pearson.
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. By Christopher de Hamel.
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future. By Johan Norberg.
The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India』s Young. By Somini Sengupta.
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World』s Largest Refugee Camp. By Ben Rawlence.
Beethoven for a Later Age: Living with the String Quartets. By Edward Dusinberre.
How to Listen to Jazz. By Ted Gioia.
時尚
Fiction
The Vegetarian. By Han Kang.
War and Turpentine. By Stefan Hertmans.
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047. By Lionel Shriver.
Swing Time. By Zadie Smith.
科技科學
Science and technology
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life. By Ed Yong.
The Gene: An Intimate History. By Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. By Luke Dittrich.
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind over Body. By Jo Marchant.
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars. By Dava Sobel.
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