在暖暖冬日的閑暇時(shí)光，靜靜地閱讀，真是再愜意不過(guò)的一件事情了。英國(guó)《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》周刊網(wǎng)站近日盤點(diǎn)了2018年度圖書，分類別推薦了今年值得一讀的好書，推薦給愛(ài)好閱讀的你。

一、歷史類

1. A History of America in 100 Maps. By Susan Schulten.

《蘊(yùn)藏在100張地圖中的美國(guó)歷史》（作者：蘇珊·舒爾滕）

A collection of maps, by turns beautiful and eccentric, which charts the making of America. It shows the role of maps in exploration and conquest and proves that, while some aspects of American political geography are enduring, much in the country’s make-up has, like the banks of the Mississippi, always been in flux.

一系列美麗又奇異的地圖勾畫了美國(guó)的形成。本書展現(xiàn)了地圖在探索與征服過(guò)程中所發(fā)揮的作用，證明雖然美國(guó)政治地理的一些方面一成不變，但大部分構(gòu)成卻如同密西西比河的河岸一樣，永遠(yuǎn)處在不斷變化之中。

in flux：在變化的，處于不斷變化中

2. Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History. By Steven Zipperstein.

《大屠殺：基什尼奧夫和歷史的傾斜》（作者：史蒂文·齊珀施泰因）

The pogrom in Kishinev in 1903 became a byword for anti-Semitic violence for Jews everywhere. The event roused Zionists and Jew-haters alike.

1903年發(fā)生在基什尼奧夫的大屠殺成為針對(duì)世界各地猶太人的反猶暴力活動(dòng)代表事件。這起事件既引發(fā)了猶太復(fù)國(guó)主義運(yùn)動(dòng)，也激起了仇恨猶太人的情緒。

二、商業(yè)與經(jīng)濟(jì)類

1. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights. By Adam Winkler.

《我們這些公司：美國(guó)企業(yè)如何贏得民事權(quán)利》（作者：亞當(dāng)·溫克勒）

“For most of American history”, the author comments, “the Supreme Court failed to protect the dispossessed and the marginalized, with the justices claiming to be powerless in the face of hostile public sentiment.” Meanwhile “the court has insisted that broad public sentiment favoring business regulation must bend to the demands of the constitution.” A lively survey of a neglected but important feature of American history.

作者表示：“在美國(guó)歷史上的大部分時(shí)間里，最高法院未能保護(hù)被剝奪財(cái)產(chǎn)者和被邊緣化的群體，面對(duì)充滿敵意的公眾情緒，正義顯得軟弱無(wú)力。”與此同時(shí)“法院一直堅(jiān)持認(rèn)為支持商業(yè)規(guī)程的大眾情緒必須服從憲法的要求”。這本書是對(duì)美國(guó)歷史中被忽視但又很重要一面的真實(shí)調(diào)查。

dispossessed[,d?sp?'z?st] : adj.被逐出的；無(wú)依無(wú)靠的；失去產(chǎn)業(yè)的

2. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order. By Kai-Fu Lee.

《人工智能超級(jí)大國(guó)：中國(guó)、硅谷以及新世界秩序》（作者：李開(kāi)復(fù)）

The writer anticipates the coming contest to dominate artificial intelligence. He thinks China will crush Silicon Valley because it has more data and competes more ruthlessly.

作者在書中預(yù)言了即將到來(lái)的主導(dǎo)人工智能領(lǐng)域的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。他認(rèn)為中國(guó)將碾壓硅谷，因?yàn)橹袊?guó)擁有更多數(shù)據(jù)而且在競(jìng)爭(zhēng)方面更加殘酷。

3. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. By Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl.

《激進(jìn)的市場(chǎng)：為建立公平社會(huì)而鏟除資本主義與民主》（作者：埃里克·波斯納、E·格倫·韋爾）

A law professor and an economist argue that the way out of liberalism’s impasse is to expand the role of markets, not to subdue them. Some of their ideas—on property rights, elections, immigration and much besides—are impractical, and others eccentric; but together they point to a possible response to the challenges of populism and protectionism.

身為法律學(xué)教授及經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家的作者認(rèn)為，擺脫自由主義僵局的方式是擴(kuò)大市場(chǎng)，而不是削弱市場(chǎng)的作用。自由主義的某些觀念，比如針對(duì)知識(shí)產(chǎn)權(quán)、選舉和移民等的觀點(diǎn)，是不切實(shí)際的，還有些觀點(diǎn)甚至很離譜，但在面臨民粹主義和貿(mào)易保護(hù)主義帶來(lái)的挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)，或許可以指出一種應(yīng)對(duì)之道。

impasse [?m'pɑ?s; '?mpɑ?s]: n.僵局；死路

三、傳記與回憶錄類

1. Barracoon. By Zora Neale Hurston.

《巴拉坑》（作者：佐拉·尼爾·赫斯頓）

Kossula, later called Cudjo Lewis, was one of the last Africans to be kidnapped into slavery in America. Interviewed at his home in Alabama in 1927-28, he vividly recalled his capture and illegal transportation on the eve of America’s civil war.

后來(lái)被稱作庫(kù)喬·劉易斯的科蘇拉是被拐賣到美國(guó)做奴隸的最后一批非洲人。他在1927年到1928年間在位于阿拉巴馬州的家中接受了作者采訪，生動(dòng)回憶了在美國(guó)南北戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)前夕自己被抓并被非法運(yùn)往美國(guó)的經(jīng)歷。

2. Napoleon: A Life. By Adam Zamoyski.

《拿破侖：一生》（作者：亞當(dāng)·扎莫伊斯基）

In this superlative account, Napoleon is a mortal, with great virtues and equally great flaws, at once dazzling and gauche. “From the sublime to the ridiculous”, Napoleon himself said after his disastrous campaign in Russia, “there is but one step.”

本書生動(dòng)刻畫了拿破侖作為凡人的一面，既有偉大的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，也有嚴(yán)重的缺陷，集光芒耀眼與不善交際于一身。拿破侖本人在攻打俄國(guó)的行動(dòng)以慘敗告終后曾說(shuō)：“從崇高到可笑，只有一步之遙。”

gauche [g???]adj. :笨拙的；粗魯?shù)?；不善交際的

3. Churchill: Walking with Destiny. By Andrew Roberts.

《丘吉爾：與命運(yùn)同行》（作者：安得魯·羅伯茨）

Acknowledging its subject’s flaws and sometimes catastrophic mistakes, it nevertheless makes a compelling case for his greatness, both as a statesman and a writer.

本書承認(rèn)了丘吉爾存在的不足以及有時(shí)犯下的災(zāi)難性錯(cuò)誤，同時(shí)以令人信服的筆觸描寫了他的偉大，無(wú)論是作為政治家還是作家而言。