The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

剑桥萨尔曼·拉什迪指南

By Abdulrazak Gurnah

图书馆索书号：I561.074/C178

学科领域：文学

内容简介：

 Salman Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre. Part I provides thematic readings of Rushdie and his work, with chapters on how Bollywood films are intertextual with the fiction, the place of family and gender in the work, the influence of English writing and reflections on the fatwa. Part II discusses Rushdie's importance for postcolonial writing and provides detailed interpretations of his fiction. In one volume, this book provides a stimulating introduction to the author and his work in a range of expert essays and readings. With its detailed chronology of Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

推荐理由：

该书对萨尔曼·拉什迪 (Salman Rushdie) 已发表作品、他的职业生涯以及围绕他的争议展开了全面且易于理解的概述。

作者简介：

阿卜杜勒拉扎克·格尔纳（Abdulrazak Gurnah），2021年度诺贝尔文学奖获奖者，是当今著名的后殖民作家和文学评论家之一,他结合自身经历,以非洲人的视角书写殖民历史,其作品聚焦于身份认同,社会破碎,种族冲突,性别压迫等主题,获得了国外学界的广泛关注 。

The Promise

承诺

By Damon Galgut 

图书馆索书号：I478.45/G155

学科领域：文学

内容简介：

The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for -- not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land... yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled.

推荐理由：

在这个家庭减少的故事中，尖锐而温柔的情感真相触动了人们的心灵。 自信、灵巧、安静有力，《承诺》是最好的文学小说。

作者简介：

达蒙·加尔古特 (Damon Galgut) 是南非剧作家和小说家，在17岁时就写了他的第一部小说，并于2021 年凭借该书《承诺》(The Promise) 获得2021年布克文学奖。

获奖信息：

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021

Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change

气候变化时代的可持续农业

By Rajib Roychowdhury; Shuvasish Choudhury

Mirza Hasanuzzaman; Sangeeta Srivastava

图书馆索书号：S-0/S964

学科领域：农学

内容简介：

Under ongoing climate changes, natural and cultivated habitats of major crops are being continuously disturbed. Such conditions impose and exacerbate abiotic and biotic stressors. Drought, salinity, flood, cold, heat, heavy metals, metalloids, oxidants, irradiation, etc. are important abiotic stressors, while diseases and infections caused by plant pathogens, such as fungal agents, bacteria and viruses, are major biotic stresses. In many instances, stresses have become the major limiting factor for agricultural productivity and exert detrimental role on growth and yield of the crops. To help feed an ever increasing world population and to ensure global food security, concerted efforts from scientists and researchers have identified strategies to manage and mitigate the impacts of climate-induced stresses. This book, summarizing their findings, is aimed at crop improvement beyond such kind of barriers, by agronomic practices (genetics, breeding, phenotyping, etc.) and biotechnological applications, including molecular markers, QTL mapping, genetic engineering, transgenesis, tissue culture, various 'omics' technologies and gene editing. It will cover a wide range of topics under environmental challenges, agronomy and agriculture processes, and biotechnological approaches. Additionally, fundamental mechanisms and applied information on stress responses and tolerance will be discussed. 

推荐理由：

本书通过最新信息和最新引文重点介绍了问题并为作物压力管理提供了适当的解决方案，相信本书适合从事农业、植物科学、环境生物学和生物技术领域工作的科学家、研究人员和学生。

Reframing the Problem of Climate Change

From Zero Sum Game to Win-Win Solutions 

重塑气候变化问题：从零和博弈到双赢解决方案

By Klaus Hasselmann; Carlo Jaeger

图书馆索书号：P467/R322

学科领域：环境科学

内容简介：

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field. It also gives an important and original perspective on interpreting climate action and provides compelling evidence of the weakness of arguments that frame climate policy as a win-or-lose situation.

At the same time, the book goes beyond providing yet another description of climate change trends and policy processes. Its goal is to make available, in a series of in-depth reflections and insights by key international figures representing science, business, finance and civil society, what is really needed to link knowledge to action. Different contributions convincingly show that it is time - and possible - to reframe the climate debate in a completely new light, perhaps as a system transformative attractor for new green growth, sustainable development, and technological innovation.

推荐理由：

重塑气候变化问题反映了一种深刻的信念。 撰稿人认为，我们的社会可以学会应对挑战，避免人类苦难和生态系统的大规模破坏，这并不一定需要经济牺牲。 因此，对于参与气候变化辩论的学生、学者和政策制定者来说，这本书是至关重要的读物。

Causal Inference for Statistics, Social

and Biomedical Sciences 

An Introduction

统计的因果推论、社会和生物医学：入门

By Guido W. Imbens; Donald B. Rubin 

图书馆索书号：C3/I-32

学科领域：统计学

内容简介：

Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding to the outcome that would be realized if a subject were exposed to a particular treatment or regime. In this approach, causal effects are comparisons of such potential outcomes. The fundamental problem of causal inference is that we can only observe one of the potential outcomes for a particular subject. The authors discuss how randomized experiments allow us to assess causal effects and then turn to observational studies. They lay out the assumptions needed for causal inference and describe the leading analysis methods, including matching, propensity-score methods, and instrumental variables. Many detailed applications are included, with special focus on practical aspects for the empirical researcher.

推荐理由：

作者提出了因果推理的统一愿景，涵盖了实验数据和观察数据，出色地向背景不同的读者传达了一些最深刻、最古老的统计问题。 他们将理论概念与应用关注点紧密联系起来，并且诚实而清晰地讨论了所提出方法的识别假设。 太多关于统计方法的书籍展示了一系列不连贯的方法，并且很少关注为数学方便而不是为了逼真而做出的假设的科学合理性。 这本书不一样，它将被广泛阅读，并将改变统计实践的方式。

获奖信息：

Winner of PROSE Award for Textbook, Social Sciences 2016.

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