在暖暖冬日的閑暇時光，靜靜地閱讀，真是再愜意不過的一件事情了。英國《經濟學人》周刊網站近日盤點了2018年度圖書，分類別推薦了今年值得一讀的好書，推薦給愛好閱讀的你。

一、歷史類

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

《蘊藏在100張地圖中的美國歷史》（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的形成。本書展現了地圖在探索與征服過程中所發揮的作用，證明雖然美國政治地理的一些方面一成不變，但大部分構成卻如同密西西比河的河岸一樣，永遠處在不斷變化之中。

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年發生在基什尼奧夫的大屠殺成為針對世界各地猶太人的反猶暴力活動代表事件。這起事件既引發了猶太復國主義運動，也激起了仇恨猶太人的情緒。

二、商業與經濟類

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

《我們這些公司：美國企業如何贏得民事權利》（作者：亞當·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：“在美國歷史上的大部分時間里，最高法院未能保護被剝奪財產者和被邊緣化的群體，面對充滿敵意的公眾情緒，正義顯得軟弱無力。”與此同時“法院一直堅持認為支持商業規程的大眾情緒必須服從憲法的要求”。這本書是對美國歷史中被忽視但又很重要一面的真實調查。

dispossessed[,d?sp?'z?st] : adj.被逐出的；無依無靠的；失去產業的

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

《人工智能超級大國：中國、硅谷以及新世界秩序》（作者：李開復）

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.

作者在書中預言了即將到來的主導人工智能領域的競爭。他認為中國將碾壓硅谷，因為中國擁有更多數據而且在競爭方面更加殘酷。

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

《激進的市場：為建立公平社會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.

身為法律學教授及經濟學家的作者認為，擺脫自由主義僵局的方式是擴大市場，而不是削弱市場的作用。自由主義的某些觀念，比如針對知識產權、選舉和移民等的觀點，是不切實際的，還有些觀點甚至很離譜，但在面臨民粹主義和貿易保護主義帶來的挑戰時，或許可以指出一種應對之道。

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.

后來被稱作庫喬·劉易斯的科蘇拉是被拐賣到美國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，生動回憶了在美國南北戰爭前夕自己被抓并被非法運往美國的經歷。

2. Napoleon: A Life. By Adam Zamoyski.

《拿破侖：一生》（作者：亞當·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.”

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

gauche [g???]adj. :笨拙的；粗魯的；不善交際的

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

《丘吉爾：與命運同行》（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.

本書承認了丘吉爾存在的不足以及有時犯下的災難性錯誤，同時以令人信服的筆觸描寫了他的偉大，無論是作為政治家還是作家而言。