《朝鲜秘闻：私人市场、时尚潮流、劳改营、异见者与叛国者》North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors

作者：Daniel Tudor and James Pearson

Two knowledgeable journalists offer a bird's-eye view of everyday life that teases out how the famine of the 1990s prompted unexpected change in the attitudes, governance and lives of ordinary North Koreans, giving the lie to the simplistic view that Koreans are a homogenous people under the thumb of a power-crazed dictator.

两位博闻强识的作者通观日常生活，找出上世纪九十年代的饥荒如何让普通朝鲜人的生活态度、政府治理和生活发生不期的变化，人们以为朝鲜人是一个嗜权独裁者股掌中的同质人，这一简单看法被证明是谎言。

《贫民窟：调查谋杀潮》Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic

作者：Jill Leovy

Black men are still dying at alarming rates in the toughest urban pockets even though, overall, America's murder rate is down. A study of one neighbourhood in Los Angeles has the power to change how people think about policing in America.

尽管美国谋杀率整体下降，但最恶劣的城市环境中，黑人还是以惊人的速度死去。对洛杉矶一个社区的研究将改变人们对美国警察执法的看法。

《曾经辉煌：底特律往事》Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story

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