达维德•范雷布鲁克（1971~），比利时非虚构作家、剧作家、诗人。先后出版了畅销书《瘟疫》(De Plaag，2008)、《任务与白蚁的灵魂》(Missie & Die siel van die Mier，2011)、《刚果：一部历史》（Congo. Een geschiedenis，2011）等。其中《刚果：一部历史》是他最成功的著作，荣获2012年美第奇奖（le prix Médicis），并被翻译成多种语言。

A controversial call to arms, Against Empathy argues that the natural impulse to share the feelings of others can lead to immoral choices in both public policy and in our intimate relationships with friends and family. Most people, including many policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers, have encouraged us to be more empathetic—to feel the pain and pleasure of oth...(展开全部)

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confront...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布利什 美国著名科幻作家、评论家。 詹姆斯·布利什很早就接触并喜欢科幻小说，九岁时写了第一篇科幻故事，中学时加入著名科幻迷社团“月球居民”（艾萨克·阿西莫夫也是该社团成员之一）。布利什曾加入美国陆军并担任医官，第二次世界大战结束后，他很快成为一名职业科幻作家。1958年，布利什的长篇小说《事关良心》获得世界科幻大奖雨果奖（该作于2004年再获雨果回顾奖）；1956 ~ 1959年间创作的“飞城”系列，后被美国科幻作家协会评选为1965年前的最佳小说之一。2002年，詹姆斯·布利什入列“科幻奇幻名人堂”。 作为科幻“黄金时代”的象征之一，詹姆斯·布利什的作品带有强烈的进取精神和科技人文精神。翻开他的小说，我们将重温“黄金时代”的激情。

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronte...(展开全部)

Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man--a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics . . . until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens who are admirable in every way except for their total reliance on cold reason; they are incapable of faith or belief. Confronte...(展开全部)