尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented, it combines the perspective of historical research with the...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯·A. 巴斯贝恩（Nicholas A. Basbanes），西方公认的顶级书话权威、殿堂级大师，著有多本书话畅销佳作。1943年生于美国马萨诸塞州的洛厄尔，曾任海军军官、记者和文学编辑。1995年《文雅的疯狂》出版，此书甫一问世，便入围美国国家图书奖最终名单，更被评为《纽约时报》年度好书。 其他主要作品有《为了书籍的人：坚忍与刚毅之一》《永恒的图书馆：坚忍与刚毅之二》、《疯雅书中事》、《读者有其书》等。

乔·昆南（Joe Queenan） 美国记者、评论家，《华尔街日报》《福布斯》《GQ》和《间谍杂志》的专栏作家，文章还常见于《时代周刊》《新闻周刊》《滚石》《花花公子》《高尔夫文摘》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《新共和》《纽约时报》《卫报》等媒体。他上过“大卫·莱特曼晚 间秀”“早安美国”“今日”和“每日秀”等节目。他的回忆录《闭馆时间》获得各大媒体的赞誉，被《纽约时报》列为2009年度100本值得关注的书之一。书曾支撑他度过毫无乐趣的费城童年，他成了狂热的读者，并立志此生为书辩护。 译者简介 陈丹丹 毕业于东英吉利大学文学，主修文学翻译专业，译过诗歌、戏剧、历史等各种文类。译作另有《遇见星期二》等。

乔·昆南（Joe Queenan） 美国记者、评论家，《华尔街日报》《福布斯》《GQ》和《间谍杂志》的专栏作家，文章还常见于《时代周刊》《新闻周刊》《滚石》《花花公子》《高尔夫文摘》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《新共和》《纽约时报》《卫报》等媒体。他上过“大卫·莱特曼晚 间秀”“早安美国”“今日”和“每日秀”等节目。他的回忆录《闭馆时间》获得各大媒体的赞誉，被《纽约时报》列为2009年度100本值得关注的书之一。书曾支撑他度过毫无乐趣的费城童年，他成了狂热的读者，并立志此生为书辩护。 译者简介 陈丹丹 毕业于东英吉利大学文学，主修文学翻译专业，译过诗歌、戏剧、历史等各种文类。译作另有《遇见星期二》等。

With the same grace and breadth of learning she brought to her studies of the mind’s pathologies, Kay Redfield Jamison examines one of its most exalted states: exuberance. This “abounding, ebullient, effervescent emotion” manifests itself everywhere from child’s play to scientific breakthrough and is crucially important to learning, risk-taking, social cohesiveness, and survi...(展开全部)

The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria...(展开全部)

The invention of writing was one of the most important technological, cultural, and sociological breakthroughs in human history. With the printed book, information and ideas could disseminate more widely and effectively than ever before—and in some cases, affect and redirect the sway of history. Today, nearly one million books are published each year. But is the era of the book...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive English-language biography of Pablo Neruda, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Pablo Neruda, the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean writer, was born into a poor family in 1904. His love poems would go on to make him a household name throughout the Spanish-speaking world and win him international acclaim. His remarkable life reads like an advent...(展开全部)

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordi...(展开全部)