作者：（英）乔治·麦尔森 剑桥大学英美文学博士，现为伦敦国王学院教授。多年来关注现当代文学、现代思想，以及日常生活的哲学。著有Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra:A Beginner’s Guide、Heidegger,Habermas and the Mobile Phone、Ecology and the End of Postmodernism等。 译者：庄安祺 毕业于台湾大学外文系，印第安纳大学英美文学硕士，译有《西藏的故事》《托尔金传》《创作者的日常生活》等。

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great ...(展开全部)

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he ...(展开全部)

From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great ...(展开全部)

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he ...(展开全部)

美国哈佛大学著名历史学教授，哈佛历史及文学项目主任，《纽约客》特约撰稿人。莱波雷写作叙述能力高超，知识背景深厚，能把故事讲得引人入胜，她也是网易视频《哈佛大学公开课：立大志》系列的主讲人之一。 2013年，莱波雷凭借本书英文版The Mansion of Happiness获得美国国家图书奖长名单非小说类作者奖。

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ...(展开全部)

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of i...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)

A global history of historical writing, thought and the development of the historical discipline from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past, bringing together different historical traditions and their social, economic, political and cultural contexts. Daniel Woolf offers clear definitions of d...(展开全部)