In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. "We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash," he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.

In this amusing and trenchant book, Paul Fussell zeroes in on the death of American sensibility and taste. "We are living in a moment teeming with raucously overvalued emptiness and trash," he writes in this reference work that exposes bad, from bad advertising and bad ideas to bad restaurants and bad TV.

小阿瑟•M. 施莱辛格（1917—2007） Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 小阿瑟•M.施莱辛格是美国最具声望和争议的重量级历史学家、政治评论家，同时也是专栏作家、影评人、《财富》和《生活》杂志的自由撰稿人，曾任哈佛大学历史系教授和肯尼迪总统的特别助理。一生中获得过两次普利策奖、两次美国国家图书奖和一次美国历史学最高奖项班克罗夫特奖。他于1965年被选为《时代》周刊封面人物，1998年被授予美国国家人文奖章。

[德]丹尼尔·文登森（Daniel Wildenstein） 艺术家，美术学院（巴黎）成员。1939年以前，他曾任纽约威尔顿斯坦画廊、伦敦威尔顿斯坦画廊、东京威尔顿斯坦画廊总监；他还曾在多种国际杂志任职编辑，1956年至1962年期间担任《艺术》杂志编辑，1963年以后担任《美术公报》编辑；1970年，他和其他人联合创办了威尔顿斯坦基金会（1984年更名为威尔顿斯坦学院）；他曾发起多个享有国际声誉的展览，并曾编辑关于18世纪、19世纪、20世纪艺术家的完整图录。他是世界范围内印象派研究领域的权威，曾经出版关于高更、马奈、莫奈的作品图录。

戴夫·特朗伯，Collider.com网站的编辑，也是一名自由科学作家。 唐娜·J·纳尔逊，博士，俄克拉何马大学的化学教授，曾任美国化学学会主席，也是《绝命毒师》的科学顾问。 译者简介 单雯，西安外国语大学文学学士、应用语言学及测试学硕士，硕士期间于加州州立大学学习英语写作与应用语言学。中美富布莱特外语助教项目—犹他谷大学访问学者。现任西安建筑科技大学英语教师。 柯遵科，北京大学哲学博士，中国科学院大学人文学院副教授，中科院《自然辩证法通讯》杂志社编辑部副主任。主要从事科学史和科学哲学的研究。著作有《博尔赫斯与科学史》。

丁韪良（William Alexander Parsons Martin，1827－1916），美国北长老会派至中国的传教士，在中国生活了62年（1850—1916，其间有四年时间不在中国），曾任北京同文馆和京师大学堂的总教习。他精通中国语言和文学，对晚清中国社会有微细的观察和独到的见解，是清末在华外国学者中首屈一指的“中国通”，同时也是一位充满争议的历史人物。著有《中国觉醒》和《花甲忆记》等。

Healing That Reaches Beyond the Self In this landmark work, Marianne Williamson reminds us that there is a point in everyone's spiritual journey where the search for self-awareness can turn into self-preoccupation. All of us are better off when contemplation of holy principles is at the center of our lives. But it is in applying those principles in our lives that we forge ...(展开全部)

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a ...(展开全部)

This is a history of Latin between the 16th and 20th centuries, a period when the language dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire Western world. The book explores the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted and transmitted, as well as the privilege it came to confer on those that studied it. Waquet demonstrates how Latin becam...(展开全部)