大卫·克里斯蒂安（David Christian），牛津大学博士，主要任职于悉尼麦考瑞大学。1989年，他开始在麦考瑞大学讲授大历史课程；1991年，他在《世界历史》上发表题为《为“大历史”辩护》的文章，首次为他的课程取名“大历史”；2010年，他与比尔·盖茨一起成立“ 大历史项目”，这是面向中学生和普通公众的免费大历史网络课程，2013年底启动。克里斯蒂安是澳大利亚人文学院院士、荷兰皇家科学和人文学会会员，同时也是国际大历史学会创会主席。 辛西娅·斯托克斯·布朗（Cynthia Stokes Brown），约翰·霍普金斯大学博士，国际大历史学会的创会委员。任职于加州多米尼克大学，2007年出版了《大历史：从大爆炸到当下》，此后，她一直参与多米尼克大学的大历史项目。 克雷格·本杰明（Craig Benjamin），麦考瑞大学博士，密歇根伟谷州立大学梅...(展开全部)

The first biography of the musician Elliott Smith, whose heartbreaking songs were rendered all the more haunting by his tragic death Best for his Oscar-nominated song "Miss Misery" from the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, Elliott Smith was catapulted to the status of indie rock star after performing at the 1997 Academy Awards. Some of his albums, XO and Either/Or among t...(展开全部)

This is the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction? Big History creator...(展开全部)

Review "I have long been a fan of David Christian. In Origin Story, he elegantly weaves evidence and insights from many scientific and historical disciplines into a single, accessible historical narrative." ―Bill Gates "In Origin Story, David Christian has found a spectacular way to use history to put order in the entire set of our knowledge about the world. This is a wonderful...(展开全部)

Franco Moretti 弗朗哥·莫莱蒂 意大利文学史学家、理论家。1972年毕业于罗马大学现代文学专业，曾于萨莱诺大学和维罗纳大学任教，2000年起任教于斯坦福大学。2014年凭借《远读》荣获“美国国家书评人协会奖”。他创办了小说研究中心和文学实验室，并提出了“世界文学体系”和“远读”两个重要概念。代表作有《布尔乔亚》《远读》《世界之路》《现代史诗》《欧洲小说地图：1800—1900》《表图、地图、树图》等。 译者简介 朱康，文学博士，副教授，毕业于华东师范大学中文系，现任教于华东师范大学国际汉语文化学院，研究方向为中国现当代文学、西方批评理论。著有《现实主义的变奏：当代视域中的文学批评与文化分析》，译有《词语的肉身》（主译）、《根本恶》（合译）、《布尔乔亚》等。

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895...(展开全部)

Chartier examines various approaches to the history of cultural forms, including the work of the Annales tradition, the contributions of Foucault and Elias, and the more recent writings of Robert Darnton, Carlo Ginzburg and others. The second part of the volume offers a series of case studies. Chartier explores, among other things, the cultural significance of symbolic role rev...(展开全部)

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. 'I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals, ' wrote Max Weber, in 1895...(展开全部)

An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an emptiness as ineffectual as a shadow. In fact, 'nothing' is one of the most powerful ideas the human mind has ever conceived. This shor...(展开全部)

Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century mathematical genius Georg Cantor's counterintuitive discovery that there was more than one ki...(展开全部)