阿绮波德·立德(Archibald Little，1845～926)，英国在华著名商人立德之妻，习称立德夫人。立德夫人1887年到达中国，她与丈夫在中国生活了20年，几乎走遍了中国南方的所有通商口岸。她努力了解中国家庭，研究中国的政治及教育制度。主要著作有：《在中国的婚事》(1899)、《亲密接触中国》(1899)、《穿蓝色长袍的国度》(1901)、《北京指南》(1904)，《李鸿章，他的生平和时代》、《北京我家花园的周围》(1905)等。游历、写作之外，立德夫人还对中国妇女饱受缠足陋习的荼毒极为同情，因而全力投入清末的反缠足运动。 1906年，立德夫妇离开中国，返回英国。1926年，81岁的立德夫人走完了她作为作家、旅游家和社会改革家的一生。

作 者 〔美〕简·布罗克斯（Jane Brox） 美国作家，擅长非虚构写作，并曾在哈佛大学、鲍登学院和莱斯利大学任教。其作品曾入围美国国家书评人奖决选，并获得过新英格兰笔会奖、新英格兰图书奖、缅因州非虚构文学奖等多个奖项，本书的创作也获得了古根海姆奖学金的支持。已出版作品有Clearing Land，Five Thousand Days Like This，Silence等。 译 者 蒋怡颖 上海外国语大学高级翻译学院硕士，曾赴伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院公派留学，曾在世界知识产权组织总部翻译处工作，回国后创立文化传播公司，兼作英语笔译和口译。已出版译著《酒鬼与圣徒》《未来吃什么》等。

作 者 〔美〕简·布罗克斯（Jane Brox） 美国作家，擅长非虚构写作，并曾在哈佛大学、鲍登学院和莱斯利大学任教。其作品曾入围美国国家书评人奖决选，并获得过新英格兰笔会奖、新英格兰图书奖、缅因州非虚构文学奖等多个奖项，本书的创作也获得了古根海姆奖学金的支持。已出版作品有Clearing Land，Five Thousand Days Like This，Silence等。 译 者 蒋怡颖 上海外国语大学高级翻译学院硕士，曾赴伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院公派留学，曾在世界知识产权组织总部翻译处工作，回国后创立文化传播公司，兼作英语笔译和口译。已出版译著《酒鬼与圣徒》《未来吃什么》等。

Eshun's book More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction was published in 1998 and is “At its simplest... a study of visions of the future in music from Sun Ra to 4 Hero”[1]. Written in a style that makes extensive use of neologism, re-appropriated jargon and compound words the book explores the intersection of black music and science fiction from an afro-futurist...(展开全部)

In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestselle...(展开全部)

John Banville, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel—at once trenchant, witty, and shattering—about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves. Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme (“O O ...(展开全部)

此书的插画，被授予Grigor Vitez奖和2003年度国际插画双年展“金徽奖”。《The Blue Sky》原作现为日本Chihiro艺术博物馆藏品,Chihiro目前是世界上最大的绘本作品收藏馆，已收有来自25个国家147名艺术家共9，700幅作品。

Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can't solve? You're not the only one. An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work. Whether it's a major project, a minor quibble or something in between, a short, sharp dose of Fergus O'Connell's si...(展开全部)

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist writing in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. He had written poems and short novels during his studies. In 1889, he became famous overnight after his first play, La Princesse Maleine,...(展开全部)