★著者简介 【美】大卫•福斯特·华莱士 （David Foster Wallace，1962—2008），我们这个时代著名的美国作家之一，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑并称为“美国文坛双壁”。 大学的毕业论文是他的第一部小说《系统的笤帚》，名作《无尽的玩笑》被著名编辑迈克尔·皮奇惊叹 为“我想出版这本书胜过想呼吸”，并被《时代》周刊评选为1923年以来世界百部最佳英语小说之一。其未完成作品《苍白的国王》入围普利策奖最终名单。本人曾获得麦克阿瑟天才奖。 即使在天才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉，即使不了解他的读者，也不得不承认他是个不可复制的天才作家。 ★译者简介 胡凯衡，博士，中国科学院成都山地灾害与环境研究所研究院研究员。

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)

One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical nature of infinity. Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningles...(展开全部)

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full...(展开全部)

"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to ...(展开全部)

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arther Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are stragg...(展开全部)

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the...(展开全部)

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)

伊丽莎白·哈妮是画龄16年的资深童书插画家。在此之前她一直担任广告公司的美术总监，直到她首席接了一本童书的插画工作，她才恍然大悟这才是她要做的事。16年来，伊丽莎白·哈妮与许多作家合作过，也出过自己的绘本。但是《思黛拉街的鲜事》是她第一本小说。伊丽莎白说：“我喜欢积极光明的故事。现在的童书很多都是有关人际问题、离婚或单亲家庭的故事，但是，我知道世界上还有很多家庭过得很快乐。”

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the...(展开全部)