The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.

罗伯特·D. 理查德森（Robert D. Richardson, Jr.） 出生于1934年，美国历史学家、传记作家，哈佛大学博士，出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市，曾在梭罗的出生地康科德生活过。曾于1990年获得古根海姆奖，于2007年获得美国历史学界最高奖班克罗夫特奖，并获得过美国历史学家协会颁发的帕克曼奖等。代表作《梭罗传：心灵人生》《爱默生传：灵感迸发》等。

“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden...(展开全部)

A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and path-breaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “n...(展开全部)

A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and path-breaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “n...(展开全部)

[阿根廷] 马里安诺•西格曼博士（Dr.Mariano Sigman） 阿根廷青年物理学家，认知神经科学界领军人物，在阿根廷创建了综合神经科学实验室。TED演讲嘉宾，获奖众多，包括：人类前沿事业发展奖、阿根廷物理学奖、法兰西学院青年研究者奖、IBM可扩散数据分析颁发的智慧星球创新奖。

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answ...(展开全部)

From a world-renowned leader in neuroscience, a provocative, enthralling journey into the depths of the human mind. Where do our thoughts come from? How do we make choices and trust our judgments? What is the role of the unconscious? Can we manipulate our dreams? In this mind-bending international bestseller, award-winning neuroscientist Mariano Sigman explores the complex answ...(展开全部)

[阿根廷] 马里安诺•西格曼博士（Dr.Mariano Sigman） 阿根廷青年物理学家，认知神经科学界领军人物，在阿根廷创建了综合神经科学实验室。TED演讲嘉宾，获奖众多，包括：人类前沿事业发展奖、阿根廷物理学奖、法兰西学院青年研究者奖、IBM可扩散数据分析颁发的智慧星球创新奖。

Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emer...(展开全部)