比尔•布莱森，世界知名的非虚构作家，1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州，曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等，横跨多种领域，皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝，整体上举重若轻，能让普通读者产生很强的认同感，不失为雅俗共赏的典范，深受读者喜爱，也获得很高的评价。每部作品均高踞美国、英国、加拿大畅销排行榜前茅。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人，他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽，令人读来捧腹，不忍释卷。

米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926—1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《规训与惩罚》《性经验史》（四卷）“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

This book offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Here Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex as well as on exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women. The book abounds in insights into the differences - and...(展开全部)

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This book addresses issues of defining and measuring the quality of life. Recent developments in the philosophical definition of well-being are discussed and linked to practical issues such as the delivery of health care, and the assessment of women's quality of life. Leading philosophers and economists have contributed to this volume to consider the problems the subject rais...(展开全部)

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

莎蒙德•勒普顿（Rosamund Lupton），英国当红畅销书女作家，英国皇家宫廷剧院编剧，毕业于剑桥大学。 2010年以第一部长篇小说《妹妹》出道成为专职作家，该书销量超过150万册，成为2010年英国最畅销的小说，也是《星期日泰晤士报》和《纽约时报》的超级畅销书。《沉默的告白》是罗莎蒙德的最新长篇小说，位列英国《星期日泰晤士报》畅销书前十名，为英国理查德&朱蒂俱乐部春季选书。

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure. In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventi...(展开全部)

The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global media. Whether discussing video platforms in Japan and Indonesia, K-pop reception videos, amateur music videos circulated via microSD cards in India, or the censorship of Bollywood ...(展开全部)

Ayo Wahlberg is Professor MSO in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. He is coeditor of Selective Reproduction in the Twenty-First Century and Southern Medicine for Southern People: Vietnamese Medicine in the Making.