（1）编者简介 妮可·马修斯（Nicole Matthews），澳大利亚悉尼麦考瑞大学媒介、批评和文化研究讲师，著有《喜剧政治》（Comic Politics, 2002）。 妮基安娜·穆迪（Nickianne Moody），英国利物浦约翰摩尔斯大学媒介与文化研究的负责人。编有《性别化的图书馆史》（Gendering Library History，2000）、《西班牙通俗小说》（Spanish Popular Fiction，2004）等多部论文集。 （2）译者简介 王苇，文学博士，南京师范大学外国语学院讲师。主要研究方向为英美文学与女性文学、文学翻译等。出版专著《西方女性小说经典导读》（合著）、译著《与阿列克斯一路同行》，在《当代外国文学》等刊物发表学术论文十余篇。

Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with detail of individual titles, designers and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, this book shows how covers become design classics. By looking back a...(展开全部)

Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with detail of individual titles, designers and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, this book shows how covers become design classics. By looking back a...(展开全部)

在《书》一书中，基思·休斯顿揭示了书籍的纸张、墨水、线、胶水和纸板，它们如同书页上的文字一样，蕴含着丰富的故事。休斯顿以引人入胜的方式，追溯了这一拥有2000年历史的媒介的历史，追溯了书写、印刷、插图艺术和装订艺术的发展，展现了我们如何从楔形文字板和纸莎草卷轴发展到如今的精装书和平装书。 In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows t...(展开全部)

“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”―Erik Spiekermann, typographer We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, ...(展开全部)

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer’s prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It ha...(展开全部)

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in ...(展开全部)

Shortly before noon on October 28, 1728, General Yue Zhongqi, the most powerful military and civilian official in northwest China, was en route to his headquarters. Suddenly, out of the crowd, a stranger ran toward Yue and passed him an envelope-an envelope containing details of a treasonous plot to overthrow the Manchu government. This thrilling story of a conspiracy agains...(展开全部)

伊莱恩•斯卡利（Elaine Scarry）， 英美文学语言学教授，哈佛大学Walter M. Cabot美学教授，认知接受美学的倡导者，在当代文艺理论界有重要的影响力具有重大的影响。其论著颇丰，主要代表作有：《论美与正义》（On Beauty and Being Just，普林斯顿，1999）、《痛苦中的躯体》（The Body in Pain，1985）等。

他是史上智商最高的作家，四岁通读《圣经》，十五岁发表诗作，三十岁时在四百个城市开设银行；四十岁时他一贫如洗，开始创作侦探小说糊口，五十岁时作品累计印数超过八千万册，和埃勒里•奎因并称为美国侦探小说黄金时代最高成就者；他是一位英勇的反纳粹斗士，为了理想放弃了每年超过一千万美元的收入，得到了罗斯福总统和美国民众的称赞。他就是雷克斯•斯托特！