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。

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)

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！

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！

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)

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！

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！

卢克莱修(Lucretius，Carus约前99～前55)古罗马诗人、哲学家。他继承古代原子学说，特别是阐述并发展了伊壁鸠鲁的哲学观点。认为物质的存在是永恒的，提出了“无物能由无中生，无物能归于无”的唯物主义观点。反对神创论，认为宇宙是无限的，有其自然发展的过程，人们只要懂得了自然现象发生的真正原因，宗教偏见便可消失。承认世界的可知性，认为感觉是事物流射出来的影像作用于人的感官的结果，是一切认识的基础和来源，驳斥了怀疑论。认为幸福在于摆脱对神和死亡的恐惧，得到精神的安宁和心情的恬静。著有哲学长诗《物性论》。

It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince William--and the ideal time, Theroux found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is a candid, funny, perceptive, and opinionated travelogue of his journey and his findings.