罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

罗伯特·达恩顿(Robert Darnton），普林斯顿大学教授，哈佛大学图书馆馆长，图书史专家，欧洲文化史专家。曾任牛津大学出版社北美分部理事，发起、参与大量的图书史研究，电子书启蒙运动项目，在图书领域具有丰富的商业、学术背景，他和他的著作曾获多项学术奖和图书奖。在中国，因经典著作《屠猫记》、《启蒙运动的生意》、《拉莫莱特之吻：有关文化史的思考》为读者熟知。

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician, arrived in Paris and began to promulgate a somewhat exotic theory of healing that almost immediately seized the imagination of the general populace. Robert Darnton, in his lively study of mesmerism and its relation to eighteenth-century radical political thought and popular scientific notions, provides a useful contributi...(展开全部)

A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution. France in the E...(展开全部)

安琪楼·夸特罗其（Angelo Quattrocchi）：意大利无政府主义者、诗人与旅行家。法国1968年五月革命的目击者与参与者。《法国1968：终结的开始》的第一部分“发生什么事了？”是夸特罗宾在当时烽火满地的巴黎街堡战斗中写就的。有评论者认为此为“这个事件的当年最佳报道”。夸特罗其还著有《小孩爱看电视，该怎么办？》 汤姆·奈仁（Tom Nairn）：来自苏格兰的社会主义者，《新左评论》的长期供稿者。《法国1968：终结的开始》的第二部分“为什么发生？”是奈仁在五月革命后的两个月内写就的。这个对五月革命的“第一手”的理论分析至今仍然有效，特别是他对于文化和媒体的敏感在很多方面预知了“后六八的文化转向”。著有《不列颠的分裂》、《民族主义诸面》等书。

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, Paola Bertucci pl...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish the "manly mind" from the feminine mind? How did awareness of these questions infor...(展开全部)

In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in France, where laws governing piracy were in flux and any notion of "copyright" very much in its...(展开全部)