作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

作者简介： 彼得•雷德（Peter Rader），毕业于哈佛大学。作为一名电影制作人和编剧，他曾为所有主要的好莱坞电影制片厂开发电影项目。现与妻子和两个儿子居住在美国洛杉矶。 能够将所有这些研究结果整合成一位传奇人物的第一部完整传记，我深感荣幸。他不但帮助我们更加深入地理解我们身处其中的世界，也阐明了生而为人的真义所在。 ——彼得•雷德 译者简介： 潘源，博士，副研究员。曾在北京科技大学英语系任教近十年，现任职于中国艺术研究院文化发展战略研究中心。主要译著有《弗洛伊德式的身体——精神分析与艺术》《冷山》《梦锁危情》《天书》等。

Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish imagery and wit, informed by a lawyer's logic, and disarmingly unexpected: a singing jackrabbit, the seductive Nanzia Nunzio. They also spoke - and still speak - to contemporary con...(展开全部)

In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on t...(展开全部)

In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast - his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on t...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

In his introduction, veteran biographer Chernow is clear about his goals. Using the recent "explosion of research," he wants to render George Washington "real" and "credible," to replace "frosty respect" with "visceral appreciation." In many respects, Chernow succeeds. He gives us a Washington who starts with limited education and means and, through a remarkable combination of ...(展开全部)

"King is a major achievement. With eloquence, compassion, and grace, Jonathan Eig offers a stirringly contemporary and complex portrait of a fully human―and humane―King . . . A resounding triumph." ―Peniel E. Joseph, author of The Sword and the Shield "Eig has pulled off a kind of miracle. Here is the King we know, think we know and ought to know. Here is the leader, the preach...(展开全部)