汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

汉弗莱·卡彭特 Humphrey Carpenter 英国著名传记作家、儿童文学作家和广播员。他为众多英美文学家与艺术家撰写了传记，包括诗人W. H. 奥登、埃兹拉·庞德，小说家J. R. R. 托尔金、伊夫林·沃，作曲家本杰明·布里顿等。另外编有《托尔金书信集》。在儿童文学方面，他最受欢迎的作品是“马杰卡先生”系列，另外与其妻子玛丽·普理查德合著有《牛津儿童文学指南》。 ———— 【译者介绍】 蔡海燕 浙江台州人，浙江财经大学人文与传播学院教授、浙江省作家协会会员、浙江省比较文学与外国文学学会常务理事。主要从事英美文学研究、比较文学研究、文学翻译与实践，尤其在奥登研究和英国现当代文学研究领域取得了扎实成果。出版专著《“道德的见证者”：奥登诗学研究》《20世纪外国文学研究史论》等；出版译著《奥登诗集》《某晚当我外出散步：奥登抒情诗选》《希腊罗马神话》...(展开全部)

When X – an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter – dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pan...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

An erudite history of medicine...a welcome addition to any medical collection. -- Booklist How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant coll...(展开全部)

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story. The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel—a particular packaging of bits—conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture i...(展开全部)