Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellectuals of the 20th century. In Brennan's masterful work, Said, the pioneer of post-colonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic, emer...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century As someone who studied under Edward Said and remained a friend until his death in 2003, Timothy Brennan had unprecedented access to his thesis adviser’s ideas and legacy. In this authoritative work, Said, the pioneer of postcolonial studies,...(展开全部)

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of Orientalism , a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies. This volume explains Said's key ideas, their contexts and impact, with reference to both his scholarship and journalism. These ideas include: the place of text and critic in the world knowledge, power and t...(展开全部)

Edward Said is perhaps best known as the author of the landmark study Orientalism , a book which changed the face of critical theory and shaped the emerging field of post-colonial studies, and for his controversial journalism on the Palestinian political situation. Looking at the context and the impact of Said's scholarship and journalism, this book examinesSaid's key ideas,...(展开全部)

The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape. In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.

罗伯特·D. 理查德森（Robert D. Richardson, Jr.） 出生于1934年，美国历史学家、传记作家，哈佛大学博士，出生于美国威斯康星州密尔沃基市，曾在梭罗的出生地康科德生活过。曾于1990年获得古根海姆奖，于2007年获得美国历史学界最高奖班克罗夫特奖，并获得过美国历史学家协会颁发的帕克曼奖等。代表作《梭罗传：心灵人生》《爱默生传：灵感迸发》等。

F．卡普拉，从维也纳大学获得理论物理学博士学位，在欧美若干所大学从事高能物理研究。他在现代科学的哲学含义上进行了大量的写作和讲座，并著有《物理学之道》、《转折点》、《不寻常的智慧》等书。他目前在位于美国加州伯克利的生态教育中心担任主任，与妻子和女儿居住在伯克利。

F．卡普拉，从维也纳大学获得理论物理学博士学位，在欧美若干所大学从事高能物理研究。他在现代科学的哲学含义上进行了大量的写作和讲座，并著有《物理学之道》、《转折点》、《不寻常的智慧》等书。他目前在位于美国加州伯克利的生态教育中心担任主任，与妻子和女儿居住在伯克利。

A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and path-breaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “n...(展开全部)

A beautifully told personal account of the discovery of Late Antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall. In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed and path-breaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the “n...(展开全部)