罗伯特·索耶是加拿大最有影响力的科幻作家。1960年出生于渥太华。曾获雨果奖、星云奖、曙光奖等诸多奖项。本书是其第6部小说，获得1995年星云奖。 至今已出版17部长篇科幻小说，屡获雨果奖、星云奖等多种科幻奖项，被誉为加拿大科幻教长。索耶的科幻小说涉及多种主题，从电脑狂魔、恐龙复活、时间旅行，到平行时空、太空侦探，想像奇伟，异彩纷呈。索耶的代表作除本书外，还包括《计算中的上帝》、《终极实验》、《星丛》、《原始人类》和《混血》等。

C.S.路易斯（1898-1963），是20世纪英国一位具有多方面天才的作家。他26岁即登牛津大学教席，被当代人誉为“最伟大的牛津人”。1954年，他被剑桥大学聘为中世纪及文艺复兴时期英语文学教授，这个头衔保持到他退休。 他在一生中，完成了三类很不相同的事业。他被称为“三个C.S.路易斯”：一是杰出的牛津剑桥大学文学史家和批评家，代表作包括《牛津英国文学史·16世纪卷》。二是深受欢迎的科学幻想作家和儿童文学作家，代表作包括“《太空》三部曲”和“《纳尼亚传奇》七部曲”。三是通俗的基督教神学家和演说家，代表作包括《天路回归》、《魔鬼家书》（亦作《地狱来信》）、《返璞归真》、《四种爱》等等。他一生著书逾30部，有学术著作、小说、诗集、童话，他在全世界拥有庞大的支持者，时至今日，他的作品每年还在继续吸引着成千上万的读者

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of enteri...(展开全部)

Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C. S. Lewis's classic An Experiment in Criticism springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious experience, involves surrender to the work in hand and a process of enteri...(展开全部)

Justinian war ein Bauernsohn aus Illyrien. Sein Onkel holte ihn nach Konstantinopel und baute ihn zum Nachfolger auf. Dem Emporkömmling gelang es, noch einmal die Kräfte des Römischen Reiches zu bündeln. Energisch trieb er die innere Umgestaltung voran, mit dem Ziel, ein christliches Reich aufzubauen. Doch auf glanzvolle Siege folgten seit 540 militärische Niederlagen und verhe...(展开全部)

As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what "one" is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as "forming" the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its...(展开全部)

Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. The “infrathin” was Marcel Duchamp’s playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. “Eat” is not th...(展开全部)

小约翰·威特教授 埃默里大学法学院教授，埃默里大学法律与宗教研究中心主任。宗教自由与权利研究领域最具代表性的学者之一。其学术专长为宗教自由、基本权利、法律史、婚姻和家庭法。 著有《法律与新教：路德改革的法律教义》（Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation，2002）、《上帝的竞技，上帝的正义：西方传统中的法律与宗教》（God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition，2006）、《权利的重构：早期现代加尔文主义的法律、宗教和人权》（The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Ear...(展开全部)

In "American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History," Charles Murray describes how America’s geography, ideology, politics, and daily life set the new nation apart from Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. He then discusses the ways that exceptionalism changed during America’s evolution over the course of the 20th century. Which changes are gains to be applauded? Which are ...(展开全部)

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts...(展开全部)