米歇尔·福柯（Michel Foucault，1926—1984），法国哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《规训与惩罚》《性经验史》（四卷）“法兰西学院演讲系列”等。

Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivati...(展开全部)

When Raymond Carver died at age fifty, readers lost a distinctive voice in its prime. Carver was, the Times of London said, "the Chekhov of middle America." His influence on a generation of writers and on the short story itself has been widely noted. Not so generally known are how Carver became a writer, how he suffered to achieve his art, and how his troubled and remarkable ...(展开全部)

《雷蒙德·卡佛：一位作家的一生》卡萝尔·斯克莱尼卡 这部传记耗时10年，作者做了大量的研究工作，写得一丝不苟，怀着同情，熟练地整合了传主的作品和动荡的甚或——饱受酗酒、金融波动和家庭失和之苦。斯克莱尼卡敏锐地剖析了卡佛根他的编辑戈登·利什之间充满不愉快的关系，利什在卡佛的小说创作中起了非同寻常的作用。

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. WithThe Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social ...(展开全部)

Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. WithThe Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint on the detective novel. Fredric Jameson offers an interpretation of Chandler’s work that reconstructs both the context in which it was written and the social ...(展开全部)

Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval his...(展开全部)