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)

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)

【作者简介】 汤姆•威廉斯（Tom Williams），1981年生于英国纽卡斯尔，毕业于英国伦敦大学学院。现居伦敦北部的肯迪什镇，并在出版业工作。本书是他的出道之作。 【译者简介】 陶泽慧，毕业于厦门大学英文系，现为图书编辑，业余从事文学、历史翻译，译有《奇想之年》《偷书贼》《教宗与墨索里尼》《午夜将至》等。

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)

雷蒙‧穆迪博士 雷蒙‧穆迪博士Raymond Moody, Jr., M.D.：維吉尼亞大學學士、碩士與博士，是一位受人尊敬的心理學家、講師及研究員。最先在東卡羅萊納州立大學教授哲學課程，於一九七六年獲得喬治亞醫學院醫學博士的榮銜，之後在維吉尼亞大學醫學院實習任教。一九七二年剛上醫學院時，穆迪就已在自稱為「瀕死經驗」的研究領域上出名，但是這些經驗與描述起初皆不見於醫學書籍，讓他備受同儕的爭議與排擠，直到一九八○年因為時代的開放，有愈來愈多的醫界人士加入討論並提供事例，他才正式嶄露頭角，成為瀕死經驗與共歷死亡經驗方面的權威。雷蒙‧穆迪多次受邀參加〈歐普拉〉脫口秀及一些美國黃金時段的節目，發表他在共歷死亡經驗方面的研究成果與驚人的看法。他廣泛地四處旅行，提供研討會和教育工作者、醫務人員、神職人員的培訓，亦有個人輔導服務。他同時也是暢銷書作家，作品包括得獎...(展开全部)