连·戴顿（Len Deighton，1929—）,英国著名间谍小说作家，1929年生于英国伦敦，曾在英国皇家空军服役，毕业于皇家艺术学院。戴顿的母亲是一名兼职厨师，在他十一岁时，目睹了安娜·沃尔科夫被捕（她母亲的客户之一）。安娜·沃尔科夫是一名纳粹间谍，并被控窃取了丘吉尔和罗斯福之间的私人信件。戴顿日后说起此事时表示，正因为儿时这个不同寻常的经历，才使得他走上写作道路时，第一个想尝试的题材就是间谍小说。 戴顿还是一位插画师，他除了为纽约和伦敦的机构绘制广告插画外，还为200余本书籍及杂志设计封面。他的处女作《伊普克雷斯档案》在1962年一经面世便名声大噪。戴顿曾说，之所以在全是牛津剑桥毕业生的当权派之外选择一位工薪阶层间谍作为主角，是因为他在伦敦广告机构工作时，全体董事会成员中只有他一人没上过伊顿公学。 戴顿与他笔下冷静深沉、却有独一无二幽默感、出身...(展开全部)

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. But the local Governor believes its an elaborate spying mission and arranges for his own spy to fol...(展开全部)

伊斯梅尔•卡达莱（1936— ） 阿尔巴尼亚当代最著名的作家和诗人，1936年出生于阿尔巴尼亚南部山城吉诺卡斯特，1954年以诗集《青春的热忱》初登文坛，随后转向小说创作，其作品迄今已在四十多个国家出版。代表作有《亡军的将领》《破碎的四月》《梦幻宫殿》《金字塔》等，在国际上广受好评。评论家称赞他的作品“其诗意的散文和叙事的灵巧，堪称炉火纯青”。曾荣获多个知名国际文学奖项，包括2005年布克国际文学奖、2009年西班牙阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖，以及2015年以色列耶路撒冷文学奖等。

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first centur...(展开全部)

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first centur...(展开全部)

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be...(展开全部)

In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted channels. That source turned out to be the 29-year-old NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and his revelations about the agency’s widespread, systemic overreach proved to be...(展开全部)

Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) and “The First Person” (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are familiar to philosophers, their significance remains widely misunderstood, says James Doyle. No Morality, No Self offers a fresh inter...(展开全部)