JACK KEROUAC 杰克•凯鲁亚克（1922—1969） 一九二二年三月十二日出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔，父母为法裔美国人，他是家中幼子。他曾在当地天主教和公立学校就读，以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学，结识爱伦•金斯堡、威廉•巴勒斯和尼尔•卡萨迪等“垮掉的一代”。 凯鲁亚克大学二年级退学从事文学创作，并辗转于美国海军和商用航运公司等处。一九五○年，第一部小说《乡镇和城市》出版。一九五七年的《在路上》问世后，他成为“垮掉的一代”的代言人，跻身二十世纪最有争议的著名作家行列。他还著有《达摩流浪者》、《地下人》、《孤独旅者》和《荒凉天使》等作品。 一九六九年十月二十一日，凯鲁亚克在佛罗里达圣彼得堡去世，享年四十七岁。

费里尼是电影史上公认最伟大的天才导演之一，与英格玛•伯格曼、安德•塔尔科夫斯基并称为世界现代艺术电影的“圣三位一体”，导演过《甜蜜的生活》《阿玛柯德》《八部半》《大路》《卡比利亚之夜》《浪荡儿》等20世纪最伟大电影，获得过五次奥斯卡金奖和无数各种电影节大奖。他的电影是欧洲艺术电影难以逾越的高峰，引导了战后意大利的精神进程。 费里尼早年做过漫画杂志的专栏漫画家，发表了一系列漫画。受到荣格分析心理学的影响，他长期用漫画记录梦境，形成一部可与荣格《红书》媲美的《梦书》。

In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' works, here become a direct and powerful force. My Education, direct, honest, humorous and subversive, is a truly original work.

Robert Kagan gives us a picture of the world today in all its complexity and its simplicity. This is a world where America is dominant but cannot dominate, where the struggle for power and prestige goes on as it always has. Power is at the service of ideas, but the key ideas are also ideas about power: democracy and autocracy. All this in a hundred pages, with style, energy and...(展开全部)

Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities: Great powers are once again competing for honor and influence. The world remains “unipolar,” but international competition among the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raise new threats of regional conflict, and a new contest between weste...(展开全部)

罗伯特·卡根，美国布鲁金斯学会高级研究员，多次被《外交政策》杂志评为：“全球顶级百位思想家”。

The book may well be the most extraordinary of the Seth books. It not only contains Seth's teachings on dreams, inspiration, trance states and creativity, the nature of the human ego and personal ego reality, but also the tender personal moments marking the maturing of the Seth/Jane Roberts partnership. A provocative guide to the realm of dream consciousness, this fascinating b...(展开全部)

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting

Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting