莫里斯·梅洛－庞蒂，法国二十世纪最重要的哲学家、思想家之一。他在存在主义盛行年代与萨特齐名，是法国存在主义的杰出代表。主要著作有：《行为的结构》、《知觉现象学》、《可见的与不可见的》等

狄马可牧师是位于美国华盛顿特区的国会山浸信会主任牧师。他博士毕业于剑桥大学，著作等身，其中最具影响力的是《健康教会九标志》一书。

齐斯•德福林 Keith Devlin ： 2004国际毕达哥拉斯奖（International Pythagoras Prize）、2007卡尔•沙根科普奖（Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popluarization）得主，斯坦福大学人文科学与 先端科技研究中心（H-STAR）共同创办人及资深研究员，同时也是该校Media X研究计划的创立人之一。人称“Math Guy”的德福林教授研究领域广泛，包括数学认知、推理模式与信息理论等，并钻研以不同媒介传授数学予多元大众，致力推广“软数学的”观念。已出版著作近三十本，发表论文逾八十篇。目前居于加州帕洛阿尔托（Palo Alto）市。

Essential facts, authoritative opinions and a provocative list of the most influential designers. Design: The Definitive Directory of Modern Design is a dynamic and comprehensive guide to the subject. Global in scope, this book includes architecture, industrial design, furniture, fashion, cars, clothing, graphics, consumer products, signs and much more -- all complemented...(展开全部)

Comics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every fitness craze to come down the pike: from Jack LaLanne in the 60s ("Outlandish jumpsuit! Cantaloupe-sized guns!") to the existential oddness of present-day spin class. Readers will see their athletic or semi-active pasts flash before their eye...(展开全部)

In "The Visible and the Revealed", Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections, they are particularly useful for understanding the progression of Marion's thought on such topics as the saturated phenomenon...(展开全部)

In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel as the defining cultural form of our time. Historicizing a form that has flourished in...(展开全部)

The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. This book shows the variety of ways in which the status and meaning of the masterpiece have been elevated and denigrated since the early nineteenth century. The ‘invisible masterpiece’ is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of a...(展开全部)