作者简介 詹姆斯・伍德尔：著名评论 家，英国《泰晤士报》、《每 日电讯》、《观察家报》等报 刊的撰稿人，写有大量有关戏 剧、音乐和文学的评论文章。 他的第一部著作是关于弗拉蒙 戈音乐和舞蹈的，于1992年出 版。作者现居住柏林。

作者简介 詹森•威尔逊（Jason Wilson），伦敦大学学院教授，对拉丁美洲文学颇有造诣，著有多种研究奥克塔维奥•帕斯和其他拉丁美洲诗人和小说家的作品，以及《南美洲和中美洲旅游指南》（1993）与《布宜诺斯艾利斯：文化与文学指南》（1999）。 译者简介： 徐立钱，文学博士，北京语言大学比较文学研究所研究员。

Poetry is the heart of Borges' metaphysical, mythical, and cosmopolitan oeuvre, and this bilingual collection of nearly 200 poems aptly forms the centerpiece of a triptych of new volumes that began with Borges' fiction and will conclude with nonfiction. Borges' first published works were poems, and it was poetry he returned to in his later years once his eyesight began to fail....(展开全部)

A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life , an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and cond...(展开全部)

The ancient Taoist text that forms the central part of this book was discovered by Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality. Foreword and Appendix by Carl Jung; illustrations. Translated by Cary F. Baynes.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

本书是一本用英语介绍北京文化的书。经埃德加斯诺的介绍，作者罗信耀在 《北平时事日报》用英语向外国人介绍北京文化，后结集为The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man，先后有英语版本和日语版本出版，在国外影响很大，一版再版，被认为是外国研究北京民俗的必备书籍。本书以主人公小吴爷爷去世、奶奶去娘娘庙祈福等经历带出北京习俗，以北京人从生到死的日常生活为主线，包括生子、婚丧嫁娶，也包括进香、赛马、上朝等，忠实记录了老北京多姿多彩的生活方式。尤其难得的是作者自身是旗人，他隐性地写出了一幅生动翔实的满族旗俗的风情画卷。这对我们理解北京文化的多民族形成和巨大包容性，勾勒中国乡愁的北京特色极具意义。本书以叙述为主，不仅趣味性高，可读性极强，罗信耀先生又善于版画，本书通过大量的生动插图，对我们还原那些老北京消...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

本书是一本用英语介绍北京文化的书。经埃德加斯诺的介绍，作者罗信耀在 《北平时事日报》用英语向外国人介绍北京文化，后结集为The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man，先后有英语版本和日语版本出版，在国外影响很大，一版再版，被认为是外国研究北京民俗的必备书籍。本书以主人公小吴爷爷去世、奶奶去娘娘庙祈福等经历带出北京习俗，以北京人从生到死的日常生活为主线，包括生子、婚丧嫁娶，也包括进香、赛马、上朝等，忠实记录了老北京多姿多彩的生活方式。尤其难得的是作者自身是旗人，他隐性地写出了一幅生动翔实的满族旗俗的风情画卷。这对我们理解北京文化的多民族形成和巨大包容性，勾勒中国乡愁的北京特色极具意义。本书以叙述为主，不仅趣味性高，可读性极强，罗信耀先生又善于版画，本书通过大量的生动插图，对我们还原那些老北京消...(展开全部)