【作者简介】 凯文•伯明翰，哈佛大学英语专业博士，目前在哈佛大学历史与文学系担任讲师，同时也在哈佛大学写作项目任教。主要研究领域为：二十世纪小说与文化、先锋派研究。他曾在都柏林一家《尤利西斯》主题酒吧担任服务员，但仅上岗一天就被突然解雇。 【译者简介】 辛彩娜，毕业于中国人民大学，获文学博士学位，现为中国海洋大学外国语学院讲师，专业方向为英美文学，主要从事乔伊斯作品研究。 冯洋，中国人民大学在读博士研究生，目前在美国宾西法尼亚大学英语系进行联合培养，专业方向为英美文学，主要从事文学理论以及乔伊斯作品研究。

"A great story--how modernism brought down the regime of censorship--told as a great story. Kevin Birmingham's imaginative scholarship brings Joyce and his world to life. There is a fresh detail on nearly every page."--Louis Menand, Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Metaphysical Club For more than a decade, the book that literary critics now consider the most important novel...(展开全部)

弗兰克·克洛斯（Frank Close），牛津大学理论物理学荣休教授和牛津大学埃克塞特学院物理学荣休研究员。曾任哈韦尔的卢瑟福·阿普尔顿实验室理论物理学部门负责人、英国科学促进协会副主席、日内瓦欧洲核子研究中心传播与公众教育部门负责人。1996年，因“对公众理解物理学的杰出贡献”而被授予英国物理学会凯尔文奖章；2000年，因“为研究和公众理解科学所做的工作”而被授予大英帝国官佐勋章；2013年，因“很好的科学传播”而被授予英国皇家学会迈克尔·法拉第奖。

Klaus Fuchs knew more nuclear secrets in the last two years of the Second World War than anyone else in Britain. He was taken onto the Manhattan Project in the USA as a trusted physicist - and was the conduit by which knowledge of the highest classification passed to the Soviet Union. When Truman announced at the Potsdam Conference that the US possessed a nuclear bomb, Stalin a...(展开全部)

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry Kissinger "Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skil...(展开全部)

Almost every animal will at some time or other become the home of a parasite. Not only are parasites the most sucessful life-forms on Earth, they triggered the development of sex, shape, ecosystems, and have driven the engine of evolution. Carl Zimmer describes the frightening and amazing ingenuity these commando invaders use to devour their hosts from the inside and control th...(展开全部)

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today. "History at its best." -Zbigniew Brzezinski "Gripping, well researched, and thought-provoking, with many lessons for today." -Henry Kissinger "Captures the drama [with] the 'You are there' storytelling skills of a journalist and the analytical skil...(展开全部)

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《海上钢琴师》原著作者。1958年生于都灵。1991年，处女作《愤怒的城堡》获得意大利坎皮耶罗奖、法国美第奇外国作品奖。1993年，《海洋，海》获得维多雷久文学奖和波斯克城堡文学奖。1994年，《丝绸》一出版便立刻登上意大利畅销榜，热潮迅疾燃烧整个欧洲，盘踞各国畅销榜单。 1998年，作品《海上钢琴师》被知名导演托纳多雷改编成电影。巴里科的作品，有着浓烈的艺术与童话气质，富有实验性与音乐感，浓缩着人类最为美好温暖的情感，既古老又新鲜，既传统又现代，散发着无穷的魅力。他的非虚构作品《野蛮人》曾探讨了写作与数字化革命之间的关系。在新作《游戏世界》中，巴里科重新回到了这个话题，将他的视角扩大到数字革命对人文主义思想和文化的影响。