Renowned Hebrew Bible scholar Konrad Schmid here provides a comprehensive discussion of the task, history, and conditions of the history of Old Testament literature. He carefully considers the dynamics of language, orality, literacy, and the range of social and political conditions that shaped Israels writing at each period of the peoples history and explores the significance o...(展开全部)

Eminent biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan offers here a wide-ranging and stimulating exploration of the Old Testament, illuminating its importance as history, literature, and sacred text. Coogan explains the differences between the Bible of Jewish tradition (the "Hebrew Bible") and the Old Testament of Christianity, and also examines the different contents of the Bibles used b...(展开全部)

Science fiction (SF) has existed as a popular genre for around 150 years. This book offers a survey of the genre from 19th-century pioneers to contemporary authors, introducing the plural versions of early SF across the world, before examining the emergence of the "scientific romance" in the 1880s and 1890s. The "Golden Age" of writers' expansive SF pulp was concentrated in the...(展开全部)

莱特（Christopher J. H. Wright）是“国际灵凤合作伙伴组织”（the Langham Partnership International）的国际事工主管。曾担任万国宣教学院（All Nations Christian College）院長，也在印度普納（Pune）的联合圣经神学院（Union Biblical Seminary）任教。著有The Uniqueness of Jesus、Deuteronomy （New International Biblical Commentary）、《聖經信息系列：以西結書》（The Message of Ezekiel）等书。

莱特（Christopher J. H. Wright）是“国际灵凤合作伙伴组织”（the Langham Partnership International）的国际事工主管。曾担任万国宣教学院（All Nations Christian College）院長，也在印度普納（Pune）的联合圣经神学院（Union Biblical Seminary）任教。著有The Uniqueness of Jesus、Deuteronomy （New International Biblical Commentary）、《聖經信息系列：以西結書》（The Message of Ezekiel）等书。

雷吉斯·德布雷（Régis Debray，1940－ ），法国知识分子、记者，曾担任密特朗政府外交事务顾问，现为欧洲宗教科学研究所主席。

Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame and fortune within the Republic of Letters, but who instead sank into the miserable world of Grub St...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达恩顿（Robert Darnton），著名的欧洲文化史学者。1939年生于纽约。1960年毕业于哈佛大学。1964年获牛津大学博士学位。1964—1965年担任《纽约时报》记者。1968年进入普林斯顿大学，担任Shelby Cullom Davis欧洲史教授。1999年任美国历史学会主席。2007年从普林斯顿大学荣休，担任哈佛大学Carl H. Pforzheimer教授和哈佛大学图书馆馆长。本人及其著作曾获多项奖励：1995年，《法国革命前的畅销禁书》一书获美国国家图书评论奖；1999年，获法国政府荣誉骑士勋章提名；2004年，获国际符腾堡学会颁发的符腾堡奖；2005年，获美国印刷史学会杰出贡献奖。

Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West. Timothy Hampton shows how cheerfulness—a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit—functions as a theme in the work of major artists from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong. The book studies both the philosophical construal of cheerfulness—as a th...(展开全部)

Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern ...(展开全部)