Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why have the reasons we die changed so much? How is it that a ce...(展开全部)

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes's argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in...(展开全部)

韩素音(1916— )，本名周光瑚，著名英籍华人女作家。先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。一生致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。作品有自传《伤残的树》《凋谢的花朵》《无鸟的夏天》《吾宅双门》《再生凤凰》，小说《瑰宝》《青山青》《等到早晨来临》，传记《周恩来与他的世纪》《早晨的洪流：毛泽东与中国革命》等。自传体小说《瑰宝》奠定了韩素音在国际文坛上的地位，1956年，据此改编的电影Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing获得了三项奥斯卡奖。

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes’s argument. No culture has been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in...(展开全部)

韩素音(1916— )，本名周光瑚，著名英籍华人女作家。先后在燕京大学、比利时布鲁塞尔大学就读。一生致力于中国和西方世界的沟通与理解。作品有自传《伤残的树》《凋谢的花朵》《无鸟的夏天》《吾宅双门》《再生凤凰》，小说《瑰宝》《青山青》《等到早晨来临》，传记《周恩来与他的世纪》《早晨的洪流：毛泽东与中国革命》等。自传体小说《瑰宝》奠定了韩素音在国际文坛上的地位，1956年，据此改编的电影Love is a Many-Splendoured Thing获得了三项奥斯卡奖。

美国哈佛大学著名历史学教授，哈佛历史及文学项目主任，《纽约客》特约撰稿人。莱波雷写作叙述能力高超，知识背景深厚，能把故事讲得引人入胜，她也是网易视频《哈佛大学公开课：立大志》系列的主讲人之一。 2013年，莱波雷凭借本书英文版The Mansion of Happiness获得美国国家图书奖长名单非小说类作者奖。

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That’s why any history of ...(展开全部)

Renowned Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has composed a strikingly original, ingeniously conceived, and beautifully crafted history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave. How does life begin? What does it mean? What happens when we die? “All anyone can do is ask,” Lepore writes. “That's why any history of i...(展开全部)

For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a...(展开全部)