作者：亚当.扎加耶夫斯基 波兰著名诗人、随笔散文家和小说家。一九四五年出生在利沃夫（今属乌克兰），毕业于雅盖隆大学哲学系。波兰“新浪潮”诗歌代表诗人、主要理论阐述者。在一九七〇年代是波兰持不同政见的异议诗人。一九八二年移居巴黎。后往来于巴黎和美国之间，先后执教于休斯敦和芝加哥大学。二〇〇二年返回波兰，定居克拉科夫。主要著作有诗集《公报》《肉铺》《信》《多重性颂》《画布》《炽烈的土地》《震惊》《神秘学入门》《无止境——扎加耶夫斯基诗选》《永恒的敌人》和《无形之手》，随笔散文集《团结，孤独》《两座城市》《另一种美》《捍卫热情》等。扎加耶夫斯基的作品已被翻译为多种语言出版，获得过诺斯达特国际文学奖、特朗斯特罗姆奖、米沃什奖、欧洲诗人奖等多项权威大奖，以及中国的“诗歌与人国际诗歌奖”和“中坤国际诗歌奖”，并多次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者：李以亮 诗人、译者。...(展开全部)

The 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities" was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days - which he believed were imminent. In form and philosophy it stands as a model of medieval historiography. Related to the court of the Holy Roman Empire, Otto was able to observe the signific...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

From a variety of masterfully rendered perspectives, these six stories depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an ech...(展开全部)

"In this book, the first collection of his prose works, he accounts in scintillating language for the peculiarly modern and sometimes deliquescent fervor that has prompted his poems. Few poets have written so characteristically about their own craft." --Perspective --U.S.A. "These are rich essays, simply constructed yet richly and elegantly written." -- Hayden Carruth, The Nati...(展开全部)

莱昂内尔·特里林（Lionel Trilling，1905—1975），出生于美国纽约，就读于哥伦比亚大学，于1932年回校任教，在他长期的和非常杰出的职业生涯中作为一个文学评论家，他在校教英语系。他继承阿诺徳、利维斯以来的批评传统，侧重从社会历史、道德心理的角度评论文学和文化，被称为20世纪中期美国年青一代的思想导师，对当代批评影响甚大。在他的许多作品中，最有影响力的三本散文集：《自由想象》，《反对自我》，《超越文化》；讲座集《诚与真》。莱昂内尔·特里林与作家、评论家戴安娜·特里林结婚。

A portrait of world civilization told through the fascinating stories of the world’s greatest cities. A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about people and how, over the millennia, they have managed to live closely together. From the origins of urbanization in Mesopot...(展开全部)

A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world's greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here? From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global met...(展开全部)

With a new afterword by the author The underground has always played a prominent role in human imaginings, both as a place of refuge and as a source of fear. The late nineteenth century saw a new fascination with the underground as Western societies tried to cope with the pervasive changes of a new social and technological order. In Notes on the Underground, Rosalind Williams t...(展开全部)