Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition - introduced by noted American writer John Updike - celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much o...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1854, Walden, or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition - introduced by noted American writer John Updike - celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much o...(展开全部)

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathema

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of...(展开全部)

伯勒斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳（Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-1990）是20世纪后半叶最卓越、最著名的心理学家之一。他于1904年3月20日出生在宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎汉纳的一个中产阶级家庭。在斯金纳晚年回忆中，父母对其管教严格。父亲假期曾带他参观乡下的监狱，以体会行为不当会产生怎样的后果。在读中学时，他擅长文学，但科学成绩不佳。1922年，斯金纳进入汉密尔顿学院学习文学。大学毕业后，他投身于文学事业，但结果一事无成，还差一点因精神问题去看心理医生。后因受巴甫洛夫（Ivan Petrovich Pavlov）和华生（John Broadus Watson）等人著作的影响，决定转向行为主义心理学。他曾经指出，其科学生涯的一项指导原则就是巴甫洛夫的一句简单格言，即如果你控制了你的环境，你就会看到秩序。斯金纳于1928年进入哈佛大...(展开全部)

A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a centre of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct. FROM THE PREFACE: It is now widely recognised that great changes must be made in the American way of...(展开全部)

伯勒斯·弗雷德里克·斯金纳（Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1904-1990）是20世纪后半叶最卓越、最著名的心理学家之一。他于1904年3月20日出生在宾夕法尼亚州萨斯奎汉纳的一个中产阶级家庭。在斯金纳晚年回忆中，父母对其管教严格。父亲假期曾带他参观乡下的监狱，以体会行为不当会产生怎样的后果。在读中学时，他擅长文学，但科学成绩不佳。1922年，斯金纳进入汉密尔顿学院学习文学。大学毕业后，他投身于文学事业，但结果一事无成，还差一点因精神问题去看心理医生。后因受巴甫洛夫（Ivan Petrovich Pavlov）和华生（John Broadus Watson）等人著作的影响，决定转向行为主义心理学。他曾经指出，其科学生涯的一项指导原则就是巴甫洛夫的一句简单格言，即如果你控制了你的环境，你就会看到秩序。斯金纳于1928年进入哈佛大...(展开全部)

亨利·戴维·梭罗（1817-1862），美国超验主义作家。他于1845年春天，在老家康科德城的瓦尔登湖边建起一座木屋，过起自耕自食的生活，并在那里写下了著名的《瓦尔登湖》一书。

Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. 《瓦尔登湖》详细记录了梭罗在长达两年零两个月时间里的日常生活状态以及所思所想。他在小木屋旁开荒种地，春种秋收，自给自足。他是一个自然之子，他崇尚自然，与自然交朋友，与湖水、森林和飞鸟对话，在林中观察动物和植物，在船上吹笛，在湖边钓鱼，晚上，在小木屋中记下自己的观察和思考。他追求精神生活，关注灵魂的成长，他骄傲地宣称：“每个人都是自己王国的国王，与这个王国相比，沙皇帝国也不过是一个卑微小国，犹如冰天雪地中的小雪团。”梭罗以他的实际行动告诉我们：人们所追求的大部分昂贵品，大部分的所谓生活的舒适，非但没有必要，而且对人类进步大有妨碍。