加列特·基泽尔 Garret Keizer 自由撰稿人，《哈泼斯杂志》特约编辑，新近成为古根海姆学者。他曾出版六本书，包括广受好评的《帮助》（Help）和《愤怒之谜》（The Enigma of Anger）。他的散文和诗歌散见于《洛杉矶时报》、《琼斯母亲》、《纽约客》、《美国最美散文》和《美国最美诗歌》。

[英]布鲁斯·胡德（Bruce Hood） 英国布里斯托大学认知发展中心主任。曾任教牛津大学、剑桥大学和哈佛大学。有200年历史的“英国皇家科学院圣诞演讲”的明星专家。著有《超感觉》（Supersense）和《自我的本质》（The Self Illusion）。

Like Edward Tenner’s Why Things Bite Back: The Revenge of Unintended Consequences (1996), this engaging book explores the unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) side effects of our inventive natures. We usually use the word noise as a pejorative, a term denoting unwanted sound: somebody’s loud music, a blaring car alarm, the din from a nearby airport. But, as Keizer points out, no...(展开全部)

Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. In a journey that leads us from the primeval Tanzanian veldt to wind farms in Maine, Keizer invites us to listen to noise in ...(展开全部)

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

著者简介 卡斯滕·延森（Carsten Jensen，1952— ），丹麦当代著名作家、评论家。其作品《我看过世界的开始》获得丹麦书商奖（1996年）。2006年，其取材自家乡马斯塔尔镇的长篇史诗作品《我们，被淹没的》出版，荣获有“丹麦布克奖”之称的丹斯克银行文学奖，旋即被视为北欧当代文学经典，已售出20国版权，全球销量超过60万册。 译者简介 陈磊， 译者，译作有《树语》《回家之路》等。

贾斯廷•托雷斯（Justin Torres） 美国小说家。在纽约州北部长大，父亲为波多黎各裔，母亲为爱尔兰和意大利混血。曾在《纽约客》《格兰塔》《卫报》和《华盛顿邮报》等重要刊物上发表作品。他从爱荷华写作坊毕业后，获得美国艺术家协会罗隆文学基金，随后又获得斯坦福大学华莱士•斯特格纳奖金和国家艺术基金会基金。2012年被美国国家图书基金会评选为“5位35岁以下杰出作家”之一。他曾做过农场工人、遛狗师、创意写作老师和书店店员等多种工作。

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover....(展开全部)

From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, a compelling depiction of a man’s act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a m...(展开全部)