God's Own Junkyard' is a muckraking book. Peter Blake sets the pace of his direct and uncompromising attack, by commenting 'This book is...written in fury, though not, I trust, in blind fury. It is a deliberate attack upon all of those who have been befouled a large portion of this country for private gain, and are engaged in befouling the rest. Some of these latter-day vandals are well organized and well financed - such as the billboard industry whose profitable creations along our highways have been implicated in a staggering number of car accidents. Some are 'little people' - tradesman and shopkeepers trying to make a modest living - people without ties to the landscape or townscape in which they live, people whose eyes have lost the art of seeing. And still others are all the rest of us - all of us who no longer care, or no longer care enough."
In four brilliant and devastating covers, Peter Blake sets forth the case against the collusion of politics, business, and public indifference which is deprecating the American landscape and in five additional chapters masterfully documents in 157 pictures the evidence supporting his contention that the townscapes, landscapes, roadscapes, carscapes, and skyscapes of America are being laid waste by venality, vulgarity, and general, if not systematic, 'uglification.

《波斯文学史》所论述的是达里波斯语文学发生和发展的历史。达里波斯语兴起于9世纪。10-15世纪是它的繁荣时期。在这一时期中，产生了像菲尔多西、海亚姆、内扎米、萨迪、莫拉维和哈菲兹这样世界著名的诗人。他们的不朽的杰作早已被译为世界各主要文字，获得全世界文学爱好者的关注和赞赏。
在伊朗的1905-1911年的立宪运动时期，达里波斯语文学发展到另一高峰。这一时期的作家和诗人更多地关注人民听疾苦和国家的命运。他们以自己的优秀作品鼓舞人民去为争取自由和独立而斗争。同时，这一时期的文学语言也发生了变化。出现了以平实质朴的民众语言写作的文学作品。本书着重介绍以上两个时期的波斯文学。