本书作者梅纳德• 所罗门以其缜密如同侦探般的的嗅觉，凭借其多年研究贝多芬的深厚功力，从贝多芬的家庭，其所处的社会及政治环境，选侯领地的精神生活、音乐传统中收集来各类资料，得以描绘出这位天才作曲家全面而生动的肖像。本书的重大贡献在于：
澄清了以往贝多芬传记中大量模糊不清之处，并最终确认了学术界长久以来苦苦寻找的、传奇的“永生的恋人”——安东妮•布伦塔诺。
对贝多芬音乐爱好者而言，本书不仅有着丰富的插图，从贝多芬的故居、恋人的画像，曲谱和除去加注释的书目之外，还包含贝多芬作品的全部目录。

《人生舞台:阿西莫夫自传》内容简介：饮誉全球的科普巨匠和科幻大师艾萨克·阿西莫夫一生写过三卷自传《记忆犹新》、《欢乐依旧》和《人生舞台》。前两卷分别于1979年和1980年出版，讲述了作者从出生直至19781年的经历。书中所述严格以时间先后为序，侧重对事情的准确记叙，纯议论性的文字很少。第三卷《人生舞台》自1990年初阿西莫夫病重住院期间开始动笔，历时125天，于同年5月30日完成。不到两年后，作者便与世长辞了。《人生舞台》并非前两卷的续集，写法也与前两卷迥异，它不再拘泥于时间顺序，而是沿着作者的思绪，一个话题接着一个话题，将其家庭、童年、学校、成长、恋爱、婚姻、疾病、挫折、成就、至爱亲朋、竞争对手，乃至他对写作、信仰、道德、友谊、战争、生死等诸多重大问题的见解，一一娓娓道来。全书写得坦诚率真，在极平易的语言中充盈着睿智和哲理，使人读后不仅能了解阿西莫夫这位奇才辉煌的一生，而且有助于读者更深刻地领悟人生舞台的真谛。

本书是世界著名地质学家许靖华的自传，趣味横生，精彩动人。自传在文阔的历史北景下展开，其家族发展的兴衰悲欢，个人经历的曲折艰难，折射出中国社会的变迁以及中西方社会的巨大差异。作者在自省之中，更有着对历史、对中西文化碰撞的深刻反思。正如作者所言：“对于生命中的正反或美丑两方面我都同样披露，不作过多的隐讳。毕竟我们每个人都是时代的产物。”
在作者富于传奇色彩的曲折故事背后，隐含着作者撰写本书的动机：“为了要刻画人际之间的复杂，好帮助做家长的人，了解他们早熟孩子的人格特质；帮助做妻子的人，了解她们丈夫的草率过失；也帮助做孩子的人，原谅他们道德上有欠完美的父母亲。”
相信作者非同寻常的阅历与担率的心迹表露会使每一位读者获益匪浅。

Franz Schulze's acclaimed biography is a captivating story of the life, designs, and ideas that made Mies van der Rohe one of the world's most celebrated modern architects.
"The most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best....This is a genuinely readable book....Because no writer has ever before probed into Mies's life at such depth, we have here the first definitive reconstruction of the architect's personal habits, loves, fears, triumphs, loneliness and (in his old age) agonies."--Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune
"A herculean, generally successful effort to present Mies's work in terms of both character and context....The substance is impressive and much of the material is fresh and revealing....This book has obviously been a long labor of love and respect for which no source has been left untouched."--Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times Book Review
"Schulze's excellent book...is absolutely worthy of its subject. Soundly researched, vividly detailed, and hard to fault critically, it is the most complete survey ever written of Mies'[s] life and works....No one else has approached Schulze's achievement in telling the whole story over eight decades."--Allan Temko, San Francisco Chronicle Review
"Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies's building innovations and that of a biographer able to paint the humanity and shortcomings of the man."--Jane Holtz Kay, Christian Science Monitor
"By its broad scope, its eloquent style, and, above all, its prodigious scholarship, this book clearly establishes itself as an indispensable volume for the library of the serious Mies scholar."--Louis Rocah, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"In Schulze's hands Mies is no longer the impassive monolith he has sometimes seemed to be, but a complex human being whose varying moods reflected and affected the vicissitudes of his life and work....Yet, in this model architectural biography, [Schulze] also knows and brilliantly demonstrates the integral nexus of architecture and life."--Thomas S. Hines, Progressive Architecture
"Franz Schulze's Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography captivates from the very first paragraph....The writer is a skillful storyteller. In his hands, Mies's life acquires the intensity and dramatic progression of a novel."--Juan Pablo Bonta, Design Book Review
"A revelation....The man who emerges from its pages is not cold and rational but exuberant and illogical."--Donald Davis, Newsweek
"[A] readable, well-researched and sympathetic biography."--Mark Girouard, Washington Post Book World
"The standard life of Mies for some time to come."--William H. Jordy, The New Criterion
"[A] distinguished and eloquent biography."--Paul Goldberger, New York Times
"[A] magnificent biography."--Diana Ketcham, The Oakland Tribune

Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a chair at Oxford, a beautiful country house, an aristocratic wife, and, eventually, a title of his own. Eloquent and versatile, fearless and formidable, he moved easily between Oxford and London, between the dreaming spires of scholarship and the jostling corridors of power. He developed a lucid prose style which he used to deadly effect. He was notorious for his acerbic attacks on other historians, but ultimately tainted his own reputation with a catastrophic error when he authenticated the forged 'Hitler Diaries'. Adam Sisman sheds new light on this fascinating and dramatic episode, but also shows that there was much more to Hugh Trevor-Roper's career than the fiasco of the Hitler Diaries hoax that became his epitaph. From wartime code-breaking to grilling Nazis while the trail was still fresh in 1945 (and finding Hitler's will buried inside a bottle), to his wide-ranging interests, his snobbery and his malice, his formidable post-war feuds with Evelyn Waugh, Tawney, Toynbee, Taylor and many others, and his secret and passionate affair with an older, married woman. A study in both success and failure, Adam Sisman's biography is a revealing and personal story of a remarkable life.

米塞斯（Ludwig von Mises，1881-1973），20世纪重要的经济学家、思想家，亚当·斯密之后对市场经济理论贡献最大的人。他的思想不合潮流，却是矫正时代前进方向的指南。
《米塞斯大传》详细描述了米塞斯漫长坎坷的一生，揭示出他的思想发展轨迹，以及与时代的碰撞。同时本书叙述了以米塞斯为中心的奥地利经济学派的发展历程、欧洲和美国的经济思想史，也生动呈现了米塞斯所经历的时代的风云变幻。可以从中窥见那个时代最显耀的人物——门格尔、庞巴维克、维塞尔、熊彼特、罗宾斯、哈耶克、凯恩斯等杰出人物之间的思想交锋和充满戏剧性的人际交往。
伟大的生命成就精彩的传记。本书学术性与可读性俱佳，是目前最详实，最受好评的米塞斯传记。

2005年，俄罗斯久负盛名的青年近卫军出版社“杰出人物传记丛书”推出了作家、诗人德米特里·贝科夫撰写的《帕斯捷尔纳克传》。这部作品甫一问世，就非同凡响，不仅一举摘得俄罗斯2006年度畅销书奖和奖金规模世界第二的“大书奖”头名，而且一版再版，迄今为止，印数起码超过六十万册。这的确是一部大书——因为超长甚至显得过剩的篇幅，也因为与篇幅相匹配的内容、思想、对诸多奇迹的演绎和颂赞，借用传主的表述，这部书同样不失为“造书的奇迹”。俄罗斯当代作家弗拉基米尔·齐布利斯基评论说，“这是关于诗歌与散文自身的履历。其余的一切，包括诗人本人的生活，都只是词语诞生前后的种种情形。也正是这些才吸引了作者，并且决定作品能否吸引读者。‘其余的一切，都是文学。’”阅读这部作品，令人“在帕斯捷尔纳克之下得到净化”。2007年，著名文学教育家、深受爱戴的文坛长者尤里·哈尔芬（1929—2014）在《文学》杂志上撰文指出，“创作分析与诗人作为个体的分析相得益彰，使德米特里·贝科夫的著作成为传记文学中极其罕见、极为出色的现象。”

该书综合各国肖邦专家的研究成果，基于肖邦在波兰和法国不同时期的生活经历的众多史实，讲述了一个真实的、完整的肖邦的故事，被视为权威传记。

With a preface by Irina Shostakovich and a note from the compiler. All texts are in both Russian and English. An attractive album of black & white photos of the great composer, from childhood to his last years.

Planck's Law, an equation used by physicists to determine the radiation leaking from any object in the universe, was described by Albert Einstein as "the basis of all twentieth-century physics." Max Planck is credited with being the father of quantum theory, and his work laid the foundation for our modern understanding of matter and energetic processes. But Planck's story is not well known, especially in the United States. A German physicist working during the first half of the twentieth century, his library, personal journals, notebooks, and letters were all destroyed with his home in World War II. What remains, other than his contributions to science, are handwritten letters in German shorthand, and tributes from other scientists of the time, including his close friend Albert Einstein.
In Planck: Driven by Vision, Broken by War, Brandon R. Brown interweaves the voices and writings of Planck, his family, and his contemporaries-with many passages appearing in English for the first time-to create a portrait of a groundbreaking physicist working in the midst of war. Planck spent much of his adult life grappling with the identity crisis of being an influential German with ideas that ran counter to his government. During the later part of his life, he survived bombings and battlefields, surgeries and blood transfusions, all the while performing his influential work amidst a violent and crumbling Nazi bureaucracy. When his son was accused of treason related to a bombing, Planck tried to use his standing as a German "national treasure," and wrote direct letters to Hitler to spare his son's life. Brown tells the story of Planck's friendship with the far more outspoken Albert Einstein, and shows how his work fits within the explosion of technology and science that occurred during his life.
The story of a brilliant man living in a dangerous time, Brandon Brown gives Max Planck his rightful place in the history of science, and shows how war-torn Germany deeply impacted his life and work.

Having previously tackled Nietzsche and Schiller, renowned biographer Rüdiger Safranski sets his sights on the writer considered the Shakespeare of German literature. Goethe (1749–1832), a remarkably prolific poet, playwright, novelist, and, as Safranski emphasizes, a statesman and naturalist, first awakened not only a burgeoning German nation but also the European continent with his electrifying novel The Sorrows of Young Werther . Safranski has scoured Goethe’s entire oeuvre, relying on primary sources as well as Goethe's correspondence with contemporaries and their comments to one another, to produce an illuminating portrait of the avatar of the Romantic era. Set against the cultural and political turmoil of Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Goethe, who intersected with almost every great figure of his age, is thrillingly re-created in this monumental biography. As Safranski ultimately shows, Goethe’s greatest creation, even in comparison to his masterpiece Faust , was his own life.

石涛（1642-1707）为中国明清画坛巨擘，创作风格独特，深受时人与后世推崇。本书是西方出版的第一本专论石涛的著作，主要聚焦于1697年至1707年间，即石涛身处扬州且留存至今作品数量最多的晚期阶段。
作者综合运用中国传统的研究理路、西方的形式分析和图像学分析，以及因上世纪70年代英美学界“新艺术史”兴起而形成的社会诠释模式，探讨石涛的社会、政治、心理、经济和宗教等五大面向，揭示其绘画实践的复杂性。作者同时以现代性架构石涛的生平与艺术，并以自主性，自我意识与怀疑来界定石涛绘画的主体性。读此书的读者，或可获得一种与阅读当今其他艺术史著作完全不同的体验。

*英国科斯塔图书奖、法兰西学院奖、美国《洛杉矶时报》图书奖等国际大奖获奖作品！
*《纽约时报》《独立报》《泰晤士报》《观察家报》《星期天泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《标准晚报》等国际知名媒体年度好书！
*历时10年，走访9个国家23座城市，掌握最新披露的权威档案，以详尽的研究、动人的叙事重述斯大林的鲜为人知的成长历程，还原一部前苏联的史前史。
*国内第一本讲述“青年”斯大林的著作，是理解斯大林以及前苏联历史的绕不开的路径、绝佳的选择。
*“没有哪个历史学家能像蒙蒂菲奥里那样把我们领向斯大林的内心深处。”（《洛杉矶时报》）美国前国务卿基辛格读后，推荐说：“对斯大林，我本以为了解得足够充分，但我错了。”
《耶路撒冷三千年》的作者蒙蒂菲奥里历时10年，走访9个国家23座城市，掌握最新披露的权威档案，重述斯大林如何从鞋匠的儿子最终成为列宁的左右手这一鲜为人知的成长历程，还原一部前苏联的史前史。
斯大林是修鞋匠的儿子，有溺爱自己的母亲，以及给他带来童年阴影的父亲；他是神学院的学生，学习成绩非常优秀；他是诗人，有着俊美的面容、忧郁的表情，深受女孩子喜欢，因此有过诸多的情人；他是西伯利亚流放者，是“逃跑大师”，多次从监狱和流放地逃脱……
蒙蒂菲奥里在《青年斯大林》这本权威著作中，以详尽的研究、一系列全新的第一手资料，和仿若狄更斯附体一般的叙事技巧，跌宕起伏地讲述了一个多面、矛盾的斯大林形象。
本书出版后，荣获英、美、法、奥地利等各国大奖，入选《纽约时报》《泰晤士报》等超过10家媒体的年度好书，是理解斯大林、苏联历史的绝佳途径。

《希尔伯特数学世界的亚历山大》是被科学界公认的经典读本。大卫·希尔伯特是20世纪上半叶国际数学界的一位领袖人物，他于1900年在巴黎第二届国际数学家大会上提出的23个数学问题，激发了整个数学界的想象力，造就了20世纪一大批著名的数学家。此后，这些问题几乎成为检阅数学重大成就的一张航图。这位创造20世纪数学史奇迹的数学家和数学思想家，就像数学世界的亚历山大，在整个数学版图上留下了巨大显赫的名声。全书以平静的笔触叙述了这位极富想象力的人在一个极抽象的世界里如鱼得水、平淡而又神奇的一生。

Beethoven biographer Solomon here presents a revisionist biography of Mozart, which his publisher claims is the first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years. Certainly it is a major work in terms of heft and range. Solomon will have none of the "divine child" approach, limning instead a man growing up under the shadow of an impossibly demanding father who was at once overprotective and jealous of his son's vast gifts. There is a great deal of psychological probing into the agonies of their relationship, much of it sensible; and Solomon paints an indelible portrait of Mozart's last years, begging for money, guilty about his deprived wife Constanze, resentful of being virtually cut out of his father's will, yet still heroically forging a new musical aesthetic. He also clears up much of the mystery about the bizarre Requiem commission, and the burial in the "pauper's grave." He is convinced that Mozart and his cousin "the Basle," recipient of many of the infamous smutty letters, were lovers for a time; and the portrait of the composer that emerges is of an extraordinarily sensitive, liberal-minded (the Masonic material is superb), extravagant but responsible person who has been much belittled by biographers beginning almost immediately after his death. Solomon also writes acutely about what was daringly new, and wonderfully enduring, about Mozart's music. Only a certain lack of flow between the chapters suggests the origin of much of this material in lectures. Illustrations. BOMC selection.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman J. Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and their greatest theories have the uniqueness and beauty of great works of art.Dyson argues that the best way to understand science is by understanding those who practice it. He tells stories of scientists at work, ranging from Isaac Newton’s absorption in physics, alchemy, theology, and politics, to Ernest Rutherford’s discovery of the structure of the atom, to Albert Einstein’s stubborn hostility to the idea of black holes. His descriptions of brilliant physicists like Edward Teller and Richard Feynman are enlivened by his own reminiscences of them. He looks with a skeptical eye at fashionable scientific fads and fantasies, and speculates on the future of climate prediction, genetic engineering, the colonization of space, and the possibility that paranormal phenomena may exist yet not be scientifically verifiable.Dyson also looks beyond particular scientific questions to reflect on broader philosophical issues, such as the limits of reductionism, the morality of strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, the preservation of the environment, and the relationship between science and religion. These essays, by a distinguished physicist who is also a prolific writer, offer informed insights into the history of science and fresh perspectives on contentious current debates about science, ethics, and faith.

本书是一部传记，却有比通常意义上的传记更多的内容。作者将作为人和艺术家的马勒置入所处的时代和所生活的社会中，对马勒的出身、家庭、教育、事业，他的精神生活和心路历程进行考察，介绍了也评述了他的生平、作品及创作道路，从而使读者更全面地认识马勒。更重要的是，作者突出地指出，作为音乐家的马勒是一位勇敢的革新者，他远远地走在了他的许多同时代音乐家的前面。马勒的无穷追索、寻觅和探究，他的怀疑和焦虑――这一切使他成了一位未来的同时代人。

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life.A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simon's story encompasses an explosion in the information sciences, the transformation of psychology by the information-processing paradigm, and the use of computer simulation for modeling the behavior of highly complex systems.Simon's theory of bounded rationality led to a Nobel Prize in economics, and his work on building machines that think—based on the notion that human intelligence is the rule-governed manipulation of symbols—laid conceptual foundations for the new cognitive science. Subsequently, contrasting metaphors of the maze (Simon's view) and of the mind (neural nets) have dominated the artificial intelligence debate.There is also a warm account of his successful marriage and of an unconsummated love affair, letters to his children, columns, a short story, and political and personal intrigue in academe.