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简介：　　From the author of the best-selling "Three Junes" comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who years for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the archetypal youngest, is the rebel: uncontainable, iconoclastic, committed to her work but not to the men who fall for her daring nature. Louisa resents that the charismatic Clem has always been the favorite; yet as Clem puts it, "On the other side of the fence-mine-every expectation you fulfill . . . puts you one stop closer to that Grand Canyon rim from which you could one day rule the world-or plummet in very grand style." In this vivid, heartrending story of what we can and cannot do for those we love, the sisters grow closer as they move farther apart. Louis settles in New York while Clem, a wildlife biologist, moves restlessly about until she lands in the Rocky Mountains. Their complex bond, Louisa observes, is "like a double helix, two souls coiling around a common axis, joined yet never touching." Alive with all the sensual detail and riveting characterization that mark Glass's previous work, "I See You Everywhere "is a piercingly candid story of life and death, companionship and sorrow, and the nature of sisterhood itself.　　

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 In this study, Cohoon examines representations of American boyhood found in children's periodicals and middle-class magazines produced between 1840 and the first decade of the 20th century. Particular attention is paid to constructions of masculinity, nationality, and citizenship. Some of the texts analyzed include serialized stories by such well-known authors as Mark Twain and Louisa May Alcott, as well as less-familiar periodicals like Boys of New York. Cohoon teaches courses in children's literature at the U. of Memphis. The text is based upon her doctoral dissertation. Annotation 漏2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 In the last few decades, scholars have turned their attention to constructions of masculinity and its influence on expressions of nationality and citizenship. Serialized Citizenshipsparticipates in and critiques these ongoing conversations about boyhood by examining works produced between 1840 and the first decade of the twentieth century.  

Owning art:the contemporary art collector’s handbook

作者：  露薏莎·巴克(Louisa Buck)，茱蒂丝·葛瑞儿(Judith Greer)著;林心如，黄亚纪译

出版社：典藏艺术家庭股份有限公司,2010

简介：　　收藏是一種獵喜的心態，更是一種學習的過程！ 　　從收藏觀念的孕育到妥為保藏的實務操作，完整地敘述了一個藏家基本的養成概念。全書引用了無數專家的經驗之談，讓此書成了名副其實的「收藏指南」。 　　人會老朽，但收藏的是一種記憶，美的不是作品，而是塵封在記憶裡的點點滴滴，隨著老朽幻化為烏有。 　　本書《當代藝術收藏指南》，道明了以當代藝術收藏為本，第一章簡單敘述了一些收藏的基本觀念，第二章便切入正題帶出「什麼是當代藝術？」且詳述當代藝術媒材，接著第三章就以購買藝術品為由帶領讀者「進場」，熟悉每個市場中的角色與功能和資源的使用，第四章收藏實務，從作品的保存、保險、運輸、修護談到借展，是一般此類書籍最常忽略的章節，但卻是收藏最重要的一個環節，作品如得不到妥善的照顧，前文所談的一切就顯得毫無意義了；第五章更將Owning Art的概念擴及美術館和非營利機構，包括私人基金會的設立與運作和國外常見的贊助制度。整本書從收藏觀念的孕育到妥為保藏的實務操作，完整地敘述了一個藏家基本的養成概念。 　　「你所收藏的，往往是你自己」。品味是美感的累積，收藏是美感的實踐，聖羅蘭專拍的成功在於設計師的美學涵養與獨到的品味；然而，收藏並不只是擁有藝術品，藝術市場也不是投機賺錢的管道。收藏有道，唯有形塑個人收藏、熟諳市場操作之道，才能游刃於市場，成為貨真價值的藝術收藏家。

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简介：Ranging from Big Sur to coastal Maine, and including writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Douglass, and Louisa May Alcott, American Writers at Home takes readers on a tour of the American literary heritage that is at once grand and intimate. We ramble through the turn of the century estates of Edith Wharton and Mark Twain and nestle into the humbler homes of Robert Frost and Walt Whitman. We are admitted into privateb7sand in most cases remarkably unchangedb7sspaces that bore witness to genius, where Edna St. Vincent Millay's dresses still hang in the closet and Nathaniel Hawthorne's thoughts remain inscribed on the windowpane in his study. Throughout, we see how the personal passions, creative idiosyncrasies, and often profound sorrows of these writers have shaped the books we love most.--Publisher.

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简介：Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. Unusually for Dickens, the novel is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the heartless factory owner Bounderby. Human joy is seen as the open-hearted and affectionate people act as an antidote to the ruthless behaviour Dickens presents. From School Library Journal Grade 7-12-Dickens' satire on the Victorian family and the philosophies of a society which sought to turn men into machines. From AudioFile In Dickens's story of the horrors of a utilitarian upbringing, reason and facts are everything, and imagination and creativity are nothing. The narrator's British accent goes well with Dickens's overly dramatic and lush prose. He uses different English accents for the numerous male characters, some speech defects for others and a breathy falsetto voice for all the women. While a straight rendition of the dialogue would be an improvement, luckily the story is mainly narrative. Some classics simply may not translate well either to audiobooks or to the 1990's. E.F. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature Novel by Charles Dickens, published in serial form (as Hard Times: For These Times) in the periodical Household Words from April to August 1854 and in book form later the same year. The novel is a bitter indictment of industrialization, with its dehumanizing effects on workers and communities in mid-19th-century England. Louisa and Tom Gradgrind have been harshly raised by their father, an educator, to know nothing but the most factual, pragmatic information. Their lives are devoid of beauty, culture, or imagination, and the two have little or no empathy for others. Louisa marries Josiah Bounderby, a vulgar banker and mill owner. She eventually leaves her husband and returns to her father's house. Tom, unscrupulous and vacuous, robs his brother-in-law's bank. Only after these crises does their father realize that the principles by which he raised his children have corrupted their lives. About Author Jane Jacobs is one of the most influential social thinkers of our times. Her books include The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Nature of Economies. She lives in Toronto. Book Dimension : length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6 　

Coeur brule et autres romances

作者：  J.M.G. Le Clézio　著

出版社： 2011-4-1

简介：　　En sept courts récits, LeClézio brosse le portrait d'unegalerie de personnages d'ici et d'ailleurs, de la grande villemoderne ou du désert. Avec Pervenche, Eva, Kalima, Samaweyn, il estquestion de la mort et de la peur de la solitude, des doux rêves del'enfance, de l'amour de la liberté et des désillusions de la vieadulte, du désir... Tous ces personnages ont en commun une mêmefragilité et une même difficulté à accepter les pesanteurs d'unmonde violent où il arrive que l'on tue une prostituée sous leregard indifférent des passants, que l'on vende une jeune fillecontre un peu de drogue ou que les nomades bédouins soientdépossédés de leur trésor. Tous ces contes forment autant defragments de vie, d'éclairages sur des anonymes dont l'existencesimple passe souvent inaper?ue. LeClézio illustre ainsimagnifiquement cette citation de Louisa M.Alcott, dans MrsPodger's Teapot: "La moitié de tout ce qui dans le mondeest vraie beauté, vertu ou romance a été mise au c?ur des genssimples, cachée dans les corps ordinaires."

Little Women 当当5星级英文学习产品

作者：  Louisa

出版社：Penguin 2013年03月

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Vasari on technique

作者：  乔尔乔·瓦萨里(Giorgio Vasari)[著];路易莎 S.麦克尔霍斯(Louisa S. Maclechose)英文译者;胡辉，陈玄巍中文译者

出版社：吉林人民出版社,2014

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简介：     This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868—69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.     "Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of archival materials, among them previously unpublished correspondence with Thomas Niles and Alcott's own precursors to Little Women.     "Criticism" reprints twenty nineteenth-century reviews. Seven modern essays represent a variety of critical theories used to read and study the novel, including feminist (Catharine R. Stimpson, Elizabeth Keyser), new historicist (Richard H. Brodhead), psychoanalytic (Angela M. Estes and Kathleen Margaret Lant), and reader-response (Elizabeth Vincent) .     A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.     About the series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.     About the Author     Anne K. Phillips is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University where she teaches Children's Literature and American Literature. She is co-author of Resources for Teaching the Bedford Introduction to Literature and co-editor of the annual Children's Literature 21. With Gregory Eiselein, she co-edited The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia. Gregory Eiselein is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English, where he teaches American Literature. He is the author of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era and editor of Emma Lazarus: Selected Writings and Adah Isaacs Menken: Infelicia and Other Writings. With Anne K. Phillips, he co-edited The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia.

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简介：Contents: VOLUME 1 - Henry Larcom Abbott; Henry Livermore Abbott; John Joseph Abercrombie; Abolitionist Movement; Abolitionists; Acoustic Shadows; Charles Francis Adams; Charles Francis Adams Jr.; Daniel Weisiger Adams; Henry Brooks Adams; John Adams; William Wirt Adams; African-American Sailors; African-American Solders, C.S.A.; African-American Suffrage; Alabama; Alabama Claims; Alabama, CSS; Albemarle Sound; Prince Albert; Louisa May Alcott; Battle of Aldie, Virginia; Edward Porter Alexander; Destruction of Alexandria, Louisiana; Russell Alexander Alger; Battle of Allatoona; Battle of Alleghany Mountain, West Virginia; Henry Watkins Allen; William Wirt Allen; Alton Federal Military Prison; Amelia Court House/Jetersville; American Party; American Red Cross; Adelbert Ames; Jacob Ammen; Anaconda Plan; George Thomas Anderson; James Patton Anderson; Joseph Reid Anderson; Richard Heron Anderson; Robert Anderson; William "Bloody Bill" Anderson; Andersonville; John Albion Andrew; George Leonard Andrews; Andrews's Raid; Annals of the War; Susan Brownell Anthony; Battle of Antietam; Appomattox Court House; James Jay Archer; Arkansas; Arkansas, CSS; Battle of Arkansas Post; Arlington; Lewis Addison Armistead; Armories, Arsenals, and Foundries; Frank Crawford Armstrong; Army of Kansas; Army of Kentucky; Army of Middle Tennessee; Army of Mississippi; Army of Missouri; Army of Mobile; Army of New Mexico; Army of Northern Virginia; Army of Tennessee; Army of the Cumberland; Army of the Gulf; Army of the James; Army of the Kanawha; Army of the Northwest, Confederate; Army of the Ohio; Army of the Peninsula; Army of the Potomac; Army of the Shenandoah, C.S.A./U.S.A.; Army of the Tennessee; Army of the West; Army of Virginia; Army of West Tennessee; Army Organization, C.S.A.; Army Organization, U.S.A.; United States Army; Art of the Civil War; Artillery; Alexander S. Asboth; Turner Ashby; James Mitchell Ashley; David Rice Atchison; Atlanta Campaign; Atlanta, Georgia; Christopher

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简介：When Elaine Showalter's study of English women writers, A Literature of Their Own, appeared in 1977, Patricia M. Spacks hailed it in The New York Times Book Reviewas "provocative....thoughtfully argued," and certain to "generate fresh social and literary understanding." Now Showalter--who also edited the influential New Feminist Criticism(for which the New York Times Book Reviewfound "cause to celebrate")--turns her critical insight to a wide range of American women authors in order to explore the diversity of our culture and question the concept of a single national literature or identity. After a lucid discussion of recent African-American, feminist, and post-colonial scholarship, Showalter provides provocative readings of classic and lesser-known women's writings. The focal points of this study are the delightful chapters on Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Not only are Showalter's interpretations full of wit and subtlety--as when she compares Chopin's novel to a piece of music by the composer Chopin--but her imaginative invocation of these popular works makes us curious to rediscover them. The range of Sister's Choiceis spectacular--from Alice Walker's The Color Purple(Celie's quilt provides Showalter's title--an allusion to the multiple destinies of American women) to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin(which is compared to the popular Log Cabin pattern quilt of the 19th century). Along the way we find chapters on rewritings of Shakespeare's Tempestby American women, on the Female Gothic (from Anne Radcliffe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Joyce Carol Oates), on Harlem Renaissance writers such as Nella Larsen and Zora Neal Hurston (who died in a welfare home, only to have her work rediscovered decades later), even on the history of the patchwork quilt in literature and in women's lives, which ends with a moving description of the Names Project, the quilt which memorializes people who have died of AIDS. The broad scope of Sister's Choice(which is based on the prestigious Clarendon lectures from 1989) testifies to the multiplicity of cultures which make up the United States. In her approach to literary works, Elaine Showalter helps to envision a new map of America--one which charts the struggles, suffering, and enduring creativity of women's writing.

Little women

作者：  (美)路易莎·梅·奥尔科特(Louisa May Alcott)著;林文华，林元彪译

出版社：长江文艺出版社,2011

简介：　　 《小妇人》是19世纪美国著名女作家奥尔科特的代表作，讲述了： 　　 马奇一家有四个姐妹，生活清贫、简单而又温馨。四组妹性格迥异： 　　老大梅格漂亮端庄，有些爱慕虚荣：老二乔自由独立，渴望成为作家，老 　　三贝丝善良羞涩，热爱音乐，老四艾米聪慧活泼，爱好艺术，希望成为― 　　名上流社会的“淑女”。 　　 所有时代的所有少女成长过程中所要面对和经历的，都可以在这本《 　　小妇人》中找到：初恋的甜蜜和烦恼，感情与理智的抉择，理想和现实的 　　差距，贫穷与富有的矛盾……书中提倡善良、忠诚、无私、慷慨、尊严、 　　宽容、坚韧、勇敢、亦是人类永远尊崇和追求的美德和信仰。所有这些， 　　赋予这本书超越时代和国度的生命力，这也正是她成为不朽经典的魅力和 　　原因所在。 　　

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简介：It was a time of testing and uncertainty. Even before World War I, there was a sense that country was changing. As Louisa Thomas reveals in Conscience, for the Thomas brothers, the struggle did not only take place on the battlefields. It was within themselves. Sons of a Presbyterian minister and grandsons of missionaries, the brothers shared a rigorous moral code, Princeton educations, and a faith in the era’s spirit of hope. Their upbringing prepared them for a life of service, but the war challenged their notions of citizenship, faith, and freedom and threatened to tear their family apart. Centered around the life of the oldest, Norman Thomas, Consciencetells the story of four brothers, and the choices they made. ? When the United States entered the Great War, Ralph Thomas enlisted right away, heeding President Woodrow Wilson’s call to fight for freedom. A captain in the Army Corps of Engineers, he would be wounded in France. Arthur, the youngest, was less certain about the righteousness of the cause but was sensitive to his obligation as a citizen—and like so many men eager to have a chance to prove himself. Evan became a conscientious objector, protesting conscription; when the truce was signed on November 11, 1918, he was in solitary confinement. Norman Thomas was a Presbyterian minister when the war began. Before the United States entered the war, he became a pacifist, and by the time it was over, he was a Socialist. He would go on to run for President six times on the Socialist ticket. The Thomas brothers argued about what was possible and what was principled, what was right and what was wrong—and they told each other to have courage. . Conscience moves from the gothic buildings of Princeton to the tenements of New York City, from the West Wing of the White House to the battlefields of France, tracking four young men navigating upheaval. In telling the story of their journeys, Thomas recovers a way of talking about personal liberty and social obligation, about being true to oneself and to one another.?

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简介："In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain鈥檚 first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon and for overseeing a regime of terror over the island鈥檚 slave population. James Epstein offers a fascinating account of the unfolding of this colonial drama. He shows the ways in which the trial and its investigation brought empire 鈥檋ome鈥?and exposed the disjuncture between a national self-image of humane governance and the brutal realities of colonial rule. He uses the trial to open up a range of issues, including colonial violence and norms of justice, the status of the British subject, imperial careering, visions of development after slavery, slave conspiracy and the colonial archive. He reveals how Britain鈥檚 imperial regime became more authoritarian, hierarchical and militarised but also how unease about abuses of power and of the rights of colonial subjects began to grow"--

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简介：　　Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in 　　the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. 　　Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, 　　Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their 　　great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. 　　Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new 　　landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing 　　adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces 　　of greed and justice are about to clash over her new 　　home . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowded 　　Virginia courtroom, it will determine the future of two 　　children, an entire town, and the mountains they love.　　

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简介：Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation's fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven provinces. In a theoretically innovative work that combines methods from both anthropology and cultural studies, Louisa Schein examines the ways Miao ethnicity is constructed and reworked by the state, by non-state elites, and by the Miao themselves, all in the context of China's postsocialist reforms and its increasing exchange and fascination with the West. She offers eloquently argued interventions into debates over nationalism, ethnic subjectivity, and the ethnography of the state. Posing questions about gender, cultural politics, and identity, Schein examines how non-Miao people help to create Miao ethnicity by depicting them as both feminized keepers of Chinese tradition and as exotic others against which dominant groups can assert their own modernity. In representing and consuming aspects of their own culture, Miao distance themselves from the idea that they are less than modern. Thus, Schein explains, everyday practices, village rituals, journalistic encounters, and tourism events are not just moments of cultural production but also performances of modernity through which others are made primitive. Schein finds that these moments frequently highlight internal differences among the Miao and demonstrates how not only minorities but more generally peasants and women offer a valuable key to understanding China as it renegotiates its place in the global order. Based on extensive, multisite fieldwork, this book will interest scholars of Asian studies, anthropology, gender studies, postcolonialism, ethnic studies, and cultural studies.

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简介：Explores "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T.S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells.

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简介：Includes works by the following authors: Julian of Norwich/Margery Kempe/Queen Elizabeth I/Mary Sidney Herbert/Amelia Lanier/Anne Bradstreet/Margaret Cavendish/Jane Lead/Katherine Philips/ Mary Rowlandson/Aphra Behn/Lady Mary Chudleigh/Anne Killigrew/Anne Finch/Mary Astell/Lady Mary Wortley Montagu/Charlotte Smith/ Fanny Burney/ Phillis Wheatley/ Mary Wollstonecraft/Maria Edgeworth/ Dorothy Wordsworth/Jane Austen/Rebecca Cox Jackson/Mary Shelley/Sojourner Truth/Elizabeth Barrett Browning/Margaret Fuller/ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell/Harriet Beecher Stowe/Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Charlotte Bronte/ Emily Bronte/Linda Brent/ George Eliot/Florence Nightingale/Elizabeth Drew Stoddard/Frances E. W. Harper/Harriet E. Adams/Emily Dickinson/Christina Rossetti/Rebecca Harding Davis/Louisa May Alcott/Alice Meyness/Alice James/Sarah Orne Jewett/ Kate Chopin/ Mary E. Wilkins Freeman/ Lady Augusta Gregory/Olive Schreiner/ Charlotte Perkins Gilman/ Mary Elizabeth Coleridge/Edith Wharton/ May Sinclair/Charlotte Mew/Henry Handel Richardson/Ellen Glasgow/ Willa Cather/Dorothy Richardson/Amy Lowell/Gertrude Stein/Alice Dunbar-Nelson/Anna Hampstead Branch/Virginia Woolf/Susan Glaspell/ Katharine Susannah Prichard/ Anna Wickham/Elinor Wylie/Esak Dinesen/Anzia Yezierska/ Radclyffe Hall/ H. D.(Hilda

Little women

作者：  (英)露易莎·梅·奥尔科特（ Louisa May Alcott）著;(加)莫妮卡·库林（Monica Kulling）改写;尚孟译

出版社：浙江文艺出版社,2013

简介：　　《小妇人（英汉对照）》生动地描绘了美国南北战争期间一个贫困家庭的日常生活。四位纯真可爱的女儿陪伴着慈母同甘共苦，又遇到一位可信赖的邻里少年，相互来往过从甚密。在日常平淡而又宁静的生活中，既有甜蜜，又有辛酸；既有笑容，又有泪花。书中赞美了家庭的天伦之乐，邻里间的助人为乐，反映了早期美国传统道德伦理中的一些美德，也折射了深藏在人类心灵深处的真善美之情。

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简介：passionate and personal account of the early days of quantum information and quantum computing, this unique book is a collection of more than 500 letters between the author and many of the founders of these intriguing fields. Christopher A. Fuchs is one of the most penetrating modern thinkers on the philosophical foundations of quantum mechanics. This remarkable book follows his journey as he comes to grips with the quantum world. It contains correspondence with Charles Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Rolf Landauer, N. David Mermin, Michael Nielsen, Asher Peres, John Preskill, Abner Shimony, William Wootters, Anton Zeilinger, and many others. Filled with diary entries, anecdotes, historical selections, and research ideas, this book will fascinate physicists, philosophers, and historians of science. passionate account of the early days of quantum information and computing from one of the most penetrating modern thinkers. Advance praise: 'I'm delighted that what Chris Fuchs calls his 'samizdat'. has finally been published in book form. I read the samizdat as a beginning graduate student, and it changed my career. reading Chris's letters made me feel, for the first time, like the great conversation of Bohr, Einstein, and other luminaries in the 1920s was still going on today.' Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Anyone interested in grabbing a front seat to a new way to see quantum theory, as debated by the author and luminaries of quantum information and quantum foundations, will find this book hard to put down. As a bonus the book brims over with an overwhelming sense of joy and wonder at our quantum universe that, when combined with a wicked sense of humor, will no doubt make this collection of correspondences a classic document of the now blossoming age of quantum information science.' Dave Bacon, University of Washington 'Full of humor, vivid characters, and intellectual drama. A window into physics in the process of being untangled, this rich email tapestry is the fin de si猫cle testament to Heisenberg's dictum that 'science is rooted in conversations'. My much-annotated and coffee-stained copy sits not on my bookshelf but on my desk, and I still stumble over new delights.' Louisa Gilder, author of The Age of Entanglement 'Nobody today writing about quantum mechanics combines poetry and analysis to better effect than Chris Fuchs. The death of letters as a high literary form brought about by the telephone turns out to have been only a lengthy coma - a 20th century aberration. The thought-provoking pages that follow, which can either be read like a Nabokov novel, or dipped into from time to time, like a collection of poems or short stories, gloriously provide a 21st century demonstration that the art form is again alive and well - and also, of course, that there remain profound questions to ask and to strive to answer about the real meaning of quantum mechanics.' N. David Mermin, from the Foreword 'No-one has done more to articulate the information-theoretical interpretation of quantum theory than Fuchs. For both physicists and philosophers alike, this book will entertain, inform and almost certainly challenge.' Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland 'In this marvellous collection of letters we get to watch over Chris Fuchs's shoulder as he wrestles with one of the great open scientific problems of today: how should we understand quantum theory?. It's also a pleasure to read, personable, funny, and with a stimulating turn of phrase on nearly every page.' Michael Nielsen, co-author of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information 'Anyone fascinated by the mysteries of the quantum world is sure to be enlightened and entertained by this extraordinary collection, in which Chris wrestles with some of the deepest questions about how we describe Nature. You have never read a physics book like this one.' John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology