《时代的噪音》书写从二十世纪初到我们所处的二十一世纪，西方音乐人如何用音乐製造噪音，以反思时代、纪录歷史，或者追求改变社会。 这些音乐人包括Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Billy Bragg, U2。 除了深刻分析这些重要音乐人的创作理念，本书也试图刻划不同歷史阶段的社会反抗史：从二十世纪初的美国资本主义与工运早期阶段、三四十年代的左翼运动、五零年代的麦卡锡主义，六零年代的反战运动、民权运动，七八零年代的经济转型和雷根的新自由主义，以及九零年代的全球化/反全球化、战爭与和平、发展与贫穷。所以这本书的读者不只是摇滚乐迷，而是一本反抗的文化史。 张铁志的《声音与愤怒：摇滚乐可能改变世界吗？》影响了我们对摇滚与政治的认识，《时代的噪音》则以更诗意的文字与更深刻的分析，深化我们对摇滚文化、抗议行动与歷史变迁之间关係的理解，而將成为华语世界最重要的摇滚书之一。

《波诺谈波诺》是作为U2乐队旗手的波诺与著名摇滚文化记者、作家米奇卡·阿塞亚斯历时两年的对谈之作。去年在英国推出后，迄今已获得了媒界与摇滚乐迷的广泛赞誉，在销售市场上也成绩斐然。在书中，波诺谈到了他的童年，谈到了U2乐队，谈到了他的献给非洲的歌，谈到了政治，以及对于自身的一些看法。在谈及U2乐队的和平主义行动时，他认为他关于世界的看法没有错，他说，“这个世界比你想象的要更柔韧，它可以弯成一个更好的形状。”“不要让穷人中的穷人把他们的产品放在我们的货架上，这对我来说，不是个慈善问题，而是个正义问题。”说到他自己，他说，“我是个乱涂乱写的人，一个抽烟、喝酒、读圣经的乐手。一个激进的到处兜售思想的人。我下棋，业余时间是个摇滚歌星，唱唱歌剧。”本书在英国推出后，获得了媒界与摇滚乐迷的广泛赞誉，在销售市场上也成绩斐然。

For the first time ever, Bono—the biggest rock star in the world—tells his life story and speaks passionately about his future. Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has made Bono one of the most recognisable faces in the world. Here, in a series of conversations with his friend, music journalist Michka Assayas, Bono reflects on his transformation from extrovert singer of a small, Irish, post-punk band into an international rock star. Along the way he speaks candidly about his childhood, his mother’s death, his Christian faith and his difficult relationship with his father, who died recently. Bono also speaks passionately about how he has used his fame as a platform to campaign fervently on a range of global issues and why these issues—which include the IRA ceasefire, Third World debt and, most recently, the growing AIDS crisis in Africa—are so important to each of us. Intimate, humorous and fiercely opinionated, Bono On Bono is Bono’s story in his own words. It will fascinate and challenge fans of U2 and general readers alike.

"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." -- Bono. This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, 'U2 By U2' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times. Bad haircuts, worse hangovers, prayer meetings and wild parties, encounters with presidents and popes, intimate accounts of the creation of all their classic songs, it is all here in a beautifully-presented book overseen by the band with the same passion for substance, style and immaculate attention to details familiar from their musical career. "We wore it as a stubborn badge of pride that we weren't prepared to fall into line with every other group and take the fashionable stance of the day. We were uncool because we were hot, we just erupted as a live band." -- The Edge In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to be the singer. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. "We are trying to pin down something elusive, something that represents where we are, emotionally, physically, spiritually, but is also fresh and exciting. If it is not absolutely the best it can be, then why bother?" -- Adam Clayton "I have read a lot of rubbish about U2. Whenever I see us described in some mythic sense as masters of our own destiny, it makes me laugh. Being in U2 is more like riding a runaway train. We are just ordinary guys, hanging on to this thing for our lives." -- Larry Mullen Jnr