Kevin Brown is the owner of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (http://www.geographicus.com), a generalist dealer in rare maps from all periods and at all value points. Kevin attended Bennington College, in Vermont, where he majored in “Pilgrimage.” Bennington fosters a “learn by doing” approach to academics, and Kevin has translated this philosophy to the map trade. He approaches ...(展开全部)

Kevin Brown is the owner of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps (http://www.geographicus.com), a generalist dealer in rare maps from all periods and at all value points. Kevin attended Bennington College, in Vermont, where he majored in “Pilgrimage.” Bennington fosters a “learn by doing” approach to academics, and Kevin has translated this philosophy to the map trade. He approaches ...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·加尔法德 剑桥大学理论物理学博士，史蒂芬·霍金的亲传弟子，于2000—2006年师从霍金，从事有关黑洞信息悖论的研究。与史蒂芬·霍金及其女儿合著有儿童文学作品《乔治开启宇宙的秘密钥匙》，在全球45个国家出版发行。目前，加尔法德主要致力于向公众传播现代科学知识，并长期做客法国电视台和广播节目。

"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." —Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times besteselling author of How Not To Be Wrong Quantum phy...(展开全部)

安妮·米勒德(Anne Millard)是一位历史学家，同时也是一位古埃及学专家。孩童时期看过的“事物起源”节目使她对历史产生了浓厚的兴趣，从此奠定了她成为历史学家的决心。米勒德曾编写过多本图书，同时也为其他图书担任过历史顾问。其中，与史蒂夫·努恩(Steve Noon)合作的《DK儿童穿越时空百科全书——穿越时空的街道》曾获得多项大奖。史蒂夫·努恩，成长于英格兰的康沃尔。他对历史有着浓厚的兴趣，并将这种兴趣与自己的作品相结合。努恩绘制的全景插图不仅技术精湛，而且细腻生动，出神入化地展现了历史的风貌。他为英国DK公司出版的多本图书绘制插图，其中《DK儿童穿越时空百科全书——穿越时空的街道》获得“英国《今日历史月刊》——年度图书奖”和“美国儿童图书协会——杰出科学童书”等奖项。文字撰写

A highly visual title that includes cross-sections that reveal the interiors of ships and buildings brings to life the history, growth, and changing fortunes of a port from Neolithic settlement to a sophisticated, large-scale container port of today.

Liberia, 1935: "The great majority of all mosquitoes caught in Monrovia are of a species known to carry yellow fever." The U.S. Army map of the country's interior filled in the blanks with the word "Cannibals." "Have you thought of the leeches?" someone asked Greene. He went anyway, into the forest, on foot, village to village. Be glad. The book is just plain great.

WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation...(展开全部)