约翰·豪（John Howe），1957年出生于加拿大温哥华，在不列颠哥伦比亚省长大，毕业于法国斯特拉斯堡艺术学院，现居瑞士。作为世界著名的插画艺术家，约翰·豪的画作成功使众多读者流连奇境乐而忘返。其在世界各地举办过多次画展，出版有多部画集。 约翰·豪不仅以画作促成中洲传奇搬上大银幕，其与搭档、奥斯卡最佳艺术指导奖得主艾伦·李为共摘得17项奥斯卡奖的《指环王》系列电影所做的艺术设计更让全世界书迷美梦成真。2009年，两人重返新西兰，为电影《霍比特人》系列再度构建中洲。

Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook fully of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and meditations on Middle-earth. Middle-earth has been mapped, Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys plotted and measured, but Middle-earth remains a wilderland for all that. The roads...(展开全部)

菲利普·内莫(Philippe Nemo，1949－），法国当代知名哲学、政治学教授，毕业于法国圣克鲁高师(Ecole Normale Superieure de Saint-Cloud)，先后任教于图尔大学(Universi te de Tours)和奥吉斯特·孔德学院(Institut Auguste Comte)，现为巴黎高等商学院-欧洲管理学院(ESCP-EAP)的教授。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Embark on the most astounding of odysseys, a voyage into realms not only stranger than we can imagine but also far, far more beautiful. "Universe: A Journey from Earth to the Edge of the Cosmos" leads us into a celestial panorama that extends for 130 billion trillion kilometres (80 billion trillion miles) in every direction, and allows us to explore nearly 200 of the most extra...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 [英] 基娅拉·玛丽亚·佩特罗：伦敦自然历史博物馆地球科学部岩石学与火山学主导研究员。 [意] 罗伯特·斯坎多内：意大利国家地球物理和火山研究所，维苏威火山天文台助理研究员。 [英] 亚历克斯·惠特克：英国伦敦帝国理工学院科学与工程专业地球系构造学高级讲师。 【译者简介】 邓柯彤：复旦大学翻译系硕士，现任复旦大学出版社外语分社编辑，从事专著、期刊、教材、译著等出版工作。