When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

李利安·H.史密斯（Lillian H.Smith, 1887—1983） 加拿大学者，1912年起担任多伦多公立图书馆儿童部主任，终生投入发展儿童文学的事业中。她对儿童书籍的要求十分严格，为儿童选书也极审慎，毫不吝啬对优秀作品的赞扬，对拙劣之作则不予评论介绍。她不遗余力地培养新生力量，并在多伦多大学教育学院开设儿童文学讲座。在她的坚持与努力下，加拿大的儿童图书馆事业和儿童文学推广事业取得了飞速的发展。1953年，美国图书馆协会出版其著作《欢欣岁月》。为了表彰史密斯“鼓励热爱书籍与阅读的杰出工作”，1962年，美国图书馆协会为她颁发了最高荣誉“克拉伦斯·戴”奖。

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

博尔特·霍尔多布勒（Bert Hölldobler），德国维尔茨堡大学行为生理学和社会生物学教授，亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会奖和戈特弗里德·威廉·莱布尼茨奖的获得者。 爱德华·威尔逊（Edward O. Wilson），美国生物学家、博物学家，“社会生物学”奠基人，是最早宣传“生物多样性”概念的人之一。1949年毕业于亚拉巴马大学，1955年获哈佛大学生物学博士学位，同年开始在哈佛大学执教。于1969年当选为美国国家科 学院院士。长期致力于蚂蚁和其他群居性昆虫研究。著有《昆虫的社会》《论人的天性》《大自然的猎人》《社会生物学：新的综合》等，凭《论人的天性》和《蚂蚁》两度获得普利策奖。 译者毛盛贤，遗传学教授。1962年毕业于北京师范大学生物系生物物理专业，留校从事遗传学教学和科研工作。1981—1983年，作为高级访问学者到英国伯明翰大学遗传学系专...(展开全部)

"Journey to the Ants" combines autobiography and scientific lore to what study of ants can offer. Bert Holldobler and E.O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, an account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.

Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese ...(展开全部)

Chinese food is one of the world’s favorite cuisines but also one of the least understood. For more than a century, western misconceptions about the way Chinese people cook and eat have clouded appreciation of an ancient and sophisticated culinary culture. How many outsiders know that the Chinese have been deeply concerned with the links between diet and health for more than tw...(展开全部)

Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn and settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese food has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the overwhelming dominance of a simplified form of Cantonese ...(展开全部)