史黛芬妮•勒迪在巴黎读书时主修编辑专业，直到2003年她还是一个书商。她写了很多文献书籍，其中多数都被米兰出版社出版。

克利斯提昂·约里波瓦（Christian JOLIBOIS）,作家、演员、导演。 1948年生于伊夫林省的小村庄。早年即被著名导演发掘其优美的嗓音具备戏剧演员潜质，先后主演过莫里哀、博马歇、费多、塔迪约、凯诺等人的名剧，之后担任了很长一段时间电视台的歌曲大奖赛评委。同时，他也编写完成了第一部舞台剧。 1989年之后，专心致力于写儿童文学以及儿童戏剧，先后出版了数十部作品，赢得过瑞士儿童作品奖。现居住在勃朗弟。

保罗·克鲁格曼，2008年诺贝尔经济学奖得主。美国普林斯顿大学经济学教授，定期讲授原理类课程。克鲁格曼为耶鲁大学学士、麻省理工学院博士。在任现职前，他先后于耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学和麻省理工学院任教；1982—1983年间，在美国总统经济顾问委员会任职。保罗·克鲁格曼的主要研究领域是国际贸易，是新贸易理论的奠基人之一，该理论把对国际贸易的分析建立在规模报酬递增和不完全竞争的基础之上。他对国际金融亦有研究，并且主要集中于对货币危机的分析。1991年克鲁格曼获得了美国经济学会颁发的克拉克奖。除了教学和学术研究外，他还撰写了大量面向非专业读者的文章。他同时也是《纽约时报》固定的专论专栏作家。

保罗·克鲁格曼，2008年诺贝尔经济学奖得主。美国普林斯顿大学经济学教授，定期讲授原理类课程。克鲁格曼为耶鲁大学学士、麻省理工学院博士。在任现职前，他先后于耶鲁大学、斯坦福大学和麻省理工学院任教；1982—1983年间，在美国总统经济顾问委员会任职。保罗·克鲁格曼的主要研究领域是国际贸易，是新贸易理论的奠基人之一，该理论把对国际贸易的分析建立在规模报酬递增和不完全竞争的基础之上。他对国际金融亦有研究，并且主要集中于对货币危机的分析。1991年克鲁格曼获得了美国经济学会颁发的克拉克奖。除了教学和学术研究外，他还撰写了大量面向非专业读者的文章。他同时也是《纽约时报》固定的专论专栏作家。

Christophe Picard is Professor of History at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(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.

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)