大卫·艾奇逊（David Acheson） 英国应用数学家，科普作家，2010—2011 年度数学协会主席，他退休前任职于牛津大学，。他的数学科普书1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics（牛津大学出版社，2010）已被翻译成11 种语言，其中中文版书名为《牛津教授的16堂趣味数学课》。

Delicious, lethal, hallucinogenic and medicinal, fruits have led nations to war, fueled dictatorships and lured people into new worlds. An expedition through the fascinating world of fruit, The Fruit Hunters is the engrossing story of some of Earth's most desired foods. In lustrous prose, Adam Leith Gollner draws readers into a Willy Wonka-like world with mangoes that taste ...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Journalist Gollner's debut is a rollicking account of the world of fruit and fruit fanatics. He's traveled to many countries in search of exotic fruits, and he describes in sensuous detail some of the hundreds of varieties he's sampled, among them peanut butter fruit, blackberry-jam fruit and coco-de-mer—a suggestively shaped coconut known...(展开全部)

亚当·李斯·格尔纳 http://www.adamgollner.com 现居加拿大蒙特利尔。耗费数年周游世界探访地下水果世界。他是《纽约时报》、《美食家》、《好胃口》、《GOOD》等杂志的撰稿人。曾经担任《VICE》杂志的编辑。他还是个音乐人，并筹拍自己的独立电影。《水果猎人》是他的第一本著作，并即将被搬上银幕，由著名导演文德斯监督，《沿江而上（Up the YangZi River）》华裔导演张侨勇导演。 本书网站： www.thefruithunters.com

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.

简介：来自小村庄的风月灵，与伙伴们经历各种冒险，阻止魔族入侵，拯救世界，最终成为神级魔法师的故事。

洛伊斯·比约德，1949年生于美国俄亥俄州，是迄今为止获奖最多的女性科幻作家。 比约德九岁起开始阅读科幻小说，浓厚的兴趣一直延续到她的大学时代。成为小说家之前，比约德曾沉迷于生物学，在1985年发表处女作《以物易物》后。很快就凭借中篇小说《悲悼的群山》荣获1989年的星云奖。 比约德的小说文笔流畅，心理活动描写细腻。以不同寻常的人物设置、紧张刺激的情节著称；其代表作“迈尔斯系列”目前已出版到第十四部。 比约德共夺取了五次雨果奖、两次星云奖，其中仅“迈尔斯系列”就获得了四次雨果奖。

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)

简介：作者八百年前写的简介，现在看觉得太tm社死了，全删了，封面就是简介。。。不会再有正文更新了，大纲都没列出来的辣鸡玩意。不是日更！不是日更！不是日更！————————md受不了，我要自产自销