亨德里克·威廉·房龙（Hendrik Willem Van Loon 1882—1944），美籍荷兰人，优秀的通俗作家、伟大的文化传播者与普及者。他以《人类的故事》享誉世界，并获得了当年美国的“纽伯瑞儿童文学奖”金奖。后来又相继出版了《宽容》《房龙地理》等作品，也广受欢迎。作为一个文化普及者，他31年的写作生涯总共完成了40多本著作，一生都致力于“向人类的无知和偏见挑战”。

Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977) - moviemaker, bon vivant, and passionate intellectual - was the key figure of Italian neo-realism, the godfather of the French new wave, and a television pioneer; the maker of such classics as Open City, Paisan, Stromboli, Flowers of St. Francis, Voyage in Italy, and Louis XIV; Anna Magnani's lover, Ingrid Bergman's husband, and Isabella Rossellin...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from German writer and cartoonist Moers (The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear) features an unlikely hero, Rumo, a little horned puppy (or Wolperting) who lives on a farm with a family of seven dwarfs. Rumo's rise to greatness begins when he's kidnapped by a Demonocle, "a vicious type of one-eyed gi...(展开全部)

Starred Review. Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from German writer and cartoonist Moers (The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear) features an unlikely hero, Rumo, a little horned puppy (or Wolperting) who lives on a farm with a family of seven dwarfs. Rumo's rise to greatness begins when he's kidnapped by a Demonocle, "a vicious type of one-eyed gi...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)

Over the past 25 years, Boyd and Richerson have become well-known across a wide range of disciplines for their path-breaking work on evolution and culture. This work collects twenty of the influential but relatively inaccessible published articels that form the backbone of this research. It could not be more timely given the growing influence of evolutionary psychology. The pap...(展开全部)

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English. Raymond Ruyer – who was a major influence on Simondon and Deleuze, among others – originally wrote this book, the first philosophical work on the concept of information written by a philosopher, in 1954. At once critical and analytical, it is a de...(展开全部)