赛莉亚·刘易斯（Celia Lewis）是英国著名的动物、植物等自然类图书的作家和插图画家，资深的自然观察者，曾获得英国皇家水彩画协会2009年大奖和温莎•牛顿学院金奖。 杨红珍，北京自然博物馆研究员、博士。主要从事动物学、博物馆学方面的科研和科普工作。主持和参与多项国家和省部级科研、科普项目。出版著译作多部，部分入选2010年新闻出版总署向青少年推荐的百种优秀图书。

安妮·布洛克（Annie Brock），毕业于堪萨斯州立大学新闻学与大众传媒专业，并通过沃什伯恩大学取得了教学资格。曾负责过图书馆媒体运营，还担任过高中语言艺术课的老师。出版有《谷歌课堂介绍》（Introduction to Google Classroom）一书。目前是一位自由撰稿人兼教育技术顾问，与丈夫及两个孩子一起生活在堪萨斯州。 希瑟·亨得利（Heather Hundley），一位拥有12年教学经验的小学教育工作者。目前在格林布什东南堪萨斯教育服务中心（Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center）工作，是一名教学支持专家。希瑟在华盛本大学取得了基础教育学位，并在贝克大学取得了教育与学校领导专业的硕士学位。她曾担任过华盛本大学的职前教师主管与客座讲师。希瑟近期被提名为堪萨斯州2016年...(展开全部)

In Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design, author Maggie Macnab takes you on an intimate and eclectic journey examining the unending versatility of nature, showing how to uncover nature's ingenuity and use it to create beautiful and compelling designed communications. Written for designers and creative thinkers of all types, this book will guide you t...(展开全部)

As a state, Romania has only been in existence since 1859, but the history of its people stretches to the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, to the Geto-Dacians and Romans. This concise history tells the fascinating story of the evolution of the Romanian people, the creation of the Romanian Principalities, their struggle against empire-building powers, and their eventual unifi...(展开全部)

A gorgeously illustrated, entertaining, and educational guide to the wonderful whales, dolphins, and porpoises of the world. Some of the world's most fascinating and beloved animals, cetaceans have captivated the human imagination for centuries. Whales: An Illustrated Celebration explores the most interesting and illuminating facts about these marine mammals, from the enormous ...(展开全部)

The familiar call of the common cuckoo, “cuck-oo,” has been a harbinger of spring ever since our ancestors walked out of Africa many thousands of years ago. However, for naturalist and scientist Nick Davies, the call is an invitation to solve an enduring puzzle: how does the cuckoo get away with laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and tricking them into raising young cu...(展开全部)

Beloved as the herald of spring, cuckoos have held a place in our affections for centuries. The oldest song in English celebrates the cuckoo's arrival, telling us that 'Sumer is icumen in'. But for many other birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom, for it is Nature's most notorious cheat. Cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into ...(展开全部)

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought - economics, evolution, and history - that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and g...(展开全部)

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless asThe Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive softwa...(展开全部)

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless asThe Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive softwa...(展开全部)