史蒂夫·詹金斯（SteveJenkins） 美国童书作家、插画家。受到身为物理学家的父亲的影响，他从小爱好科学，大学时学习图像设计，曾在广告业工作，后与妻子罗宾·佩奇共同成立工作室。史蒂夫·詹金斯创作了超过40本备受欢迎的儿童科普绘本，每本书都取材于他自己好奇的话题，或者是从3个孩子的提问中获取灵感，再通过风格独特的拼贴画和通俗易懂的文字呈现出来，角度新颖、趣味十足，多次被美国教师协会、美国图书馆协会选为推荐图书。

Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design By Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philo...(展开全部)

Most art and technology projects pair artists with engineers or scientists: the artist has the conception, and the technical person provides the know-how. John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. Design By Numbers is a reader-friendly tutorial on both the philo...(展开全部)

From the author of Zero, comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" (The Boston Globe) In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the power of skewed metrics-or "proofiness"- is being used to alter perception in both amusing and danger...(展开全部)

From the author of Zero, comes this "admirable salvo against quantitative bamboozlement by the media and the government" (The Boston Globe) In Zero, Charles Seife presented readers with a thrilling account of the strangest number known to humankind. Now he shows readers how the power of skewed metrics-or "proofiness"- is being used to alter perception in both amusing and danger...(展开全部)

贾斯廷•托雷斯（Justin Torres） 美国小说家。在纽约州北部长大，父亲为波多黎各裔，母亲为爱尔兰和意大利混血。曾在《纽约客》《格兰塔》《卫报》和《华盛顿邮报》等重要刊物上发表作品。他从爱荷华写作坊毕业后，获得美国艺术家协会罗隆文学基金，随后又获得斯坦福大学华莱士•斯特格纳奖金和国家艺术基金会基金。2012年被美国国家图书基金会评选为“5位35岁以下杰出作家”之一。他曾做过农场工人、遛狗师、创意写作老师和书店店员等多种工作。

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)

"Numbers in the Dark" is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside th...(展开全部)

Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The a...(展开全部)