弗兰克•威廉•沃尔班克（F. W. Walbank，1909-2008），生前为利物浦大学名誉退休教授、不列颠学会会员。曾在剑桥大学的彼得豪斯学院（Peterhouse）学习古典学，从1951年到1977年间，一直是利物浦大学的古代史和古典考古学的拉思伯恩（Rathbone）教授，他也是匹兹堡大学访问学者、加州大学伯克利分校的访问学者、普林斯顿高级研究院的成员。其出版的著作包括《马其顿的腓力五世》、《波里比阿》、《有关波里比阿的历史注释》（3卷）、《可怕的革命》（与N. G. L. Hammond合著）以及《马其顿史，公元前336-前167年》（第3卷）。他也是《剑桥古代史》第7卷、第8卷的主编之一。

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of people held there by ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuou...(展开全部)

Originally released in 1997 as a limited hardcover edition of 2,500 copies that sold out almost instantly, Ghost World has subsequently gone through 14 softcover printings, selling in excess of 150,000 copies in the United States, becoming one of the best-selling and most revered graphic novels of all-time, culminating in the 2001 Academy Award-nominated film starring Thora Bir...(展开全部)

A brilliant new guide to understanding the origins of codependence and the path to recovery by a nationally recognized authority on dependency and addiction. In this fresh new look at codependence, Pia Mellody traces the origins of this illness back to childhood, describing a whole range of emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses. Because of these earli...(展开全部)

This reissued investment classic by financial guru Benjamin Graham expounds on the theories presented in the author's previous masterpiece, "Storage and Stability," offering a more global focus on the subject of stockpiling raw materials as a means of achieving expansion and stability in a postwar economy. Graham maintains that stabilization of commodities offers a comparativel...(展开全部)

Every graphics professional worth his or her salt knows the importance of color management. No matter how much thought artist and client put into the color scheme for a given project, all of that work is for naught if you can't get your results to match your expectations. Enter Real World Color Management, Second Edition. In this thoroughly updated under-the-hood reference, a...(展开全部)

卢克•亨特（Luke Hunter）是致力于野生猫科动物保护的国际领导机构----狮虎豹保护中心的主席。在此之前，他担任野生动物保护学会大型猫科动物项目的主任，同时在澳大利亚和南非高校中任教。他目前进行的工作包括制定非洲狮保护策略，评估运动狩猎对豹和狮子的影响，与巴西潘塔纳沼泽地区的工作团队合作探索如何减少牧场主与美洲虎的冲突，对伊朗境内的波斯豹和残存的亚洲猎豹首次进行全面研究。卢克•亨特已经发表过100余篇科学论文和科普文章。《世界食肉动物大百科》是他撰写的第6本书籍。

The world is changing. Markets have crashed. Jobs have disappeared. Industries have been disrupted and are being remade before our eyes. Everything we aspired to for “security,” everything we thought was “safe,” no longer is: College. Employment. Retirement. Government. It’s all crumbling down. In every part of society, the middlemen are being pushed out of the picture. No long...(展开全部)