The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most recent astronomical discoveries and events and features imaginative astronomical illustrations and dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. ...(展开全部)

作者:（加）特伦斯·迪金森 TERENCE DICKINSON 译者:陈冬妮 特伦斯·迪金森是享誉世界的加拿大天文科普作家。自从5 岁时看到耀眼的流星，迪金森就对天文学产生了兴趣。20 世纪60 年代到70年代，迪金森是天文馆的工作人员，此后他成为全职的天文作家和编辑,《探寻宇宙 现代天文学通俗指南》和《夜观星空》都是他的代表作品。他的旅行足迹遍及世界各地最大的天文台站，也因此燃起了创作本书的欲望。除了已撰写的15 本天文书籍外，迪金森还编辑出版了加拿大的《天空新闻》杂志。他获得了众多奖项，包括纽约学院儿童科学书籍年度奖、太平洋天文协会克伦普客－罗伯兹公众天文学特殊贡献奖、加拿大勋章、安大略省彼得伯勒市特伦特大学荣誉博士等，第5272号小行星也以迪金森的姓氏命名。

作者:（加）特伦斯·迪金森 TERENCE DICKINSON 译者:陈冬妮 特伦斯·迪金森是享誉世界的加拿大天文科普作家。自从5 岁时看到耀眼的流星，迪金森就对天文学产生了兴趣。20 世纪60 年代到70年代，迪金森是天文馆的工作人员，此后他成为全职的天文作家和编辑,《探寻宇宙 现代天文学通俗指南》和《夜观星空》都是他的代表作品。他的旅行足迹遍及世界各地最大的天文台站，也因此燃起了创作本书的欲望。除了已撰写的15 本天文书籍外，迪金森还编辑出版了加拿大的《天空新闻》杂志。他获得了众多奖项，包括纽约学院儿童科学书籍年度奖、太平洋天文协会克伦普客－罗伯兹公众天文学特殊贡献奖、加拿大勋章、安大略省彼得伯勒市特伦特大学荣誉博士等，第5272号小行星也以迪金森的姓氏命名。

The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most recent astronomical discoveries and events and features imaginative astronomical illustrations and dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. ...(展开全部)

安德鲁·路米斯（Andrew Loomis），著名美国插画家、作家、美术教育家。他曾就读于美国艺术学生联盟，19岁时师从乔治·伯里曼学习绘画，随后发展并且延伸了乔治·伯里曼的素描绘画体系，以独特的视角撰写了多本简单易懂的经典绘画教程，对当代素描教育产生了巨大影响。此外，他还是漫威、DC众多画师的启蒙导师，影响广泛而深远。 路米斯认为：好素描必须具有说服力和感染力。因此他从绘画原理方面训练读者，使之创作出“真实的”艺术作品。各绘画技法环节，他都主张作品应尽可能源于观察、实景写生和模特动态。正是由于其独特、着实有效的艺术理念，在他去世后很长一段时间，其绘画风格仍继续影响这一大批艺术家。

The human head and hands are the most difficult elements in figure drawing, but world-class illustrator Andrew Loomis' classic primer offers the solution. Revered among artists for his mastery of figure drawing and clean, realist style, Loomis' hugely influential art instruction books have never been bettered. "Drawing the Head and Hands" is the second in Titan's programme of f...(展开全部)

In consequence of a number of stunning catastrophes, Arther Dent is surprised to find himself living in a hideously miserable cave on prehistoric Earth. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are stragg...(展开全部)

"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to ...(展开全部)

When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyse the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places.Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle tha...(展开全部)

"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads--so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who tries to ...(展开全部)