艾莉森·简出生于英国的翰弗郡，长在德比郡。她就读于伦敦大学的平面设计专业，学习了绘画与专业插画的技巧，并以全班第一名的成绩毕业，之后就职于一家动漫工作室。 这样过了一两年，她决定改变职业方向，开始了插画家的职业生涯。现在她的插画作品遍布于各个领域，包括设计、广告、项目，以及她最热爱的童书创作。目前她正与阿德曼动画公司（Ardman Animation）合作，制作新版本的《胡桃夹子》动画电影。 艾莉森的画作非常具有特点，她利用一种叫做Alkyd（醇酸树脂）的油画颜料作画，在画布表面做一层快速涂抹，干了就会形成类似于龟裂的仿旧效果。很多小读者将她的画作可爱地称为“碎蛋壳画”。她在创作插画中非常注重趣味性，每张图之间都会暗藏承上启下的线索，并将大家耳熟能详的童话故事融入其中，使插画能够无限地延伸，增大了阅读的自主和自由度。 “让想象飞”是其代表作品，其中《...(展开全部)

How many kisses does a tired baby need? Count and kiss along with this bedtime book, now in a sturdy format perfect for the youngest readers.

In 1859, a stockbroker called Jules Verne to England and Scotland with a musician friend. Although re-routed via Bordeaux (ie 'backwards'), they discovered at long last a magical kingdom of steam, wind and rain, poetry and pubs, lochs and bens, Dickens and Scott. The experience so moved Verne that he wrote a book about it, his first full length narrative. The publisher Hetzel t...(展开全部)

This is a major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, captivating and award-winning memoir of the year. "Stuart, A Life Backwards", is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander) and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a ca...(展开全部)

亚历山大•马斯特斯（Alexander Masters, 1965— ），英国传记作家，现居英国剑桥，曾在一家流浪汉收容所工作过。《倒带人生》（2005）是其处女作，该书荣获《卫报》“第一书奖”，并被英国广播公司（BBC）制作成电影，由汤姆•哈迪和本尼迪克特•康伯巴奇饰演剧中角色。他的第二部书《我地下室里的天才》（2011）是关于住在他所住公寓地下室里的一位天才数学家西蒙•菲利浦斯•诺顿的生平。

In this engaging and readable book, Dr. Körner describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. The topics range from the design of anchors and the Battle of the Atlantic to the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho. The author uses relatively simple terms and ideas, yet explains difficulties and avoids condescension. If you are a math...(展开全部)

In this engaging and readable book, Dr. Körner describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. The topics range from the design of anchors and the Battle of the Atlantic to the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho. The author uses relatively simple terms and ideas, yet explains difficulties and avoids condescension. If you are a math...(展开全部)

A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation. As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of popul...(展开全部)