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)

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)

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 this beautiful companion to Jay's ABC a child dreams that she travels on a large golden goose to visit a variety of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. On this enchanted journey each place she visits has things to count. The text is simple and the real story is told through paintings done in Jay's familiar crackle-glaze style of simple shapes, jeweled colors, and soft lines.

How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth? Where does the bell-shaped curve come from? Why do you need only 23 people in a room for a 50/50 chance of two of them sharing the same birthday? In "Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, and Other Mathematical Explorations", Keith Ball highlights how ideas, mostly from pure math, can answer these questions a...(展开全部)

瑞克·沃尔顿和佩吉·米格里奥合作的既是睡前故事又是认知书籍的小兔子系列图画书，从1998年一开始推出就大受欢迎，被亚马逊的众多读者评为5星级童书，并且《数数小兔子》一书还获得了1999年的国际阅读学会“儿童的选择”奖。 一群兔子热闹地住在一只鞋子屋里，兔妈妈总共有26只兔宝宝，她耐心地在睡觉前把他们一个个找到，终于，兔妈妈也可以上床睡觉罗！可是，兔宝宝却还不想那么早睡觉……这些兔宝宝的名字开头刚好从A-Z，配合可爱的插图，不但可以帮助孩子记住26个英文字母和数字，简易的韵文，也能朗朗上口。

Carved into our past, woven into our present, numbers shape our perceptions of the world and of ourselves much more than we commonly think. Numbers and the Making of Us is a sweeping account of how numbers radically enhanced our species’ cognitive capabilities and sparked a revolution in human culture. Caleb Everett brings new insights in psychology, anthropology, primatology, ...(展开全部)