艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋 章在内的多个奖项。 译者颜元叔（1933-2012），中国台湾大学外文系教授、文艺评论家、英文教育家；湖南省茶陵县人，1933年生于南京，1956年毕业于台湾大学外文系，1958年赴美国留学，曾在威斯康辛大学研究英美文学，获博士学位；1963年回国后在母校执教，任外文系教授、系主任；是美国水牛城纽约州立大学客座教授、美国犹他大学交换教授；创办《中外文学》《淡江评论》等，并任《中外文学》社长兼总编辑；擅用幽默嘲讽的笔法，描述市井百态，剖析社会现实问题。著有《文学的玄想》《人间烟火》等，...(展开全部)

罗伯特•希尔施（Robert Hirsch），著名摄影师、教育家、历史学家、作家。CEPA画廊前执行总监，现任纽约布法罗Light Research总监，纽约州立大学布法罗分校视觉研究系主任。曾多次举办个展，策划发起大量展览、研讨会，采访过众多世界顶尖摄影师。主要著作：《摄影的可能：创意、材料和流程的使用》（Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes）、《探索彩色摄影：从暗房到数字工作室》（Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio）、《捕获光线：摄影史》（Seizing the Light: A History of Photography...(展开全部)

泰德·丁特史密斯（Ted Dintersmith） ● 教育创新先锋，曾代表奥巴马政府参加联合国大会，阐述教育和创新问题。 ● 知名投资人，20世纪90年代美国独立评估机构评选出的“表现最佳的风险投资家”之一。 ● 教育纪录片《为孩子重塑教育》（Most Likely To Succeed）制片人兼同名书作者。

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to criti...(展开全部)

Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science, and the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-th...(展开全部)

From the best-selling author of A Vast Conspiracy and The Run of His Life comes Too Close to Call--the definitive story of the Bush-Gore presidential recount. A political and legal analyst of unparalleled journalistic skill, Jeffrey Toobin is the ideal writer to distill the events of the thirty-six anxiety-filled days that culminated in one of the most stunning Supreme Court de...(展开全部)

作者 | 杰弗里·图宾（Jeffrey Toobin） 1986年毕业于哈佛大学法学院，《纽约客》杂志职业撰稿人，CNN资深法律评论员，美国最出色的法律记者之一，著有多部法律题材畅销书。包括：The Nine:Inside the Secret World of the S upreme Court（2007）；A Vast Conspiracy:The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down A president（2000）；The Run of His Life:The people v.O.J.Simpson（1997）；Opening Arguments:A Young Lawayer's First Case-United States v. Oliver North（...(展开全部)

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes th...(展开全部)

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a...(展开全部)