米歇尔•罗宾逊，英国绘本作家，代表作有《如何给一只猛犸象洗澡》《有只狮子在我的玉米片里》《晚安，太空人》等。曾获“塞恩斯伯里童书大奖”，在《晚安，太空人》中，她还附上了欧洲航天局宇航员蒂姆•皮克激动人心的一封信。 罗宾逊不是忙于写作，就是忙于思考写作，又或者忙于跟在她的孩子们的屁股后面。她从小就梦想成为像她的偶像罗尔德•达尔一样的作家，她跟达尔同一天生日，同样喜欢巧克力。个人网站www.michellerobinson.co.uk，网站中有罗宾逊绘本的涂色画和音频游戏。 凯特•欣德利，英国插画师，毕业于英国法尔茅斯大学学院，曾做过平面设计师，为《奥利弗和狗狗帕奇》《如何给一只猛犸象洗澡》《伟大的狩猎员史洛特》等16本绘本画过插图。目前居住在英国伍斯特郡。个人网站http://www.katehindley.com。

贝丝·夏匹罗（Beth Shapiro），美国进化分子生物学家，1976年生于宾夕法尼亚州艾伦镇。她是加州大学圣克鲁兹分校副教授，专业从事古DNA的研究分析，有论著多种，文章见于英国《自然》和美国《科学》周刊。2009年获麦卡瑟天才奖（MacArthur Fellowship）。 译者夏季：本名夏志，生于1984年，科普专栏作家和翻译者。曾留美攻读生物医学博士学位，现供职于某大型跨国企业。已出版书籍近十部，并获全国优秀科普作品奖、广东省科普作品创作大赛冠军等多项荣誉。

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From deciding which species should be restored, to sequencing their genomes, to anticipa...(展开全部)

贝丝·夏匹罗（Beth Shapiro），美国进化分子生物学家，1976年生于宾夕法尼亚州艾伦镇。她是加州大学圣克鲁兹分校副教授，专业从事古DNA的研究分析，有论著多种，文章见于英国《自然》和美国《科学》周刊。2009年获麦卡瑟天才奖（MacArthur Fellowship）。 译者夏季：本名夏志，生于1984年，科普专栏作家和翻译者。曾留美攻读生物医学博士学位，现供职于某大型跨国企业。已出版书籍近十部，并获全国优秀科普作品奖、广东省科普作品创作大赛冠军等多项荣誉。

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the present...(展开全部)

We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert, but what was it like for a commoner? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Dress in whalebone and feed opium to the baby? Catch the omnibus to work and wash laundry while wearing a corset? How To Be A Victorian is a new approach to history, a ...(展开全部)

A delightful tour through the intimate details of life in Victorian England, told by a historian who has cheerfully endured them all. Ruth Goodman believes in getting her hands dirty. Drawing on her own adventures living in re-created Victorian conditions, Goodman serves as our bustling and fanciful guide to nineteenth-century life. Proceeding from daybreak to bedtime, this cha...(展开全部)

By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic, and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, Eco published a little book for his students, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis. Since...(展开全部)

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relation to content. Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the prese...(展开全部)