David Wiesner brings his trademark artistry and rich imagination to the iconic American game of baseball. The few seconds after the ball leaves the bat can be infinitely long. For this eager young outfielder, there's plenty of time to envision the increasingly fantastic and funny situations that might interfere with making the catch. Summoning determination and courage, he over...(展开全部)

大卫·威斯纳（David Wiesner） 1956年出生于美国新泽西州。从中学时代开始，他对于用图画说故事的方式便很感兴趣。1980年，他与迈克·泰勒合作出版了第一本书《诚实的安德鲁》。他的作品向来广受各方瞩目，并六次赢得美国凯迪克大奖评委的青睐，被称为凯迪克奖的常胜将军，作品有：《疯狂星期二》《 海底的秘密》《飓风》《华夫先生》《滴水兽的夜晚》《人鱼女孩》《三只小猪》《梦幻大飞行》《7号梦工厂》等。

"Most people spend far more time in preparation for their vocation than they do in preparation for marriage,” No wonder the divorce rate hovers around fifty percent. Bestselling author and marriage counselor, Gary Chapman, hopes to change that with his newest book. Gary, with more than 35 years of counseling couples, believes that divorce is the lack of preparation for marria...(展开全部)

An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide. In Milk and Honey, Tamar Novick writes a revolutionary environmental history of the state that centers on the intersection of technology and religion in modern Israel/Palestine. Focusing on an...(展开全部)

'...a tour de force...prepare to be amazed' - John C. Bogle, founder and former CEO, The Vanguard Group. A bold new look at the continuing era of prosperity - how we got here, and where we could be headed. Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam engines and flying machines that Da Vinci sketched? What kept the master metallurgists of ancient Rome from discovering electricit...(展开全部)

What if the Soviet 'miracle' had worked, and the communists had discovered the secret to prosperity, progress and happiness...?

High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work--and how learning from them paved the way to success. Named by Fast Company as a "Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year." In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators acr...(展开全部)

约翰·艾伦·保罗斯（John Allen Paulos），畅销书作家、数学家，宾夕法尼亚坦普尔大学数学教授，著有《不识数：数学盲及其后果》、《数学家读报》、《从前有一个数》和《数学与幽默》。他在美国国家公共电台“科学星期五”、英国BBC电视台频频露面，除了为《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街日报》、《福布斯》等报刊撰稿以外，他还为《发现杂志》、《美国学者》、《国家》、《纽约时报书评》、《纽约书评》、《华盛顿邮报书世界》、《伦敦书评》等写书评。