【作家简介】 古德荣·梅布斯，1944年出生于德国，童年时代在法兰克福度过。自1980年开始创作儿童文学以来，获得了包括德国青少年文学奖、德国绘本大奖、奥地利儿童图书奖等多项大奖。她创作的儿童电视剧、广播剧以及舞台剧也深受孩子们的喜爱。 【画家简介】 昆特·布霍茨1957年出生于德国。曾在造型艺术学院专修艺术史及绘画，毕业后从事插画创作，为全球著名的出版社绘制过无数封面、插图和海报，堪称德国插画界的巨匠。布霍茨的绘本创作也为人们所称道，他称自己为“瞬间收藏家”，其作品对日常生活场景有着精准的描绘，因而具有很强的写实感；同时他又擅长以自然界的光影变化来烘托人物内心情绪和氛围，带给人如临梦境般的神秘美感。代表作品有《莎娜想要演马戏》《晚安，小熊》《灵魂的出口》《瞬间收藏家》等，曾荣获德国青少年文学奖、德国绘本大奖、博洛尼亚国际儿童书展插画奖、布拉迪斯拉发...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, their impact on modern science and society was profound. Tracing debates about the nature of time, causality, and free will, as well as the introduction of modern technologies...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

Why is mystery so compelling? What draws us to the unknown? Jonah Lehrer sets out to answer these questions in a vividly entertaining and surprisingly profound journey through the science of suspense. He finds that nothing can capture a person’s attention as strongly as mystery, and that mystery is the key principle in how humans view and understand the world. Whenever patterns...(展开全部)

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound. Revealing the history behind this infinitesimal interval, A Tenth of a Second sheds new light on modernity and illuminat...(展开全部)