Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991. In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Crono...(展开全部)

Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991. In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Crono...(展开全部)

威廉·克罗农（1954—），美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的历史学、地理学与环境研究领域的弗雷德里克•杰克逊•特纳和维拉斯研究教授；美国人文与科学学院院士、美国历史学会会长。

Lewis Baltz is a visual artist and well known photographer who became an important figure in the New Topographic movement of the late 1970s. Presented together in the exhibition 'New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape' in 1975 (Rochester, NY), this group of young photographers brought a shift in landscape photography in showing the images of a world far remove...(展开全部)

Praise for William Dunham s Journey Through Genius The Great Theorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader through the verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questions and proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatest mathematicians from ancient to modern times presented their arguments." Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical Tourist Mathemat...(展开全部)

Praise for William Dunhams Journey Through Genius The Great Theorems of Mathematics "Dunham deftly guides the reader through the verbal and logical intricacies of major mathematical questions and proofs, conveying a splendid sense of how the greatest mathematicians from ancient to modern times presented their arguments." —Ivars Peterson Author, The Mathematical Tourist Mathemat...(展开全部)

艾伦·贝克尔（Aaron Becker） 曾经历许多难忘的旅程，在日本乡村居住过，也在东非生活过，还曾去往瑞典、塔西提岛等地徒步旅行，寻找灵感。最近，还从旧金山湾去往马萨诸塞州的阿姆斯特市，进行了一次探险旅行。 在成为绘本作家之前，贝克尔是一名电影动画设计师、影视绘景师，参与制作的电影有《极地特快》《怪兽屋》等。《不可思议的旅程》是他的第一本绘本，展现出丰富的想象力和深厚的动画制作功底，一经出版便荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜，并荣获《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本，以及美国凯迪克大奖。目前和妻子、女儿、一只懒猫生活在阿姆斯特市。他最喜欢的事情便是想象，在想象的国度，他可以画一扇秘密的大门和一盏盏充满魔力的彩灯。

Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the ac...(展开全部)