马克•斯佩林（Mark Sperring），英国童书作家，曾就读于巴斯艺术设计学院，后转入英国一流的艺术设计学院——坎贝威尔艺术学院。图画书作品有《狮子爸爸的茶会》《迈克斯睡前表演秀》《向日葵之剑》等，在英国获得极高赞誉。现居住在英国布里斯托尔。 莎拉•沃伯顿（Sarah Warburton），英国插画家，出生于北威尔士。她创作了很多优秀的图画书作品，代表作有《魔猫日记》《有趣先生》《狮子爸爸的茶会》等。现在和丈夫、两个孩子生活在英国布里斯托尔。

Danny's going to camp––and he's taking the dinosaur! First introduced in 1958 with Danny and the Dinosaur and the recent stars of Happy Birthday, Danny and the Dinosaur, this popular pair is together again in an adventure sure to please beginning readers and happy campers alike. Children's Choices for 1997 (IRA/CBC)

莉迪亚•戴维斯(Lydia Davis)，美国当代著名小说家、翻译家。1947年出生于美国马萨诸塞州北安普敦，现为纽约州立阿伯尼大学创意写作教授。她长期致力于译介法国经典文学，如福楼拜、普鲁斯特的作品。著有七本短篇小说集及一部长篇小说，2005年当选为美国艺术科学院院士，2013年荣获布克国际奖，还曾获古根海姆奖、兰南文学奖、麦克阿瑟“天才奖”等。

Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. ...(展开全部)

丽贝卡•戈尔茨坦（Rebecca Goldstein），哲学家兼小说家，美国国家人文奖章、麦克阿瑟天才奖得主。她在普林斯顿大学取得了博士学位，师从当代西方哲学领军人物托马斯•内格尔。 跟这本跨界奇书的主人公柏拉图一样，戈尔茨坦喜欢用文学形式表达哲学思想。她学科学哲学出身，研究心灵哲学、数学哲学、斯宾诺莎和哥德尔。在巴纳德学院 教授哲学期间，她利用一个暑假写出了小说《心身问题》，由此开启了跨界小说家之路，之后又凭借《黑暗的姐妹》《马泽尔》《光之属性：爱、背叛与量子物理学》《关于上帝存在的36个证明》等小说斩获不少文学奖项。 正如美国国家人文奖章的嘉奖词所说，戈尔茨坦“用学术研究阐明了斯宾诺莎和哥德尔的理念，用小说生动机智地展现出思想与感受的张力”。这位特立独行、善于用新颖方式传达哲学关怀的思想家与丈夫斯蒂芬•平克一起，居住在美国马萨诸塞州。

Here is a new collection of short stories from the writer Rick Moody has called “the best prose stylist in America.” Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of “Bloomington” reads, “Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.” Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mund...(展开全部)

Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty...(展开全部)

The remarkable story of the scientific revolution that made the new economy possible-software-told through the unsung heroes of programming and their achievements. In the 1950s, just before John Backus's team developed the Fortran language that revolutionized the first generation of programming, it took dozens of full-time programmers and operators to run and debug each of t...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Françoise Sagan（1935—2004） 法国天才女作家，一代人的青春同义词。拥有漂亮的外表、敏感的心灵和避重就轻的天赋，喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，结交演艺界、政界的朋友，任由官司缠身。 十八岁时，她凭借小说《你好，忧愁》获得了法国批评家奖。一生中发表了二十部长篇小说、十一部剧作、若干短篇小说及散文，也参与创作电影和歌曲。 六十三岁时，她撰写了自己的悼词：“一九五四年，她以一本薄薄的小说《你好,忧愁》出道，这部小说成为了一桩世界性丑闻。她的一生和她的作品同样愉快而又轻率，她的隐没则成为一个只属于她自己的丑闻。”