廉惠媛（Hyewon Yum） 出生于韩国，在首尔大学学习绘画和版画，后在美国纽约视觉艺术学院取得美术硕士学位。主要作品有：《昨夜》《双胞胎的小被子》《妈妈，今天是我第一天上学！》《这是我们的家》。自2008年出版作品以来，屡获大奖和媒体赞誉：博洛尼亚国际童书展荣誉奖（虚构类），美国童书作家与插画家协会金风筝奖，艾兹拉•杰克•季兹新插画家奖，《学校图书馆杂志》年度最佳图书，《科克斯书评》最佳童书等。 廉惠媛的作品都极为贴近孩子们的日常生活和内心世界，善于捕捉和表达人物的心理情绪。她用明亮的色彩，动人的故事，温暖的场景，创作出备受孩子们喜欢的作品。她是一位真正为孩子写书的创作者。目前，廉惠媛和她的丈夫，还有两个儿子，居住在纽约布鲁克林。 更多信息请访问：www.hyewonbook.com

布莱恩·费根（Brian Fagan），世界知名考古学家，剑桥大学考古学和人类学博士，曾任加州大学圣巴巴拉分校人类学系教授。他著作等身，且乐于传播人类学和历史学知识，用平易近人的语言为大众写作，于1997年被美国考古学会授予“公共教育贡献奖”，2013年获得美国考古学会“霍尔顿图书终身成就奖”。他的著作《世界史前史》《考古学与史前文明》《小冰河时代》《大暖化》《洪水、饥馑与帝王》《法老王朝》《床的人类史》等已被译成中文出版。 在对考古学和人类学的研究中，费根发现了气候变迁与人类历史间千丝万缕的联系，他认为，这种关联被人们严重忽视了。他致力于开拓这个领域的研究，为认识历史提供新的视角。 纳迪亚·杜拉尼（Nadia Durrani），毕业于剑桥大学，伦敦大学学院博士，专攻阿拉伯考古。曾在英国最畅销的考古杂志《当代世界考古》以及《当代考古》担任编辑，与布莱...(展开全部)

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language...(展开全部)

Vyvyan Evans is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, at the University of Sussex. Melanie Green is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Sussex.

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language...(展开全部)

Vyvyan Evans is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, and the Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, at the University of Sussex. Melanie Green is a member of faculty in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Sussex.

Nearly everyone sw ears—whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in relief seconds after they fall a...(展开全部)

Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely st...(展开全部)