作者彼得·阿特金斯，英国牛津大学林肯学院研究员。阿特金斯为世界著名的多产科普作家，已撰写了20多部书，其中包括影响甚广、知名度颇高的Moiecules和在世界范围内广被采用的教科书Physlcal Chemistry。

埃里克·安布勒（Eric Ambler,1909--1998） 现代间谍悬疑小说开创者，钻石匕首奖、爱伦·坡终身大师奖双料得主。《纽约时报》盛赞其为“几代悬疑作家的楷模”。 埃里克·安布勒出生于英国的一个音乐世家，却对写作情有独钟。1941年，他加入英国皇家炮兵团，后被调到陆军摄影部，被英国女王伊丽莎白亲自授予军官职位。战后从事编剧工作，并获得第26届奥斯卡金像奖最佳编剧奖提名。 小说创作方面，代表作《光天化日》一举斩获爱伦·坡最佳作品奖。著名作家勒卡雷称赞其为“所有人的灵感源泉”。

It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots were fired at him as he stepped into his hotel room, so, terrified, he escapes in secret on a passenger steamer from Istanbul. As he journeys home - alongside, among others, an entran...(展开全部)

柯林·施伯龙（Colin Thubron），1939年出生于英国伦敦，“英国皇家文学学会”会员，著有《在俄罗斯人当中》（Among the Russians）、《长城之后》（Behind the Wall）等旅行文学作品。曾获霍桑顿奖（Hawthornden Prize）、托马斯·库克（Thomas Cook）旅行文学奖，1984年由图书经销协会（Book Marketing Council）提名为当代二十位最佳旅行作家之一。

Douglas’s second book picks up where his first, MINDHUNTER, left off. Here he offers a deeper look into the psyches of serial killers, rapists, and child molesters, and offers his analyses of recent cases, including the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders, Canada’s “Schoolgirl Murders,” and the abduction and murder of Polly Klaas.

Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with...(展开全部)

As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to Indi...(展开全部)

The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, sc...(展开全部)