刘慈欣，六十年代生人，祖籍河南，山西阳泉长大，高级工程师，现在山西娘子关电厂工作。上世纪九十年代末开始发表作品，第一篇发表作品为短篇小说《鲸歌》。目前为中国科普作家协会会员，被誉为中国科幻的领军人物。 刘慈欣成功地将极端的空灵和厚重的现实结合起来，同时注重表现科学的内涵和美感，努力创造出一种具有中国特色的科幻文学样式。其作品因宏伟大气、想像绚丽而获得广泛赞誉，多次获得中国科幻银河奖。

[美]汤姆·哈特（Tom Hart） 美国艾斯纳大奖提名漫画家。他曾在佛罗里达大学和纽约视觉艺术学院任教长达10年，现在是佛罗里达的盖恩斯维尔一家漫画和图像小说工作室的执行董事。他也是《哈奇·欧文系列》（The Collected Hutch Owen）图像小说的作者，《哈奇·欧文系列》曾在2000年被艾斯纳大奖提名。目前汤姆和妻子莉拉以及女儿茉莉·罗斯住在一起。

Lightning is a captivating fictionalized biography of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest inventors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, written by "the master magician of the contemporary French novel" ( The Washington Post ). The book traces the notable career of Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who travels across the Atlantic at the a...(展开全部)

艾莉森·简出生于英国的翰弗郡，长在德比郡。她就读于伦敦大学的平面设计专业，学习了绘画与专业插画的技巧，并以全班第一名的成绩毕业，之后就职于一家动漫工作室。 这样过了一两年，她决定改变职业方向，开始了插画家的职业生涯。现在她的插画作品遍布于各个领域，包括设计、广告、项目，以及她最热爱的童书创作。目前她正与阿德曼动画公司（Ardman Animation）合作，制作新版本的《胡桃夹子》动画电影。 艾莉森的画作非常具有特点，她利用一种叫做Alkyd（醇酸树脂）的油画颜料作画，在画布表面做一层快速涂抹，干了就会形成类似于龟裂的仿旧效果。很多小读者将她的画作可爱地称为“碎蛋壳画”。她在创作插画中非常注重趣味性，每张图之间都会暗藏承上启下的线索，并将大家耳熟能详的童话故事融入其中，使插画能够无限地延伸，增大了阅读的自主和自由度。 “让想象飞”是其代表作品，其中《...(展开全部)

Words and images combine on each page of this classic picture book to create an introduction to familiar words that children and their parents will want to return to again and again. With a wealth of detail, Jay has created a series of pictures where elements cleverly reappear from spread to spread.

《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》收录了超过80位一流国际插图设计师的445幅插图作品，力求把美洲、欧洲和亚洲的精彩插图一网打尽{《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》是一部适合专业人士和初学者阅读的，集合了来自全球的插图作者最新力作的综合性图鉴。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》由享有盛誉的设计师安格斯?黑兰德编纂，呈现出并代表了当前插图发展趋势和变革的多种风格、技术以及社会客观因素的广阔图景，它是对当代插图艺术的绝妙概括。因此，它对插图作者、平面造型设计师和任何致力于插图业的人士来说，都将是无价之宝。 每位艺术家的作品都配有作者自述和一段简短的、可以展示创作灵感及其作品和职业发展路径的叙述性文字。 《The Picture book:国际顶级插图设计大全》包括445幅插图，其中...(展开全部)

Simple in format, with vibrant folk-art inspired paintings of everyday items and a single, large-type word on each page, Picture This . . . is the ideal first word book for the very young. But there is much more to Picture This . . . than first meets the eye! Each turn of the page reveals a new perspective on what has come before and gives a hint of what's to come. Parents will...(展开全部)

In this new brief introduction to the rich and complex discipline of sociology, Jon Witt cuts to the core of the sociological perspective, supplying answers to two main questions: "Why do we think the way we think?" and "Why do we act the way we act?" Providing students with a glimpse of the "Big Picture," the author offers a top-down look at the structure of society, which all...(展开全部)

Mark E. Russinovich is the former chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software, a company that specialized in advanced systems software for Windows. He authored the Sysinternals tools featured in this book. Winternals and its Sysinternals tools were acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Mark is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer engineer...(展开全部)

Mark E. Russinovich is the former chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software, a company that specialized in advanced systems software for Windows. He authored the Sysinternals tools featured in this book. Winternals and its Sysinternals tools were acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Mark is now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer engineer...(展开全部)