In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .

Men could never live on such a star; only by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous orbit to observe it. The surface gravity is an incredible sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, with matter so compressed that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnetic field two trillion times that of Earth ...(展开全部)

In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .

大卫•范德（David Funder），美国著名心理学教授，曾在哈佛大学哈维马德学院、伊利诺伊大学香槟分校、加州大学河滨分校教授人格心理学课程，曾任加州大学河滨分校心理学系主任。他在人格心理学领域做出了杰出贡献，曾于2009年获杰克•布莱克奖（Jack Block Award）。他曾担任《人格研究》（Research Personality）杂志的编辑，同时也是人格研究协会的前任主席和人格与社会心理学协会的主席。他的人格研究广为人知，发表过延迟满足、归因理论、人格发展的纵向过程以及对情境的心理评估等研究。 ◎译者简介 许燕教授，北京师范大学心理学部教授、博士生导师。现任中国社会心理学会理事长，中国心理学会常务理事，中国心理学会人格心理学专业委员会副主任，教育部高等学校心理学类专业教学指导委员会副主任委员等职。

Organized according to the six main domains of modern personality psychology, David Funder s market-leading text shows students the field as it exists in the present. By incorporating significant coverage of the great theorists of personality psychology throughout, the book helps students understand how the field developed. And by showcasing the questions driving the research o...(展开全部)

Duluth's theatrical comeback is threatened by a mysterious curse that seems to haunt his new theater. Members of the cast start turning up dead before the curtain call. This book makes nice use of the charcter's Broadway background. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau.

The third volume of the My Father's Dragon trilogy, this adventure may be enjoyed on its own. Here, the baby dragon summons Elmer to help save his family from hunters. "Elmer's plan is ingenious and plausible, the fantasy well-sustained."--(starred) Library Journal.

作者卡洛琳·麦卡利斯特（Caroline McAlister）在吉尔福德学院教授英语，她每年会带学生到英国牛津去学习和研究那些托尔金生活和写作的灵感来源。她住在北卡罗来纳州的格林斯博罗。 绘者伊莉莎·惠勒（Eliza Wheeler）曾写作和绘画《纽约时报》畅销书《梅普尔小姐的种子》，她还喜欢和朋友一起吃着霍比特人的食物，大声朗读托尔金的作品。她把自己的时间划分为加利福尼亚的海边和威斯康星州的河岸边。