In 1933, Shih-I Hsiung (1902–1991), a student from China, met with Allardyce Nicoll, a Shakespearean scholar at the University of London, to discuss his PhD study in English drama. After learning about Hsiung’s interest and background, Nicoll suggested that he should consider studying Chinese drama for his dissertation and writing a play of a Chinese subject. Hsiung took the ad...(展开全部)

爱丽丝·普罗文森（1918年8月—）和马丁·普罗文森（1916年7月10日—1987年3月27日）是美国著名童书作家兼插画家的“双子组合”。这对夫妻各自的早年经历有惊人的相似之处：都出生于芝加哥的伊利诺斯，12岁时都搬到加利福尼亚，后来都获得芝加哥艺术学院的奖学金，又都进入加利福尼亚大学读书，尽管是在不同的校区。大学毕业后，爱丽丝进入以创作《啄木鸟伍迪》闻名的沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，马丁则去了这家工作室的竞争对手沃特·迪士尼工作室，在那里，他与人合作了《小象丹波》、《幻想曲》和《木偶奇遇记》。 1943年，马丁为创作有关美国军事训练的电影，被派到沃特·蓝兹工作室工作，因此与爱丽丝结识，两人于1944年在华盛顿喜结连理并定居。在那里，他们合作了与二战相关的作品。二战结束后，他们搬到纽约，朋友帮他们找到了一份工作：为《炉边民歌》绘插图。1952年，马丁设计...(展开全部)

在机器人工学高度发达的社会，人类的生存空间被受到来自机器人社会越来越严重的威胁，为求人类社会的自保，高阶人工智能开发被禁止，进入后人工智能时代。 丹羽明菜，一个普普通通的中高中少女，一次偶然竟然发现自己是一个名为I.N.A.的机器人系统试验...

加利亚·伯恩斯坦在以色列出生和长大，曾是当地儿童杂志的艺术总监，后来搬到纽约，在帕森斯设计学院学习插画。是很多儿童图书的插画作者，画风活泼可爱。凭借本书在全球获得广泛的关注。

I am a bunny. My name is Nicholas. I live in a hollow tree. This classic Golden Book, illustrated by Richard Scarry, celebrates its 50th anniversary with the story of Nicholas, a bunny clad in red overalls. In the spring, he picks flowers, and in the summer, watches the frogs in the pond. In the fall, he sees the animals getting ready for winter. And when winter comes, he...(展开全部)

Gr. 1. Jaunty paper-cut illustrations open with a picture of a child named Marble, whose color and texture are like gray stone. He invites readers to journey through the Rock Hall of Fame, with the book's following pages giving clues for guessing 12 different rocks. Some answers are easy to guess, but some (sandstone, petrified wood) may require an explanation or some pronuncia...(展开全部)

Easy-to-read and bright cut-paper illustrations describe the life cycle of a leaf and explore its many functions.

菲利普·罗斯(Philip Roth)，1933年出生在美国新泽西州的纽瓦克市，被认为是当代最杰出的美国犹太裔作家之一。罗斯以短篇小说《再见，哥伦布》崛起，赢得美国多个主要文学奖项，1998年凭借《美国牧歌》一举获得美国普利策文学奖，是近年来诺贝尔文学奖呼声颇高的作家之一。

I Married a Communist is the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time 1940s radio star, and is destroyed, as both a performer and a man, in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s. In his heyday as a star--and as a zealous, bullying supporter of "progressive" political causes--I...(展开全部)

In poetic, easy-to-understand text, Jean Marzollo explains the many aspects of a star, including why a star isn't visible during the day, and whether the moon is a star. The book's bright cut-paper illustrations by Judith Moffatt add clarity to the science concepts throughout the book.