艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋 章在内的多个奖项。 译者颜元叔（1933-2012），中国台湾大学外文系教授、文艺评论家、英文教育家；湖南省茶陵县人，1933年生于南京，1956年毕业于台湾大学外文系，1958年赴美国留学，曾在威斯康辛大学研究英美文学，获博士学位；1963年回国后在母校执教，任外文系教授、系主任；是美国水牛城纽约州立大学客座教授、美国犹他大学交换教授；创办《中外文学》《淡江评论》等，并任《中外文学》社长兼总编辑；擅用幽默嘲讽的笔法，描述市井百态，剖析社会现实问题。著有《文学的玄想》《人间烟火》等，...(展开全部)

泰德·丁特史密斯（Ted Dintersmith） ● 教育创新先锋，曾代表奥巴马政府参加联合国大会，阐述教育和创新问题。 ● 知名投资人，20世纪90年代美国独立评估机构评选出的“表现最佳的风险投资家”之一。 ● 教育纪录片《为孩子重塑教育》（Most Likely To Succeed）制片人兼同名书作者。

Climate change, the energy crisis, nuclear proliferation—many of the most urgent problems of the twenty-first century require scientific solutions, yet America is paying less and less attention to scientists. For every five hours of cable news, less than one minute is devoted to science, and the number of newspapers with science sections has shrunk from ninety-five to thirty-th...(展开全部)

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes th...(展开全部)

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a...(展开全部)

亨利•马西（Henry Massie） 医学博士，在加利福尼亚州伯克利市执业的精神科医生，并在旧金山市加州大学医学院任教。同时也是一位杰出的研究者，在母亲—婴儿的互动模式、母婴关系对婴儿情绪发展的影响等相关领域做出了卓越贡献。国际著名的研究“依附关系”的学者。 内森•塞恩伯格（Nathan M. Szajnberg） 医学博士，在加利福尼亚州伯克利市执业的精神科医生，并在旧金山市加州大学医学院任教，同时担任沃勒斯坦研究基金精神分析方向的研究者，致力于精神分析方向的儿童精神病学和儿童发展的长程研究。

"Lives Across Time/Growing Up" follows seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. This book describes their life stories, which may transform and enrich the reader's life. In working with these people, the authors heard something basic: stories people tell about themselves. While a life may fall into a g...(展开全部)

The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a lan...(展开全部)

"Lives Across Time/Growing Up" follows seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. This book describes their life stories, which may transform and enrich the reader's life. In working with these people, the authors heard something basic: stories people tell about themselves. While a life may fall into a g...(展开全部)