'Everyone interested in the natural world will enjoy "The Secret Life of Trees". I found myself reading out whole chunks to friends' - "The Times", Books of the Year. What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a fore...(展开全部)

摄影师张晓说：这是个并不真实的世界，我喜欢他们。他们在某个时刻的状态已经超越了现实的自己，像是在梦游。我拍照片时很少和他们对话，只是眼神的交流，更多的时候是迅速按下快门，快门声伴随着刺眼的闪光灯直射过去，他们这才如梦初醒地诧异地看着我，等他们回过神来，我已经匆匆离开。因为他们的眼神很多是我所不敢面对的。我像是在逃避，正如逃避镜子中的我自己。

One of the greatest frustrations in most software projects is version control: the art of managing changes to information. Today's increasingly fast pace of software development--as programmers make small changes to software one day only to undo them the next--has only heightened the problem; consecutive work on code or single-programmer software is a rare sight these days. Wit...(展开全部)

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and inThe Tree,Colin Tudge travels around...(展开全部)

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels a...(展开全部)

杰拉尔德·格拉夫（Gerald Graff） 曾任美国现代语言协会主席，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校英语教授与教育学教授，常年从事本科和研究生的写作教学工作。出版过多部对教师影响巨大的书籍，包括《从制度视角看文学史》《超越文化战争：直面冲突，复兴美国教育》《学术迷途：僵化教育对智识生活的桎梏》。 凯茜· 比肯施泰因（Cathy Birkenstein） 伊利诺伊大学讲师，发表过多篇关于写作的论文，曾与格拉夫合著多篇文章发表于《高等教育年鉴》《大学写作与沟通》等期刊。她与格拉夫在多所高中、本科院校和学术会议中举行过百余次有关写作指导的讲座。

"They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one s own argument ("I say"). In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing.

The book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic–and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves. The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writi...(展开全部)

W.杰克逊•贝特（W. Jackson Bate，1918-1999），哈佛大学A.金斯利·波特（A. Kingsley Porter）校级教授。曾两度获得普利策传记奖，获奖作品为《济慈传》（1963）和《塞缪尔•约翰生传》（1977）。《约翰生传》同时获得了1978年美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖。