“A vertiginous, white-knuckled adventure through some of the most spectacular forests in the world.” ?—Washington PostMeet the man who climbs trees for a living.? In this adventure memoir, Aldred carries us with him across the globe and up to the top of these towering forest titans as he recalls his most memorable encounters with trees and their inhabitants.? Every child knows ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·奥尔德雷德，英国纪录片摄影师，擅长自然历史和高空拍摄。 詹姆斯经过BBC自然历史部门的内部培训，在过去的25年里为包括国家地理、探索频道和网飞在内的世界各地的客户拍摄电影。詹姆斯有幸参与了许多广受好评的作品的拍摄，包括与“世界自然纪录片之父”大卫·爱登堡合作的项目，并因摄影作品获得了艾美奖、皇家电视学会奖（RTS）和金三角国际摄影巡回赛奖项（GTC），还多次获得英国电影学院奖提名。

詹姆斯·奥尔德雷德，英国纪录片摄影师，擅长自然历史和高空拍摄。 詹姆斯经过BBC自然历史部门的内部培训，在过去的25年里为包括国家地理、探索频道和网飞在内的世界各地的客户拍摄电影。詹姆斯有幸参与了许多广受好评的作品的拍摄，包括与“世界自然纪录片之父”大卫·爱登堡合作的项目，并因摄影作品获得了艾美奖、皇家电视学会奖（RTS）和金三角国际摄影巡回赛奖项（GTC），还多次获得英国电影学院奖提名。

Malba Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician who was looking for a way to bring some of the mysteries and delights of mathematics to a wider public. He turned out to be a born storyteller. The adventures of Beremiz Samir, The Man Who Counted, take the reader on an exotic journey in which, time and again, he summons his extraordinary mathematical powers to...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

本书是一本用英语介绍北京文化的书。经埃德加斯诺的介绍，作者罗信耀在 《北平时事日报》用英语向外国人介绍北京文化，后结集为The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man，先后有英语版本和日语版本出版，在国外影响很大，一版再版，被认为是外国研究北京民俗的必备书籍。本书以主人公小吴爷爷去世、奶奶去娘娘庙祈福等经历带出北京习俗，以北京人从生到死的日常生活为主线，包括生子、婚丧嫁娶，也包括进香、赛马、上朝等，忠实记录了老北京多姿多彩的生活方式。尤其难得的是作者自身是旗人，他隐性地写出了一幅生动翔实的满族旗俗的风情画卷。这对我们理解北京文化的多民族形成和巨大包容性，勾勒中国乡愁的北京特色极具意义。本书以叙述为主，不仅趣味性高，可读性极强，罗信耀先生又善于版画，本书通过大量的生动插图，对我们还原那些老北京消...(展开全部)

Based on first-hand experience, this entrancing narrative of daily life in Peking in the first decades of this century makes vivid the milieu of a fictional family--the traditionally-minded, lower middle- class family of Wu. The author uses experiences of the Wu family's son from birth to marriage to convey in rich detail a vanished way of life, including children's games, nurs...(展开全部)

Colin Beavan(科林·比万)，早年在英国的慈善团体工作，1992年回到美国从事写作工作。本书英文版出版后，已经向十余个国家和地区授予版权。本书吸引了全球许多主要媒体，如《纽约时报》、《基督教科学箴言报》(The Christian Science Monitor)的关注与报导。作者因本书受邀参加美国脱口秀节目《科尔伯特报告》(The Colbert Report)、《早安美国》(Good Morning America)等电视。广播节目的访问。他被MSN选为2007年十大最具影响力人物。美国时尚杂志Elle颁给他2008GreenAwards，并称他为“Eco-IIIuminator”。 Colin Beavan的NolmpactMan.com网站与博客，拥有上万名订阅者，吸引了数百万人浏览，被美国《时代》杂志选为全球十五大环保网...(展开全部)

The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to...(展开全部)

The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some of the most dramatic changes of the postwar world. He was among the first to...(展开全部)