托马斯·W.汉肖（Thomas W. Hanshew，1857―1914），美国作家和演员，出生于纽约的布鲁克林。他十六岁时就登台演出，演艺生涯持续了一段时间后，他在伦敦与出版机构合作，开始了文学创作。其中，部分小说是他与妻子玛丽·E.汉肖共同完成的。他笔下最著名的人物是汉密尔顿·克里克侦探，这位侦探因为善于伪装而被称为“千面人”。

【美】阿米尔·艾克塞尔（Amir D. Aczel） 国际著名数学家、科学史研究专家。出生于以色列海法．加州大学伯克利分校获得数学学士和物理学硕士，之后又在俄勒冈大学获得统计学博士学位。著有经典科普作品《费马大定理——解开一个古老数学问题的秘密》《费马大定理》《几率1》《商用统计学》《上帝的方程式——爱因斯坦、相对论和膨胀的宇宙》等。他是个说故事的能手，并是翻译爱因斯坦某些信件的第一人。

【美】阿米尔·艾克塞尔（Amir D. Aczel） 国际著名数学家、科学史研究专家。出生于以色列海法．加州大学伯克利分校获得数学学士和物理学硕士，之后又在俄勒冈大学获得统计学博士学位。著有经典科普作品《费马大定理——解开一个古老数学问题的秘密》《费马大定理》《几率1》《商用统计学》《上帝的方程式——爱因斯坦、相对论和膨胀的宇宙》等。他是个说故事的能手，并是翻译爱因斯坦某些信件的第一人。

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch of it would be important, sand and all.' Executed in 1922 for his involvement in Irish republicanism, Childers in remembered most vividly for his ground-breaking spy novel, The Riddle of the Sands (1903). In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, the sardonic civil servant Carruthers is findin...(展开全部)

This book is the result of discoveries made by Nivison beginning in 1979, It uses critically (without superseding) his monographs from 1983 through 2002, combined with his discoveries through 2008. Its main thrust is to show that the methods and results of the PRC “Three Dynasties Project” are invalid, and that recovering chronology before 841 BCE can be solved only by using th...(展开全部)

Monte Verita was once the site of a famous avant-garde community attracting celebrities such as Isadora Duncan, Carl Jung and Thomas Mann. Legend has it that its leader had himself sealed in a grotto in the hillside; when it was unsealed, he had vanished. It is now 1938, and nearby Ascona is hosting a conference on the locked room mystery. A number of the participants are secre...(展开全部)

Monte Verita was once the site of a famous avant-garde community attracting celebrities such as Isadora Duncan, Carl Jung and Thomas Mann. Legend has it that its leader had himself sealed in a grotto in the hillside; when it was unsealed, he had vanished. It is now 1938, and nearby Ascona is hosting a conference on the locked room mystery. A number of the participants are secre...(展开全部)

Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. So Morgon w...(展开全部)

Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. So Morgon w...(展开全部)

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha do...(展开全部)