山姆•基恩：美国新锐科学作家，《纽约时报》《新科学家》专栏作家，著有畅销书《消失的汤匙》。2005年取得美国科学促进会院士，2009年获美国科学作家协会优秀青年作家奖励。

Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike -- strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents -- and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims' personalities....(展开全部)

For centuries, scientists had only one way to study the brain: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infections, lobotomies, horrendous accidents, phantom limbs, Siamese twins - and see how the victims changed afterwards. In many cases their survival was miraculous, and observers marvelled at the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain wer...(展开全部)

迄今为止，拉尔夫・伊利斯已经出版了两个系列涉及考古学和神学主题的普及型专著，分别是《透特――宇宙的建筑师》和《K2――导解众神》、《耶稣――最后的法老》和《大风暴与出埃及》。这两套书甫一面市即轰动学界，震惊世人。特别在《耶稣――最后的法治》一书中，拉尔夫伊利斯以其丰富的神学、埃及学、犹太学、考古学、语言学和天文学知识，对《圣经》做出了大胆的全新诠释，惊世骇俗地勾勒出一幅背离正史的生动画卷，令人耳目一新，启迪无限思维。在《圣经》影响深远厚重的欧美国家里，此书以其巨大的冲击力当之无愧地成为了上榜畅销书，并引发了重新认识西方宗教本质和起源的风潮。2002年底，伊利斯更是集中最新考古发现的成果，发表了400页的史诗般作品《所罗门―示巴女王之鹰》，它重写了《圣经》的和世俗的历史，被称为是有史以来出版的观点最激进、结论最惊人的《圣经》历史专著。

德沃夏克 MaxDvorak (1874-1921)，维也纳美术史学派的后起之秀，继维克霍夫和李格尔之后最重要的学者。在学派传统基础上，他以自己精湛的学术研究，形成了一种独特的研究方法，被后人称为"作为精神史的美术史"，其要旨可以表述为：要理解任何一个时期的艺术，关键是要 了解这个时期的精神史。

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning s...(展开全部)

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning s...(展开全部)

This delightful tale of one of the world’s favorite foods draws on botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. It begins some 4,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into what is now known as choc...(展开全部)

This delightful and best-selling tale of one of the world's favorite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, and culinary history to present a complete and accurate history of chocolate. The story begins some 3,000 years ago in the jungles of Mexico and Central America with the chocolate tree, Theobroma Cacao, and the complex processes necessary to transform its bitter seeds into...(展开全部)

索菲·D. 科（Sophie D. Coe），美国人类学家、食物历史学家。 她的书《美国第一美食》1994 年出版，受到普遍好评。 麦克·D. 科（Michael D. Coe），美国耶鲁大学人类学名誉教授。主要著作有《玛雅》《墨西哥》《打破玛雅守则》《吴哥和高棉文明》《解读玛雅铭文》等。