罗伯特·D.圣·苏西（Robert D. San Souci） 美国著名说书人，毕业于圣玛丽大学。由他改写创作的民间故事作品包括《会说话的蛋》和《忠诚的朋友》（The Faithful Friend），均获得了凯迪克银牌奖。他与杰瑞·平克尼合作的作品还有获得美国《纽约时报》年度最佳绘本奖的《雇佣之手》（The Hired Hand）等。现住在加利福尼亚州的旧金山。 杰瑞·平克尼（Jerry Pinkney） 非裔美籍的著名插画家。1939年出生于费城，4岁开始画画，毕业于费城艺术学院，从1964年起专攻于儿童读物的插图，至今已画了超过100本书，还成功举办了超过30次的个人作品回顾展。他最新的作品是Dial出版社的《三只小猫》（Three Little Kittens）。现为多所大学的艺术教授，住在纽约州。 杰瑞一生所获的荣誉颇多，不胜枚举。其中包括...(展开全部)

俄罗斯小说家、戏剧家，长篇小说《大师和玛格丽特》是其最重要的作品，另有中篇小说《狗心》《不祥的蛋》等。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991，旧译爱德华•谢弗），美国著名汉学家和语言学家，二十世纪下半叶美国唐代研究乃至整个西方唐代研究的领军人物。1938年获伯克利加州大学学士学位，攻读人类学；1947年获哈佛大学东方语言学博士学位。之后一直任教于柏克莱加州大学，直至1984年退休。曾出任美国东方学会会长，并长期主编《美国东方学会会刊》（JAOS）。 他深受传统欧洲汉学影响，重视历史语言文献的研究（精通十几种古今语言），加之他在民族学、民俗学和人类学方面的丰厚学养，使他的中国中古研究呈现出开阔的视野与多视角融合的特点。他的主要研究领域在中外史学界均享有盛誉，如：唐代的社会文化史，尤其是物质文化（名物）研究、唐代的外来文明、中原汉文化与周边民族文化的融合、道教与文学的关系，尤其是唐诗与道教在唐代文化中的作用等。 译者简介 ...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countri...(展开全部)