伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen . 美国著名导演、演员、作家。生于纽约布鲁克林，15岁起为报纸、广播撰写专栏，后成为喜剧演员，1969年正式开启导演生涯，以惊人的拍摄速度和数量著称，至今拍摄50多部影片，风格独树一帜。 . 他被称为“美国电影界唯一的知识分子”。19 77年凭 借《安妮·霍尔》包揽四项奥斯卡金像奖，从此蜚声国际。此后《开罗紫玫瑰》《汉娜姐妹》等作品均获奖无数。 . 史提格·比约克曼 Stig Bjorkman . 瑞典作家、导演、影评人。著有《伯格曼论伯格曼》、《冯提尔论冯提尔》等。其导演作品曾入围柏林电影节。2011年受伊莎贝拉·罗西里尼邀请，拍摄了《英格丽·褒曼口述实录》。

With thirty-five years of personal film-making behind him, Woody Allen is one of the most distinctive, uncompromising and accomplished of all American directors. One of the great practitioners of film comedy, Allen progressed from the slapstick of Take the Money and Run and Bananas, through the sophisticated Freudian one-liners and existential pratfalls of Annie Hall and Manhat...(展开全部)

When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.-led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth" in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a puppy left behind when most of the city's residents fled. Despite military law forbiddin...(展开全部)

杰伊·科普曼是美国海军陆战队的一名上尉，他现在驻扎在加利福尼亚州欧申赛德市的潘德顿基地。杰伊和他的妻子、继子、两只狗（拉瓦和科达）、一只名叫“切达奶酪”的猫一起住在加州拉霍亚。杰伊是一个很有竞争力的自行车手。他妻子是一名人类学者，他们俩都是冲浪运动爱好者。 梅林达·罗斯是一名记者，《和狗交谈的人》一书的作者。

In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and s...(展开全部)

伍迪艾伦（Woody Allen，1935－），原名艾伦・斯图尔特・康尼格斯伯格（Allen Stewart Konigsberg），当代集编、导、演于一身的犹太裔美国著名电影艺术家、作家和单簧管演奏家，被称为“卓别林之后最杰出的喜剧天才”。他的电影多以曼哈顿为背景，以死亡、性和道德为主题，有浓郁的纽约知识分子风格，机智幽默又细腻感伤。神经质的内省而自我的人物（多由伍迪・艾伦自己扮演）、想像力丰富而奇特的构思、絮叨又幽默的对白、反讽与批判的视角，几乎是他每部电影的共同元素。创作颇丰，代表作有《安妮・霍尔》（1977）、《曼哈顿》（1979）、《汉娜和她的姐妹们》（1986）、《子弹穿越百老汇》（1994）等。

理查德·席克尔：《时代》杂志资深影评人，亦是三十多部著作的作者或合著者。这些书大多数是关于电影的，包括D.W.格里菲斯和克林特•伊斯特伍德的长篇传记，关于马龙•白兰度、加•格兰特、老道格拉斯•费尔班克斯（Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.）和詹姆斯•卡格尼的篇幅稍短一些的作品，一部关于沃尔特•迪斯尼及其作品的权威论著，以及对名流体制的开拓性思考。此外，席克尔先生还创作、指导并制作了大批电视节目，它们多为有关电影和电影制作人的纪录片。他曾四次获艾美奖提名，获古根海姆研究基金奖（Guggenheim Fellowship）一次，并被授予过英国电影学院（British Film Institute）著作奖，以及影评方面的莫里斯•贝西（Maurice Bessy）奖。他现住洛杉矶。

Brief but sharply honed, this book is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the life and times of one of the most important--and least understood--American filmmakers of our era.

The inspiring story of one man's love for God and his unflinching commitment to present the Gospel of Christ to the Chinese. This book recounts the thrilling story of Hudson Taylor and the eventual formation of the China Inland Mission. Hudson Taylor left England on September 19, 1853, and did not reach China until spring of the following year. The long and arduous voyage, pers...(展开全部)

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appeara...(展开全部)