霍华德·苏伯（Howard Suber），UCLA（洛杉矶加大）资深电影教授，执教四十余年，曾荣获杰出教师奖，学生遍及整个美国电影业界。他曾担任UCLA电影学院副院长，组织创办了UCLA电影资料馆并担任馆长，发起电影评论研究计划，同时还是UCLA影视制片人项目创始人。此外，霍华德在业内受聘担任各大电影公司的顾问和专业见证人，长期参与一线决策，在版权、创作控制事务等方面进行把关，为员工进行电影业务知识培训，是无数作品背后的重要推手。如今，他继续在教授影片结构和电影创作的战略性思考方面的课程，著有《电影的力量》（The Power of Film）一书。 译者赵晶，先后获得外交学院英语系学士学位和中国电影艺术中心电影学系硕士学位。现任职于中国电影资料馆，主要从事国际电影文化交流和推广工作，另译有《简明世界电影史》。

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life. From the moment we are born, our cells begin to age. But aging does not have to mean decline. World-renowned surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry has been treating mature patients for most of his career. He knows that everyone thinks they want to live fore...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in the South as a Boy Scout and a lover of ants and butterflies, Wilson threads...(展开全部)

Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical--what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical com...(展开全部)

From the renowned mathematician and writer Ian Stewart, an insightful and lively exploration of why mathematics matters The first scientific entry in the acclaimed Art of Mentoring series from Basic Books, Letters to a Young Mathematician tells readers what Ian Stewart wishes he had known when he was a student and young faculty member. Subjects ranging from the philosophical...(展开全部)

With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Alan Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession. As defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his leg...(展开全部)

Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet--he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to ...(展开全部)

Letters written over a period of several years on the vocation of writing by a poet whose greatest work was still to come.

Mathematician Ian Stewart tells readers what he wishes he had known when he was a student. He takes up subjects ranging from the philosophical to the practical--what mathematics is and why it's worth doing, the relationship between logic and proof, the role of beauty in mathematical thinking, the future of mathematics, how to deal with the peculiarities of the mathematical com...(展开全部)