武际可教授，1958年毕业于北京大学数学力学系，留校任教。他的专长在固体力学、计算力学与应用数学等方面，发表论文百余篇。 现任中国力学学会力学史与方法论专业委员会主任委员。曾任北京大学力学系副系主任、计算力学教研室主任、中国力学学会副理事长、计算力学专业委员会副主任。《力学与实践》主编，《力学学报》,《固体力学学报》《计算力学》等杂志编委。 著有《力学史》、《近代力学在中国的传播与发展》等。

大卫·威斯纳，出生于美国新泽西州，毕业于罗德岛设计学院，专攻插画。从中学时代开始，他便对用图画书讲故事的方式产生了浓厚兴趣，并开始尝试拍默片和创作没有文字的漫画。他上学时绘制过长达274厘米的作品，该作被视为《梦幻大飞行》的最初灵感来源。 大卫·威斯纳热衷于无字图画书的创作领域，他认为：无字书能为图画书留下神秘；能让想象有奔驰的空间；能让读者更接近这些插画，并能随心所欲地参与其中，用自己内在的声音创作自己的故事。 作为美国顶尖插画家，也是得奖常胜军。他的作品向来广受各方瞩目，多次赢得美国凯迪克大奖评审青睐，其作品曾获得美国图书馆学会推荐童书、蓝缎带好书榜、《号角》杂志评选最佳童书、纽约市立图书馆好书100、《纽约时报》年度推荐童书、《亲子》杂志阅读魔力奖、《出版人周刊》杂志年度最佳好书、《学校图书馆》杂志年度最佳好书等奖项。 大卫·威斯纳的作品获凯迪...(展开全部)

When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land. And you can come along.</p>

An illuminating and highly readable survey of the growth of scientific ideas. It's a history of natural science——from the astronomy of ancient Babylon to the astrophysics of today's space research centers. This book is originally published in 1953 and has been reprinted 27 times and translated into seven languages. "By far the best one-volume account in English of the developme...(展开全部)

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. A leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the ...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challenge. Responding to the work of Hayden White, Arthur Danto, and Hans-Georg Gadamer...(展开全部)

The history of the sciences and the history of the book are complementary, and there has been much recent innovative research in the intersection of these lively fields. This accessibly-written, well-illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship. The twenty specially-commissioned chapters cover the period from the Caro...(展开全部)

There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us. Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is re...(展开全部)