泰德·丁特史密斯（Ted Dintersmith） ● 教育创新先锋，曾代表奥巴马政府参加联合国大会，阐述教育和创新问题。 ● 知名投资人，20世纪90年代美国独立评估机构评选出的“表现最佳的风险投资家”之一。 ● 教育纪录片《为孩子重塑教育》（Most Likely To Succeed）制片人兼同名书作者。

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋 章在内的多个奖项。 译者颜元叔（1933-2012），中国台湾大学外文系教授、文艺评论家、英文教育家；湖南省茶陵县人，1933年生于南京，1956年毕业于台湾大学外文系，1958年赴美国留学，曾在威斯康辛大学研究英美文学，获博士学位；1963年回国后在母校执教，任外文系教授、系主任；是美国水牛城纽约州立大学客座教授、美国犹他大学交换教授；创办《中外文学》《淡江评论》等，并任《中外文学》社长兼总编辑；擅用幽默嘲讽的笔法，描述市井百态，剖析社会现实问题。著有《文学的玄想》《人间烟火》等，...(展开全部)

[美] 玛戈泽蒙克 玛戈泽蒙克出生在美国洛杉矶。1959年开始，她通过丈夫哈维，为图书画插画。后来他们一起创作了许多儿童书，其中包括这本《绝妙的馊主意》，获得凯迪克银奖；《法官：一个不真实的故事》，获得凯迪克银奖；《一分钱看一次》，美国图书馆协会推荐好书；《达菲和魔鬼》，获得凯迪克奖。

Margot Zemach's It Could Always Be Worse is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year, an Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1978 Caldecott Honor Book. Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut. Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argue...(展开全部)

[Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with r...(展开全部)

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges...(展开全部)

[Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with r...(展开全部)

Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother. Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges...(展开全部)

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is - it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture not...(展开全部)

The Law As It Could Be gathers Fiss's most important work on procedure, adjudication and public reason, introduced by the author and including contextual introductions for each piece--some of which are among the most cited in Twentieth Century legal studies. Fiss surveys the legal terrain between the landmark cases of Brown v. Board of Education and Bush v. Gore to reclaim the ...(展开全部)