Wonderbook will be the definitive guide to writing fantasy. This innovative book will take a completely novel approach on a writing guide, fully exploiting the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, visualisations and exercises that will result in a spectacularly beautiful package that is more than just a guide, but also an inspiring object. Throu...(展开全部)

Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, ...(展开全部)

苔丝狄蒙娜·麦克卡农是一名自由作家和自由插画师，后回到大学攻读序贯设计和插画专业的文学硕士学位。她拥有童书市场广泛的从业经验。她现在是北威尔士艺术与设计学院童书插画硕士专业的课程创始人之一。 苏·桑顿是一名插画师，同时担任北威尔士艺术与设计学院的高级讲师。她曾是一名全职童书插画师，自1990年起，在东北威尔士学院任教至今。她是童书出版插画专业荣誉学士学位的发起人和课程负责人。她于近期刚刚开设了一门新的漫画小说课程。 雅兹亚·威廉姆斯是北威尔士艺术与设计学院插画设计荣誉学士学位的课程负责人，主要从事图书插画绘制工作。 译者：宋佩：加州大学艺术史硕士，1990年代开始研究图画书的图像语言及创作者，并且翻译图画书。目前除了在中原大学担任基督信仰与艺术、从电影看人生课程外，也在台大及政大共同讲授图画书相关课程。至今翻译图画书五十余本，另译有《观赏图画书中的图...(展开全部)

The definitive field guide to mushrooms, toadstools, and other fungi. Mushrooms & Toadstools contains all the information you need to identify, forage for or avoid fungi from all around the world. Based on the best-selling The Mushroom Book, this completely revised and updated edition is the perfect fungi book for mushroom lovers everywhere. Inside you'll find an explanation of...(展开全部)

Machine Learning is awesome and powerful, but it can also appear incredibly complicated. That’s where The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning comes in. This book takes the machine learning algorithms, no matter how complicated, and breaks them down into small, bite-sized pieces that are easy to understand. Each concept is clearly illustrated to provide you, the read...(展开全部)

In recent and ongoing uprisings all around the world, from Santiago to Hong Kong, many of the protesters' aims have been consistent: justice, an end to political corruption, and a return to principles of collective good. Yet there are also specific and diverse struggles such as demands for direct democracy (as in France), the rejection of ethnic or sectarian identities (Iraq an...(展开全部)

In recent and ongoing uprisings all around the world, from Santiago to Hong Kong, many of the protesters' aims have been consistent: justice, an end to political corruption, and a return to principles of collective good. Yet there are also specific and diverse struggles such as demands for direct democracy (as in France), the rejection of ethnic or sectarian identities (Iraq an...(展开全部)

"Designed by Philip Grushkin" stated on the copyright page. "Jacket design by Phil Grushkin" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket. Alternate Worlds was first published in 1975 and became an instant classic, winning a Hugo award. This third edition brings the history of science fiction up to date, covering developments over the past forty years—a period that has seen the a...(展开全部)

Alternate Worlds was first published by Prentice-Hall in 1975 as a coffee-table volume and soon became a classic, winning an award from the World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City in 1976 (a "Hugo" before an award was presented in the non-fiction category and occupying a place in the reference shelves of libraries and the tables of thousands of fans. McFarland's more ac...(展开全部)