This fascinating book - part ethnography, part memoir - traces Japan's vibrant cafe society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White's book takes up the...(展开全部)

Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become even more prescient and vital today. But who was the man behind such influen...(展开全部)

Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty and political despotism - have become even more prescient and vital today. But who was the man behind such influen...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlinand survived: ';Consummately suspenseful' (Los Angeles Times). When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, appr

From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage—called a “fast-moving thinking man’s thriller” by The Wall Street Journal—comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a poli...(展开全部)

罗里·麦克林 Rory MacLean，集英国皇家学会文学奖、加拿大评委会、英格兰评委会荣誉奖，温斯顿·丘吉尔旅行奖，并获得国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名于一身。这本《柏林：一座城市的肖像》是其定居柏林后的杰作，荣登华盛顿邮报十佳读物。至今为止他已有九本著作，其中包括 十分畅销的《斯大林的鼻子》和《巨龙之下》。他给予了非虚构类社科作品创造性的写法，不仅学识深厚，且文笔优美，令人喟叹。他的作品广受青睐，他以敏锐的洞察力，扎实的学识征服了学界与大众。除此以外，作者还为BBC写广播剧本，以及创作电影剧本。 译者 傅敬民，博士，上海大学外国语学院教授《上海翻译》执行主编。中国翻译协会理事，上海市科技翻译学会副会长，上海市外文学会常务理事。翻译出版《年轻的狮子》，《亚当·比德》等译著十四部。

The result of ten years of interviews between Berlin and Ignatieff, this is the biography of one of the greatest and most humane of modern philosophers. Berlin (born in Russia in 1909) was caught up in the most powerful currents of the century, and the book is full of memorable encounters.

In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, t...(展开全部)

In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, t...(展开全部)

We are entering a new state of global hypersurveillance. As we increasingly resort to technology for our work and play, our electronic activity leaves behind digital footprints that can be used to track our movements. In our cars, telephones, even our coffee machines, tiny computers communicating wirelessly via the Internet can serve as miniature witnesses, forming powerful net...(展开全部)