肯尼斯・弗兰姆普敦，1930年生，建筑师、建筑史家及评论家，曾作为一名建筑师在伦敦AA（建筑协会）建筑学院接受培训，现为美国哥伦比亚大学建筑规划研究生院威尔讲席教授。他曾任教于本学科内许多一流的院校，其中包括伦敦皇家艺术学院，苏黎世ETH学院，阿姆斯特丹伯拉杰学院（Berlage Institute），洛桑EPFL及维吉尼亚大学。他写有大量关于现当代建筑的论著，并从1986－1990年担任由密斯・凡・德・罗基金会赞助的位于巴塞罗那的EEC欧洲建筑奖评委会主席。

Praise for the First Edition "Because of its exceptionally wide perspective, even architectural historians who do not teach general survey courses are likely to enjoy and appreciate it." — Annali d'architettura "Not only does A Global History of Architecture own the territory (of world architecture), it pulls off this audacious task with panache, intelligence, and—for the...(展开全部)

Displaying a wonderful array of visually tempting and delicious produce, staffed by friendly and knowledgeable experts, a whole new generation of stylishly designed food shops are emerging. Conveniently located, they are often epicurean magnets for local communities or centrally placed meccas for cosmopolitan customers. Whatever their location, however, they all appeal to our e...(展开全部)

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This second edition contains fully...(展开全部)

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This second edition contains fully...(展开全部)

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)