"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a...(展开全部)

The study of the cultural meaning of landscapes is of increasing interest in several fields. This book attempts to open up the subject to a wider audience, and is the first to deal with the basic principles of `reading the landscape'.

Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. In this text, leaders of Open Source come together to discuss the new vision of the software industry they have created, through essays that explain how the movement works, why it succeeds, and where it is going.

The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invaluable resources. Each beautifully designed, affordable volume offers a concise overview of a design fundamentalthe hows of design. But as most seasoned designers will tell you, a comprehensive education also requires an understanding o...(展开全部)

The titles in our best-selling Design Brief series are highly praised by graphic design students, educators, and professionals worldwide as invaluable resources. Each beautifully designed, affordable volume offers a concise overview of a design fundamentalthe hows of design. But as most seasoned designers will tell you, a comprehensive education also requires an understanding o...(展开全部)

奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair)，1903年生于印度。 1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年，他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police，1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加，此间他当过教师、书店店员，直到1940年，他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员，他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间，他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡，1936年底，他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战，其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943)，他为BBS Eastern Service工作，并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。 1945年，他出版了《动物农场》，1949年出版了《1984》...(展开全部)