在线阅读本书 A 1996 Caldecott Honor book The urban landscape will never look the same again. As Stephen T. Johnson demonstrates in a series of strikingly realistic pastels and watercolors, a simple sawhorse can contain the letter "A"--while lampposts alongside a highway can form a row of elegant, soaring Ys. A 1996 Caldecott Honor book, this sophisticated, wordless alphabet book ...(展开全部)

A graphical representation of the alphabet gives a new view of the letters, from the A that crumbles as an avalanche approaches to the D that glows with the light of the devil.

In "Alphabet for Gourmets," M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, "a Russian hors d'oeuvre," Fisher alights on both longtime obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions. As usual, she liberates her readers from caution and slavish adherence to culinary tradi...(展开全部)

Digital technologies have changed architecture--the way it is taught, practiced, managed, and regulated. But if the digital has created a "paradigm shift" for architecture, which paradigm is shifting? In The Alphabet and the Algorithm, Mario Carpo points to one key practice of modernity: the making of identical copies. Carpo highlights two examples of identicality crucial to th...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

Kipper and Arnold are on an alphabet adventure What can they find for each letter? They find ladybugs for "L." And toys for "T." But what begins with "X"? That's a hard one.

Kipper and Arnold are on an alphabet adventure What can they find for each letter? They find ladybugs for "L." And toys for "T." But what begins with "X"? That's a hard one.

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point from which he views cities past and possible.First published in hardcover under the title A Theory of Good City Form

一座看似平凡的城市，卻住了各式各樣充滿不同特色的人們。生性愛賭卻賭到連房租都付不出來而被房東追殺的南雲美鳥，在一次偶然機會下來到真壁西餐廳打工。沒想到店長是個會把做好的料理倒進客人包包裡的冒失鬼。找南雲來打工的店長兒子，居然聽到本周幸運小物是迷你裙，居然就真的穿上到處跑？原本以為自己已經逃離收租狂魔的南雲，才發現房東居然是店長的丈母娘！更多的爆笑故事，歡迎大家一起來挖掘！