The age of Baroque witnessed the construction of some magnificent buildings, but what did the work of architects such as Bernini, Guarini and Wren have to do with Descartes, Galileo and Newton? In this book, George L. Hersey explores the ways in which Baroque architecture, with its shapes and experimentation with classical forms, reflects the scientific thinking of the time. He...(展开全部)

Fusing the social and economic history with the cultural and artistic achievements of seventeenth and eighteenth century Italy, this book presents a perspective on the period.

The discipline of architecture depends on the transmission in space and time of accumulated experiences, concepts, rules, and models. From the invention of the alphabet to the development of ASCII code for electronic communication, the process of recording and transmitting this body of knowledge has reflected the dominant information technologies of each period. In this book Ma...(展开全部)

In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and ...(展开全部)

In The Fold, Gilles Deleuze argues that Leibniz’s writings constitute the grounding elements of a Baroque philosophy and of theories for analyzing contemporary arts and science. A model for expression in contemporary aesthetics, the concept of the monad is viewed in terms of folds of space, movement, and time. Similarly, the world is interpreted as a body of infinite folds and ...(展开全部)

Bucky Inc. offers a deep exploration of Richard Buckminster Fuller’s work and thought to shed new light on the questions raised by our increasingly electronic world. It shows that Fuller’s entire career was a multi-dimensional reflection on the architecture of radio. He always insisted that the real site of architecture is the electromagnetic spectrum. His buildings were delica...(展开全部)

How Amazon has changed literature As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in li...(展开全部)

拉马钱德兰博士是美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校脑和认知研究中心教授兼主任，也是拉霍亚（La Jolla）索尔克生物学研究所副教授。他被《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）提名为21世纪中最值得关注的100名重要人物之一，2011年《时代（Time）》杂志在其“时代100精英（Time 100）”中把他列为“世界上最有影响力的人物”之一。他获得过许多奖项，其中包括荷兰的阿里恩斯-卡珀斯（Ariens-Kappers）奖章、澳大利亚国立大学金质奖章，牛津万灵学院（All Souls College, Oxford）董事，并受到许多媒体的专访。他和他的家人居住在加利福尼亚州的德尔马（Del Mar）。 布莱克斯利（Sandra Blakeslee）是《纽约时报》的获奖科学作家。她和沃勒斯坦（Judith Wallerstein）博士合著的《第二次机会（Secon...(展开全部)

拉马钱德兰博士是美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校脑和认知研究中心教授兼主任，也是拉霍亚（La Jolla）索尔克生物学研究所副教授。他被《新闻周刊》（Newsweek）提名为21世纪中最值得关注的100名重要人物之一，2011年《时代（Time）》杂志在其“时代100精英（Time 100）”中把他列为“世界上最有影响力的人物”之一。他获得过许多奖项，其中包括荷兰的阿里恩斯-卡珀斯（Ariens-Kappers）奖章、澳大利亚国立大学金质奖章，牛津万灵学院（All Souls College, Oxford）董事，并受到许多媒体的专访。他和他的家人居住在加利福尼亚州的德尔马（Del Mar）。 布莱克斯利（Sandra Blakeslee）是《纽约时报》的获奖科学作家。她和沃勒斯坦（Judith Wallerstein）博士合著的《第二次机会（Secon...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)