Berlin: City of Stones presents the first part of Jason Lutes' captivating trilogy, set in the twilight years of Germany's Weimar Republic. Kurt Severing, a journalist, and Marthe Muller, an art student, are the central figures in a broad cast of characters intertwined with the historical events unfolding around them. City of Stones covers eight months in Berlin, from September...(展开全部)

The second installment of the epic historical trilogy The second volume of Jason Lutes's historical epic finds the people of Weimar Berlin searching for answers after the lethal May Day demonstration of 1929. Tension builds along with the dividing wall between communists and nationalists, Jews and Gentiles, as the dawn of the Second World War draws closer. Meanwhile, the nightl...(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。

Ruskin surveys the great buildings of Venice, applying the principles enunciated in his "The Seven Lamps of Architecture" in a three-volume treatment. Volume I, "The Foundations, " presents a short history of the city and discusses architecture's functional and ornamental aspects. There is no better guide to the spiritual and aesthetic pleasures of architecture. Hardcover editi...(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。

John Ruskin, Victorian England's greatest writer on art and literature, believed himself an adopted son of Venice, and his feelings for this city are exquisitely expressed in The Stones of Venice . This edition contains Ruskin's famous essay "The Nature of Gothic," a marvelously descriptive tour of Venice before its postwar restoration. As Ruskin wrote in 1851, "Thank God I am...(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)

作者簡介： 彼得．施奈德（Peter Schneider） 彼得．施耐德於一九四〇年出生於北德的呂北克市（Lübeck），一九六〇年代初期因為轉學到西柏林的自由大學主修日耳曼學、副修歷史學與哲學而從此定居於柏林。施耐德是德國戰後著名的左派作家，他於一九七三年發表的小說《連茨》（Lenz）是當時左派圈子人手一本的熱門作品。除了小說之外，這位多產的作家還撰寫劇本、散文與評論，其中以一些談論分裂和統一後的柏林的著作最受矚目。他還通曉英文與義大利文等多種外文，曾為德國《明鏡週刊》、美國《紐約時報》、法國《世界報》（Le Monde）及義大利《共和報》（La Repubblica）撰寫文章，並曾受邀到美國史丹佛大學、普林斯頓大學和哈佛大學等校擔任訪問學者。 譯者簡介： 莊仲黎 德國漢堡大學民族學碩士、博士候選人。曾任《講義》雜誌德文編譯，譯有《怎麼有人研究這個...(展开全部)

For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city boasting the most accomplished astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, musician...(展开全部)

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions...(展开全部)