Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)

Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji―the world's largest marketplace for seafood―is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as ...(展开全部)

Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji—the world's largest marketplace for seafood—is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists. Early every morning, the worlds of hi-tech and pre-tech trade noisily converge as ...(展开全部)

In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate. Children sicken and die. As tensions rise, rumours spread of witches and heretics and ...(展开全部)

More than one hundred years ago, the American philosopher William James dubbed the knowledge that we must die “the worm at the core” of the human condition. In 1974, cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Denial of Death, arguing that the terror of death has a pervasive effect on human affairs. Now authors Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, ...(展开全部)

谢尔登·所罗门（Sheldon Solomon） 杰夫·格林伯格（Jeff Greenberg） 汤姆·匹茨辛斯基（Tom Pyszczynski） 3位社会心理学家，分别在斯基德莫尔学院、亚利桑那大学、科罗拉多大学担任心理学教授。 他们在研究和写作上的合作已经延续30多年了。他们在对死亡的恐惧这一主题上的研究不但获过奖，还受到了美国自然科学基金的支持。在这一研究中，他们将存在主义思想融入现代心理科学当中，使用最尖端的科学研究方法来探索这一长期以来被认为超越了科学研究范畴的领域。不同角度的整合带来了一些新的思考方式，思考关于文化、自尊和引发人们做出他们最高贵和最卑鄙行为的那些因素。

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)

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)