When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and was punishable by death. This was her crime. Her brother-in-law was given the task of arranging her punishment. One morning while Souad was washing the family's clothes, he crept up on her, poured petrol over her and set her a...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·李布斯金（Daniel Libesdind），犹太裔波兰人，1946年生于波兰中部的罗兹，父母是大屠杀的幸存者。1957年举家迁往以色列，1959年定居美国纽约。从小音乐造诣颇高，擅长演奏手风琴。后来立志成为建筑师。建筑作品遍布世界各地，有柏林犹太博物馆、奥斯纳布吕克的努斯鲍姆美术馆、曼彻斯特帝国战争博物馆、丹佛美术馆、多伦多皇家博物馆；进行中的博物馆兴建方案有旧金山当代犹太博物馆等；在瑞士、意大利、德国、英国都有文化及商业设计项目。1990年创立李布斯金工作室（Studio Daniel Libeskind），并担任首席设计师。2003年2月获选为纽约世界贸易中心重建项目的总体规划建筑师。

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

• Dispells many myths about Blitzkrieg Uses the experiences of the ordinary soldiers based on Unpublished sources The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the secret to German success quickly, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to them. The false conclusions dra...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)

A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart and messily, hilariously try to reasse...(展开全部)

A fascinating, unprecedented first-hand look at the soldiers on the front lines on the Global War on Terror. Plunging deep into midst of some of the hottest conflicts on the globe, Robert D. Kaplan takes us through mud and jungle, desert and dirt to the men and women on the ground who are leading the charge against threats to American security. These soldiers, fighting in thi...(展开全部)