This is Volume Three of the "Border Trilogy". In "Cities of the Plain", two men marked by the boyhood adventures of "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Crossing" now stand together, between their vivid pasts and uncertain futures, to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached up...(展开全部)

In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier.   The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juare...(展开全部)

How do cities use culture today? Building on the experience of New York as a "culture capital" Sharon Zukin shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization. She rejects the idea that cities have either a singular urban culture or many different subcultures to argue that cultures are ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 In 2003,Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island wherehe grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of explorationin the Americas, islittered with remnants of old settlements.The roadhe found that day was unique.Consistently wide and formerlybordered with stone walls, the road had been a major undertaking. For the next two years, he survey...(展开全部)

迈克尔·巴蒂（Michael Batty），伦敦大学学院高级空间分析中心Bartlett讲座教授。著有《The New Science of Cities》一书。

在线阅读本书 In 2003,Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island wherehe grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of explorationin the Americas, islittered with remnants of old settlements.The roadhe found that day was unique.Consistently wide and formerlybordered with stone walls, the road had been a major undertaking. For the next two years, he survey...(展开全部)

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in "The Place of Dead Roads" and "The Western Lands", William B...(展开全部)