It has been said that modernist legend Mies van der Rohe's thirty years spent working in America reflected his mostconsistent and mature efforts toward achieving his goal of a new architecture for the twentieth century. Focusing on this American period, Conversations with Mies van der Rohe, the latest addition to our Conversations series, gives fresh credence to this claim by p...(展开全部)

This in-depth look at Mies van der Rohe's early career is the first to examine the architect's work in Europe in terms of specific historical and cultural context, rather than the more abstract and formal arguments of the International Style. While earlier studies have described a fundamental break between Mies's neo-classical work prior to 1919 and the more avant-garde work of...(展开全部)

A document of Mies van der Rohe's philosophy of architecture, his way of working and his rigorous teaching methodology. The text examines, through statistics, photographs and detailed drawings, the most illustrious buildings of the architect's career. Author Peter Carter, who studied and later worked with Mies for 13 years, began the book while an associate with Mies van der Ro...(展开全部)

Franz Schulze's acclaimed biography is a captivating story of the life, designs, and ideas that made Mies van der Rohe one of the world's most celebrated modern architects. "The most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best....This is a genuinely readable book....Because no writer has ever before probed into Mies's life at such de...(展开全部)

Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and ...(展开全部)

From one of the Observer's Rising Stars of 2017, a high-risk, highbrow and intimate novel – and one of the most anticipated works of fiction this year. Features Frances, Bobbi, Nick and Melissa, four characters who ask each other endless questions. As their relationships unfold, in person and online, they discuss sex and friendship, art and literature, politics and gender, and,...(展开全部)

A memoir by the former vice president of Yugoslavia describing three visits to Moscow and his encounters there with Stalin. Index. Translated by Michael B. Petrovich.

密洛凡·德热拉斯（一译吉拉斯）（1912-）南斯拉夫著名政治活动家，早年追随铁托革命，密切共事，一起领导南斯拉夫人民的反法西斯武装斗争。他曾担任过南联盟副总统、南共政治局委员、中央书记等重要职务，是南共主要领导人之一。1953年以后，吉拉斯主张在南斯拉夫实行多党派竞争的民主制，成为党内异见人士，与铁托决裂；因为他坚持不可妥协的“人类个人精神的自由，批评南斯拉夫党内的斯大林思想，被撤销所有职务，于1956年11月被捕，判刑三年。吉拉斯身陷囹圄期间，他在入狱前写的《新阶级》一书从南斯拉夫神秘地偷带到西方出版，“罪加一等”，延长了十年刑期。1961年1月，南当局提前释放了吉拉斯。 作为党内反对派和著名政论家，吉拉斯以言获罪，亦因此而名世。《新阶级》在西方出版后，半年之内就再版了十次；中译本也在1963年由世界知识出版社出版，内部发行。1981年5月，中共中...(展开全部)

Gustav Janouch met Franz Kafka, the celebrated author of The Metamorphosis, as a seventeen-year-old fledgling poet. As Francine Prose notes in her wonderful preface, “they fell into the habit of taking long strolls through the city, strolls on which Kafka seems to have said many amazing, incisive, literary, and per- things to his companion and interlocutor, the teenage Boswell ...(展开全部)

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, Frances and Bobbi catch the eye of Melissa, a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into Melissa's ...(展开全部)