Discover the world of plastic. That inexpensive, flexible, resilient, and soft-ignored material enters the limelight in this book of plastic furniture, lighting, architecture, and everyday objects. This book showcases the work of dozens of international designers who take plastic seriously. No longer just used for objects of practicality, each of the varied projects include...(展开全部)

彼得·门德尔桑德（Peter Mendelsund） 世界知名书籍装帧设计师、作家、古典钢琴演奏家。毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学文学与哲学专业，是《大西洋月刊》的创意总监，曾担任美国克诺夫出版社艺术副总监、万神殿书局艺术总监。他操刀的封面有《情人》、卡夫卡作品系列、卡尔维诺作品系列等。 《纽约时报》称他为“如今活跃着的最顶尖的设计师”。《华尔街日报》称他的作品为“当代小说封面中最具辨识度与代表性的设计”。

彼得·门德尔桑德（Peter Mendelsund） 世界知名书籍装帧设计师、作家、古典钢琴演奏家。毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学文学与哲学专业，是《大西洋月刊》的创意总监，曾担任美国克诺夫出版社艺术副总监、万神殿书局艺术总监。他操刀的封面有《情人》、卡夫卡作品系列、卡尔维诺作品系列等。 《纽约时报》称他为“如今活跃着的最顶尖的设计师”。《华尔街日报》称他的作品为“当代小说封面中最具辨识度与代表性的设计”。

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to ...(展开全部)

The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year.Paying with Plastic is the definitive source on an industry that has revolutionized the way we borrow and spend. More than a h...(展开全部)

The payment card business has evolved from its inception in the 1950s as a way to handle payment for expense-account lunches (the Diners Club card) into today's complex, sprawling industry that drives trillions of dollars in transaction volume each year.Paying with Plastic is the definitive source on an industry that has revolutionized the way we borrow and spend. More than a h...(展开全部)

Who's worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians, playwrights, feminist theorists, and men's-rights activists since its publication in 1999. More than twenty years after its publication the international reverberation of Young-Girls shows ...(展开全部)

一本很好的手工书制作介绍，图文（英文）介绍一些简单的装帧方式，实用性强，对于爱好手工书或者设计的人来说是一本不错的参考书。

In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authoriti...(展开全部)