埃德蒙·N·培根生于美国费城，就读于康乃尔大学及匡溪艺术学院，攻读建筑学专业，师从E·沙里宁。1938年，在密歇根州弗林特城担任城市规划师。两年后，增根先生就任费城住宅建设协会总经理。此后他又于1949年担任费城规划委员会行政负责人，直至1970年退休。在他的领导下，费城以从事一个持续的修复改建计划而举世闻名。1971年，美国规划师协会对培根先生在费城规划委员会所作出的革新与成就，授予其“杰出服务奖”。

Theory of Literature(1985) 中文名：韦勒克、沃伦《文学理论》英文版 Author: Rene Wellek and Austin Warren Publisher: Peregrine Books Year: 1985 Language: English Imagecount: 390 书籍简介：这是一本有关文学的本质、功能、形式及内容的经典理论著作，作者以“文学的外部研究”和“文学的内部研究：构筑其理论体系，超越了多年以来文学理论架构的传统模式。本书是在文学研究方面最富条理、范围最广、最有针对性的尝试之一。值得注意的是，该书出版以来，即作为最经典的文学理论教材受到全球范围内专家、教授以及广大学生的欢迎。美国《星期六文学评论》的署名文章说：这部百科全书式的论著蕴涵了海量的信息，繁杂的材料被更有效地组合，行文简洁兼之针对性极...(展开全部)

Updated for the first time, the classic book on why cooperation is not only natural but also the best survival strategy The Evolution of Cooperation addresses a simple yet age-old question: If living things evolve through competition, how can cooperation ever emerge? Despite the abundant evidence of cooperation all around us, there existed no purely naturalistic answer to t...(展开全部)

Theory of Literature(1985) 中文名：韦勒克、沃伦《文学理论》英文版 Author: Rene Wellek and Austin Warren Publisher: Peregrine Books Year: 1985 Language: English Imagecount: 390 书籍简介：这是一本有关文学的本质、功能、形式及内容的经典理论著作，作者以“文学的外部研究”和“文学的内部研究：构筑其理论体系，超越了多年以来文学理论架构的传统模式。本书是在文学研究方面最富条理、范围最广、最有针对性的尝试之一。值得注意的是，该书出版以来，即作为最经典的文学理论教材受到全球范围内专家、教授以及广大学生的欢迎。美国《星期六文学评论》的署名文章说：这部百科全书式的论著蕴涵了海量的信息，繁杂的材料被更有效地组合，行文简洁兼之针对性极...(展开全部)

In this absorbing commentary on the discovery of the atom's constituents, Steven Weinberg accomplishes a brilliant fusion of history and science. This is in effect two books, cleverly interwoven. One is an account of a sequence of key events in the physics of the twentieth century, events that led to the discoveries of the electron, proton and neutron. The other is an introduct...(展开全部)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and th...(展开全部)

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Albers’s unique ideas of color experimentation in a way that is valuable to specialists as well as to a larger audience. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a lim...(展开全部)

Now revised, The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon origins some two thousand years ago to the present day, when English is the dominant language of commerce and culture wit...(展开全部)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and th...(展开全部)