Extrastatecraft controls everyday life in the city: it’s the key to power – and resistance – in the twenty-first century. Infrastructure is not only the underground pipes and cables controlling our cities. It also determines the hidden rules that structure the spaces all around us – free trade zones, smart cities, suburbs, and shopping malls. Extrastatecraft charts the emergent...(展开全部)

Keller Easterling is an award-winning writer, architect and Professor at Yale. She is the author of Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space; Enduring Innocence, which was named Archinect’s Best Book of 2005; and Organization Space. She is also the author of two essay length books: The Action is the Form and Subtraction. Her writing and design work was included in the...(展开全部)

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people...(展开全部)

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people...(展开全部)

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). An explosive novel of the drug trade, The Power of the Dog , takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father ...(展开全部)

nfrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social change converge and cross-fertilize one another through infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and ...(展开全部)

作者：艾萨克·阿西莫夫（1920-1992） 俄裔美籍作家，被全世界的读者誉为“神一样的人”；美国政府授予他“国家的资源与自然的奇迹”这个独一无二的称号，以表彰他在“拓展人类想象力”上做出的杰出贡献。 阿西莫夫是一个全知全能的作家，其著作几乎覆盖人类生活的一切方面，上天下海、古往今来、 从恐龙到亚原子到全宇宙无所不包，从通俗小说到罗马帝国史，从科普读物到远东千年历史，从圣经指南，到科学指南，到两性生活指南，每一部著作都朴实、严谨而又充满幽默风趣的格调，为了尽情发挥自己诙谐搞笑的天赋，他甚至还写过一本《笑话集》。 到了晚年，他开始变得“好色”，出版了一系列两性话题的“黄书”。 他提出的“机器人学三定律”是当代机器人研究的基本法则，他预言了今天的生物科技，预言了互联网时代的数字图书馆，预言了人类将进行太空殖民。 终其一生，阿西莫夫最引以为豪的则是：《银河...(展开全部)

High above the planet Florinia, the Squires of Sark live in unimaginable wealth and comfort. Down in the eternal spring of the planet, however, the native Florinians labor ceaselessly to produce the precious kyrt that brings prosperity to their Sarkite masters. Rebellion is unthinkable and impossible. Not only do the Florinians no longer have a concept of freedom, any disruptio...(展开全部)