Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users and design professionals and has studied a wide array of street types and urban spaces around the world. With more than 200 illustrations, all prepared by the author, along with analysis and statistics,...(展开全部)

阿兰·B·雅各布斯，是美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校城市与区域规划系的教授。

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local str...(展开全部)

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local str...(展开全部)

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that...(展开全部)

In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—a scandal that implicated dozens of major executives on Wall Street. They called it foreclosure fraud: millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that...(展开全部)

切斯瓦夫・米沃什（Czesław Miłosz，1911―2004），波兰诗人、作家、翻译家，1911年出生于波兰第一共和国的立陶宛。1978年获诺斯达特国际文学奖，1980年获诺贝尔文学奖，被誉为“我们时代最伟大的诗人之一”。著作宏富，主要作品有诗集《冬日钟声》《在河岸边》《三个冬天》《白昼之光》《日出日落之处》《无法抵达的土地》，自传体小说《伊萨谷》，回忆录《故土》《米沃什词典》，日记《猎人的一年》，政论《被禁锢的头脑》，文集《站在人这边》《在时间荒原上》，诗论《诗的见证》等。 . 译者简介： 晓风，都柏林圣三一学院英文系硕士，自由译者。译有《作家们》《卡特制造：安吉拉·卡特传》等。

塔里克·阿里，作家兼制片人。1968年席卷全球五大洲的抗议和反叛运动的领袖人物之一。写有四部小说和十多部有关世界历史和政治的著作。曾经是《新左派评论》的编辑，是《新侏儒》刊物的创办者之一。现居伦敦。 苏珊·沃特金斯，自由撰稿人。著有《女性主义入门：妇女的权力》、《截止目前的情况》和历史小说《马克思的恋爱》。现居伦敦。

塔里克·阿里，作家兼制片人。1968年席卷全球五大洲的抗议和反叛运动的领袖人物之一。写有四部小说和十多部有关世界历史和政治的著作。曾经是《新左派评论》的编辑，是《新侏儒》刊物的创办者之一。现居伦敦。 苏珊·沃特金斯，自由撰稿人。著有《女性主义入门：妇女的权力》、《截止目前的情况》和历史小说《马克思的恋爱》。现居伦敦。

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers a fresh and fervent appreciation of a great film. The Great Movies c...(展开全部)