Colonial powers in China and northern Indochina employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of colonial power, a tool in the mission to civilize, a recreation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work for the colonizers and the colonized. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture...(展开全部)

Colonial powers in China and northern Indochina employed the built environment for many purposes: as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of colonial power, a tool in the mission to civilize, a recreation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work for the colonizers and the colonized. In this volume, scholars of city planning, architecture...(展开全部)

Leading companies create captivating products that energize the marketplace and set the standard for what customers want and expect. This isn’t something you can add on after the fact. Your products and services must be built to love from the very start. This book tells you why and shows you how.

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to the human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams...(展开全部)

According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary, the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research, is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The authors centr...(展开全部)

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three catego...(展开全部)

The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam tells the darkly humorous story of the French colonial state's failed efforts to impose its vision of modernity upon the colonial city of Hanoi, Vietnam. Part of the Graphic Histories series, this book offers a case study in the history of imperialism, highlighting the racialized economic inequa...(展开全部)

中文书名：《在发展中的亚洲如何变得富有》 英文书名：How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 作 者：Mohsin Hamid 代理公司：WME/ANA 出版时间：2013年3月 代理地区：中国大陆、台湾 类 型：文学 本作者的上一本书《拉合尔茶馆的陌生人》（The Reluctant Fundamentalist）入围布克奖，并已授出中文简体版版权。 出自《拉合尔茶馆的陌生人》的国际畅销书作家之手，讲述了一个穷小子追求财富和爱情的大胆构想的故事。 莫欣·哈米德（Mohsin Hamid）最开始的两部小说中体现出他与时俱进的写作手法，将他定位为一位过于创新的小说家。《在发展中的亚洲如何变得富有》不仅达到了应有的声望，而且更胜一筹。这个震慑人心又极具吸引力的故事是关于一个男人从贫困的乡村小子成为企业大亨的心...(展开全部)