Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with ...(展开全部)

Spiro Kostof, the renowned architectural historian and chronicler of urban form, presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. This is both an independent study and a companion volume to Professor Kostof's book "The City Shaped" which dealt with cities as complete entities. Now he follow...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Re...(展开全部)

During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 1...(展开全部)

列夫·托洛茨基，工农红军、第四国际的主要缔造者，苏维埃俄国重要领导人。十月革命时，任俄国社会民主工党（布尔什维克）中央政治局委员、彼得格勒苏维埃主席。1927年1月共产国际执行委员会决定，撤销他的执行委员职务，同年11月被开除出党。1929年1月被驱逐出苏联。1938年组建第四国际，1940年8月在墨西哥遭暗杀。 丁笃本，毕业于北京大学历史系世界史专业，先后任湖南师范大学历史系讲师、副教授、教授，博士生导师，历史系主任，研究生院院长。2002年调入韶关学院任院长。专业方向为俄苏史、中亚史。精通俄文和英文，曾于1992年至1993年在俄罗斯做访问学者。主要著作有《红旗落地——苏联社会主义70年真相》、《苏联政体与官制史》、《世界之发现》、《中亚通史》（现代卷），翻译有《健康与权力 ："克里姆林宫医生"回忆录》。

拉博·德·圣艾蒂安（Rabaut de Saint Etienne，1743~1793），法国温和派革命者、第十届国民议会主席，因在国民议会中担任立法者和演说者而声名鹊起，曾参与有关《人权宣言》的辩论，著有《希腊的原始社会》等，在制宪会议期间致力于制定宪法，反对建立共和国。 顾伟，曲阜师范大学翻译学院讲师，苏州大学翻译学在读博士。发表论文六篇，出版译著两部，主持市厅级课题三项，参与国家级、省部级课题各一项。

If a country wants to remain economically vibrant, it needs to manufacture things. In recent years, however, many nations have become obsessed with making money out of selling services, leaving the real business of manufacturing to others. Makers is about how all that is being reversed. Over the past ten years, the internet has democratised publishing, broadcasting and communic...(展开全部)

Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million garage tinkerers and enthusiasts is abou...(展开全部)

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH, FBA, (born June 9, 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author. 艾瑞克·约翰·欧内斯特·霍布斯邦（Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm，1917年6月9日－）英国历史学家及作家。 霍布斯邦于1917年出生于埃及亚力山卓，并成长于维也纳和柏林 他的父母Leopold Percy Hobsbaum和Nelly Grün皆为犹太人。一个行政上的疏失使他的姓从Hobsbaum变成Hobsbawm，and the name stuck.虽然他的家庭居住于德语系国家，但他的双亲对霍布斯邦及他的妹妹萳西使用的是英语。 他的父亲于1929年逝世后，他开始担任互惠生（au pair）和英文家教。在他十四岁时随着她母亲的去世，...(展开全部)