The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban desig ns and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commi...(展开全部)

The discipline of landscape architecture encompasses many typologies, from domestic gardens and neighborhood playgrounds to urban desig ns and state parks. Most critical studies of the discipline tend to approach it from a historical or contemporary perspective organized around criteria such as built versus unbuilt, urban versus peripheral, or competition-sponsored versus commi...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hello Room Service, this is me Eloise. We're going to Paris. France goodbye! And so, our favourite enfant terrible (sporting her foreign identification travel tag) says au revoir to the Plaza and embarks with Nanny and Weenie on a Parisian adventure, which is rawther extraordinaire. While whizzing through the streets, sights, and shops of Paris, Eloise comes to a few im...(展开全部)

Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artis...(展开全部)

From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy’s antifascist resistance and ...(展开全部)

From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy’s antifascist resistance and ...(展开全部)

Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artis...(展开全部)

This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved. Muir captures the vital essence of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and other areas, detailing their natural attractions -- the breathtaking forests, lush alpine meadows, massive granite domes, towering sequoias, bursting geysers, thundering waterfalls, and crystalline glac...(展开全部)

约翰•缪尔（John Muir，1838—1914）世界环保运动的先驱。缪尔对自然风光浓墨重彩、光芒四射的描写吸引着欧美几代爱好文学的读者，而每个出门旅行的人也会从中得到更多的共鸣。对于生活在喧闹都市的芸芸众生，可从缪尔的书中去除浮躁之气，汲取心灵的清泉。

This collection of essays celebrates those park lands of the American West that John Muir knew and loved. Muir captures the vital essence of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia, and other areas, detailing their natural attractions -- the breathtaking forests, lush alpine meadows, massive granite domes, towering sequoias, bursting geysers, thundering waterfalls, and crystalline glac...(展开全部)