费慰梅(Wilma Fairbank，1909—2002)研究中国古代艺术与建筑的美国学者，出身哈佛世家，是美国著名汉学家费正清(John King Fairbank)的夫人；抗日战争期间，曾在重庆任美国驻华使馆文化参赞。 费正清夫妇与五四时期的知识精英交往甚密。他们来到中国后大约约两个月，便遇到了梁思成和林徽因，一见如故。费正清夫妇的中文名字，即由梁思成所取。这两对夫妇亦成为终身好友。 同为艰难乱世的亲历者，兼具亲密挚友的特殊身份，费慰梅也许是最有资格讲述林徽因与梁思成传奇故事的人。

Wilma and her husband, John King Fairbank, Harvard University's eminent historian of modern China, were lifelong friends of Liang and Lin. Foreword by Jonathan Spence

费慰梅(Wilma Fairbank，1909—2002)研究中国古代艺术与建筑的美国学者，出身哈佛世家，是美国著名汉学家费正清(John King Fairbank)的夫人；抗日战争期间，曾在重庆任美国驻华使馆文化参赞。 费正清夫妇与五四时期的知识精英交往甚密。他们来到中国后大约约两个月，便遇到了梁思成和林徽因，一见如故。费正清夫妇的中文名字，即由梁思成所取。这两对夫妇亦成为终身好友。 同为艰难乱世的亲历者，兼具亲密挚友的特殊身份，费慰梅也许是最有资格讲述林徽因与梁思成传奇故事的人。

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their built environments and design more livable and sustainable buildings and cities in the future, we need new cross-disciplinary approaches combining anthropology and architecture. This is neither anthropology of architecture, nor ethn...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant reco...(展开全部)

Agatha Christie's complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant reco...(展开全部)

Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether fr...(展开全部)

Best known as the firm chosen to work on the World Trade Center Memorial, the landscape architecture projects of Peter Walker and Partners vary both in scale and program: urban design and planning, corporate headquarters and university campuses, parks, plazas, museums, and gardens. Exploring the relationships of art, culture, and context, Walker and the members of the firm re-f...(展开全部)

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter...(展开全部)