Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul ...(展开全部)

Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul ...(展开全部)

Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the...(展开全部)

This book is the perfect companion for the watercolour landscape painter. Richard Taylor looks at each element of the landscape in turn. He moves from small details, such as a quick painting of his backpack, drawn in a break from walking, to wide sweeping panoramas. Detailed annotation points out key areas of interest for each painting showing, for example, how a wash has been ...(展开全部)

Buddhist origins and discussion of the Buddha's teachings are amongst the most controversial and contested areas in the field. This bold and authoritative book tackles head-on some of the key questions regarding early Buddhism and its primary canon of precepts. Noting that the earliest texts in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese belong to different Buddhist schools, Roderick S. Bucknel...(展开全部)

Buddhist origins and discussion of the Buddha's teachings are amongst the most controversial and contested areas in the field. This bold and authoritative book tackles head-on some of the key questions regarding early Buddhism and its primary canon of precepts. Noting that the earliest texts in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese belong to different Buddhist schools, Roderick S. Bucknel...(展开全部)

To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan's influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history. In this groundbreaking work-now with a new preface by the author-Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discov...(展开全部)

玛克辛·格林（MaxineGreene，1917.12.23—2014.5.29），美国当代*伟大的教育思想家之一，社会活动家，世界教育哲学界的代表人物，1965年起任职美国哥伦比亚大学教师学院教授。玛克辛·格林是美国教育研究协会的**一位女性主席，也曾担任美国教育研究联合会和教育哲学协会主席。她在1976—2012年担任美国林肯艺术中心长驻哲学家。