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)

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)

Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood

Phaidon’s classic illustrated monograph on Van Gogh, updated with an elegantly crafted design for today’s burgeoning art aficionados. Reviving a much beloved group of artist monographs from the Phaidon archive, the new Phaidon Classics bring to life the fine craftsmanship and design of Phaidon books of the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Updated with a contemporary "classic" design, full c...(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。

段义孚，是享誉世界的美国华裔人文主义地理学大师，在地理学理论、园林建筑、文学、宗教等研究领域都作出过举世瞩目的贡献。他关注人的问题，注重人性、人情，其思想见解发人深省，因而被公认为“拥有超然灵魂之正义之声”。他著作颇丰，代表作品有：《恋地情结：对环境感知、态度和价值观的研究》(Topophilia：A Studh of Environmental Perception，Attitudes ,and Values)、《经验透视中的空间与地方》(Spoce and Plac:The Perspective ofExPerience)、《撕裂的世界与自我：群体生活和个体意识》(Segmented Worlds and self:Group Life andIndividual COILSciousness)、《逃避主义》(Escapism)等等。 ...(展开全部)