TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.

TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.

Unknown Fields is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions into the shadows cast by the contemporary city, to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technology and culture set in motion. Tales from the Dark Side of the City is a book series that forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the entire plane...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

十九世纪美国文学大家华盛顿·欧文(1783－1859)主要以游记随笔和传记作品获得盛名，被誉为美国文学的奠基者。他生前游历了英国、西班牙、法国、瑞士、意大利等很多欧洲国家，并通过勤奋的写作，生动再现了十九世纪欧洲的风物人情。 阿尔罕伯拉是伊斯兰摩尔人在西班牙的最后王国格拉纳达的辉煌宫殿建筑，也是摩尔人留给欧洲的、让欧洲基督教世界景仰有加的历史文明古迹。1832年作者根据在阿尔罕伯拉的亲身游历，撰写并出版了这部《阿尔罕伯拉》。在此书中，作者既生动描写了具有传奇色彩的故宫方方面面的景观，也以优美的笔调描绘了深受摩尔人影响的西班牙人民和他们的风俗人情，同时生动叙述了西班牙民间流传和历史上发生过的摩尔人的神话与传说故事。这部作品，既有游记随笔，又有传奇故事，开创了风格独特的游记文学文体。 像使作者获得国际声誉的第一部作品《英伦见闻录》一样，《阿尔罕伯拉》也是...(展开全部)

十九世纪美国文学大家华盛顿·欧文(1783－1859)主要以游记随笔和传记作品获得盛名，被誉为美国文学的奠基者。他生前游历了英国、西班牙、法国、瑞士、意大利等很多欧洲国家，并通过勤奋的写作，生动再现了十九世纪欧洲的风物人情。 阿尔罕伯拉是伊斯兰摩尔人在西班牙的最后王国格拉纳达的辉煌宫殿建筑，也是摩尔人留给欧洲的、让欧洲基督教世界景仰有加的历史文明古迹。1832年作者根据在阿尔罕伯拉的亲身游历，撰写并出版了这部《阿尔罕伯拉》。在此书中，作者既生动描写了具有传奇色彩的故宫方方面面的景观，也以优美的笔调描绘了深受摩尔人影响的西班牙人民和他们的风俗人情，同时生动叙述了西班牙民间流传和历史上发生过的摩尔人的神话与传说故事。这部作品，既有游记随笔，又有传奇故事，开创了风格独特的游记文学文体。 像使作者获得国际声誉的第一部作品《英伦见闻录》一样，《阿尔罕伯拉》也是...(展开全部)

The 'City of God' or the 'City of Man'? This is the choice St. Augustine offered 1500 years ago - and according to Pierre Manent the modern West has decisively and irreversibly chosen the latter. In this subtle and wide-ranging book on the Western intellectual and political condition, Manent argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human au...(展开全部)

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