Sigurd Lewerentz（1885-1975）是欧洲现代建筑领域最受人尊敬、同时也是最神秘的大师之一。他是瑞典最杰出的现代主义者，尽管建成作品不算多，但国际影响力却在去世多年后依然不减。无数建筑爱好者们从全球各地前来参观他设计的建筑。他对景观设计最重要的贡献：斯德哥尔摩的林地公墓被收入联合国教科文组织的世界遗产名录。 这本内容翔实、装帧精美的权威专著基于瑞典国家建筑与设计中心深入研究——该馆保存了Sigurd Lewerentz的档案与他的个人图书馆——以及瑞典各地的原始资料和新公开的档案，包括大量从未披露过的建筑、家具和室内设计的图纸和模型照片，建筑师和建筑摄影师Johan Dehlin贡献了一套Lewerentz的代表作的全新摄影作品。本书还收录了由Lewerentz档案负责人，Johan Örn撰写的文章，以当代视角探讨了Leweren...(展开全部)

Sweden has produced two architects of international stature in the 20th century, Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. Together, Asplund and Lewerentz collaborated on the development of the Woodland Cemetery. Their buildings were profoundly personal; and while their output was not large, it covered a wide range of design, from furniture to landscape. Asplund gained immediate fam...(展开全部)

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885 - 1975) was one of the major Swedish architects of the twentieth century and was particularly known for his important religious works. This definitive monograph is the only comprehensive survey of his work, celebrating his sensitive and distinctive response to modernism in a detailed survey of both built and planned projects. These span his embrace and re...(展开全部)

It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to pro...(展开全部)

In the grand tradition of Paul Kennedy s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers comes this provocative history of world democracy, which begins with the ancient Myceans and ends in our fractious present. Overturning long-cherished notions, John Keane poses challenging questions: Did democracy actually begin in ancient Greece or earlier in Mesopotamia? Do the American and British...(展开全部)

The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: how did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling...(展开全部)

Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at th...(展开全部)

查尔斯·科尔（Charles A.Corr）博士自1975年开始便在南伊利诺伊大学教授死亡与临终、儿童与死亡等课程。1978年。他成为死亡教育与咨询协会成员，及美国国家临终关怀及姑息治疗组织成员。科尔博士还是死亡、临终和悲痛事务国际工作组前主席和常任理事。 目前，他还是佛罗里达阳光海岸安养协会的董事会成员。这个协会是美国国家安养与照护组织中儿童安养照护服务的首席咨询机构，同时还是国家捐献者家庭理事会执行委员会成员。他的著作包括36本书和手册，例如《帮助儿童应对死亡：指导和资料》、《儿童与死亡》、《青少年与死亡》、《青少年的死亡与悲痛手册》等。 科尔博士的工作得到了死亡教育与咨询协会的认可，并被授予杰出个人贡献奖（1988）；国际儿童安养组织授予他世界儿童安养工作杰出贡献奖（1989）；之后他还获得了创立查尔斯·科尔基金的终身成就奖（1995）等等。 ...(展开全部)