Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and...(展开全部)

Shelter II is the second in a series of books about people building their own homes in different parts of the world. The principles outlined in Shelter, published almost 40 years ago, seem even more important today: relearning the still-usable skills of the past and doing more hand work in providing life's necessities. Shelter II provides a basic manual of design and const...(展开全部)

凯特•莫顿（Kate Morton） 澳大利亚作家。生于1976年，成长于昆士兰东南区的群山中。小时候的她经常躲起来读书，并相信阅读的快感犹如偷尝禁果。长大后，她专修戏剧艺术与英国文学，钟情于19世纪的悲剧文学和当代哥特小说。 2007年，她因《雾中回忆》一举成名，轰动 全球。作品版权售出39个国家和地区，并被翻译成33种语言；单在英国，出版第一周，每天售出一万册。如今，她已四度获得代表澳洲书业最高荣誉的“年度最佳图书”大奖，是澳洲最大的版权输出端，也是版税收入最高的新一代作家。2013年，她以最高票数成为“澳大利亚最受欢迎的作家”。 近年，她与她的作曲家丈夫以及三个小孩生活在布里斯班。 如想了解更多信息，可访问她的官网： http://www.katemorton.com

凯特•莫顿（Kate Morton） 澳大利亚作家。生于1976年，成长于昆士兰东南区的群山中。小时候的她经常躲起来读书，并相信阅读的快感犹如偷尝禁果。长大后，她专修戏剧艺术与英国文学，钟情于19世纪的悲剧文学和当代哥特小说。 2007年，她因《雾中回忆》一举成名，轰动 全球。作品版权售出39个国家和地区，并被翻译成33种语言；单在英国，出版第一周，每天售出一万册。如今，她已四度获得代表澳洲书业最高荣誉的“年度最佳图书”大奖，是澳洲最大的版权输出端，也是版税收入最高的新一代作家。2013年，她以最高票数成为“澳大利亚最受欢迎的作家”。 近年，她与她的作曲家丈夫以及三个小孩生活在布里斯班。 如想了解更多信息，可访问她的官网： http://www.katemorton.com

An award-winning international sensation―with a second-act dystopian twist―Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets. “At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created,” begins Time Shelter’s enigmatic narrator, who will go unnamed. “In the mid–seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher...(展开全部)

Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private concerns lead to public involvement and public participation that eventually lead back to those private conce...(展开全部)

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt button...(展开全部)

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt button...(展开全部)

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two...(展开全部)

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. China’s land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world’s longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China’s borderlands, S...(展开全部)