阿道夫·路斯是西方现代主义的先锋人物，他比同时代的任何人都更加清醒地揭示了现代社会的建筑困境，并提出了创造性的应对策略，柯布西耶称赞路斯“就像荷马一般用其思想和实践创造了现代建筑的史诗”。《言入空谷(路斯1897-1900年文集)》是路斯生前出版的仅有的两本文集之一，收录了路斯为1898年维也纳博览会所写文章和同时期其他的一些评论。其中最著名的文章有“饰面原则”和“一个可怜富人的故事”。路斯的文章观点尖锐激烈、充满文采，抓住了那个时代转瞬即逝的某些本质特征，一些学者甚至认为他是那个时代最伟大的作家之一。

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers ...(展开全部)

Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry gathers the five final volumes of his life's work in a bilingual edition, translated and ...(展开全部)

Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and a blizzard raged as Yates tried to lower his friend to safety. Finally, Yates was forced to cut the rope, moments before he woul...(展开全部)

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confro...(展开全部)

This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both the history of philosophy and contemporary European thought. The essays that follow articulate a series of theoretical confro...(展开全部)

Since the 1950s, the renowned pianist Alfred Brendel has been one of the most prolific recording artists. In this definitive collection of his writings-some of them never before published in English-he brings the clarity and originality of expression that characterize his performances to the printed page. Whether discussing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt, Schoenberg, ...(展开全部)