Austin Powers mercilessly parodied the look， but the films enormous success proved the enduring influence of mid-60s London fashion. In April 1966， Time famously touted London as the new world center of style. Forty years later， this book reconsiders the roles played by designers like Mary Quant， celebrities like Twiggy， boutiques like Biba， photographers like David Bailey， ma...(展开全部)

Austin Powers mercilessly parodied the look， but the films enormous success proved the enduring influence of mid-60s London fashion. In April 1966， Time famously touted London as the new world center of style. Forty years later， this book reconsiders the roles played by designers like Mary Quant， celebrities like Twiggy， boutiques like Biba， photographers like David Bailey， ma...(展开全部)

Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain. Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of subur...(展开全部)

The majority of the world's population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs. City Suburbs considers contemporary Anglo-American suburbia, drawing on research in outer London it looks at life on the edge of a world city from the perspective of residents. Interpreted through Bourdieu's theory of practice it argues that the contemporary suburban li...(展开全部)

駐車場や住宅地、団地の中庭といったどこにでもある東京郊外の風景と、そこで今育っている子供たちを撮った64枚の写真。特別でも何でもない郊外の都市環境を、ひとつのフレームに収めた写真集。

The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and low-income groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that...(展开全部)

罗伯特·M·福格尔森（Robert M. Fogelson），美国麻省理工学院历史学与城市研究教授。他撰有多部城市史和城市事务的著作，其中《下城》（Downtown）一书荣获2001年刘易斯·芒福德（Lewis Mumford）奖（美国城市和区域规划史最佳图书）与2002年城市史协会奖（北美城市史最佳图书）。

《伦敦浪了起来》内容简介：伦敦，雾都？绅士派头？文化保守？——那是过去的伦敦印象了。《伦敦浪了起来》作者将告诉你一个生活时尚、文化前卫、绿树环绕的伦敦。同时，在作者近距离看伦敦的目光中，那些在中英文化交流中有过作为的英、中人士将…复活、栩栩如生。

As eager-beaver business school students, Rolfe and Troob garnered job offers as junior associates at the elite Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, lured by dreams of wealth, glamour and power. Readers whose fascination with Wall Street shenanigans has been fueled by Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker will find this thorough rundown of an investment bank associa...(展开全部)

John Rolfe grew up in the heart of Dixie. After stints at Virginia Tech and the University of Florida, he took a job doing broadcast research in New York City, convinced that "if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere." In 1993, after concluding that Frank Sinatra had sold him a bill of goods, John entered the Wharton School of Business, where he edited The Wharton Vulgari...(展开全部)