In the manifesto The City in the City - Berlin: A Green Archipelago, Oswald Mathias Ungers and a number of his colleagues from Cornell University presented the first concepts and intellectual models for the shrinking city. In contrast to the reconstruction of the European city that was popular at the time, they developed the figure of a polycentric urban landscape. However, t...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

罗里·麦克林 Rory MacLean，集英国皇家学会文学奖、加拿大评委会、英格兰评委会荣誉奖，温斯顿·丘吉尔旅行奖，并获得国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名于一身。这本《柏林：一座城市的肖像》是其定居柏林后的杰作，荣登华盛顿邮报十佳读物。至今为止他已有九本著作，其中包括 十分畅销的《斯大林的鼻子》和《巨龙之下》。他给予了非虚构类社科作品创造性的写法，不仅学识深厚，且文笔优美，令人喟叹。他的作品广受青睐，他以敏锐的洞察力，扎实的学识征服了学界与大众。除此以外，作者还为BBC写广播剧本，以及创作电影剧本。 译者 傅敬民，博士，上海大学外国语学院教授《上海翻译》执行主编。中国翻译协会理事，上海市科技翻译学会副会长，上海市外文学会常务理事。翻译出版《年轻的狮子》，《亚当·比德》等译著十四部。

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

罗里·麦克林 Rory MacLean，集英国皇家学会文学奖、加拿大评委会、英格兰评委会荣誉奖，温斯顿·丘吉尔旅行奖，并获得国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖提名于一身。这本《柏林：一座城市的肖像》是其定居柏林后的杰作，荣登华盛顿邮报十佳读物。至今为止他已有九本著作，其中包括 十分畅销的《斯大林的鼻子》和《巨龙之下》。他给予了非虚构类社科作品创造性的写法，不仅学识深厚，且文笔优美，令人喟叹。他的作品广受青睐，他以敏锐的洞察力，扎实的学识征服了学界与大众。除此以外，作者还为BBC写广播剧本，以及创作电影剧本。 译者 傅敬民，博士，上海大学外国语学院教授《上海翻译》执行主编。中国翻译协会理事，上海市科技翻译学会副会长，上海市外文学会常务理事。翻译出版《年轻的狮子》，《亚当·比德》等译著十四部。

In this magical picture book, a young boy spends an overnight visit with his nana and is frightened to find that the city where she lives is filled with noise and crowds and scary things. But then Nana makes him a special cape to help him be brave, and soon the everyday sights, sounds, and smells of the city are not scary—but wonderful. The succinct text is paired with watercol...(展开全部)

It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need. A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book of the Year It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but it helps to know you're not alone. When you're small in the city, people don't see you, and loud sounds can scare you, and kno...(展开全部)

马克斯・韦伯，德国学者，与马克思、涂尔干齐名，并列为现代社会学的奠基者。历任柏林、费莱堡及海德堡等大学教授。一生著述甚多，以《宗教社会学论文集》及《经济与社会》等最重要，以《新教伦理与资本主义精神》等最为国内读者所知晓。

Every foreign traveler in Japan is delighted by the verdant forest-shrouded mountains that thrust skyward from one end of the island chain to the other. The Japanese themselves are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they sometimes refer to as "the green archipelago." Yet, based on its fragile geography and centuries of extremely dense human occupation, Japan t...(展开全部)

Sinclair McKay's portrait of Berlin from 1919 forward explores the city's broad human history, from the end of the Great War to the Blockade, rise of the Wall, and beyond. Sinclair McKay's Berlin begins by taking readers back to 1919 when the city emerged from the shadows of the Great War to become an extraordinary by-word for modernity―in art, cinema, architecture, industry, s...(展开全部)