除去市场策略和造型方法论不说，设计过程通常让人惊喜不已，每一个设计的发展都是独一无二的，每一个设计都充满了挑战。这本书分别介绍了21个产品的完成经历：既有源于突发奇想创作的座椅，也有中规中矩的工业产品，比如剃须刀，旅行包和咖啡机。著名的设计师如Roland Ullmann（博朗公司），Michael Schmidt（Code 2 Design）和Peter Naumann（慕尼黑大学）亲自展示，如何一步步从草图到模型的设计过程。 另外，书中还收集了当代新锐设计师们的作品，其中包括：Bouroullec－Brüder, Max Lamb, Jerszy Seymour,Hella Jongerius he Patricia Urquiola. Dieter Rams 在采访中也简单介绍了博朗公司的涉及过程。而Konstantin Grcic 则在与Ge...(展开全部)

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become tr...(展开全部)

This ambitious study sets out to discover what marriage meant in the daily lives of the nobles of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries. Through entertaining anecdotes, family dramas, and striking quotations, Duby succeeds in bringing his subjects to life, making us feel as if we understand the motives and conflicts of those who inhabited the distant past. "Duby has writte...(展开全部)

The year 1988 commenmorated the fourth generation since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 defined Japan's position-political, economic, and cultural-in the modern world. This period of history, which witnessed the rise, defeat, and rebirth of contemporary Japan, has been widely written about. Nevertheless, there remains, in the realm of architecture, an intractable gap in our knowl...(展开全部)

At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly difficult for us to understand these forces, for we cannot see what surrounds us so closely. This book analyzes our condition by looking at the work of two great thinkers, one of wh...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯(Wilkie Collins)，于1824年1月8日生于伦敦，1889年9月23日死在伦敦。父亲是个风景画家。他12岁时随父母迁居意大利，三年后回国，就读于海伯里私立寄宿学校，曾在茶叶公司工作，后改学法律，在伦敦林肯法学协会当过律师。1847年，父亲死后，他才开始以写作为生。第一部作品是《威廉·柯林斯》传，不久就从事小说创作。一开始成绩平平，后来他结识了当代文豪狄更斯，成为莫逆之交，并为狄更斯主编的，当时最风行的杂志经常撰稿。他的长篇小说往往在这本杂志上先发表，然后出单行本。这期间他写了不少小说，大都以侦破犯罪事件为题材，柯林斯即以此种小说蜚声社会，享誉30余年，但他作品虽多，而得以流传后世并得到肯定的仅有《月亮宝石》和成名作《白衣女人》两部。

崔西•雪佛兰，1962年出生于美国首府华盛顿，1984年迁居英国。1994年她获得英国东安哥拉大学创意写作硕士学位。崔西的作品一贯以旧时代女性试图突破环境限制、改变自身命运为主题，细腻敏锐，深刻动人。她的处女作《少女的蓝色忧郁》即为她赢得了史密斯文学奖的年度最佳新人奖，而《戴珍珠耳环的少女》与《天使不想睡》更是她备受赞誉的代表作，其中《戴珍珠耳环的少女》全球热卖500万册，并被改编拍成既叫好又叫座的电影。崔西目前与丈夫及儿子定居于伦敦。 她的个人主页：www.tchevalier.com。

The Lady and the Unicorn is the name of a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chÂteau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste’s wife, Genevieve, and his daughter, Claude, both of whom...(展开全部)