Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

Who, among you, deserves eternal life? Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, Daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love. A tho...(展开全部)

美国当代分析哲学家，以研究政治哲学、伦理学、认识论和心的哲学而著称。著有《利他主义的可能性》、《人的问题》、《它究竟意味着什么——一篇很短的哲学导论》、《平等与不公》、《他人的心灵：1969—1994年批评文集》以及《理性的权威》。

Since its original publication in 1979, The Possibility of Naturalism has been one of the most influential works in contemporary philosophy of science and social science. It is one of the cornerstones of the critical realist position, which is now widely seen as offering perhaps the only viable alternative to positivism and post positivism. This fourth edition contains a new fo...(展开全部)

Ever since anthropology has existed as a discipline, anthropologists have thought about architectural forms. This book provides the first overview of how anthropologists have studied architecture and the extraordinarily rich thought and data this has produced. With a focus on domestic space - that intimate context in which anthropologists traditionally work - the book explains ...(展开全部)

Can capital be seen? Cartographies of the Absolute surveys the disparate answers to this question offered by artists, film-makers, writers and theorists over the past few decades. It zones in on the crises of representation that have accompanied the enduring crisis of capitalism, foregrounding the production of new visions and artefacts that wrestle with the vastness, invisibil...(展开全部)

One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner’s landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner’s lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of th...(展开全部)

尼古拉斯•佩夫斯纳（1902—1983）是20世纪最著名的艺术和建筑史学家。1902年他生于德国，在莱比锡[Leipzig]接受教育，1924年获艺术和建筑史博士学位，先后与莱比锡、慕尼黑、柏林和法兰克福有过联系。他曾在德累斯顿美术馆任职5年，1929—1933年在哥廷根大学任讲师，同时专攻英国艺术史；1935年移居英国，曾任伦敦大学伯克贝克学院艺术史教授，1949—1955年任剑桥圣约翰学院斯莱德教授和董事。 自《企鹅艺术建筑史丛书》创刊以来，他就任编辑。他还任共卷四十六的《英国建筑》编辑，并按郡的顺序撰写了其中三十八卷。他是英国建筑师协会皇家金奖获得者，是莱斯特、约克、利兹以及牛津大学的荣誉博士获得者，还是圣约翰学院荣誉董事、《建筑评论》编辑部理事。 他的著作《矫饰主义和巴洛克风格的意大利绘画》[Italian Painting of Manne...(展开全部)

One of the most widely read boks on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmarkwork was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, itcontinued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulatingas it was back in the mid-twentieth century.