Peter Reyner Banham Hon. FRIBA was an English architectural critic and writer best known for his theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age and for his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of 'four ecologies' examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

In Atmospheric Noise, Marina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise since the 1960s. Exploring spaces shaped by noise around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), she shows how noise is a way of attuning toward the atmospheric: through noise we learn to listen to the sky and...(展开全部)

Reyner Banham examined the built environment of Los Angeles in a way no architectural historian before him had done, looking with fresh eyes at its manifestations of popular taste and industrial ingenuity, as well as its more traditional modes of residential and commercial building. His construct of "four ecologies" examined the ways Angelenos relate to the beach, the freeways,...(展开全部)

In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society’s ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an “empathy machine” that could provide glimpses into diverse social realities. She outlines...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race. 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lun...(展开全部)

约翰•狄克森•卡尔（1906－1977） 史上最伟大的推理小说作家之一，举世公认的“密室推理之王”。其小说素以公平著称，线索隐蔽，解答惊人，具有超乎寻常的逻辑性、趣味性。他一生共设计了超过五十种密室，几乎每个都是构思精巧、无以复加；又兼其小说一贯具有的浓郁哥特风格，以及其谋篇布局的架构能力之强，自会让读者大呼过瘾，竞相传读。读推理，岂能不读密室；读密室，岂能不读卡尔！

The war is over, but the killing is not. Guests, invited and uninvited, gather at the mountain villa of their wealthy friend, Utagawa Kazuma, to spend the summer of 1947. Soon after the arrival of these writers, actors, and artists and their tangled relationships of love, fame, and money, the first murder victim is discovered then another and another.... The host, his guests, a...(展开全部)