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)

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)

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。

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccac...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

阿瑟•克拉克（1917-2008） 英国科幻作家，与阿西莫夫、海因莱因并称为“世界科幻三巨头”。他一生创作了100多部作品，被翻译成40多种语言，多次获得星云奖、雨果奖等科幻至高奖项。其代表作有《童年的终结》《2001：太空漫游》《与拉玛相会》（双奖作品）及《天堂的喷泉》（双奖作品）等科幻史上的杰作。1986年，他获得美国科幻与奇幻作家协会终生成就奖——大师奖。 克拉克的绝大多数作品属于“硬科幻”，视野宏大，具有坚实的科学基础，同时饱含人文关怀，充满对人类文明终极意义的探索。克拉克早在1945年即提出利用同步卫星实现全球通信的设想。由于他的这一伟大贡献，国际天文学联合会将赤道上空的同步卫星轨道命名为“克拉克轨道”。

查尔斯·霍默·哈斯金斯(Charles Homer Haskins)，美国历史学家，中世纪史权威。1870年生，幼年即开始学习拉丁文和希腊文。16岁毕业于约翰·霍普金斯大学，后来到巴黎和柏林学习。不到20岁就获得了博士学位，并开始在约翰·霍普金斯大学任教。1892到1902年转到威斯康星大学讲授欧洲史。1902年应聘到哈佛大学，直到1931年因身体状况退休。1937年逝世。在长期的哈佛岁月中，他成为该大学、乃至美国史学界最著名的人物之一。主要著作有：《欧洲历史上的诺曼人》(1915年)、《诺曼社会制度》(1918年)、《大学的兴起》(1923年)、《中世纪科学史研究》(1924年)、《12世纪文艺复兴》(1927年)、《中世纪文化研究》(1929年)。