A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to ...(展开全部)

这本书的作者Edward Hollis是爱丁堡艺术学院(Edinburgh College of Art)的讲师，书中的13个故事，是用诗化的语言，散文式的叙述方式，将述建筑与历史文化之间的联系。 这13个故事的起点是雅典的 Parthenon 神殿，这曾经是雅典人献给城市守护神雅典娜的殿堂(parthenos 意为“处女”，指雅典娜这位“处女女神”)，这个被称为是“最完美”的建筑，在建成之后，便是一个逐渐被毁坏的过程，所以第一章的标题就是 In Which a Virgin is Ruined，在经过马其顿人的洗劫、罗马皇帝的掠夺(神殿内的雅典娜金身塑像被搬到了君士坦丁堡)、神圣同盟的炮击、直到英国人Lord Elgin 把神殿大理石带回英国，神殿曾被改造成教堂、清真寺、以后又出现破坏性的“修复”等等，似乎每个人都想从这个完美的“处女”身上掏一点东...(展开全部)

The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our...(展开全部)

The Secret Lives of People in Love is the first short story collection by award-winning writer Simon Van Booy. These stories, set in Kentucky, New York, Paris, Rome, and Greece, are a perfect synthesis of intensity and atmosphere. Love, loss, human contact, and isolation are Van Booy's themes. In radiant prose he writes about the difficult choices we make in order to retain our...(展开全部)

The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume “Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017 The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginge...(展开全部)

作者： 佐雅·阿格尼丝，是童书作家桑玛·弗朗西斯的笔名，出生于德国柏林。她的《珠穆朗玛峰》一书被儿童图书理事会（2019年）评选为“杰出科学书籍”，并在2019年博洛尼亚国际童书展上获得特别提名。除了作家身份外，她还是一名图书编辑，与英国多家知名出版社有着亲密合作。 绘者： 亚历山大·乌特金，俄罗斯插画家、漫画艺术家、设计师和音乐家。2006年毕业于莫斯科国立印刷艺术大学，获艺术硕士学位。他的绘画灵感主要来源于动画、动漫和电影（如迪斯尼、宫崎骏、诺兰等）、电视连续剧（如《辛普森一家》）。

If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahea...(展开全部)

If the conscious mind—the part you consider to be you—is just the tip of the iceberg, what is the rest doing? In this sparkling and provocative new book, the renowned neuroscientist David Eagleman navigates the depths of the subconscious brain to illuminate surprising mysteries: Why can your foot move halfway to the brake pedal before you become consciously aware of danger ahea...(展开全部)

The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, a...(展开全部)

It takes the form of personal and formal investigations into two political assassinations - the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired García Márquez's General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and of the charismatic Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the man who might have been Colombia's J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections...(展开全部)