The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its g...(展开全部)

An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's main boulevards. Taha, the doorman's son, has aspirations beyond the slum in t...(展开全部)

This text on German architectural theory, written in 1923, sought to clarify the ideals and complexities of German modernism - especially the distinction between functionalism, rationalism, and utilitarianism. It should be of value to those interested in this phase of the modern discourse.

Review "I find this book to be wonderful and refreshing. It describes, for the first time, a new point of view in which the overall system and process of construction of the buildings in the world--all of them together--is viewed as a single system: and that system is analyzed for its capacity to create a living world, or not, in different traditional and modern societies. The ...(展开全部)

The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be l...(展开全部)

Over the past 10 years, distributed systems have become more fine-grained. From the large multi-million line long monolithic applications, we are now seeing the benefits of smaller self-contained services. Heavy-weight, hard to change Service Oriented Architectures are not the answer; instead we are now seeing finer-grained systems consisting of collaborating microservices. Eas...(展开全部)

4-time 2013 Eisner Award Winner: Best Lettering, Best Publication, Best Writer/Artist and Best Graphic Album New York Times Book Review, Top 10 Books of the Year Time Magazine, Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year Kirkus Reviews, Top 10 Fiction of 2012 Newsday, Top 10 Books of 2012 Entertainment Weekly, Gift Guide, A+ Washington Post, Top 1...(展开全部)

邹静之，男，1952年生。中国作家协会会员，诗刊编辑。著有诗集《幡》散文集《美人与匾》《酒话》《一地景象》《风中沙粒》；小说诗文集《骑马上街的三哥》等十余种。创作电视连续剧《琉璃厂传奇》《康熙微服私访记》《铁齿铜牙纪晓岚》《五月槐花香》等。创作歌剧脚本《夜宴》已在英国、香港、法国、澳大利亚、美国等处上演。创作话剧《我爱桃花》、《操场》等在全国巡演。创作歌剧《西施》于2009年在国家大剧院首演。