Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later th...(展开全部)

Rooted in the British apprenticeship system, the French Beaux-Arts, and the German polytechnical schools, architecture education in North America has had a unique history spanning almost three hundred years. Although architects in the United States and Canada began to identify themselves as professionals by the late eighteenth century, it was not until nearly a century later th...(展开全部)

As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. The Idea of North is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north as represented in images and literature, taking in Net...(展开全部)

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles is one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. The subject of several biographies, now Miles speaks out himself about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. For the first t...(展开全部)

The morning hours before the hustle and bustle of the day commences is the perfect time to pause and enjoy a sense ofrenewal and vitality. On the morning of December 7, 2006, Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes eachtook a digital photo of everyday objects randomly arranged on their kitchen tables and, unbeknownst to one another, uploaded them to the website Fli...(展开全部)

敬上一杯茶，你是一个陌生人； 再奉第二杯，你是我们的朋友； 第三杯茶，你是我的家人，我将用生命来保护你。 一个人，一个承诺，一段辛苦漫长的旅程，许许多多人的爱心，一个美丽的承诺，终于实践。” 摩顿森把一次旅行化作了一个生命的承诺，从而改变了他在路途中所遇见的人的命运，并把这些美事通过文字将看似不相干的人拉在一起，娓娓道来，作者朴素的心便很快让你跳进《三杯茶》的友情世界里去，令你也嗅到茶的清幽香味。他教晓我们爱是怎么一回事，因为有了爱，他才在黑暗中看见星辰。这是一趟非比寻常的旅程，在这旅程上，不仅有他的脚步，也可以有你我的脚步，我们愿意与摩顿森一起结伴同行吗？——《中东现场》作者张翠容 'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, th...(展开全部)

敬上一杯茶，你是一个陌生人； 再奉第二杯，你是我们的朋友； 第三杯茶，你是我的家人，我将用生命来保护你。 一个人，一个承诺，一段辛苦漫长的旅程，许许多多人的爱心，一个美丽的承诺，终于实践。” 摩顿森把一次旅行化作了一个生命的承诺，从而改变了他在路途中所遇见的人的命运，并把这些美事通过文字将看似不相干的人拉在一起，娓娓道来，作者朴素的心便很快让你跳进《三杯茶》的友情世界里去，令你也嗅到茶的清幽香味。他教晓我们爱是怎么一回事，因为有了爱，他才在黑暗中看见星辰。这是一趟非比寻常的旅程，在这旅程上，不仅有他的脚步，也可以有你我的脚步，我们愿意与摩顿森一起结伴同行吗？——《中东现场》作者张翠容 'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, th...(展开全部)

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Returning home from a luncheon, Hercule Poirot is met at his door by an imperious woman who introduces herself as Sylvia Rule. "How dare you? How dare you send me such a letter?" Ignoring his denials, Mrs. Rule insists that she received a missive claiming he had proof she murdered a man named Barnabas Pandy and advising her to confess her crime to the police. Threatening the pe...(展开全部)

The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot – the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket—returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in 1930’s London. Returning home after lunch one day, Hercule Poirot finds an angry woman waiting outside his front door. She demands to know why P...(展开全部)