There is an increasing awareness that a city needs to be understood as a complex interacting system. Different types of urban systems overlap to build up urban complexity in a living city. This raises the need for concepts such as coherence, emergence, information, self-organization, and adaptivity. Principles of Urban Structure is a collection of important essays, written and ...(展开全部)

Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni.Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to...(展开全部)

"Recent controversies between analytic and historic-sociological approaches to the philosophy of science have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's thinking may be helpful for efforts to develop a rapprochement between ...(展开全部)

"Recent controversies between analytic and historic-sociological approaches to the philosophy of science have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's have not diminished its significance; in fact, it seems to me that the pragmatic component in Nagel's thinking may be helpful for efforts to develop a rapprochement between ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Reissue of this classic work in the development of modern criticism which argues that literary criticism is essentially a branch of psychology, dealing with the states of mind induced by the experiences communicated by art.

Underlying the apparent diversity shown by thousands of mutually incomprehensible languages of the world, there is a remarkable, elegant and principled unity in the way that these languages exploit the phonetic resources of speech. It is these principles that Professor Laver sets out to describe in this major new textbook. Assuming no previous knowledge of the subject, it is de...(展开全部)

N. 格里高利·曼昆（Nicholas Gregory Mankiw, 1958- ），美国经济学家。29岁即成为哈佛大学历史上最年轻的终身教授之一。曾就读于麻省理工大学、普林斯顿大学。现为哈佛大学经济学教授，同时担任马萨诸塞州剑桥的一个非营利性智囊团——国家经济研究局所属的货币经济计划部主任，还被聘为国会预算办公室及波士顿联邦储备银行的顾问。曼昆同时还供职于ETS考试研发委员会下的经济学高阶水平考试委员会和NBER商业周期委员会。