This book stresses a theoretical approach to landscape aesthetics, including habitat theory and prospect-refuge theory, based on an analysis of research literature and experience in a wide area of art and science. This edition covers recent developments in the field.

本•A. 敏特尔（Ben A. Minteer），亚利桑那州立大学生命科学院教授，主要研究领域为环境伦理与保护，论文刊登于《科学》《自然》《美国国家科学院院刊》等刊物。《景观革新》是他研究美国环境思想的代表作。

This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid p...(展开全部)

In The Ambiguities of Experience , James G. March asks a deceptively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experience in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described a...(展开全部)

In The Ambiguities of Experience , James G. March asks a deceptively simple question: What is, or should be, the role of experience in creating intelligence, particularly in organizations? Folk wisdom both trumpets the significance of experience and warns of its inadequacies. On one hand, experience is described as the best teacher. On the other hand, experience is described a...(展开全部)

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created - the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show - and it t...(展开全部)

This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created - the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show - and it t...(展开全部)

W.G.霍斯金斯（William George Hoskins，1908-1992年），英国历史学家，英国社会科学院院士，曾任教于莱斯特大学、牛津大学。他以研究英格兰地方史著称，在景观史研究方面做出巨大的开创性贡献，其研究领域还涉及考古学、城市史和农业史等。霍斯金斯撰有近二十部专著，《英格兰景观的形成》（1955年）是最具代表性的著作，另著有《英格兰地方史，过去与现在》（1966年）、《地方史中的田野调查》（1967年）、《掠夺年代》（1976年）等书。 梅雪芹，清华大学历史系教授，中国世界近现代史研究会副会长、中国英国史研究会理事。长期从事世界近现代史、英国近现代史和环境史的教学与研究。出版有《环境史学与环境问题》《环境史研究叙论》等著作，《火之简史》《什么是环境史》《大象的退却：一部中国环境史》等译作，在核心期刊发表论文数十篇。 刘梦霏，清华大学...(展开全部)

The Making of the English Countryside is W G Hoskins’ masterpiece, revealing the hidden histories of the landscape. This hugely influential and ground-breaking book changed forever the way we experience the places we live and work.