Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad, is commonplace. How has this leap in cross-border mobility affected the design and use of such cities? And how is it accelerating broader socioeconomic and political changes in Asian societies? In Airport Urbanism, Max Hirsh underta...(展开全部)

Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-...(展开全部)

UN Studio is the innovative firm founded by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, two Dutch designers creating some of the most ambitious and celebrated architecture of their generation. Fluidity and flexibility are hallmarks of UN Studio projects, and many of these projects have literally reinvented a number of standard building types, such as power stations, museums, bridges, tran...(展开全部)

Based on a three-year life story study of students from working-class backgrounds at four elite universities in China, this book offers a new way to understand and be inspired by Bourdieu. This book shows how Bourdieu’s ideas can be used to go beyond the analysis of domination and imagine a positive sociology of emancipation. Drawing on life stories of high-achieving students f...(展开全部)

本书为提出可替代和可持续的城市化形式，设问：生态城市主义的主要原则是什么？如何组织这些原则？设计与规划将在此过程中扮演什么样的角色？ 尽管气候变化，可持续建筑，和绿色技术等越来越受到关注，而与城市的可持续性相关的话题却相对门庭冷落。本书的写作前提是：我们迫切需要一种生态的途径来拯救当代城市并为新的城市建立原则。生态城市主义对待城市化并没有统一的方式，而是从全球的视角，多尺度和多学科的途径来应对。设计提供了一个综合性的解决方案，将生态与城市联系起来，而不与环境相冲突。 本书汇集了设计从业人员和理论家，经济学家，工程师，艺术家，决策者，环境科学家和公共卫生专家，以期更全面地理解生态城市主义及其未来。 With the aim of projecting alternative and sustainable forms of urbanism, the ...(展开全部)

From the excitement of arrival to the wonder of taking off -- a picture book that captures in joyous and powerful images all the magic of an airport.

Arthur Hailey’s blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller, which was made into a hit film, takes readers behind the scenes of an airport and into the cockpit of a passenger jet during a time of crisis As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endanger...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

The Central Asian slave trade swept hundreds of thousands of Iranians, Russians, and others into slavery during the eighteenth–nineteenth centuries. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews with slaves, this book offers an unprecedented window into slaves' lives and a penetrating examination of human trafficking. Slavery strained Central A...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1980, but out of print for some time, this book is now again available. This book is intended for first-degree students and graduates studying sociology, especially social stratification; professional sociologists interested in quantitative analyses, especially log-linear modelling. Economists and political scientists researching social stratification, m...(展开全部)