Fredric Jameson’s pathbreaking essay “An American Utopia” radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are—among other things—universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental challenge to any communist society, and the acceptance that the division between work and leisure cannot be...(展开全部)

Perhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of leadership success that hid cracks in its foundation. In a masterful appraisal of the company that claimed to "bring good things to life," William B. Cohan, one of Am...(展开全部)

The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we ta...(展开全部)

罗伯特·达尔（Robert Alan Dahl），美国当代著名政治学家。1915 年生于美国艾奥瓦州，1940 年在耶鲁大学获得博士学位，后长期在耶鲁大学任教。由于达尔的学术成就，他于 1966 年当选为美国政治学学会主席，他还是美国国家科学院院士、美国人文科学院院士，并担任英国科学院通讯院士。在达尔的学术生涯中，主要是致力于对多元民主理论和政治学方法论的研究，他著述甚丰，主要有：A Preface to Democratic Theory （1956，new edition in 2006）、 Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City （1961）、Modern Political Analysis （1963）、Polyarchy: Participation and Opposi...(展开全部)

This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in the United States, focusing on three key factors: uniquely fragmented and decentralized political institutions; an interest grou...(展开全部)

Mitch Epstein's latest project tackles one of the most loaded issues on the nation's agenda: what and who powers America? Between 2003 and 2008, prompted by the evacuation of an environmentally contaminated Ohio town, Epstein traveled the United States to document the country's energy "hot spots," where fossil fuel, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar power are produced, enc...(展开全部)

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, P...(展开全部)

On the world maps common in America, the Indian Ocean all but disappears. The Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region is relegated to the edges, split up along the maps’ outer reaches. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, for it was in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters that the great wars of that e...(展开全部)

Mannheim, a pioneer in the field of SOCIOLOGY (740), here analyzes the ideologies that are used to stabilize a social order and the wish-dreams that are employed when any transformation of that same order is attempted. Translated and with a Foreword by Louis Wirth and Edward Shils; Preface by Wirth; Indices.

史蒂夫·科尔，哥伦比亚大学新闻学院院长，普利策奖评选委员会成员。前《华盛顿邮报》资深记者，《纽约客》编辑、新美国基金会的CEO。他得过两次普利策奖，两次海外记者俱乐部奖，一次美国笔协的加尔布雷斯奖，一次亚瑟·罗斯奖，一次美国记者协会利文斯顿奖，一次肯尼迪新闻奖，一次吉布尔奖。