This is a description of the underlying principles of algebraic geometry, some of its important developments in the twentieth century, and some of the problems that occupy its practitioners today. It is intended for the working or the aspiring mathematician who is unfamiliar with algebraic geometry but wishes to gain an appreciation of its foundations and its goals with a minim...(展开全部)

In this volume the author gives a unified presentation of some of the basic tools and concepts in number theory, commutative algebra, and algebraic geometry, and for the first time in a book at this level, brings out the deep analogies between them. The geometric viewpoint is stressed throughout the book. Extensive examples are given to illustrate each new concept, and many int...(展开全部)

One of the major discoveries of the past two decades in algebraic geometry is the realization that the theory of minimal models of surfaces can be generalized to higher dimensional varieties. This generalization, called the minimal model program, or Mori's program, has developed into a powerful tool with applications to diverse questions in algebraic geometry and beyond. This b...(展开全部)

An introduction to abstract algebraic geometry, with the only prerequisites being results from commutative algebra, which are stated as needed, and some elementary topology. More than 400 exercises distributed throughout the book offer specific examples as well as more specialised topics not treated in the main text, while three appendices present brief accounts of some areas o...(展开全部)

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the influence of his work, no single introduction to his wide-ranging "oeuvre" is available. This book, intended for an English-speaking audience, offers a systematic and accessible overvie...(展开全部)

Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act, and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult language that can hide more than it reveals. Cutting through the often off-putting writing styles of social theoris...(展开全部)

大卫•英格里斯（David Inglis），赫尔辛基大学社会科学院教授，研究方向为古典和现代社会理论、历史社会学、文化社会学、食物和酒文化等。著有《身体》（2003）、《文化和日常生活》（2005）、《艺术与审美》（2009）、《文化社会学》（2012）等。 克里斯托弗•索普（Christopher Thorpe），埃克塞特大学社会学、哲学和人类学学院讲师，研究方向为古典和现代社会理论、文化社会学、社会工作等。著有《社会学之书》（2015）、《社会工作社会理论》（2017）、《社会学向上看》（2017）等。 何蓉，博士生导师，中国社会科学院社会学系研究员。研究方向为社会学理论、宗教社会学；出版有《社会学与经济学：马克斯•韦伯与社会科学基本问题》等专著，《马克斯•韦伯与经济社会学思想》《社会学的理论逻辑：第三卷》等译著；发表论文多篇。