In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities --convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: commu...(展开全部)

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple ident...(展开全部)

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, the ideas that most Americans lived by started to fragment. Mid-century concepts of national consensus, managed markets, gender and racial identities, citizen obligation, and historical memory became more fluid. Flexible markets pushed aside Keynesian macroeconomic structures. Racial and gender solidarity divided into multiple ident...(展开全部)

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a so...(展开全部)

埃里克·罗斯顿，哥伦比亚大学欧洲史学士、俄罗斯史硕士，精通俄语。曾在《时代》周刊做过六年的科技、科学政策和能源议题的报道撰稿人，曾参与《时代》“911”特刊的策划撰稿，并以这期增刊赢得了2002年美国国家杂志奖。后任美国彭博新闻社编辑，负责报道能源、自然资源和可持续发展方面的新闻。现为美国国家发展委员会的高级分析师。本书是他第一次对影响全球气候的根本因素——碳的历史做全面阐述，他深入浅出的写作方式，使人有如倾听一部宇宙、地球、碳和人类文明的史诗。

埃里克•沃格林（1901—1985），20世纪最具原创性和影响力的哲学家之一。生于德国科隆，求学于维也纳大学，并成为该校法学院的政治科学教授。为躲避希特勒的迫害，1938年和妻子移民美国，并于1944年成为美国公民。沃格林的大部分学术生涯在路易斯安那州立大学、慕尼黑大学以及斯坦福大学胡佛研究所度过。主要著作包括八卷本《政治观念史稿》和五卷本《秩序与历史》。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Sahlins radically revises traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called...(展开全部)

Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supp...(展开全部)

Stoneage Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most influential and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the original affluent society. The book examines notions of production, distribution and e...(展开全部)