The social sciences have seen a substantial increase in comparative and multi-sited ethnographic projects over the last three decades. Yet, at present, researchers seeking to design comparative field projects have few scholarly works detailing how comparison is conducted in divergent ethnographic approaches. In Beyond the Case, Corey M. Abramson and Neil Gong have gathered toge...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

Professor Ragin proposes a synthetic new strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that will combine the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of all the social sciences, this book will garner interest, debate, and praise from many quarters.

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished anthropologists, planned to conduct fieldwork. On October 11, Shelly di...(展开全部)

Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences cons...(展开全部)

The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most recent astronomical discoveries and events and features imaginative astronomical illustrations and dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. ...(展开全部)

作者:（加）特伦斯·迪金森 TERENCE DICKINSON 译者:陈冬妮 特伦斯·迪金森是享誉世界的加拿大天文科普作家。自从5 岁时看到耀眼的流星，迪金森就对天文学产生了兴趣。20 世纪60 年代到70年代，迪金森是天文馆的工作人员，此后他成为全职的天文作家和编辑,《探寻宇宙 现代天文学通俗指南》和《夜观星空》都是他的代表作品。他的旅行足迹遍及世界各地最大的天文台站，也因此燃起了创作本书的欲望。除了已撰写的15 本天文书籍外，迪金森还编辑出版了加拿大的《天空新闻》杂志。他获得了众多奖项，包括纽约学院儿童科学书籍年度奖、太平洋天文协会克伦普客－罗伯兹公众天文学特殊贡献奖、加拿大勋章、安大略省彼得伯勒市特伦特大学荣誉博士等，第5272号小行星也以迪金森的姓氏命名。

作者:（加）特伦斯·迪金森 TERENCE DICKINSON 译者:陈冬妮 特伦斯·迪金森是享誉世界的加拿大天文科普作家。自从5 岁时看到耀眼的流星，迪金森就对天文学产生了兴趣。20 世纪60 年代到70年代，迪金森是天文馆的工作人员，此后他成为全职的天文作家和编辑,《探寻宇宙 现代天文学通俗指南》和《夜观星空》都是他的代表作品。他的旅行足迹遍及世界各地最大的天文台站，也因此燃起了创作本书的欲望。除了已撰写的15 本天文书籍外，迪金森还编辑出版了加拿大的《天空新闻》杂志。他获得了众多奖项，包括纽约学院儿童科学书籍年度奖、太平洋天文协会克伦普客－罗伯兹公众天文学特殊贡献奖、加拿大勋章、安大略省彼得伯勒市特伦特大学荣誉博士等，第5272号小行星也以迪金森的姓氏命名。

The Universe and Beyond is a fact-packed, up-to-date guide to the universe written by best-selling astronomy author Terence Dickinson. This new edition includes all the most recent astronomical discoveries and events and features imaginative astronomical illustrations and dramatic photography from the Hubble Space Telescope, space probes and the largest observatories on Earth. ...(展开全部)

Who speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the “device”—core ideas of modern literary theory—were all pioneered in the shadow of oral literature. Authorless, loosely dated, and variable, oral texts have always posed a challenge to critical interpretation. When it began to be thought that culturally significant texts—starting with Homer and...(展开全部)