You may have heard rumours of great changes in Asia. In Capital, a novelist takes you on an intimate tour of an erupting Asian megalopolis: Delhi, capital of India. Speaking to billionaires and slum dwellers, drug dealers and bureaucrats, psychoanalysts and metal traders, he paints a dazzling portrait of a city in a moment of stupefying change. Enormous fortunes have been made;...(展开全部)

In Capital, Commonwealth Prize–winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India’s capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story ...(展开全部)

Since the opening up of India’s economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astonishing metamorphosis of India’s capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of India’s new elites. No other place on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive nature of the global economy’...(展开全部)

A look at what science might, and might not, be able to do for us in the first half of the 21st century. A team of experts address the future in theory and in practice as well as examining the social and political ramifications of the strange new world to come.

约翰•B.汤普森，英国著名社会学家、传媒研究专家，现任剑桥大学社会学高级讲师、基督学院研究员。他的著作对现代西方社会学乃至文化哲学界产生了极大的影响。主要著作有：《批判解释学》、《意识形态理论研究》、《意识形态与现代文化》、《现代传媒与现代性》、《数字时代的图书》。

Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion. In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to reassess radica...(展开全部)

Since its beginnings in the early 1900s, the study of Asian art has dramatically changed and has constantly been shaped by shifting world politics. "Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century" explores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. It features essays by fourteen leading authors specializing in Chinese, East Asian, In...(展开全部)

"Returns" explores homecomings--the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world. It was once widely assumed that native, or tribal, societies were destined to disappear. So...(展开全部)

Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today’s parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach t...(展开全部)

杰弗里·蒂尔（Geoffrey Till），海上战略研究的权威，现任英国三军联合指挥和参谋学院伦敦国王学院科贝特海洋政策研究中心主任。他的作品有《空权和皇家海军》（Air Power and the Royal Navy）、《核时代的海上战略》（Maritime Strategy and the Nuclear Age），以及最新的《英国海军思想史》（The Development of British Naval Thinking）。