In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers in Singapore and China scientists map genetic variants, disease risks, and bio...(展开全部)

In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are entangled in a tropical environment brimming with the threat of emergent diseases. At biomedical centers in Singapore and China scientists map genetic variants, disease risks, and bio...(展开全部)

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city not only of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recre...(展开全部)

"X and the City", a book of diverse and accessible math-based topics, uses basic modeling to explore a wide range of entertaining questions about urban life. How do you estimate the number of dental or doctor's offices, gas stations, restaurants, or movie theaters in a city of a given size? How can mathematics be used to maximize traffic flow through tunnels? Can you predict wh...(展开全部)

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationship...(展开全部)

This authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities offers twenty-six readings more than one-half new or revised for the Fourth Edition that form a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest and important new research. Impressive in scope, the latest edition offers an entirely new section on globalization and transnatio...(展开全部)

When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it demands a reimagination of the city and how class, city life and identity combine. Too often, this leads to divisions, such as the middle class...(展开全部)

理查德·桑内特（Richard Sennett，1943— ），当代著名社会学家和思想家，伦敦政治经济学院社会学教授，哥伦比亚大学资本主义与社会中心的高级研究员，曾任纽约大学教授。因其在社会学、城市规划研究等方面的杰出贡献，屡获黑格尔奖、斯宾诺莎奖、格尔达·亨克尔奖和特森诺奖等国际奖项。他的主要著作有：《公共人的衰落》（1977）、《肉体与石头——西方文明中的身体与城市》（1994）、《新资本主义的文化》（2006）、《匠人》（2008）。

理查德·桑内特（Richard Sennett，1943— ），当代著名社会学家和思想家，伦敦政治经济学院社会学教授，哥伦比亚大学资本主义与社会中心的高级研究员，曾任纽约大学教授。因其在社会学、城市规划研究等方面的杰出贡献，屡获黑格尔奖、斯宾诺莎奖、格尔达·亨克尔奖和特森诺奖等国际奖项。他的主要著作有：《公共人的衰落》（1977）、《肉体与石头——西方文明中的身体与城市》（1994）、《新资本主义的文化》（2006）、《匠人》（2008）。