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)

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)

Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the c...(展开全部)

关于作者： （英）乔纳森•拉班（Jonathan Raban），1942生于英国诺福克郡，曾荣获1982年海涅曼文学奖、1981年及1991年的汤姆斯•库克旅行文学奖，以及华盛顿州政府文艺奖等。另有作品：《阿拉伯》(Arabia, 1979）、《旧日荣耀》（Old Glory, 1982）、《陌生之地》（Foreign Land, 1985）、《沿岸航行》（Coasting, 1986）、《为爱与财富》（For Love and Money, 1989）、《穷山恶水美国梦》（Bad Land, 1997）、《水路入朱诺》（Passage to Juneau, 1999）等书，并参与《牛津海事书》（Oxford Book of the Sea, 1992）的编辑工作。其中，《穷山恶水美国梦》一书除荣登《纽约时报》年度编辑选书外，还获得太平洋西北书商奖、...(展开全部)

The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image...(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)

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）。