In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data. While research practices are often understood within a clean/dirty binary, Biruk shows that data is never clean; rather, it is always “cooked” during its production and inevitably entangled with the lives...(展开全部)

作者简介 阿莱克斯．汤普森是考文垂大学政治学首席讲师。他的著作有Constructive Engagement: US Foreign Policy Towards South Africa, 1981-1988（Ashgate 1996），Get Set for Politics（With Keith Faulks and Ken Phillips, Edinburgh University Press 2003），以及U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994: Conflicts of Interests (Palgrave-Macmillan 2008).

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culin...(展开全部)

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culin...(展开全部)

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over the millennia, Professor Gilpin uses history, sociology, and economic theory to identify the forces causing change in the world order. The discussion focuses on the differential g...(展开全部)

Contributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, institutional complexes or organized along the conventional dimensions of power, alliance, and geography. They argue that perspectives that neglect the roles of culture and identity are no longer adequate to explain the complexities of a world undergoing rapid change.

Compassion is not a simple sentiment, especially in the modern world. Today the term invokes ideas of individual and collective obligation to respond actively to suffering; compassion becomes a complex response involving the state, the military, economic factors, and of course ethical and moral issues. In Compassion , ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social ...(展开全部)

托德·兰德曼（Todd Landman），英国诺丁汉大学副校长、社会科学学院政治学系教授。主要研究方向为政治发展、民主、公民权利与社会运动等。 . 埃德齐娅·卡瓦略（Edzia Carvalho），英国邓迪大学社会科学学院政治学讲师。主要研究方向为选举、欧洲政治等。 . 汪卫华，北京大学国际关系学院副教授。主要研究领域为比较政治、中国政治和社会科学研究方法。

托德·兰德曼（Todd Landman），英国诺丁汉大学副校长、社会科学学院政治学系教授。主要研究方向为政治发展、民主、公民权利与社会运动等。 . 埃德齐娅·卡瓦略（Edzia Carvalho），英国邓迪大学社会科学学院政治学讲师。主要研究方向为选举、欧洲政治等。 . 汪卫华，北京大学国际关系学院副教授。主要研究领域为比较政治、中国政治和社会科学研究方法。

托德·兰德曼（Todd Landman），英国诺丁汉大学副校长、社会科学学院政治学系教授。主要研究方向为政治发展、民主、公民权利与社会运动等。 . 埃德齐娅·卡瓦略（Edzia Carvalho），英国邓迪大学社会科学学院政治学讲师。主要研究方向为选举、欧洲政治等。 . 汪卫华，北京大学国际关系学院副教授。主要研究领域为比较政治、中国政治和社会科学研究方法。