Before Shanghai, there was Suzhou: a city of canals and commerce, gardens and scholars, the largest noncapital city on earth between 1400 and 1850. This book shows how, though Suzhou entered the Ming dynasty defeated and suspect, interactions between the imperial state and local elites gave rise to a network of markets that fostered high-quality local specialization. Population...(展开全部)

帕特里克·赛里姆·阿蒂亚（Patrick Selim Atiyah），曾任英国牛津大学法学院讲席教授，英国国家学术院（British Academy）院士，在合同法、侵权法和货物买卖法等领域享有极高的学术声誉。他编著了本书第1版（1957年）至第8版（1990年）。 约翰·诺曼·亚当斯（John Norman Adams），曾任英国谢菲尔德大学法学院讲席教授，英国文学和艺术版权协会主席，在合同法、知识产权法和货物买卖法等领域享有极高的学术声誉。他接替阿蒂亚编著了本书第9版（1995年）至第12版（2010年）。 克里斯蒂安·特威格-福莱斯纳（Christian Twigg-Flesner），现任英国华威大学法学院讲席教授，奥地利维也纳大学欧盟法研究中心理事，曾任英国赫尔大学法学院教授，主要研究领域为国际商法、英国商法、消费者保护法和合同法。他接替亚当...(展开全部)

This revised edition with new Introduction from a leading anthropologist and an economist is unique in being about consumption but not a sermon for consumers, nor a moan against consumerism. The World of Goods bridges the gap between what anthropologists know about why objects are desired and what economists say about the specialised topic called consumption behaviour. The econ...(展开全部)

This revised edition with new Introduction from a leading anthropologist and an economist is unique in being about consumption but not a sermon for consumers, nor a moan against consumerism. The World of Goods bridges the gap between what anthropologists know about why objects are desired and what economists say about the specialised topic called consumption behaviour. The econ...(展开全部)

If you’re convinced you know what a market is, think again. In his long-awaited study, French sociologist and engineer Michel Callon takes us to the heart of markets, to the unsung processes that allow innovations to become robust products and services. Markets in the Making begins with the observation that stable commercial transactions are more enigmatic, more elusive, and mo...(展开全部)

This book is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and state-sponsored birth model that is standard in urban China today. In the twentieth century, biomedical technologies altered the process of childbirth on virtually eve...(展开全部)

This book is the study of a pivotal period in which traditional midwifery, marked by private, unregulated old-style midwives, was transformed into modern midwifery through the adoption of a highly medicalized and state-sponsored birth model that is standard in urban China today. In the twentieth century, biomedical technologies altered the process of childbirth on virtually eve...(展开全部)

It is a truism that each of us has one life to lead — yet we rarely ask what it means to lead a life. The answer may seem obvious, but leading one's life is actually a complex, multifaceted undertaking, which requires us to negotiate deeply puzzling aspects of our experience and overcome profound challenges to our sense of ourselves and our place in the world. In One Life to Le...(展开全部)

The management of human resources, says the author, holds the key to an organization's future success. HR people serve as strategic players, administrative experts, employee champions and change agents. Full of illustrations and examples from dozens of companies, this book show how HR professionals can operate in all four areas simultaneously.

Why do we acquire the things we do? Behind this apparently ingenuous question are several answers, some straightforward and others more interesting. To feed ourselves, might be the first response, for we can easily see that we expend much energy in the quest for food. Clothing and shelter as well would seem to constitute our basic needs. Yet we quickly see that even in the Gard...(展开全部)