The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which es...(展开全部)

The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically traces the national concern with beauty to Brazilian eugenics, which es...(展开全部)

Recent movement toward more comprehensive institutional perspectives on development has been stimulated by two distinct challenges to narrow development theories. Theorists of "social capital" have highlighted the degree to which norms of trust and the interpersonal networks on which they are based constitute economic assets. Revisionist theories of the "East Asian Miracle" hav...(展开全部)

Recent movement toward more comprehensive institutional perspectives on development has been stimulated by two distinct challenges to narrow development theories. Theorists of "social capital" have highlighted the degree to which norms of trust and the interpersonal networks on which they are based constitute economic assets. Revisionist theories of the "East Asian Miracle" hav...(展开全部)

In "Uneven Development," a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globaliz...(展开全部)

In "Uneven Development," a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of space and nature with a critique of capitalist development. Featuring pathbreaking analyses of the production of nature and the politics of scale, Smith's work anticipated many of the uneven contours that now mark neoliberal globaliz...(展开全部)

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

作者简介 谢尔登·D.波拉克（Sheldon D.Pollack），特拉华大学法律研究项目主任、教授。他拥有宾夕法尼亚大学法学院法学学位和康奈尔大学政治学博士学位，著有《美国再融资：共和党抗税议程》（Refinancing America： The Republican Antitax Agenda、和《美国税收政策的失败：收入与政治》（The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy：Revenue and Politics）。 译者简介 李婉，1980年3月出生，浙江省瑞安市人，上海财经大学财政学博士，2008年起任教于上海立信会计金融学院，研究领域为中国财税体制与税收制度。

Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese worl...(展开全部)