This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflex...(展开全部)

Unique showcase exploring the use of signs and symbols for visual communication across design disciplines The latest in the highly collectable Communicating with Pattern series, Signs and Symbols showcases stunning examples of designs that incorporate all manner of signs, symbols, and glyphs, explaining how they can be used in contemporary design to communicate a variety of mes...(展开全部)

约翰·巴勒斯（John Burroughs，1837－1921）巴勒斯一生的著作有20多部，多以描述自然、尤其是鸟类为主。其中《鸟与诗人》、《蝗虫与野蜜》、《时间与变化》最为著名。他笔下的风景多是人们所熟悉和可以接近的，是那些人们自己的农场和院落里的景色：树林、原野、鸟儿和动物，因此令人感到格外亲切，赢得了众多的读者。其书籍的销售量当时达到150万。

John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the U.S. conservation movement. Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of the nature essay. He became the Grand Old Man of Nature.

约翰·巴勒斯（John Burroughs，1837－1921）巴勒斯一生的著作有20多部，多以描述自然、尤其是鸟类为主。其中《鸟与诗人》、《蝗虫与野蜜》、《时间与变化》最为著名。他笔下的风景多是人们所熟悉和可以接近的，是那些人们自己的农场和院落里的景色：树林、原野、鸟儿和动物，因此令人感到格外亲切，赢得了众多的读者。其书籍的销售量当时达到150万。

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined t...(展开全部)

More than any other anthropological subdiscipline, economic anthropology constantly questions and debates the practical motives of people as they go about their daily lives. Tracing the history of the dialog between anthropology and economics, Richard R. Wilk and Lisa C. Cliggett move economic anthropology beyond the narrow concerns of earlier debates and place the field direct...(展开全部)

简·雅各布斯 (Jane Jacobs)，美国-加拿大学者、作家、社会活动家。 她的学术研究对城市研究、社会学、经济学都有很大贡献。1961年出版的《美国大城市的死与生》成为城市规划领域划时代的经典。此后，她笔耕不辍，出版《生存系统》《集体失忆的黑暗年代》等重要著作。她那些划时代的观点和理念，指引了世界各地众多的城市规划者和建设者、社会学家、经济学家，直到今天仍起着深远而不可替代的影响。 雅各布斯还是一位始终充满热情的社会活动者。因为雅各布斯对社会的深刻思考和积极参与，拉塞尔·雅各比在《最后的知识分子》一书中将她列为美国值得珍惜的公共知识分子之一。 2006年4月，简·雅各布斯逝世，享年89岁。

"Capital is a semiotic operator": this assertion by Flix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity. Mo...(展开全部)

"Capital is a semiotic operator": this assertion by Flix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity. Mo...(展开全部)