"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book - which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew - has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated "...(展开全部)

Gideon Kunda is Associate Professor, Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University.

"Engineering Culture" is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book-which has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Hebrew-has been revised to bring it up to date. In "Engineering Culture", Gideon Kunda offers a critical analysis of an American company's well-known and widely emulated 'corp...(展开全部)

High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy is an ethnography of globalisation positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of trans-national capitalism-production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities-in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech ind...(展开全部)

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents. Taking as a guide Banham’s habit of structuring his writings around dialectical tensions, Todd Gannon sheds new light on Banham’s early en...(展开全部)

Herbert J. Gans, author of Levittowners and The Urban Villagers, is professor of sociology at Columbia University and the former president of the American Sociological Association.

One of the world's most respected sociologists updates his classic work on public views of popular and high culture. Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards? In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality ...(展开全部)

理查德・休斯（1900-1976），英国著名剧作家、诗人和小说家。曾先后就读于伦敦查特豪斯公学和牛津大学欧瑞尔学院。早在牛津读书期间，休斯便出版了诗集《流浪的夜晚和此前的诗》。毕业后，休斯担任英国威尔士国家歌剧团团长，并创作了著名广播剧《冒险》。 1926年，理查德・休斯出版小说处女作《牙买加飓风》，立即风行英美，成为超级畅销书。同年，休斯以此书赢得法国费米娜文学奖，奠定了本书作为现代文学经典的基础。此后，休斯又创作了《大海上的男人》、《人类的困境》和《困惑的少年》等著名作品。

Set in the last century against a tropical landscape and the ever-present sea, "A High Wind in Jamaica" tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached and haunting quality.

After a terrible hurricane levels their Jam aican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate c aptain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust wi...(展开全部)