For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by reje...(展开全部)

Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991. In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Crono...(展开全部)

Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991. In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Crono...(展开全部)

威廉·克罗农（1954—），美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的历史学、地理学与环境研究领域的弗雷德里克•杰克逊•特纳和维拉斯研究教授；美国人文与科学学院院士、美国历史学会会长。

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 马修·德斯蒙德（Matthew Desmond） 普林斯顿大学社会学系教授，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校博士，曾任哈佛大学社会学系助理教授。 作为一名民族志学者，德斯蒙德关注居住正义、城市生活、底层剥削等议题。已出版作品五种。他的研究曾获福特基金会（Ford F oundation）和美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的资助。他的文章常见于《纽约时报》、《芝加哥论坛报》等。 2015年，德斯蒙德凭借对驱逐议题和住房政策的出色研究，获得麦克阿瑟“天才奖”。2016年，他被评为“影响全美政治议题的五十位人物”之一。 【译者介绍】 胡䜣谆 台湾中正大学学士，英国爱丁堡大学翻译硕士，专事翻译。译有《香吉士一家人》《嘉年华的诞生》《漫游欧洲一千年》《心碎史》等书。 郑焕升 教育界的逃兵，翻译的志愿役，喜欢看书、...(展开全部)

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two...(展开全部)

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and reportage that will forever change the way we look at poverty in America In this brilliant, heartbreaking book, Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two...(展开全部)

【作者介绍】 马修·德斯蒙德（Matthew Desmond） 普林斯顿大学社会学系教授，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校博士，曾任哈佛大学社会学系助理教授。 作为一名民族志学者，德斯蒙德关注居住正义、城市生活、底层剥削等议题。已出版作品五种。他的研究曾获福特基金会（Ford F oundation）和美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）的资助。他的文章常见于《纽约时报》、《芝加哥论坛报》等。 2015年，德斯蒙德凭借对驱逐议题和住房政策的出色研究，获得麦克阿瑟“天才奖”。2016年，他被评为“影响全美政治议题的五十位人物”之一。 【译者介绍】 胡䜣谆 台湾中正大学学士，英国爱丁堡大学翻译硕士，专事翻译。译有《香吉士一家人》《嘉年华的诞生》《漫游欧洲一千年》《心碎史》等书。 郑焕升 教育界的逃兵，翻译的志愿役，喜欢看书、...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)