Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation.

'Extraordinary... A fascinating and intelligent book.' Sunday Times New islands are being built at an unprecedented rate whether for tourism or territorial ambition, while many islands are disappearing or fragmenting because of rising sea levels. It is a strange planetary spectacle, creating an ever-changing map which even Google Earth struggles to keep pace with. In The Age of...(展开全部)

Investigates the changing strategy and structure of the large industrial enterprise in the United States

This book shows how the seventy largest corporations in America have dealt with a single economic problem: the effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest industries during the past hundred years and then examines in depth the modern decentralized corporate structure as it was developed independen...(展开全部)

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores the intense controversies over the meaning and profile of the past that accompanied the violent transformation of the Roman Republic into the Augustan principate. The ten case studies collected here analyse how different authors and agents (individual and collective) developed specific conceptions of history and articulated them ...(展开全部)

马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

马歇尔·萨林斯：现任芝加哥大学教授。萨林斯在芝加哥长大就读于密歇根大学, 他的毕业后留在那里工作，同时也在哥伦比亚大学讲课，教授的是人类学。 萨林斯首先意识到自己是一位波利尼西亚的民族志学者和历史学家。 他的关于波利尼西亚与欧洲接触的历史理论引发了主要的人类学的争论， 并且刊登在若干国家性的新闻杂志上。 萨林斯也与他一起工作的夏威夷人民而著名， 他为了本民族的人民和文化继续工作， 他在美国、欧洲和亚洲给许多学生和教师作过演讲。 他的研究领域使他得以游历了充满异国情调的土耳其、斐济、和新几内亚， 1976年他成为了美国艺术和科学学院的院士。

This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story of Thomas Hudson, an artist and adventurer. Living a bacherlor's life on an island in the Gulf Stream during the thirties, Hudson's existence is dictated by the waves and tides. But when his sons come to visit, Hudson must grapple with the role of father and the unfamiliar demands of family. A late work by one of A...(展开全部)

This is the last book Hemingway wrote before he died, the story of Thomas Hudson, an artist and adventurer. Living a bacherlor's life on an island in the Gulf Stream during the thirties, Hudson's existence is dictated by the waves and tides. But when his sons come to visit, Hudson must grapple with the role of father and the unfamiliar demands of family. A late work by one of A...(展开全部)