【作者简介】 弗兰克·菲雷迪（Frank Furedi） 英国肯特大学社会学荣休教授，至今在其领域内耕耘，被学界内外赞为最活跃的社会学家，著述颇丰，《恐惧文化》《恐惧政治》《知识分子都到那里去了？》《偏执狂父母》等。 【译者简介】 吴万伟 武汉科技大学外国语学院教授，翻译研究所所长，自2005年起就持续将菲雷迪的文章、著作翻译引进国内。

约翰•B.汤普森，英国著名社会学家、传媒研究专家，现任剑桥大学社会学高级讲师、基督学院研究员。他的著作对现代西方社会学乃至文化哲学界产生了极大的影响。主要著作有：《批判解释学》、《意识形态理论研究》、《意识形态与现代文化》、《现代传媒与现代性》、《数字时代的图书》。

For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder...Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he’s a hunted man, the target of shadowy killers, on the run and struggling to remember and to find the truth.

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在线阅读本书 True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference. A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust—and act on—our gut instincts. In...(展开全部)

In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture—the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu—from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept of mimicry to think through hallyu's adaptation of American sensibilities and genres, he shows how the commercialization of Kor...(展开全部)

艾瑞克．萊特 Erik Olin Wright（1947-2019） 威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校社會學教授，曾任美國社會學會理事長，著有《階級》（Classes）、《審問不平等》（Interrogating Inequality）、《階級很重要》（Class Counts）、《深化民主》（Deepening Democracy）、《真實烏托邦》（Envisioning Real Utopias）。 譯者簡介 陳信宏 臺灣大學外國語文學系畢業，曾獲全國大專翻譯比賽文史組首獎、梁實秋文學獎及文建會文學翻譯獎等獎項，目前為專職譯者。譯有《經濟學好厲害》《1491：重寫哥倫布前的美洲歷史》《全球化矛盾：民主與世界經濟的未來》《美麗與哀愁：第一次世界大戰個人史》《非商業旅人》等書。

What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it? Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values—equality and fairness, democracy and freedom, community and solidarity—can both provide the basis for a critique of capitalism, and help to guide us towards a socialist and democratic society...(展开全部)

A look at what science might, and might not, be able to do for us in the first half of the 21st century. A team of experts address the future in theory and in practice as well as examining the social and political ramifications of the strange new world to come.