Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.

Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with a focus on gender politics both in the labor movement and in the larger society. It highlights several key moments in colonial and postcolonial Korean history when factory women commanded the attention of the wider public, including the early-1930s rubber shoe work...(展开全部)

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them? What was thought to distinguish the "manly mind" from the feminine mind? How did awareness of these questions infor...(展开全部)

Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the us...(展开全部)

保罗·克鲁格曼，现为普林斯顿大学经济学教授，主要研究领域包括国际贸易、国际金融、货币危机与汇率理论：克鲁格曼是诺贝尔经济学奖得主萨缪尔森和索洛的爱将，1994年成功预言亚洲金融危机，2008年独享诺贝尔经济学奖、他是当代美国最具影响力的政治评论家、前美国政府经济顾问。在过去十余年间，他出版了近二十本著作，发表文章数百篇。他的文笔清晰流畅。深入浅出，在公众眼中，他是一位不可多得的大众经济学家，被誉为“自凯恩斯以降，文章写得最好的经济学家”

China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China? Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, take...(展开全部)

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, more. "A very able and even-tempered presentation." -- "The New Yorker."