Social scientists seek to develop systematic ways to understand how people make meaning and how the meanings they make shape them and the world in which they live. But how do we measure such processes? Measuring Culture is an essential point of entry for both those new to the field and those who are deeply immersed in the measurement of meaning. Written collectively by a team o...(展开全部)

波丽•邓巴（Polly Dunbar）今日英国人气儿童插画家和作家。16岁就出版了两本著作。后来不断努力，被推选为英国十大插画家之一。这位才女还是Long Nose Puppets剧团的创办人，看剧团的名字就知道，她还喜欢制作木偶。

This book provides an alternative foundation for the measurement of the production of nations, and applies it to the US economy for the postwar period. The patterns which result are significantly different from those derived within conventional systems of national accounts. Conventional national accounts seriously distort basic economic aggregates, because they classify militar...(展开全部)

Loosely based on the lives of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt and a contemporary, mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kehlmann's novel, a German bestseller widely heralded as an exemplar of "new" German fiction, injects musty history with shots of whimsy and irony. Humboldt voyages to South America to map the Orinoco River, climb the Chimborazo peak in Ecuador and ...(展开全部)

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, desire, despair and confusion in order to slyly critique social and political attitudes toward women, children, people of color and others who have historically been victimized. From her evocative portrait...(展开全部)

Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of...(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)

爱德华・泰勒（Edward Tylor，1832-1917），英国人类学家，被人类学界尊称为“人类学之父”，“在人类学中是第一个伟大的名字”，是最具影响的进化派和人类学派的经典作家。代表作有《原始文化》、《人类学――人及其文化研究》等。