The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-...(展开全部)

The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. That approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. Despite the triumph of concept of state in social science literature, actual states have had great difficulty in turning public policies into planned social change. The state-in-...(展开全部)

City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Me...(展开全部)

City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Me...(展开全部)

novel, tr w/intro by William Weaver

Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a th...(展开全部)

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of atoms and planets? Unlikely as it may seem, such laws now seem to be emerging from attempts to bring the tools and concepts of physics into the social sciences. These new discoveries are part of an old tradition. In the sevente...(展开全部)

[应版权方要求,该小说已经下架,请大家支持正版阅读~]在26年前夜见山北中学的三年三班里，曾经有一位名叫「见崎」的学生。她不仅是位运动天才还是个优等生，个性平易近人广受众人喜爱的她却在某日突然猝死，极度悲伤的同班同学们无法接受这件事实，众人决定到毕业之前仍想像见崎还活著般度过每一天。而在199...

The arrival of the autumn/winter 2001 debut issue of this deluxe fashion bi-annual for men and women forced a redefinition of the parameters of luxury magazine publishing. As a challenging cultural encylopedia of the moment, it celebrated the extremes of contemporary lifestyles and explored the crossover in tastes and interests between the genders.With art direction by Alex Wie...(展开全部)

Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But ...(展开全部)