罗伯特·C.埃里克森（Robert C.Ellickson），美国当代杰出的财产和城市法学者，耶鲁大学法学院沃尔特·梅耶财产和城市法讲席教授（2015年荣休）。研究主要集中在产权、城市规划和法律与社会规范三个领域，在上述领域皆有经典作品传世，也是被引用多的学者之一。他早年就读于奥柏林学院、耶鲁法学院和麻省理工学院的城市与区域规划系。自1970年起，埃里克森教授先后执教于南加州大学、斯坦福大学和耶鲁大学，在1988年转至耶鲁法学院任教后，常年讲授已经成为耶鲁法学院经典课程的“财产法”。埃里克森是美国法律经济学协会的创始会员，并担任协会主席（2000-2001年），曾获得该协会授予的罗纳德·科斯奖章，系继波斯纳、卡拉布雷西、史蒂文·萨维尔后第四位获此殊荣的学者。埃里克森教授还担任过美国法律协会财产法重述项目的顾问，并且是美国艺术与科学院院士。埃里克森教授...(展开全部)

Robert Ellickson shows that law is far less important than is generally thought. He demonstrates that people largely govern themselves by means of informal rules - social norms - without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within...(展开全部)

Neighbors is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors―who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the ways that we think about those we exist a...(展开全部)

al readers how Complexity--the watershed science agenda for at least the nexttwo decades--is affecting our lives.

In Defense of Legal Positivism is an uncompromising defence of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Matthew Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. Some of the chapters pose arguments against other major theorists such...(展开全部)

A wry and compelling take on the who, how, and why of near-future colonies in space. From bone-whittling microgravity to eye-popping profits, the risks and rewards of space settlement have never been so close at hand. More than fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, why is there so little human presence in space? Will we ever reach Mars? What will it take to become a mul...(展开全部)

This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of relig...(展开全部)

The essays in this volume dispel some of the myths concerning the Mongolians and other Inner Asian peoples. This remarkable volume edited by and dedicated to Morris Rossabi challenges the depictions of these mostly nomadic pastoral groups as barbaric plunderers and killers while not denying the destruction and loss of life they engendered. Several essays pioneer in consulting M...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)