In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amidst tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, n...(展开全部)

简介：是缘分使然，还是利益熏心？亦或是，一个微小的误差

简介：是缘分使然，还是利益熏心？亦或是，一个微小的误差

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

霍华德·贝克尔（Howard S.Becker)，1928年出生，美国著名社会学家，芝加哥学派，符号互动论和标签理论的代表人物，研究领域横跨教育社会学、越轨社会学、艺术社会学、社会学方法等。

City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.

For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings . . . Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met ...(展开全部)

That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)