This book is a crucial contribution to the debate about the meaning and purpose of leisure at the end of modernity. Karl Spracklen uses Jurgen Habermas's work on the tension of rationalities to situate leisure and critical studies of leisure as meaningful and valuable in the twenty-first century. In particular, Spracklen uses Habermas' concerns between free, communicative disco...(展开全部)

A biography of the three sisters who as Mrs. H. H. Kung, Mme Sun Yat-sen, and Mme Chiang Kai-shek exerted more influence upon United States policy toward China than almost "any other person or persons in this century."

A biography of the three sisters who as Mrs. H. H. Kung, Mme Sun Yat-sen, and Mme Chiang Kai-shek exerted more influence upon United States policy toward China than almost "any other person or persons in this century."

玛莎·芬尼莫尔，现为乔治·华盛顿大学政治与国际事务学院教授、著有《国际社会中的国家利益》，与迈克尔·巴尼特合著《为世界定规则--全球政治中的国际组织》。

Winner of the 2004 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award (American Political Science Association) Violence or the potential for violence is a fact of human existence. Many societies, including our own, reward martial success or skill at arms. The ways in which members of a particular society use force reveal a great deal about the nature of authority within the group and about its me...(展开全部)

金安平（Annping Chin），一九五O年也生于台湾，一九六二年移居美国，后于哥伦比亚大学获得中国思想哲学博士学位。现任教于耶鲁大学历史系。著有 Children of Chian：Voices form Recent Years，并与其夫婿史景迁（Jona than Spence）合著有The Chinese Century：A　Photographic History of the Last Hundred Years.

Analyzes the factors including inflation, unequal development, environmental damage, and unfair resource distribution that characterize America's technostructure and suggests ways of reforming our marketing and planning systems.

Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women.