Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet, argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a common force: interaction rituals. "Interaction Ritual Chains" is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a "radical microsociology." It proposes that successful rituals create...(展开全部)

丽莎·阿伦森·方特斯：美国著名心理学博士，反儿童虐待和妇女暴力领域专家。过去25年来，她一直投身于美国、圭亚那、智利、阿根廷、波多黎各、巴西等地的儿童、妇女救助工作，处理各种棘手的家暴问题。其思想与观点深受医生、警察、消防队员、社工、护理人员、律师等各行各业专业人士的认可。 她本人成功摆脱一段长达数年的高压型操纵关系，目前任教于麻省大学阿默斯特分校。

Markov chains are central to the understanding of random processes. This is not only because they pervade the applications of random processes, but also because one can calculate explicitly many quantities of interest. This textbook, aimed at advanced undergraduate or MSc students with some background in basic probability theory, focuses on Markov chains and quickly develops a ...(展开全部)

哈里森·C.怀特（Harrison C.White），哥伦比亚大学社会学吉丁斯荣誉教授。现代社会网络研究领域的传奇人物，社会学“哈佛革命“的领军者。他发展了社会结构的数学模型，为个人和组织等社会建制构筑模型，用实证方法测量了社会关系的模式，引发了大量后续研究。

艾薩克──離開惡魔島監獄，和蜜莉亞約好在芝加哥會合。 賈格西等人──聽到爆炸案的消息，決定和蜜莉亞一起回到芝加哥。 拉德──為了殺死修伊，開始在監獄深處大動拳腳；費洛則心中另有盤算。 瑞爾──逐漸陷入瘋狂。吸血鬼成員──無力挽回。 葛拉罕和克里斯多福──一味享受戰鬥，毫不反省自己給別人造成的麻煩。 而掌權者們──帶著愉悅的心態做壁上觀。 這是場三百處同時爆炸事件和兩百人的失蹤案件，以殺手和不死者為中心的騷動。 所有的演員都站上混亂不堪的舞台後，每個人開始順著被賦予的角色行動， 而究竟誰才是擺布眾人命運之人──!?

Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign puppets" or seen as passive recipients of a western-style education. By focusing on the pupils' own perspectives and...(展开全部)

Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled "foreign puppets" or seen as passive recipients of a western-style education. By focusing on the pupils' own perspectives and...(展开全部)