How does the excessive bureaucratization of central planning affect politics in communist countries? Mark Beissinger suggests an answer through this history of the Soviet Scientific Management movement and its contemporary descendants, raising at the same time broader questions about the political consequences of economic systems. Beissinger traces the rise and decline of admin...(展开全部)

This paper has been written: First. To point out, through a series of simple illustrations, the great loss which the whole country is suffering through inefficiency in almost all of our daily acts. Second. To try to convince the reader that the remedy for this inefficiency lies in systematic management, rather than in searching for some unusual or extraordinary man. Third. To p...(展开全部)

This paper has been written: First. To point out, through a series of simple illustrations, the great loss which the whole country is suffering through inefficiency in almost all of our daily acts. Second. To try to convince the reader that the remedy for this inefficiency lies in systematic management, rather than in searching for some unusual or extraordinary man. Third. To p...(展开全部)

Gleaning for Communism is a historical ethnography of the property regime upon which Soviet legal scholars legislated a large modern state as a household, with guaranteed rights to a commons of socialist property, rather than private possessions. Starting with former Leningrad workers' everyday stories about smuggling industrial scrap home over factory fences, Xenia Cherkaev tr...(展开全部)

Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic, Kalinovsky places the Soviet development of central Asia in...(展开全部)

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often...(展开全部)

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often...(展开全部)

玛乔丽·菲尔茨博士 玛乔丽·菲尔茨（Marjorie V. Fields）博士在幼儿教育领域工作长达30余年，最近刚刚退休。她一开始在幼儿园执教，然后执教一年级，再后来从事教师教育工作。幸运的是她有了自己的孩子，于是也拥有了合作性学前班以及其他多种儿童的看护经验。 在家长参与方面的研究让玛乔丽获得了幼儿教育博士学位。她一直活跃于国家和地方的幼儿教育专业组织，目前担任全美幼儿教师教育协会（NAECTE）主席，还曾担任过该组织的副会长。她曾供职于全美幼教协会（NAEYC）的国家管理委员会，也曾出版过大量关于前读写领域的教材，包括教科书《让我们现在开始阅读》和儿童指导方面的教材。 本书是作者30多年来阅读和思考以及设立与教授早期儿童纪律教育课程的成果。菲尔茨博士认为，是她的两个儿子最先让她明白了对于儿童指导和纪律教育来说什么是最重要的。现在，她还在继续从她...(展开全部)

玛乔丽·菲尔茨博士 玛乔丽·菲尔茨（Marjorie V. Fields）博士在幼儿教育领域工作长达30余年，最近刚刚退休。她一开始在幼儿园执教，然后执教一年级，再后来从事教师教育工作。幸运的是她有了自己的孩子，于是也拥有了合作性学前班以及其他多种儿童的看护经验。 在家长参与方面的研究让玛乔丽获得了幼儿教育博士学位。她一直活跃于国家和地方的幼儿教育专业组织，目前担任全美幼儿教师教育协会（NAECTE）主席，还曾担任过该组织的副会长。她曾供职于全美幼教协会（NAEYC）的国家管理委员会，也曾出版过大量关于前读写领域的教材，包括教科书《让我们现在开始阅读》和儿童指导方面的教材。 本书是作者30多年来阅读和思考以及设立与教授早期儿童纪律教育课程的成果。菲尔茨博士认为，是她的两个儿子最先让她明白了对于儿童指导和纪律教育来说什么是最重要的。现在，她还在继续从她...(展开全部)