"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex...(展开全部)

"Shaping Things is about created objects and the environment, which is to say, it's about everything," writes Bruce Sterling in this addition to the Mediawork Pamphlet series. He adds, "Seen from sufficient distance, this is a small topic."Sterling offers a brilliant, often hilarious history of shaped things. We have moved from an age of artifacts, made by hand, through complex...(展开全部)

Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. The 12 essays address ...(展开全部)

Technology is everywhere, yet a theory of technology and its social dimension remains to be fully developed. Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history. The 12 essays address ...(展开全部)

This substantially revised and important second edition responds to a changing agenda in government policy and planning practice, putting issues of climate change and obesity at the centre of its concern. This guide ensures you: understand the underlying principles for planning healthy and sustainable neighbourhoods and towns plan the collaborative and inclusive processes nee...(展开全部)

作者:(英)休·巴顿 作者:马库斯·格兰特 作者:理查德·吉斯 译者:唐燕 译者:梁思思 译者:郭磊贤 休·巴顿(Hugh Barton)，构想并领导了最初的《塑造邻里》编纂项目。他是一名城市规划师，也是西英格兰大学可持续、健康与规划专业的教授。在1980年代初，他成立了“适用技术城市研究中心”——现名为“可持续能源中心”。他也是西英格兰大学世界卫生组织健康城市环境合作中心的主任。他的著作包括《可持续发展的聚居地》、《地方当局审计指南》、《可持续发展的社区》和《健康城市规划》。其研究重点为可持续发展的城市形态、人在邻里中的行为方式，以及包容、理性的决策过程。马库斯·格兰特(Marcus Grant)，是一名景观建筑师，曾获生态学学位，并已在咨询和学术领域进行了二十多年关于可持续发展和健康问题的研究。他是西英格兰大学公共健康系的荣誉教员，现任世界卫生组...(展开全部)

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

This book is an invitation to think about why children chew pencils; why we talk to our cars, our refrigerators, our computers; rosary beads and worry beads; Cuban cigars; why we no longer wear hats that we can tip to one another and why we don't seem to long to; what has been described as bourgeois longing. It is an invitation to think about the fetishism of daily life in diff...(展开全部)

The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century. Alfred Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development and an emphasis on long-term corporate strategies could firms remain successful over time. He details these processes for nearl...(展开全部)

Shaping the Normative Landscape is an investigation of the value of obligations and of rights, of forgiveness, of consent and refusal, of promise and request. David Owens shows that these are all instruments by which we exercise control over our normative environment. Philosophers from Hume to Scanlon have supposed that when we make promises and give our consent, our real inter...(展开全部)