In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what econom...(展开全部)

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what econom...(展开全部)

The Brexit and Trump shocks of 2016 mark a deep caesura in the history of liberal societies. It is no longer sufficient, if it ever was, to look at Western states` immigration and citizenship policies through the single lens of advancing liberalism. Instead, two additional forces need to be reckoned with: a new nationalism, but also the neoliberal restructuring of state and soc...(展开全部)

Christian Joppke is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bern. Over the last decade he has published Citizenship and Immigration (2010), Legal Integration of Islam with John Torpey (2013), The Secular State Under Siege (2015), and Is Multiculturalism Dead? (2017).

迈克尔·舒德森，美国知名新闻传播学者、社会历史学家。哈佛大学社会学系博士，曾执教于芝加哥大学和加州大学圣迭戈分校，现为哥伦比亚大学新闻学院教授。主要著作有《好公民：美国公共生活史》《发掘新闻：美国报业的社会史》《新闻的力量》《新闻社会学》《为什么民主需要不可爱的新闻界》等。2004年，他获得了美国政治科学学会和国际传播学会颁发的“默里·艾德尔曼政治传播学术成就奖”。

The American founders did not endorse a citizen’s right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor’s communication with patients, more disclosure in a food manufacturer’s package labeling, and more public notice of actions that might damage the environment emerged in our own time. As Michael Schudson shows in The Rise of the Right to Know, modern transpare...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family's...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

The state, which since the middle of the seventeenth century has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is in decline. From Western Europe to Africa, many existing states are either combining into larger communities or falling apart. Many of their functions are being taken over by a variety of organizations which, whatever their precise natu...(展开全部)