Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and oppo...(展开全部)

From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface of media and cultural studies, cultural geography and anthropology. Clearly structured...(展开全部)

A new book by Dave Morley, one of the leading authors on the media list. This new book aims to intervene in some of the key debates in the field of media and cultural studies. It is structured into thematic sections addressing questions of postmodernity and postcoloniality; issues for, and the future of, media and cultural studies; theory and methodology; and television as an o...(展开全部)

W·理查德·斯科特(W．Richard Scott)生于1932年，美国斯坦福大学著名社会学家，独著或台著的著作主要有《正式组织：一种比较视角》(1962)、《组织：理性的、自然的与开放的系统》(1981)。《制度变迁与医疗保健组织：从专业人员支配到看护行政化》(2000)。《组织与组织化：理性的、自然的与开放的系统观》(2007)等。1988年获得美国管理学会管理与组织理论分会杰出学者奖，1996年获得美国管理学会理查德·D·埃尔文奖。

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam po...(展开全部)

Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In the 1800s, globalization leaped forward when steam po...(展开全部)

戴维·哈维（David Harvey），国际知名的社会理论学家与地理学家，1935年生于英国肯特郡，1961年获剑桥大学地理学博士学位。曾担任过约翰·霍普金斯大学地理学与环境工程系教授、牛津大学地理学教授，现为纽约市立大学研究生中心人类学杰出教授。主要著作有《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《后现代的状况》、《新帝国主义》、《巴黎城记》等。

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two way...(展开全部)

杰克·奈特研究政治经济制度的一流学者，曾任华盛顿大学政治学系教授。他以其独特的跨学科研究方法，涉及哲学、经济学、政治学和法律等学科领域，发表了许多有关民主理论、法治、司法决策以及制度形成与变迁理论的论文，学术成果具有开创性。主要著作包括《制度与社会冲突》、《解释社会制度》（与伊塔·塞尼德合著）和《正义的选择》（与李·爱泼斯坦合著）等。

Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992, this new edition has be...(展开全部)