Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D., has taught psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan, where he is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Fellow Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002 he became the first social psych...(展开全部)

Richard E. Nisbett, Ph.D., has taught psychology at Yale University and the University of Michigan, where he is the Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor. He has received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the William James Fellow Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2002 he became the first social psych...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This book may mark the beginning of a new front in the science wars. Nisbett, an eminent psychologist and co-author of a seminal Psychological Review paper on how people talk about their decision making, reports on some of his latest work in cultural psychology. He contends that "[h]uman cognition is not everywhere the same"-that those brought up in Weste...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly This book may mark the beginning of a new front in the science wars. Nisbett, an eminent psychologist and co-author of a seminal Psychological Review paper on how people talk about their decision making, reports on some of his latest work in cultural psychology. He contends that "[h]uman cognition is not everywhere the same"-that those brought up in Weste...(展开全部)

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)

Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School, is founding director of Partners In Health and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Among his books are Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003).

Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School, is founding director of Partners In Health and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Among his books are Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003).

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)

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。

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。