How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An ins...(展开全部)

How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An ins...(展开全部)

Victor Turner here examines the rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his concept of aCommunitas,a which he characterizes as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key t...(展开全部)

The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book "ingenious and erudite, rich in highly stimulating ideas.

The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates in these pages how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies i...(展开全部)

Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition and computer science, this book proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. The author demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning - that the constructions themselves carry meaning independen...(展开全部)

爱德华•布尔莫尔，英国医学科学院院士，剑桥神经科学学会联合主席，沃尔夫森脑成像中心主任，剑桥大学精神病学系主任。爱德华•布尔莫尔通过对神经成像和其他神经科学数据集的图论分析，在理解大脑连接性和网络方面发挥了国际领先的作用，发表了约500篇科学论文，其研究成果被高度引用，是全球神经科学和精神病学领域被引用次数最多的科学家之一。他是神经科学和心理健康方面的世界专家，目前专注于免疫精神病学，同时正在领导一个学术－工业联盟，开发治疗抑郁症的新型抗炎药物。布尔莫尔教授还作为海外学术大师参与了我国复旦大学认知神经科学中心、计算神经科学与类脑智能学科创新引智基地、张江国际脑影像中心等重大国际合作平台的建设。 译者：小庄，科普作家，译者，果壳网联合创始人，中国科普作家协会成员。

As seen on "CBS This Morning" Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next twenty years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still...until now with Edward Bullmore's The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression.A Sunday Times (London) Top Ten Bes...(展开全部)

Entrepreneurship, long neglected by economists and management scholars, has made a dramatic comeback in the last two decades, not only among academic economists and management scholars, but also among policymakers, educators and practitioners. Likewise, the economic theory of the firm, building on Ronald Coase's (1937) seminal analysis, has become an increasingly important fiel...(展开全部)

Long considered one of the most provocative and demanding major works on human sociobiology, "Genes, Mind, and Culture" introduces the concept of gene-culture coevolution. It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline dur...(展开全部)