The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the...(展开全部)

Donald MacKenzie holds a personal Chair in Sociology at Edinburgh University, where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (MIT Press, 1990) and of Knowing Machines: Essays in Technica...(展开全部)

Technological change is often seen as something that follows its own logic - something we may welcome, or about which we may protest, but which we are unable to alter fundamentally. This reader challenges that assumption and its distinguished contributors demonstrate that technology is affected at a fundamental level by the social context in which it develops. General arguments...(展开全部)

In July 2009, the American Journal of Sociology (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent’s essays taken together provide a broad introduction to social thinking. Through the close reading of important texts, Celarent’s short, informative, and analyti...(展开全部)

Modern systems theory provides a new paradigm for the analysis of society. In this volume, Niklas Luhmann, its leading exponent, explores its implications for our understanding of law. Luhmann argues that current thinking about how law operates within a modern society is seriously deficient. In this volume he lays out the theoretical and methodological tools that, he argues, ...(展开全部)

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art--in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art that could be valid for those...(展开全部)

This is the definitive analysis of art as a social and perceptual system by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century. It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art--in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art that could be valid for those...(展开全部)

安士利．麥克勞 (Ainslie MacLeod) 十多年以來，安士利．麥克勞利用他身為一位靈媒的天賦，持續探索靈魂及靈魂對人類信念及行為的影響。他與更高層次的指導靈合作寫出一套心靈指南，要幫助我們了解我們自己的天命。麥克勞年輕時住在蘇格蘭東北部的港都亞伯丁 (Aberdeen)，目前則定居於美麗的美國太平洋西北區 (Pacific Northwest) 一座寧靜的小島，在這裡提供來自全球各地的問事者心靈指引。 作者網址：www.soul-world.com 靈魂類型測試 （The Soul Type Quiz，詳解請參考第三章）：　　　www.soundstrue.com/quiz/instruction/quiz.html